I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

If anyone else had said these words today, Florence would surely have sent down a holy fire from the heavens to purify that heretic.

But this man is Roland, the holy son of the Dawn Gods. His words are no different from divine pronouncements to the entire Dawn Cult!

—Has the Dawn Order always believed in a magic carpet? A flying ship?
At that moment, Florence felt like the sky had fallen.

She swayed slightly and nearly fainted in Joan's arms amidst a dizzying spin.

Joan comforted him, "Even if the Dawn of Light is a man-made object, it was created by the Third Holy Mother, wasn't it? It's not the first time that the Bibles and idols of various sects have been wrong. O'Reilly even said that the Cult of Light and Shadow worshipped the wrong god. Sigh."

Upon hearing this, Florence immediately perked up. She looked at the old scribe with a mixture of doubt and anticipation, as if wanting to know if the Church of Light and Shadow had really done something so outrageous.

"The true God cannot be looked at directly, and the various deities depicted in the church are indeed unrelated to the gods."

The old scribe's words made everyone's eyes widen.

Especially Joan. Although she had indeed heard such words from O'Reilly, she didn't believe them at all. After all, if even the idols were fake, then wouldn't the gods worshipped by believers also be fake? What would faith even mean then?

Roland was also very shocked, but the old scribe's words matched things like "the gods don't care about faith, they care about the bottles that generate electricity", "the people of the Holy City take lies as faith", and "the gods descending is possession, influenced by the host's thoughts and memories".

So Roland quickly processed this information.

The old scribe added, "However, while Mr. Charlie's words are correct, they are not entirely correct either."

The old scribe deliberately called Roland 'Charles' instead of his real name, indicating his attitude—that the people meeting here today are Charles, the scribe of Orbis and a disciple of Alay.

Roland asked, "What's wrong?"

The old scribe looked at the incomplete tangram of light in the distance and said, "The Holy See is indeed the 'Dawn of Light' recorded in the Old Scriptures, but in essence it is also an idol. Just like the 'Queen Victoria'."

The Queen Victoria cruise ship did exist, but Queen Victoria herself certainly did exist as well.

Roland's eyes flickered slightly, and he asked, "You mean, the ancient forbidden creators forged this thing based on the true light of dawn?"

The old scribe said, "It should be called a copy. Although there are still some differences, it is very close."

Roland's pupils constricted sharply. He asked, "Wait a minute, I don't quite understand. Are you saying that there really is such a God in the world, and that the Creators have already created and replaced God?!"

The old scribe shook his head and said, "The light of dawn is not God. It is the spiritual totem of the Creators."

But those self-proclaimed creators who forbid creation have indeed created their own creator.

The old scribe looked at Roland: "The forbidden wizards regarded them as mere paper insects, but they did not know that they had created a group of true gods!"

A thunderclap struck Roland's mind, and all his previous speculations and the clues he found in the old scriptures today finally came together at this moment.

Heracles once referred to the gods of heaven as 'paper worms,' and those who had toyed with them like worms were the forbidden wizards!
They once tried to explore a spiritual path through the insects on paper, to learn how to influence the world through thought—what you observe, you will see!
But these paper insects escaped the paper and transformed into their gods.

On the path of spirituality, they have far surpassed the forbidden wizards of the past, and at one point nearly destroyed them.

It wasn't until another group of "Dawn Gods," led by the "Three Dawn Mothers," joined the Forbidden Sanctuary under the guidance (deception) of Roland's father that the Forbidden Wizards were able to survive this world-ending crisis.

With the addition of the 'Dawn Gods', the Sanctuary, which was originally extremely materialistic and lacked research on the spiritual path, ushered in a new development.

So the new forbidden wizards created the Dawnlight, imprisoned their God, and banished him to this world.

This prison where they were imprisoned was the 'Holy Throne'.

This holy seat, known as the 'Old Heaven,' is the prison of the gods!
Roland didn't have time to finish reading all the old scriptures. He asked the old scribe about the many questions that had been on his mind: "The old scriptures of the Dawn Cult say that the Three Holy Mothers of Dawn were the first Outer Gods to come to this world? At that time, the world was still a wasteland?"

"According to the church, the gods of dawn brought the first light to the world and they should have participated in the creation of the world."

The old scribe found an old scripture on a nearby bookshelf. He turned to a certain page and handed it to Roland.

"When the Catholic Church switched to Protestantism, many books were damaged, so this book is no longer the original version."

The church believes the original text was a 'book of divine positions' recording the offices of the gods of dawn, so it recompiled it according to its own understanding. You can take a look.

Roland took the book with great curiosity, but after glancing at it, he felt that this so-called 'Book of Gods' was more like a 'crew list'.

The first person listed is: Nip.

The Church of Light and Shadow considers him the 'Supreme God who guards the old Heaven,' and he bears the prophetic responsibility of guiding the gods, as well as the responsibility of redemption.

However, based on the context, Roland felt that he might actually be the 'warden guarding the divine prison,' concurrently serving as the 'captain (guide)' and 'psychiatrist.'

If the Old Paradise were a ship called the Dawn of Light, then the positions of warden and navigator would seem to be higher than those of the captain.

Below are three archangels of the 'Supreme God of the Old Heaven'. Their names are: Kajelena, Isabella, and Elune.

The Church believes these are their aliases on earth; their real names are: Kajelina → Hestia Mandrake (the holy spore angel), Elizabeth → Yeshethemis (the merciful foolish saint), Elune → Elune (the generous swollen fairy).

The Church believes that they are archangels and divine kings who guide the faith of the gods, and warriors who protect the old heaven.

But in reality, it might be a combination of 'prison guards' and 'security guards'.

Roland also saw the name 'Our Lady of Sincerity, Hilna'. According to the Dawn Old Testament of Vermec, she was not a mad goddess, but a genuine benevolent goddess, and the first goddess of sincerity.

She was the surrogate mother for 'Oréal'. Oréal would call her "Mom," while Roland would call her "Auntie."

There weren't many crew members on the ship, only a little over a hundred in total.

Among these hundred-plus people, some were high-dimensional beings with great power, some were humans like Roland's father, and some were "humans" like the "Holy Spore Angel"—or rather, "fungus people" who thought they were human.

In the history of the church, these people are considered deities of the dawn.

However, many people in the history of wizarding are considered 'forbidden wizards'. For example, 'Herakka'.

Wizards believe she was a famous sage of ancient times, but the church believes she is a goddess who governs conquest, killing, death, and purification.

Furthermore, the Church of Light and Shadow even believes that Heracles is the daughter of the sun god.

But Roland did not see the Sun God on the crew list.

After he finished reading this book, the old scribe gave him several more. These books were all about creation, birth, the age of madness, and the fall of the Holy Throne.

As Roland continued reading, the mystery surrounding the 'gods of heaven' gradually revealed its truth before his eyes.

In the ancient history of the Forbidden Creators, they once reached the point where they could alter the very nature of the astral plane. The entire astral plane was like a piece of paper, which they could scribble on at will.

After this, the sanctuary's technology stagnated, and the entire civilization fell into a cycle of decline, unable to move forward any further. So they sought knowledge from God, knowledge they themselves did not know, and eventually found Him.

But to their great disappointment, God was far less powerful than they had imagined.

To the Creators, the world is like a sheet of paper, and the God within that sheet, like the words on it, can be altered at will.

But God cannot even comprehend them.

However, the creators discovered that God seemed to possess a special ability that was difficult for them to comprehend—so, in order to explore this knowledge and to touch the true truth, a project called 'The Paper Worm' began.

In this project, they continuously searched for the gods in various celestial realms, stuffed them into paper, and used them for research.

Until this 'God' suddenly saw the world outside the paper.

From that day onward, the Creators suddenly realized one thing—that they were the insects who had never known God.

Because once they climb out of the paper, they will instantly understand everything in the world outside the paper, reverse cause and effect, and become the creators of the forbidden creators!
Originally, this was not a big deal. Because submission and domination are part of the cycle of civilization.

However, these gods are beings that the creators cannot comprehend. Their appearance will not bring about domination, but rather cause the laws of the entire world to collapse and descend into chaos.

In the words of the Eastern Wizards, once the nameless gods who once slumbered in the deep sea of ​​the lower world awaken and descend upon the surface world, everything will be dragged into the sea of ​​the lower world.

To prevent the destruction of civilization, the Forbidden Sanctuary carefully cultivated a 'researcher' and stuffed him into a piece of paper.

This researcher was Roland's father, 'Nip'.

He successfully lured (deceived) a portion of the 'Gods' into his camp. The Sanctuary then welcomed new members, and after a series of reforms, defeated another group of Gods, banishing them to another astral plane.

The 'Holy Seat' where Roland and his companions are now is the prison ship used to exile the 'Gods'.

Roland's parents were crew members on the ship.

Judging from some of the cryptic details, the ship's original destination was not here, but a much more distant star system.

But for some unknown reason, they had to stay here.

They transformed the world, and then gods and all living beings were slowly born in it.

This period of time was extremely long, but it was only many, many years later that the gods and all living beings slowly discovered the existence of the forbidden creators.

The arrogant gods once waged a war against the creators, a war that lasted so shortly as to not even qualify as a war.

Then, the creators were forbidden from continuing their own affairs, while the gods, preoccupied with their own affairs, bestowed upon them divine positions comparable to the supreme god, calling them the 'Dawn Gods'.

In that era, all the 'Gods of Dawn' were supreme deities of the lord level. But they paid no attention to this world, nor did they ever pay any attention to those so-called gods.

In the eyes of the 'Dawn Gods', this world is like a small garden where one can take a break and have some tea.

The gods here, and the war they waged against them, was the ant acid released by the ants on the tea drinkers—the tea drinkers scratched their arms and continued drinking. The ants were terrified and crowned the tea drinkers as 'great ants as powerful as the queen ant'.

But after that war ended, something very strange began to happen.

Those ant gods who had participated in that 'war' suddenly began to see themselves as another group of gods.

They began to utter many words that the gods could not understand or comprehend, and to do many indescribable things.

Then, this madness began to spread—not only the gods of heaven, but also all living beings began to be infected.

The era of madness and evil has begun.

According to the Old Scriptures, this monstrous plague drew great attention from the forbidden Creators, who did everything in their power to contain it.

In that war, the entire world was torn apart. Species faced mass extinction, and countless gods perished.

However, the evil was ultimately contained—the surviving humans and gods were all 'immune' to the evil. They would never, ever be infected again.

According to the Old Testament, the Age of Madness finally ended with the combined efforts of the Creator, the gods, and all living beings. The price was the fall of the Holy Throne.

Then, the gods of dawn and the new gods of heaven signed a peace treaty that would never invade each other's territory.

Afterwards, a group of forbidden creators, led by the Third Mother of Dawn, left this world—they did not take the Holy Throne with them.

The other group of creators joined the new heaven, submitting to the gods they once regarded as ants.

Heracles even referred to the supreme god, who should have had nothing to do with him, as 'Father God'.

Even more strangely, the Supreme God suddenly changed his divine position after that—he, who originally had nothing to do with the sun, began to call himself the Sun God.

Even His own divine name was changed to 'Uramunus'.

Upon seeing this, Roland suddenly raised his head.

He searched the Serpent Ring thoroughly and found a copy of the 'Old Book of Heracles' from the Dracula family collection.

This Old Bible mentions Heracles, the father of the Outer Gods.

—In the war between the forbidden wizards and the God in the paper, some of the 'Gods' joined the Sanctuary, while others tried to completely erase the existence of the Sanctuary.

The leaders of the group of gods who joined the sanctuary were Hestia Mandrake (the Holy Angel), Jeshademis (the Merciful Saint), and Elune (the Generous Lord).

The leader of those 'gods' who nearly destroyed the entire sanctuary was named 'Uramunus (King of the Sun)'.

'I had already guessed it; I guessed it when I discovered that the old scriptures were written about the history of the mad gods.'

Roland looked at the various patterns depicting the gods of heaven on the library's dome.

'Bullshit epilepsy immunity. Bullshit that you'll never get epilepsy again!'

He will never be infected with madness again, because they are mad gods!

My mom and dad weren't heroes who left this world after stopping madness; they were deserters who fled this world after being utterly defeated!

On this day, Roland finally understood why Heraka, who was seemingly omnipotent like God, was so afraid of the gods of heaven who should be like ants in Her eyes.

Because those gods are just as terrifying as He!
Not only that, they also started learning the technology of the Forbidden Sanctuary!

'All these gods in the sky, like Heracles and me, are fungus people!' (End of Chapter)