I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

"Ladies and gentlemen, before I came here, the Holy See proposed to the Kingdom of Heaven to 'reboot' the entire ranch for the 333rd time. After all, there are still seven 'bubble worlds' in this world."

But the gods did not want to kill their own children.

She stood up and stretched her hand out towards the window, as if trying to touch the starlight that fell on the long table.

"Look at your magic, how dazzling it is! You have even restored the sacred relics we left behind in this world!"

Olivia looked at everyone and said, "But I cannot agree to the conditions in the document."

Withdraw the troops to the north of the river?
Your vision is too narrow!
Let's prepare to convene the Four Realms Conference.

In the future, the entire northern, western, eastern, and southern borders will belong to the 'Dawn New Society'.

The gods will grant all your wishes and will bestow upon you true divine authority!

Upon hearing this, the church delegation was devastated, while the wizards and revolutionary leaders looked on in disbelief.

Unlike the others, Catherine, O'Reilly, and the others had very strange expressions, while Roland's eyes went black.

Roland thought to himself, 'Damn! I wanted to use Olivia's name to get a few more cakes.'

But I'm not asking you to steal the bread of heaven from us!
Would the gods agree to this?!

Sister! If we continue this way, your identity as an envoy will definitely be exposed!

Just then, Roland suddenly noticed that the priestess was writing something on the 'Book of Heaven'.

Roland's heart skipped a beat, and he had a vague sense of foreboding.

He quickly snatched the book away and found it filled with meeting minutes.

These meeting minutes are written in a sacred book, so their contents are clearer than video recordings!
If the Vatican saw this, even a fool would know that there's definitely something wrong with this Ovilia!
Roland immediately wanted to tear the book to shreds, but then he noticed that there was an extra line of text on it.

[The Holy Light and Shadow Union Cardinal Order: "?"]

[Heavenly Light and Shadow, in conjunction with the High Angel Council: "?"]

Roland: "."

Suddenly, one new divine script after another appeared in the book.

The translation is roughly 'Uramunus, the supreme divine radiance', which seems to be the top leader.

Just as Roland was staring wide-eyed, wanting to see what message he was going to reply, Olivia reached out and snatched the book away.

Olivia gave Roland a look that sounded a bit annoyed—what are you doing? The leaders are watching, don't steal my spotlight!
Roland gave her a blank look—I'm done, you keep showing off.

Roland thought it was a recording, but it turned out to be a live broadcast. He was completely disheartened.

After thinking for a moment, Roland tidied his clothes and hair.

Across from him, O'Reilly saw Roland adjusting his appearance and gave him a look—what are you doing?
Roland gave her a look—your boss is watching the live stream.

O'Reilly was slightly taken aback, and quickly tidied her appearance as well.

After that, Aurelia became very low-key, acting as if 'it wasn't Aurelia sitting with the wizards but Roland.'

After noticing Roland constantly winking at her, O'Reilly glared at him—my uncle is definitely watching, stop winking at me! O'Reilly could never be colluding with the dark wizards!
Roland felt a strange unease. He thought to himself, 'Oréal's uncle? Could it be that my family has relatives in heaven?!'

After thinking about it again, Roland felt that something was wrong.

He thought to himself: 'My father was a pitiful sorcerer who was captured and forcibly bred by my mother, and my mothers were evil gods from elsewhere. Even if my three mothers had brothers, they couldn't possibly be gods of this world.'

This girl is probably making up relatives again.

Furthermore, one's perspective is determined by their position. Even if one of my elders or ancestors became a god and ascended to heaven, they wouldn't treat me the way they treated Aurelia.

Regaining his composure, Roland turned his attention to Olivia beside him.

After flipping through the book, Olivia continued her show.

Roland thought to himself, 'Judging from Olivia's expression, it seems Heaven hasn't yet realized this Olivia is an imposter. However, this negotiation is essentially void.'

Roland was now filled with regret. He thought to himself, "I really didn't expect Olivia to be like this. Roland, Roland, you knew she was mentally unstable, yet you still fooled her!"
She's given out so many cookies now, Heaven will surely think there's something wrong with her!

Soon, Roland discovered that Olivia had stolen more than just these cookies from heaven.

She discussed more details of the agreement with the wizarding delegation, and the terms she offered were so good that they stunned everyone.

According to Olivia, in the future, Heaven will not only guide wizards to ascend to Heaven, but will also bestow upon them divine positions!

For those lesser-ranked but skilled wizards and apprentices, Heaven will bestow divine favor.

These were only part of the treatment. After hearing this series of benefits, the Crusaders found it hard to believe, but they seemed to believe that Olivia was a representative of heaven and did not make any rebuttal.

The wizards, on the contrary, remained skeptical, because the conditions offered by the gods were too good. It was perhaps the best treatment the priests had ever received since the founding of the Church of Light and Shadow.

It was as if the gods did not regard the wizards as rebels against divine authority, but rather as their most loyal angels, and were willing to go to great lengths to nurture them!
If the wizards have indeed reached these agreements with the Kingdom of Heaven, it would mean that those who have worked their whole lives to become official wizards could potentially advance to the fourth rank in just over a decade!

Ordinary people will also benefit greatly, because under the blessing of God, the fields will always yield abundant harvests, and disasters will never strike again.

The entire world will become a beautiful Garden of Eden, blessed by the gods. The world's population will explode and grow dramatically, and magical technology will advance by leaps and bounds.

Most importantly, the gods do not require wizards to believe in them!

Whether a wizard believes in God or not, as long as he is good enough, he will receive the favor of the gods.

This means that those outstanding wizards, such as 'Merlin' and those who have spent their lives studying in the tower but lack talent, will have the opportunity to ignite the divine fire and become gods!
Olivia said, “Of course, this is, after all, the land of the gods. And you are, after all, their children.”

Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven will collect 'taxes'.

Upon hearing this, the wizards all looked enlightened—as expected, they knew there must be a conspiracy in the Kingdom of Heaven.

An elderly wizard, who looked somewhat familiar to Roland, said, "What kind of 'tax' is this? I mean, does Heaven need currency? Like energy currency such as magic stones, or some special resources?"

Olivia said, "The currency that Heaven needs, in your words, is the powerful will that arises when the soul encounters strong emotional fluctuations or possesses a strong and pure thought."

When this desire reaches a certain level, it can interfere with the underworld, even distort reality, and reverse the magic and many mysterious phenomena of the past and future.

Therefore, in theory, given enough will, anything and any wish can be fulfilled.

Upon hearing this, some wizards showed a look of sudden realization. Wizards also have a theory that, given enough energy, they can even interfere with the past and future, and even recreate a world.

Therefore, the path of truth that the Eastern Wizards are currently following is essentially an extremely materialistic energy route.

The path of faith followed by the gods is an extremely idealistic route of willpower.

When both develop to a certain point, they can become like creators.

Unlike the other two, forbidden wizards believe that energy and willpower are unified. They have progressed very far along both paths. Someone then asked, "So, in the future, will we, like the church, surrender all the world's faith to the gods?"

Many wizards couldn't help but smile knowingly—so this was exactly what they were waiting for; it seems the negotiations won't go through this time.

Olivia said, "I want to correct one point: the Kingdom of Heaven has never made the Church of Light and Shadow hand over all its faith."

Every year, the demigods born from the church, the saints who ignite the divine fire, require a great deal of money, and they do not have their own believers, nor do they grow out of the ground themselves.

Moreover, you are the children of the gods, and planting trees, cultivating fields for a good harvest, and providing disaster relief all require funds. So how can the Kingdom of Heaven exhaust its resources?

Therefore, at the very least, the Kingdom of Heaven only requires the church to hand over 15%, with the remainder to be managed and controlled by the church.

After a pause, Olivia added, "This tax can be anything. Faith is willpower; willpower is generated in the processes of death, pain, pleasure, and so on."

Upon hearing this, the wizards and revolutionary leaders all widened their eyes and stared at the leaders of the Holy Army.

If what Olivia said is true, then Protestantism is as rotten as it gets.

The Protestant Church is not satisfied with just the faith in the entire South. They continue to deliberately create disasters, absorb the power of faith, and even create a ranch church like Malrod that specializes in tormenting people. They deserve to die!

Some people couldn't help but start cursing on the spot.

The leaders of the Crusaders were sweating profusely, and Richard cursed inwardly.

The bishops were indeed greedy, but not to this extent. Therefore, the world's current state of affairs is inextricably linked to the greed of the gods.

At its lowest point, the Kingdom of Heaven did indeed only collect a 15% tax, but there's a reason behind this method of measurement. Moreover, wells of faith of different qualities and sizes suffer different losses when collecting faith.

The losses incurred when transmitting faith to the Kingdom of Heaven will also differ.

The more wells of faith there are, the better their quality, the greater their flow, and the less their loss.

When Protestantism was first established, the wells of faith in the church were not very large, but there were many of them.

Therefore, at that time, the losses were negligible.

But as time went by, many wells could no longer be repaired, and the situation got worse and worse.

For example, the Vatican loses over 90% of its tax revenue now.

Therefore, even if all the Protestant bishops were completely selfless and not greedy at all, they still wouldn't be able to pay taxes.

That's why things like Malrod happened.

The church did indeed embezzle a lot throughout the process, but it only took a small portion; the real bulk of the money went to the Kingdom of Heaven.

So, Ovilia is shifting the blame.

However, no one in the church dared to say anything more.

To everyone's surprise, Olivia was very candid in telling the wizards about the 'loss'.

She said, "The gods left behind many great wells of faith, and the one in Malrod is just one of them."

"As long as you can fix it, paying taxes won't be a problem."

After a pause, Olivia continued, "It turns out that the policy adopted by the Kingdom of Heaven here back then was wrong. The Kingdom of Heaven blocked all technology, which resulted in the Protestants having very limited technological capabilities and could only watch as wells slowly dwindled away."

I, along with many angels, have always opposed such policies of keeping the people ignorant.

The gods and angels have witnessed the current state of affairs in this plane, and this is not the outcome we desired.

The future will bring about significant changes in global development.

The specific details will be discussed in detail with the Council of High Angels (of Heaven) when I return to the Holy See (the earthly papacy).

At that time, we will also invite representatives of the Dawn New Society's mission to the Holy See to discuss the details.

Upon hearing this, the crowd began to discuss it animatedly. The wizards could tell that Olivia was very sincere.

Those in the church could also hear that the gods had never treated the believers of the church as human beings, but rather the wizards.

The reason for this is that believers and followers are like lambs, left to be slaughtered by the gods.

Wizards, on the other hand, can make gods bleed.

Therefore, they were treated as human beings.

Many leaders of the Holy Crusades couldn't help but ponder the papal reforms. If the Church had fully supported the reforms from the beginning, fought against them, and wrested power from the gods, would things be different now?

Olivia continued, "I personally promise here that the gods will not restrict your magical development, and taxes will certainly be more reasonable."

I believe that in future negotiations, we will definitely reach a result that satisfies both sides.

Roland thought to himself, 'What I say sounds good, but what good are your promises anyway!'

In the ensuing discussion, many people discovered that Olivia was completely indifferent to matters of faith.

In the future, people all over the world can believe in anyone. They can believe in Alaye, or the God of Dawn. They can even believe in a certain wizard lord or a certain Tata.

As long as taxes can be paid, the gods will not care even if one no longer believes in the gods.

God doesn't care; let it be.

To paraphrase Olivia, it was like saying, "God has entrusted this world to you."

This negotiation left the wizards with many doubts.

Judging from Olivia's attitude, Heaven seemed to genuinely intend to return the world to mortals.

The gods had only one requirement—that taxes be paid.

At this point, the negotiations were drawing to a close.

Today, Ovilia is incredibly candid.

But Roland and the female leader opposite him couldn't help but frown.

For some reason, both of them simultaneously thought of the story of 'The Garden and the Demon Insect'.

Roland thought to himself, 'It's absurd. I now almost hope this isn't a deal Heaven wants us to reach, but rather that Lady Heracles (Olivia) has gone mad.'

Roland began to ponder something.

If Lady Heracles believes she is someone else, then her every word and action is exactly the same as that person's.

Could all the attitudes she has displayed today be Olivia's attitude?
Could this be the attitude of Heaven? (End of Chapter)