Act 1 The Council of Truth
The empire lost its master, and a princess also rested on this land she loved deeply.
In a mess, Brando quietly retreated. The moment before, he was the center of the vortex, but the moment later, he became a marginal person. Not many people noticed that he was only one of the Elouin nobles, only the old prime minister bent down tremblingly, picked up the ring on the ground with his hand, and looked at him. His muddy eyes were filled with complex emotions.
Brando came to Xi. He raised his head, his eyes swept over Charles, Metisa and others, his heart full of emotion. The passing of life is so simple. Often in the next moment, you don’t know who will accompany you.
He was worried about the safety of Roman and Hippamera, and the last words of the Queen of Silver brought a strong premonition of unknown premonition that enveloped his heart, like a gloomy ghost.
Why did the Dignified Empire invite a small businessman on Eruin’s list of envoys?
In terms of business talent, Roman had just made his mark, and in terms of capital, she was far inferior to Amperthel's Chamber of Commerce. Only then did Brando remember that there were indeed doubts on the list, but he didn't notice it at all, and his heart was full of self-blame.
However, he never thought how inconspicuous this doubt was actually. Tonyger and Eruin were no different from the Empire. They were both inconspicuous small places, but the latter had a long-term literary and literati, ↑.⊥.n♂et had a lord who defeated the Temple of Flame, and the Empire had reason to be curious about what happened on this land.
The crowd slowly moved forward, but bypassed Brando and Ayama. The death of the Silver Queen can be regarded as accomplices, but no one dared to mention it at this moment, and the nobles seemed to have forgotten this.
If the old prime minister doesn't say a word, how dare others interfere? Some people can't even protect themselves. Who can guarantee that the ministers and families promoted during the reign of the Queen of Silver will not be liquidated after the emperor's eldest son ascends to the throne? Now the prime minister is about to take power again.
A small piece of pure land appeared among the crowd. Qian stood silently beside Brando with the sky blue gun, as if she had found a familiar position.
Like a silent watchman.
Brando turned around and said to the latter: "Si, where is Miss Ovena?"
Qian was stunned. Ovena's voice came from the Sky Blue Spear: "I'm here, is there anything you have to do?"
"Miss Ovena, do you know what Her Queen is doing, right?"
"There are many answers to this question. I have to consider which identity you are using to talk to me to consider how to answer it." Ovena replied seriously.
“Is there any difference?”
"Of course, if you were talking to me as your ancestors, I would tell you in all things that she wanted to reopen the Council of Truth; if you were asking me as the Lord of the Fir Corps or the Earl of Tonygal, I would answer that you have no advice."
"The ancestors? The Council of Truth?" Brando thought in his mind that there were many descriptions of ancestors in Cang's poem. This word sometimes refers to the gods and people, and sometimes refers to the followers of the ancient kings, namely the first group of ancient nobles after the Battle of the Saints. However, what Ovena mentioned was more like a proper noun, because the existence of the gods and people is not much better than her.
As for the Council of Truth, he had never heard of it. He had heard of the Council of Truth, but he didn't know what the relationship was between the two.
Ovena emerged from the sky blue spear, as if an invisible ghost floating in the air. The people around her ignored her appearance. Her delicate little face was exactly the same as a businesswoman lady, and she glanced at Brando. She said, "The ancestors are relative to the newborn species and the mixed-blooded gods. This issue is a bit complicated for you, but you only need to know that they are all gods. The newborn species is the general term for the bloodlines of the previous three generations, and the mixed-blooded gods are the descendants of the gods who later rely on artificial cultivation and natural reproduction. As for the ancestors..."
She paused: "Legends say they were the people who created this world with Martha. But I don't know what they are."
"Then do you say I am an ancestor?" Brando asked.
Ovena floated up, circling Brando with her left and right, and said in a puzzled tone: "The breath on you is a little strange. Although your bloodline is undoubtedly the people of the Black Iron People. But the authority comes from the Truth. As far as I know, most of the gods who have the authority of the Truth are born in the first three generations. But you are a little special. You still have the aura of Gaia's will. Only the ancestors and Martha will be born from Gaia's will."
Brando did not capture the point of this sentence, and he was attracted by something else: "You say the truth can do?" He remembered the unparalleled handsome humans in black and red robes he had seen in his dreams.
"The Truth Society is the central body of the people of God, the leaders of the people of God, the tribunal, the World Tree Organization, the Legion of the Earth and the members of the people of God in the will of Gaia are all directly led by them."
"The Arbitral Tribunal, World Tree Organization, Earth Legion and Gaia Will?" Brando found that he didn't understand more and more nouns. Except for the World Tree Organization, he had never heard of other nouns in the game. Instead, after coming to this world, he learned about the composition of Earth Legion from the side.
"This is not easy to explain. Besides, the bloodlines of the gods and people in my era have already withered, and a lot of knowledge inheritance about the previous eras have been lost. However, you can understand it as the temple of gods in the myths and legends of mortals, the temple of heroes, and the institutions that each performs its own duties."
"Then you said that my authority comes from the Truth Society. Is it because I am a wizard?" Brando thought about it, and it seemed that this was the only possibility. The other party also said that his bloodline was only the bloodline of black iron, and the only thing that could not be explained by the game system seemed to be the only one in him.
Unexpectedly, Owena shook her head: "The members of the Truth Society are all wizards, but wizards are not necessarily members of the Truth Society. But there is one thing you are not wrong. The top wizards are often members of the Truth Society. The wizards are the authority given to the administrator by Martha. This authority was originally exclusive to the Truth Society and the Arbitral Tribunal. Later, the division became more and more detailed. Even some secondary gods can become wizards. The Odin you are familiar with, Tumen and Triseyman are such wizards."
Brando was almost stunned when he heard this, and even forgot his previous question: "Odin, Tumen and Trisyman are not the top brigade mages? Then what kind of person is the top brigade mage?"
Owena smiled contemptuously: "Even my previous master, the Knight of Tianqing, can only be regarded as a qualified brigade master. I said that only members of the Truth Society can be regarded as the top brigade master."
"But"
"No, I know you're strange. But you only need to know the origin of the first generation of brigade masters to understand. Although my knowledge is only a small part of the six eras, I can tell you responsibly that the first generation of brigade masters were the people who created this world with Martha."
Brando was stunned and couldn't say a word for a moment. Isn't the person who created the world with Martha equivalent to the Creator?
Only now did he understand what the top brigade wizard in Ovena's mouth was.
Owena continued: "Before the Sixth Age, the wizards could easily destroy the world and create the world again. They also used this method to escape the arrival of the previous dusk..."
Brando did not ask much questions about the sixth era mentioned by Ovena, although this sentence has been subverted to ordinary scholars. In the more common chronicles on the mainland, scholars have divided the past of Vaughnde as they know it into three eras, one is the Chaos Age and the other is the Dark Age. The Chaos Age and d.r. The year uses the sky-blue gun to smash the sky as a watershed. Before this, it was Chaos, and the latter is dedicated to the era when the dark dragon ruled the earth.
After the Battle of Saints, the Dark Age ended, and the mainland also entered the first era. Therefore, these three eras are the general perception of scholars at present. If someone has six epochs in front of these people before the Sky Blue Gun smashed the sky, then he will definitely be able to enjoy the gaze of a madman.
However, Brando had known the story before dusk in the game, and he was not sure about the specific era. But at least he would not be surprised by Ovena's words of the Sixth Age.
He was silent for a moment, decided not to get entangled in his origin, and asked instead: "So, will the Council of Truth have any connection with the Truth?"
"The so-called Truth Parliament is actually the highest parliament of the people of God. All the people of God are members of the parliament, but this parliament is initiated by the Truth Club, and the members of the Truth Club are equivalent to the elders of the parliament, so this parliament is called the Truth Club."
As if she knew that there was still something wrong with Brando, she continued to explain: "Before the mortal age, the Council of Truth was permanent, but because of something... this Council was cancelled after the fall of Babel Fortress, leaving only an emergency bill, which is the so-called Article 172."
"Article 172?"
"Yes, the full name is Article 172 of the United Law. It stipulates that if one of the three gods initiated by one of them, the Parliament of Truth can be reopened, but this is just a temporary bill. The reopened Parliament of Truth is just one of the votes and does not mean anything."
"Then what's the use?" Brando vaguely understood the cause and effect of the matter.
"It is mainly used to determine some urgent issues. After all, the gods and people will not know that after the Sixth War, our inheritance will suffer such a big blow and are almost on the verge of collapse, so that the mixed-race gods and people almost completely lost their knowledge of the past, and the Council of Truth has become a decoration."
"That is, the Queen of Silver has obtained the inheritance of the past, or at least some fragment, from somewhere, and knows about the existence of the Council of Truth," Brando thought that it was probably from the last battlefield, or from Odin's inheritance, and continued to ask, "So she wants to reopen the Council?"
Owena nodded: "According to the law of Article 172, if she gathered three members of the meeting, then Akira and I had to pass her request that Akira's inheritance come from the Knight of Sky, and the Knight of Sky is the leader of the Gate of Arbitration. Our power is the arbitration and review of the issues of God and People."
"It seems that the Silver Queen should know this too, otherwise she wouldn't value Akane so much."
Owena agreed and nodded, "But the power to open up how much authority is in the hands of me. This meeting can be a meeting with the highest authority or a discussion with the lowest authority."
"Permissions? What is permissions?"
"All the power of mortals comes from authority. You should understand that except for the witches who can draw the power of darkness, mortals cannot directly absorb magic power. However, in fact, the entire world is actually based on order. It is Martha who restricted the magic of chaos through the law of tiamat and used elements to reorganize them to form the material world we see. Of course, energy also follows this constraint."
Ovena stared at the crowd in the courtyard and said slowly: "The knights and wizards you see, the power they have comes from their understanding of the law. Their understanding of the law determines how much energy they can mobilize from the network of order and what kind of energy they can mobilize from the network of order."
"That's wizards and priests, but isn't the power of physical properties mastered by swordsmen..." Brando said inexplicably. The wizards mobilize magic through laws, and the priests mobilize holy spells by praying to the superior existence, and the elements mobilize elements through laws. He can understand these, but what laws are mobilizing by swordsmen?
You should know that before the elements, the power of swordsmen is pure power.
"Don't the swordsmen have to go through the elemental realm?" Owena asked back, "What's more, your muscles, your hair, your bones, and the body fluids in your body are all composed of elements and laws that make up this world. Your power must also follow the physical laws of this world, right?"
She pointed to the palace knights: "These people are often lucky people, because the process of understanding the laws is quite long for mortals. The people of the Black Iron are unable to grasp the power of order in their lives. They can only slowly understand the many laws and orders that exist in our world through acquired learning. A considerable number of people can only be ordinary people in their lives."
"For the people of gold and silver, they are often stronger than many adult individuals in mortals from the moment they are born. Is this because of the knowledge brought from the embryo? Some races may have such abilities, but most people of gold and silver are still similar to those of mortals. Where does their power come from?"
Ovena looked at him and asked word by word: "This is authority, it is the authority given to the tiamat rule to the superior creatures. They do not need to learn, because the understanding of the law is integrated into the bloodline, as if it is an instinct, and even for some high-ranking beings, they are themselves synonymous with order."
"For example, the gods and people"
Chapter completed!