This is also why the Church dreads the true followers of the Evil God.
The followers of Old Ba care nothing for laws or customs; if they encounter you, they will sacrifice your soul to their Heavenly Father.
Only when faced with the true followers of the Evil God do beliefs return to their essence—a contest of pure strength and values, only the stronger will survive.
"If it’s just replacing one Old God with a new one, the status quo will never change, and in a few years, the new church will fall back into old ways, vying for power and discourse, following Julius’s old path."
Ethan said, "If I want to forge a holy sword, in addition to the knowledge of elemental shaping, I need Sister Bi’an’s knowledge of forging, Rowena’s understanding of the energy storage crystal process, and the teacher’s research on using Giant Divine Soldier as material, and all this needs to be built on a sufficient financial foundation, otherwise, just after forging a hilt, the Old Sen Magic Technology Store would be bankrupt.
"If more people are to realize their talents, the monopoly on transcendent knowledge by institutions like the Church must be broken."
Ave seemed to finally understand, and she jogged out, returning shortly with a parchment book.
She wanted to write down everything Ethan just said.
"So you never intended to deny the existence of the Goddess of Life or the Knight Lord..."
She murmured to herself while writing furiously, "but rather want them to step out of the existing framework of transcendent knowledge?"
"There is a theoretical foundation for this."
Ethan emphasized, "The work ’The Magic Power of Fireballs and Ice Arrows’ written by the teacher is a product of breaking out of the existing elemental magic framework."
After writing down all the words, Ave suddenly said, "She just taught one student like you."
This time it was Lindong’s turn for cerebral congestion to almost strike.
Her teaching career at the academy was one of the few failures in her life, a past she found hard to look back on.
And Ave, this annoying imp, just couldn’t help but bring it up!
It seemed like she wanted to eat an ice arrow.
The golden hair on Ave’s head pattered on her forehead to remind her, noticing Lindong’s icy aura, she explained, "Your theory, though sounding reasonable, will be very difficult to execute, not everyone in this world has the talent or willingness to delve into unexplored fields, possibly they go to the academy just to learn specific elemental magic spells."
She could imagine that following Ethan’s way, countless people would linger at the beginner stage, but once she mentioned specific examples, her thoughts came alive, "Therefore, we should parallel the two theories, while imparting the knowledge of the path, we should leave another road for those who are talented and enjoy research."
During Julius’s role as Pope, such people were mostly defined as heretics and executed.
As the three of them were talking, Queen Margaret knocked on the door once again.
The feast was ready, and she wanted to convey this message to the three of them.
After receiving the "come in" response, she unfortunately became the third person to get infuriated by Ave.
Seeing the three sitting on the ground, the Queen’s vision turned black for a moment.
This Ave, telling her not to sit on the table to speak, ended up dragging the Sun God to the ground, how rebellious is this!
"Aunt, you came just in time; we were discussing a lot just now."
"What good time! Go change your clothes, how long do you plan to wear this piece of armor?"
Had Ethan and Lindong not been present, she would have really pinched Ave’s ear.
This child went to the Empire’s frontier for two years, how become so unkempt, almost turning into a savage.
The golden hair on Ave’s head started trembling immediately.
The noble costumes left it with an indelible psychological shadow, during the Second Prince Damian’s banquet, it was tied and couldn’t move for the whole night, and it was Queen Margaret’s requirement.
In the Queen’s view, the lively golden hair atop Ave’s head was too vivacious and lacked decorum at court banquets.
After reprimanding Ave, a gentle smile appeared on the Queen’s face, she gestured, "I’ve prepared a feast, you two must attend."
"Not today, I still have some important matters that need attending."
During their conversation, the rebels led by Julius should have been escorted to the dungeon by Sister Bi’an, and his imperial capital journey still had one final, yet most important task unaccomplished.
He needed to meet this former pope face to face.
Julius himself was a crime ledger of the Empire spanning decades, a careful review would surely reveal quite a bit, letting him die so easily in the royal court would be somewhat wasteful.
Another thing that puzzled Ethan was that during such significant turmoil in the imperial capital, the Lofic Consortium was nowhere to be seen, and the other three members of the Seven People Council seemed to have heard some news early and left this troublesome place before Julius launched the rebellion.
Lifted from the floor by Queen Margaret, Ave gave Ethan a reassuring look.
She knew full well that after witnessing Ethan’s deeds, it would be hard for his explanation to be believed, as everyone had deemed that a true god had descended to the imperial capital, even beginning to envision the arrival of the Golden Era.
They had a truly existent rightful god to guide and protect them.
To have the nobles believe otherwise, she needed to adopt some conversational art.
"Aunt, I also have some important matters to discuss with you."
She closed the parchment book, took a deep breath, and said, "This is a grand plan, concerning the arrival of Doomsday."