I, the wizard, the foolish Buddha.

The Alaye Project has begun in full swing.

The content that Roland and his group discussed that day was disseminated from the Senate down to the top, and major newspapers and media outlets in the Eastern Territory also took action.

Compared to the elders and the Witch King, the discussions among the middle and lower-ranking wizards were more intense, and their ideas were more numerous and diverse. However, their voices eventually converged.

In the words of the King of a Thousand Eyes, the unification of the wizards' voices was inevitable.

Because if you see the essence of things, you will find the reason.

The olive branch extended by Heaven benefits only a very small number of top-tier wizards. These include figures like Roland, the Thousand-Eyed King, and others who are deified, as well as a very small number of rulers of high enough status to potentially enter the High Angel Council for deification in the future.

Loyalty to the Kingdom of Heaven will expand their rights.

But the rest of the people will lose everything!
They will become machines for producing faith, flocks of sheep deprived of the right to education, even the right to think and freedom!
Therefore, once the Eastern World accepts the olive branch from Heaven, a small number of those who achieve godhood will become new gods, farmers. The rest will lose everything, chained and imprisoned in sheepfolds as slaves!
The wizards were not ignorant believers; they possessed sufficient knowledge, insight, and discernment. They could naturally see through the essence of the matter. Therefore, the wizards of the East would unanimously oppose joining the Kingdom of Heaven and entering Eden.

Even the best Garden of Eden is still a farm; even the most carefree life is still just being a sheep.

For wizards, truth is above all else. If the price of survival is abandoning the truth and becoming like a pig, then wizards are willing to face death.

Therefore, faced with the gods' 'goodwill,' the wizards of the East finally made their decision—to take up arms and conquer Heaven!

Wizarding society is highly developed. The entire wizarding community has sufficient cultural literacy, can understand these principles, can see through the essence of the whole matter, and also possesses strong subjective initiative.

But the believers in the South were different from the wizards.

Today, the believers in the south have become members of the 'Dawn New Church'. The original Church of Light and Shadow has long been tamed by the wizards and has become part of the Dawn New Church.

The leader of this Cult of Light and Shadow is none other than the former Pope Mario, and the other decision-makers are all from the Black Abyss. Therefore, the Cult of Light and Shadow has become a truly legitimate wizarding organization, its purity beyond question. Naturally, they oppose divine authority.

But believers are different. The gods and the church have brainwashed them very severely, and their ideas are deeply ingrained and difficult to reverse.

Therefore, the believers in the South remain believers in all gods, and it is extremely difficult to change their minds. They cannot break free from the shackles of their own minds; we can only proceed slowly and indirectly.

In recent years, thanks to the efforts of the Eastern Elders and Mario, the Eastern Territory has completed the first step in unlocking the minds of believers—conversion.

The former believers in light and shadow have now become believers in the Church of Dawn, or rather, believers in the God of Alaye.

Alaye, the Dawn God, is the son of the gods and the savior of the world. He is also an omniscient god, the god of knowledge and magic.

Believers who initially refused education have begun to gradually accept knowledge and break free from ignorance under the guidance of the new doctrines.

Many believers have begun to master magic and appear no different from wizards. But in reality, they are far from it.

Although they have been bathed in magic and truth, what they truly believe in is not truth, but God!
They have simply changed from one god to a follower of another, and are still under the control of divine authority.

Getting them to take up arms with the wizards and oppose divine authority was extremely difficult. Moreover, the vast majority of the 'Dawn New Believers,' or rather the vast majority of Southern believers, were illiterate.

Most southerners today don't even know how to read. They lack the ability to think for themselves and the ability to understand. They look like sheep tied up in a pen—the wizards opened the pen, but the lambs stood silently inside, motionless.

There is no doubt that Southern believers are absolutely blindly loyal to the gods. Even if they receive education and learn magic, they will still believe it is divine will and divine grace. How to unite this group of believers is a very troublesome matter.

There are two main opinions among wizards regarding how to 'deal with' these Southern believers.

The first mainstream view is that a divine oracle was issued in the name of the god Alaye—the Kingdom of Heaven has been controlled and occupied by the god of madness, the gods have lost their reason, and Alaye, the son of the gods, has no choice but to uphold the Kingdom of Heaven.

Therefore, the gods of dawn, led by the god Alaye, will launch a divine war to drive out the mad god and save the kingdom of heaven.

This plan seems outrageous, but it is actually quite reliable because it has historical and practical basis!
All believers in the South know the story of the Age of Madness and also know that the gods have been fighting against Madness.

A quick glance through the old scriptures reveals evidence that "the Kingdom of Heaven has been taken over by a mad god!"
Therefore, if this plan is adopted, it will surely have an immediate effect on getting Southern believers to take up arms and stand with the wizards against the Kingdom of Heaven.

However, almost all the elders opposed this plan.

This plan will place an even deeper and more secure layer of divine authority over believers in the South.

They appeared to have taken up arms in rebellion against divine authority, but in reality, they became puppets of another group of gods—the sorcerers.

On a larger scale, this plan could shake the very foundations of Eastern society's ideology!
On a smaller scale, the gods are far more professional and skilled at manipulating divine power than the wizards.

Wizards can manipulate divine authority to control believers in the south. The gods can also manipulate divine authority, and they are clearly more professional at it.

On the day of the final battle, the gods may very well play a random card that causes all of Alaye's followers to turn against them!

Therefore, adopting this plan would be like bringing the battle to the table of the gods. In this game, the wizard is destined to lose.

Therefore, although this plan seems to have an immediate effect, it is a terrible idea and a very bad strategy.

Therefore, the vast majority of wizards support the second option—liberating thought. This fundamentally breaks the shackles the gods have placed on the minds of southern believers.

The elders believed that the Eastern Wizards' purpose in defeating the Church of Light and Shadow was to liberate their fellow countrymen on the farm, tear off their sheepskins, break their shackles, and transform them back into true human beings.

The wizards had no reason to abandon the task simply because it was too difficult. Nor did they have any reason to abandon the fundamental goal of liberating the sheep and turn themselves into their new farmers.

The second option seems extremely difficult, but there are still two generations until the day of baptism.

Therefore, although the minds of this generation are deeply ingrained and it is difficult to break free from their ideological shackles, the next generation will surely be able to break free from the mental constraints imposed by these gods.

Therefore, the wizards believed that after two generations, Southern believers could become Southern wizards.

However, things took an unexpected turn. Before the next generation even began receiving an education, the minds of this first generation had already been completely liberated.

Even more unbelievable is that this group became the mainstay of the fight against the gods!

Judging from the power of will gathered by the Dawn of Light, the mental strength and determination of these people to defy the gods far surpass those of contemporary wizards by dozens of times! (End of Chapter)