I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

Just as Olivia's gaze fell on Richard, the leader of the Crusaders, she noticed that Richard did not respond with his eyes.

He frowned, staring intently at the documents on the table, his eyes filled with disbelief.

At this moment, the female leader opposite said, "We have already shown great sincerity by using the River Angel as the median line for the ceasefire between the North and the South. In fact, since the representatives of the Kingdom of Heaven are also here, I actually think you might as well just represent the Church and sign a surrender agreement directly."

She paused, then looked at Olivia and said, "What do you think?"

Olivia closed her eyes and sensed the northern sky outside the city. Then she suddenly understood why the woman opposite her was so unscrupulous.

Olivia believed that everything written in the documents was true.

However, she simply smiled faintly and did not respond to the woman's words.

At this moment, the entire hall erupted into chaos. The Crusaders didn't believe a word of the contents of the documents, and many began to wonder if the wizards' delegation had gone mad.

Because they not only called themselves the 'Church', but also wanted to end the 'Alaye Dynasty's' conquest of the 'Orbis Family' by using the 'River of Angels' as the median line for the North-South ceasefire.

The Alayan dynasty was an Old Catholic dynasty. It was a theocratic dynasty, with the emperor serving as patriarch, and both the imperial and papal thrones being inherited by each generation of the Alayan royal family.

Protestantism differs from Catholicism in that it is not a theocracy, but a religious empire.

In the South, the Pope held real power, and the Emperor was merely a human-shaped emblem.

However, the Orbis royal family and the pope are closely allies, because popes often come from the Orbis royal family—in each generation of the Orbis royal family, several people enter the church. These people drop their surnames and adopt Christian names.

Each generation of the Orbis royal family was not vying for the throne, but for the position of pope.

Even if they don't become pope, they will still compete for other positions in the church.

If they can't get any position in the church, they will try to get the position of Holy King and pray to be granted a small kingdom to be king.

No one wants to be emperor, because at least a sage king has a legitimate claim to the throne, but an emperor does not!
The emperor's legitimacy lies with Alaye—strictly speaking, the Orbis dynasty should not even exist!
Therefore, if any living members of the Alaye royal family were to step forward, they could point their fingers at the Orbis emperor and force him to remove his crown.

He could also point at the Pope and say that he is the real Pope and that the Pope is a traitor!
It would be perfectly reasonable for the Alaya dynasty to launch a campaign against the Orbis family!
If the initiator were an old religion, many ordinary people and even nobles around the world would rise up and follow the old religion!

After all, Protestantism is now too corrupt, and even the nobles are finding it difficult to survive.

Therefore, although the Old Church was not very powerful, the Protestant Church was extremely wary of it.

Therefore, even though the Alaya dynasty has been gone for a thousand years, Protestants still greatly fear the descendants of Alaya.

Moreover, there are some gods in the Kingdom of Heaven who support the Old Religion and Alaya—such as the sea god, and those powerful figures, saints, and holy kings of the old era who ignited the divine fire in the Old Religion and were led to the Kingdom of Heaven by the gods.

They all came from the old religion! It was the Alayas who used all the nation's resources to elevate them to divine positions!

Therefore, when the priestess called Alaye a bastard, Olivia immediately rebuked her—Protestantism and Catholicism are completely opposed, and the angels and gods of both sides who ascend to heaven also dislike each other.

They often insulted each other and said hurtful things. But to ancient angels and gods like Olivia, who were originally part of heaven, they were all colleagues.

If a god were to say, "The people of Alaya are all bastards," he would offend countless angels and gods!

Therefore, once the Old Church finds the descendants of Alaye and starts causing trouble in Alaye's name, the entire Church and the entire Orbis royal family will face a huge political crisis.

However, the ones causing trouble in the name of Alaye now are not the old church, but wizards!
This is a bit absurd. How crazy must this wizard be to claim to be from the church?

Because it was so absurd, the Crusader leaders didn't verbally abuse him on the spot. But what they said was still quite harsh.

But compared to cursing, the leaders of the Crusaders were more bewildered at this moment.

Someone asked in public: "The vanguard of the Crusader withdrew from the banks of the Angel River, and thereafter, the Alaye Magic Empire and the Orbis Empire used the banks of the Angel River as the median line for the north-south ceasefire? Which Crusader is this?"

The 'Roland' across from me rolled his eyes, shifted his position in his seat, and said, "Of course it's us! If not us, then who else but you?"

Richard, the leader of the Crusaders, was so angry upon hearing this that he nearly lost his temper.

He chuckled and said, "Fine, let's not argue about what kind of vanguard you are—using the Angel River as the median line for the North-South armistice? Are you crazy?!"

The female leader opposite closed the document in her hand and said in a deep voice, "Your information is too limited. Our troops reached 'Angel River' last week."

Before everyone could process what he had said, the 'Roland' on the other side started shouting again.

"We've been fighting for over half a year now. We've conquered 32 kingdoms and reached the banks of the Angel River. The Church... cough, the Orbis family is still having internal meetings and arguing, while you, who are already surrounded, are treating our small group blocking the road as your main force, planning to secretly kill us and take the banks of the Angel River to manufacture angel troops."

Richard! Orbis is about to die!
Open your eyes and look out the window towards the north—the snow has stopped. In ten minutes at most, you'll be able to see our border troops coming from the 'Kingdom of Gotia' in the north!

The Crusaders didn't believe a word the wizards said. After all, it was over two thousand kilometers from Vermeek to the banks of the Angel River!
Not to mention the wizards' army fought their way from Vermeek to the banks of Angel River.

Even if the church's troops set off from the holy city and arrived at the banks of the River Angels, it would take several months!

This isn't a small-scale raid where hundreds of people can be sent by simply using a teleportation array.

This is an army of hundreds of thousands!
How much supplies will be transported for the people and horses along this route? Just preparing for war, with millions of horses, mules, cattle, and laborers, will take several months!

There was also the mobilization of various kingdoms, lords, nobles, and religious sects, and so on.
Even if the troops started preparing for war six months ago, the fact that the main force can now reach the banks of the Angel River is already considered extremely efficient!

The wizards can indeed be a bit faster than the church, but they have to fight their way through!
Therefore, according to the church's prediction, the wizards were indeed able to conquer one or two kingdoms when the main church forces arrived at the banks of the River Angels.

But it would be absurd to say that the wizards had conquered the entire north before the main force of the church even reached the banks of Angel River!

Moreover, Richard and his men hadn't received a single piece of news.
Richard and his colleagues knew the nature of the Vatican; internal sectarian strife within the church was severe, and the Vatican might not immediately inform the front lines after receiving news of such matters.

It's common for the message to be delivered after a month or two.

But this has been going on for half a year!

Could it be that the Vatican only received the news two months ago?
impossible!
Even if the first kingdom to be conquered didn't use divine magic to transmit the message, but instead tied the letter to a pig and let it run there, it would still have reached the Papacy in half a year, right? Were the people of those thirty-two kingdoms all pigs?!
In the brief half-second that Richard was distracted, the 'Roland' across from him seemed to be able to hear his thoughts, and rolled his eyes and started yelling again.

"I told you, the Kingdom of Heaven has long been utterly disappointed with the Church, because you are worse than pigs!"

They were all prepared to wage a massive information war against you, but none of the secret weapons they'd been preparing for so many years were actually used!

They only used some outdated and conventional shielding methods, and made a few tentative attempts to disrupt the space of the Southern Continent. As a result, not only the northern part of the Angel River, but the entire Southern Continent's teleportation and information exchange methods were all rendered useless!

Some kingdoms even considered using birds to deliver messages, because if there were enough birds, it would be impossible for wizards to catch them all.
What era are we living in?! There are still people who think wizards fly on broomsticks!

Who still uses people to catch birds these days?

We're using Qiong now, never mind what that other thing is called, you know what Bubble is.
"When the wizards arrived at a kingdom, they covered it with a bubble! How could the birds fly out?"

Seeing the bewildered expressions on the faces of the Crusaders, Olivia shook her head and said, "It's a phase interference generator and a jump interruptor. Wherever they go, they disrupt the time and space there."

They turned time and space into a Möbius strip, so even if someone went back in time, they couldn't send a message to the future.

Upon hearing these terms, the leaders of the Crusaders were even more bewildered.

Seeing the ignorance and folly on the faces of these fools, Olivia sighed inwardly.

The wizards were using the same methods they used against the gods to deal with these insects that depended on the gods for their existence.

But it's no wonder. The gods fear humanity, and while they teach everyone about divine magic, no one understands its principles. Most people even believe that divine magic comes from the power of the gods, from those ridiculous scriptures.

In their minds, magic should appear simply by moving their lips and chanting scriptures.

They possess no wisdom whatsoever. All their wisdom comes from God, so all they need to do is believe in God.

But once those enemies, whom even the gods find troublesome, tear off their sheep's skin and reveal their true devilish faces, these ignorant natives, like lambs, can only be trampled upon.

Heaven has thrown out a giant boomerang!
They herded Protestants like sheep so they could slaughter them at any time.

Now, a group of people, like gods, have appeared who know how to use the butcher's knife. Thus, Protestantism, like sheep, is powerless to resist.

They had even lost 32 kingdoms, yet they hadn't managed to send back a single message.

Olivia's gaze gradually turned serious.

She never imagined that in just one thousand years, wizards would have developed to such an extent!

Some of their technologies are comparable to those of heaven!

This is not a war between humans and gods at all, but a war between a rising new god and an ancient and corrupt old god!
In this war, let alone these lambs who only know how to use divine magic but are unaware of its dangers, even if God himself came, he would probably find it difficult to send the message back to Heaven.

They've already studied phase and transition to this extent; the next step, they'll probably be to completely decipher the 'black barrier'.

At that time, the 'angel of peace' technology, which had been lost in heaven for many years, was about to be revived in the hands of the wizards!

The female leader of the 'Dawn Church' opposite said with great emotion, "Sir Richard, your teleportation, information transmission and other technologies are unexpectedly primitive, and your entire administrative and military systems are shockingly rigid."

With such backward technology and a corrupt regime, when faced with various decisions, even after holding three to five meetings and arguing for half a month, a unified opinion still cannot be reached.

We even suspected that you deliberately let the kings and lords in various places fight their own battles with primitive cold weapons, in order to lure our main force deep into our territory and then launch a major attack.

Williams told us that you had made innovations, and that the Pope had once allowed the Dawn Order to secretly study the 'bottle'.

We assumed that the Vatican must have already developed this technology, which is why we launched the Sky Shuttles, which were intended to break the 'bottles,' in advance before initiating the all-out attack.

But we later realized that we had been battling against the air all along.

Your reforms were abandoned halfway through.
Just like all the innovations you've made, they've been nipped in the bud by God and turned into nothing more than money-making gimmicks.

Richard, our technology is a full thousand years behind, and in that thousand years, you haven't made a single step forward.

It's like you're suppressing those rebel armies who can't even get enough to eat. No, you're far inferior to the revolutionary armies that are rising up in various places.

You are not even as good as primitive people.
You are insects.

Richard sneered, rose, gave Olivia a slight bow, and said, "Your Highness, these devils are full of lies; we need not communicate with them any longer. Begin the trial."

Instantly, all eyes were focused on Olivia.

The Crusaders hoped for divine power.

But both the wizard and the god remained silent.

Olivia said, “Richard, look out the window. The heretical gods did not lie; the northern sky of the Orbis has fallen and is now covered by the wings of their angels.”

Everyone looked out the window.

The snow has stopped, and the sun is shining brightly on the earth.

It was daytime, yet the sky was filled with countless stars. The countless stars hung in the sky like necklaces, forming chains of stars.

They hang in the sky, reflecting the sunlight, and are arranged very neatly.

The constellations represented by the gods have been overshadowed by the light of the stars of the heretical gods, and Richard and the others frantically discover that they can no longer use their astral projection abilities.

Because they can no longer sense the celestial signs of God, nor can they sense God himself. (End of Chapter)