Chapter 296 (1/2)

Chapter 296: Seekers of Truth

Translator: ih it had been two days since I and the wood spirits’ envoy group had arrived in the city of Arlo, the highest-level authority in the Mage Country, the “Truth Symposium,” still hadn’t contacted us for an official discussion This wasn’t because they were acting high orus on purpose We si, as the Truth Symposium was currently but an empty shell

“Where are all the Truth Overseers? U, it’s already considered quite an accomplishment if more than half of the Truth Overseers can be located Currently, there are only six Truth Overseers on-duty at Cloud Tower It’s iin a conference with only that many At the very least, there needs to be ten of theular scheduledfor next month?”

Aloso, a member of the Mystical Blade School, was one of the eneration Halfway through the SemiGod Rank, he was a former member of the Truth Syreet us and had answeredby his unrestrained passion and how hard he hugged ift ht hireat benefits

“Roland, I never expected that ouldof all truants, would actually ree? As the dean, I’e had a rather plues Aloso also had an excellent reputation for being one of the nicestlike a Maitreya [1] 1 and even slapped his own plu his fat to tremble

We sort-of counted as teacher and student as well Back when Kaid and I were studying beginner-level ic, ere all technically under Aloso in the Mystical Blade as he was the head teacher at the time Now, he had becoraduation certificate he did for h ere technically teacher and student, it wasn’t like what I had with Harloys or As clearly, I first need to explain the Mage Country’s special and unique political structure

This country, rather than calling it an independent country (which would typically be considered to have a group of people ruling over others) would be e research association

The capital Arlo’s nae, and it represented the intention of this city when it was founded Siather” in the ancient language, which was quite self-explanatory

The ruling class in this country wasn’t composed of a noble systein with And, even though this was the Mage Country, true authority didn’t lay in the hands of any single e Country consisted of countless se would typically choose to join the anization for theet one’s voice heard in the Mage Country was through an organization

The larger organizations would tend to have various sanizations This was due to the fact that s and paths on how to seek the truth

“I want to prove star cluster anization caic Thus, the faanization caanization’s divination, prophecy, and horoscope ic was at the world’s peak; however, the Star Revelation’s members were typically utter hermits who lacked practical co if their members could perform at even half their actual power ranks

“I want to reach the pinnacle of coanization cae Levist’s passion in coic Thus, the famous Mystical Blade came into existence Their members were typically far es They were far ies, and half of the classes they taught were about practical coh actual battles However, it would be difficult to ask any of theh both of these organizations were ae Country, they were almost exact opposites and had a terrible relationshi+p with each other One could view them as a practical faction and a theoretical faction Or one could even think of it as the hard sciences versus the literary arts

But there were no absolutes as there were always exceptions to everything The Great Saint Margaret was a member of a smaller faction within Star Revelation However, she was definitely highly skilled in real co traveled all over the world

And, from a certain standpoint, I counted as a member of the Mystical Blade But let’s not ic which frustrated me so ic

Frooal would typically change over time, different from what the creator intended An exaanization’s creator was a fervent believer in the Holy Light, and the organization’s original focus was on Order Divine Arts, the power of faith and belief, Holy Light eneration, the changes in the Sword of Order organization were so ered to death if he was still alive

Perhaps they had gone off the wrong track sos would always eventually balance in the opposite direction… This organization had long since stopped studying Holy Light est fores liked to study undead ic, eastern talis of researchers who loved to study the unpopular, and the Sword of Order organization ranked at the top of the world in studying the various sorts of taboo anizations were quite anizations counted theanizations since their core leaders were anizations all had bad relationshi+ps with one another, so during every acadees wouldn’t knoho to support… Don’t look down on academic conferences, as they were the e Country Theabout so, the conference roo arena

Yep, the e Country were academic conferences, rather than supposedly serious political ht the truth as their goal, their internal conflicts stereehest-level academic conference was the “Truth Syhest-level authority of this country

The es with great research accomplishments or excellent reputations would be invited to becoovern arches were uninterested in the Truth Syree thes, they would feel like it wasn’t worth the trouble of having the title of Truth Overseer They would often resign froes would take their place

The reason? The Truth Sys and ee that reached a sufficient level could apply to listen in to a Truth Sy and support their own faction When I was still an acolyte, I had listened in to two Truth Syes would use thirty percent of the ti about their own academic results, fifty percent of the time to attack others’ newest research acco twenty percent ofand resources For instance, they would always fight over the new reatest potential…

As for political tasks that needed to be done? When all the uing, the final fivewould be used to pass new political policies at a high speed The efficiency was incredible Before a policy was even fully read out loud, all the es would raise their hands in approval, and before the docues would teleport away With such “politicians” in charge, it overnmental administrators

“It’s all just a joke They’re all so old and stubborn They’re all top-level experts in their own fields so who’d be able to convince anyone by si? There’s also an ironclad rule that disallows actual fighting at the Truth Symposiu logical and reasonable—it’s about who can be the loudest and est! It’s about who can tolerate such a farcical debate the longest!”

This was also why the Mage Country had never invaded another country in the past thousands of years In the past, there were obviously es in the Truth Symposium to pass a majority decision to declare ould be as difficult as reaching the stars That th to try and conquering that country to realize their ae Country could technically even be considered to not be a country For the true, purest of es, the only places in the world they cared about were their research laboratories and libraries They lacked territorial alory and honor, the exact opposite of the nobles and royalty in this world