Chapter 735 (1/2)
Chapter 735: Legacy of the Civilization
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Roland could easily guess what had happened next.
After knowing that God’s Punishment Army was not the only way to compete with demons on the battlefields any more, the Taquila survivors who didn’t want to reduce their own kind to the materials for shells must have caused a great conflict with Alice.
Given that, the Battle of Faiths recorded in the written history of the the church probably is just a story made up to cover the truth of this dispute.
As for the root of this disagreement, it did not just lie in the difference between the faith in God’s Punishment Army and that in the Chosen One. At that moment, all the leaders of the Union must have been very clear that neither of the choices was able to guarantee their victory in the war against demons.
According to Phyllis, the plan proposed by the Queen of Starfall City to have God’s Punishment Army rest in an everlasting sleep would indeed create 3,000 to 4,000 powerful, experienced extraordinary warriors before the third Battle of Divine Will, but the survivors of the Union had also noticed a fatal defect in this plan. As souls needed lots of time to adapt to their shells, once this army suffered an inevitable loss during the wartime, it would be impossible for the Union to replace casualties with new warriors in a short time. As a result, this army might only be able to block demons for a decade, or even, by any chance, retrieve the ruined Holy City of Taquila, but they could never recapture the whole Land of Dawn.
As for the choice to search for the Chosen One, they had thought it as an even more risky plan because of its extremely slim chance of success. However, they had also seen the benefit of it. If they found the one, human beings would be able to win the war at little cost and would even get closer to the deities based on the records on the lithograph.
For the survivors of the Union, searching for the Chosen One meant betting on the future while the God’s Punishment Army plan the present.
“What about the result? Did you defeat the Starfall City?” Roland asked.
“Taquila was not the final winner. No one would be in this conflict. When both sides lose their Transcendents, Lady Eleanor stood out to stop this internal disaccord and integrated herself into the central carrier. She was the first witch merging with it.”
Shocked, Agatha asked, “You mean, in the ruins of the maze, all the Three Chiefs were…”
Pasha said plaintively, “Yes, the Union lost all the three Transcendents in this internal struggle. It was also the end of the Three Chiefs system. As a result, the ruins of the maze became an indispensable part of the Union. Both sides decided to stop fighting and then reached an agreement through negotiation. As agreed, the survivors of Taquila stayed in the ruins studying the magic core and those of the Starfall City went to Hermes and built a new Holy City there. Due to the limited number of the original carriers, the survivors of the Starfall City also agreed to offer us a certain number of empty shells in the next 100 years. ”
“We also agreed that if we failed to make a breakthrough in the Chosen One plan or found no leads of her, they would have the right to take back all the research results in the ruins, including the soul containers and the original carriers. They claimed that by then they would come with their God’s Punishment Warriors and that if we broke the agreement, they would never compromise again.”
Notice something was wrong here, Roland interrupted, “wait… After 100 years, the church didn’t come to you, did they?”
Based on what he knew, in the past hundreds of years, the witches of Taquila had hid underground and never had a say in the world. Meanwhile all the church’s God’s Punishment Warriors had been soulless. Despite the defect in the warriors, the church still greatly outnumbered the Taquila witches, yet it had never sent any troops to the ruins of the maze. Roland wondered whether the church people had totally forgotten about this agreement.