[The Church’s spells are not divine gifts, but like those Caster folk, they stem from the Evil God’s malevolent offerings.
Of course, I know this.
But those Casters don’t understand that what we protect has never been just about faith...]
[Has that Magician called Stat gone mad?
If this continues, it will completely destroy everything we’ve built up until now, but...
But it seems the Pope has some intention of supporting this...
Those Kings would, of course, support such a thing!
Being able to trample those high and mighty Casters underfoot is surely a ruler’s favorite pastime!]
[Locking up information, altering the history of the past.
Of course, only those of us who hold knowledge and the right to education can accomplish this.
But what about those nobles’ teachers?
Do these worm-like fellows realize how important the deeds our Pope is undertaking are?]
[The more people who possess the original scriptures, the stronger the Casters’ spells become, and increasing the number of scripture holders is much more effective than increasing the number of common arcane scholars.
But on the other hand,
the more ordinary people who completely lack knowledge of the arcane, the weaker the Casters’ spell powers become...
There are only so many original scriptures, but ordinary people are being born in droves!]
[From a general perspective, His Holiness the Pope’s ideas are naturally correct.
If it is for the survival of all humankind, then even if the sacrifice is many times greater, ceasing to use the strongest scripture is completely worth it.
But is this really safe?
Even if that man called Stat succeeds, if the population exceeds the threshold in the future, the region will still revert to an environment filled with cursed energy. Can we really maintain this?]
Those heretics actually managed to conjure an Evil God... an evil demon!
The trend is already on our side, and some regions even if reclaimed by them, are just islands floating in the ocean, and occasional seawater can completely submerge them.
Victory will surely be ours!]
In the Church’s secret library, Ronald was flipping through these records, even coughing due to the dust.
But compared to the discomfort of his body,
the information before his eyes was even more shocking.
From the entrance of the library to here, all the text Ronald saw was mostly written by Church monks before the Dark Age or recorded.
A large amount of content was recorded from the personal perspective of a monk.
Low falsification rate, high credibility, direct and vivid content.
Thus, simply by continuing to read brought Ronald an eerie tingling sensation down his spine.
In the course of a morning.
If the content Ronald noted were summarized,
It would be that at the end of the Dark Age, the church organization, which originally suppressed the arcane side under the leadership of a special Pope and those who followed his ideas, joined hands with those former enemy Casters and began to change the basic structure of this world together.
The process of casting spells in this world was actually no different from an ordinary fantasy world.
There was even the noteworthy phenomenon that the more people who held the original scriptures and the more people who studied arcane knowledge, the stronger the overall spell power of the world.
However, at the end of the Dark Age, something contrary to common sense occurred.
The highest echelon of Casters, who should have spared no effort in advancing spell development, made choices completely against their own interests.
Perhaps some indescribable scripture had appeared in this world...
Then, through the efforts of some of the most powerful scripture holders at the time.
The arcane common sense phenomena, perhaps globally or even planetwide, were modified from some foundational levels.
This change did not cause the inherent power of the scriptures to disappear.
But the environment for ordinary Casters had undergone a radical and decisive change. The normal path of becoming an arcane Caster through acquiring knowledge was completely cut off, only by being inducted into the so-called school seal system could one become a Caster.
The situation where the world’s spell power was becoming increasingly strong was directly throttled.
However, this change was not omnipotent. After the new age began, if the number of newborns transformed into "seeds" in certain regions was too many, it might cause parts of these areas to reset to the previous Dark Age conditions.
Eventually, these areas would undergo a fallback phenomenon.
That is, integrating into an affiliated world established by arcane Casters who disagreed with these choices and who established the last bastion of the arcane realm.
In that world, there were even the final products of the Dark Age.
Something artificially created and then titled as "deity."
Thus, the victors of that time.
Resolutely defined this phenomenon as the world’s mutation.
And informed everyone to be strictly on guard, even altering and hiding this phenomenon to ward off other potential dangers.