"Have you heard? The team that previously published the "Declaration of Free Magic" seems to be publishing another newspaper recently."
In the south of Freden, a relatively well-developed city - Lant City, in a secluded residence, a mage named Aiden just opened the door and saw his mage friend walking in, and said to him excitedly .
"Newspaper? Are you serious?"
Aiden said with a surprised look on his face when he heard this.
As a very ordinary free mage, they do not have the habit of reading newspapers. Several domestic newspapers, such as "Fredden Current Affairs" and "Economic Miscellany", mainly target the official class and business class. Among mages, generally only boss-level people like to watch it.
Just like before, the church's ban had just been lifted, and "Freden Current Affairs" did not know who was instructing it. It praised the church for a while, which naturally caused some dissatisfaction among the mages.
Therefore, at this point in time, the mage group actually has a relatively low impression of newspapers.
"Yes, many mages are discussing this matter, and the words are quite decent. It should be the team that released the news, and it won't be some random rumors." Norman, the mage friend who specially came to visit , then nodded and replied.
"But... why a newspaper? Wouldn't it be better to publish a sequel or something like that?" Aiden was still confused and couldn't help complaining.
In his opinion, Frieden's newspaper industry is very rubbish and is nothing more than a mouthpiece for some interest organizations. As soon as the decree was issued, he began to say good things for the church, and his flattering face was too much for him to stand. He didn't understand why the team that published the "Declaration of Free Magic" got involved.
After all, the "Declaration of Free Magic" is completely different from those newspapers that flatter superiors and bully subordinates!
Aiden knows all about how that booklet changed their lives.
He still remembered the uncontrollable shock he felt when he read the "Declaration of Free Magic" for the first time half a month ago.
At that time, he had just had a conflict with a preaching priest on the street, and even started fighting. However, before he had time to teach that extremely weak guy a lesson, a group of soldiers and a dozen priests suddenly walked out of the street corner and surrounded him. Outnumbered, he was severely humiliated by the group of priests and paid a fine of ten gold coins for disturbing public order.
"Fallen followers of the devil, you can be arrogant now. Justice will surely defeat evil, and one day, the light of God will envelope this world. You will have nowhere to hide."
Under the watchful eyes of many passers-by, the priests said these words to him, and then left arrogantly.
At that time, he was filled with anger and even had doubts about the meaning of being a mage. He thought what was the use of studying magic so hard? In the end, magic seemed to have become a sin for him, and he was being humiliated for it.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He wanted to go back to the street, take advantage of the soldiers and the priest to disperse, and kill the extremely weak priest who only knew how to shout, so that those sons of bitches could be proud of having more people. !
Aiden was very unbalanced.
Why are those priests so close together? If there is a conflict, everyone will rush up. But the mage... He was surrounded by people on the street, but no mage stepped forward to help
The mages... should work together to beat those hypocritical priests back to their heavenly home!
Unfortunately, like every ordinary person with surging thoughts, in the end, he swallowed these thoughts because he was powerless. There are too many helpless people in reality. Maybe becoming a numb and humble existence will prevent me from living so tiredly.
The world is like this, who is he? Can he really make any changes
Fortunately, Norman came to see him that day and mysteriously gave him a book.
"What's this?"
Norman patted him on the shoulder and said: "Don't worry, you will know after reading it. Now many mages are passing on and copying this book. Mine is still the original version, not a hand-copied version. You will never regret it after reading it." .”
So, with mixed feelings, Aiden took the "Declaration of Free Magic", returned to his home, and opened the book. And this one flip almost changed his entire life.
The spells recorded in this thin book were almost things that he had to work hard for for who knows how many years to learn them all. Not to mention the meditation rule, he tried it out on the spot and found it to be many times easier to use than his previous meditation rule.
At that moment, he truly realized how precious this book was.
However, in addition to these things, there was something in the "Declaration of Free Magic" that moved him even more deeply.
"There is no justice or evil in magic. The church's so-called corruption is just a way for them to impose crimes on mages and win over people's hearts. Even if there are evil mages in this world, it is because of the wrong things they have done. Not because they are mages. No one would convict a pistol. The priests are just a bunch of hypocrites who have changed their minds."
When he saw this, Aiden recalled the conflict between himself and the priest, gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and felt a surge of emotions in his heart like a tidal wave.
Yes, he did nothing wrong, so why can those priests point their noses at him and scold him
Not only that, the "Declaration of Free Magic" also told him that even if he is an insignificant individual, as long as he is willing to do something, the world can still change because of him.
At that moment, he regained his fighting spirit. He wanted to join the team that wrote the book, but he had trouble finding out anything. Others said that the publisher didn't seem to be active in Lant City, so he had to give up the idea for the time being.
However, he still found a few magician friends, and contacted some magicians who were also dissatisfied with the church. That night, he used explosives to blow up the foundation of the church that had just been laid in Lant City.
The next day, seeing the confused expressions on the faces of the priests and construction workers gathered around the construction site, he and the participating mages felt very satisfied.
However, that's all they can do. They did not dare to really attack those priests, and had no way to drive them away. They could only occasionally cause trouble with the church, disrupt the progress of their church construction, and gather together to find fault with the missionary priests. They were a group after all, so they didn't have to worry about the priests and soldiers taking advantage of their numbers to humiliate them again.
Gradually, they even felt that they had formed some kind of secret association. They would hold relatively low-key gatherings and discuss how to make the church unhappy.
And every time, the proof of admission to their gathering is the "Free Magic Manual".
After the serial assassinations happened, they were even more excited. Aiden guessed that the legendary "Triangle Ghost" must be the group of people who wrote the manual. He wanted to reach out to them. Unfortunately, this group of people was too mysterious, and there was nothing he could do.
In fact, the news of publishing the newspaper was the only news he had heard from the team in the past few days.
That's why he was a little disappointed with the news.
"I don't know why they chose newspapers, but since they are the ones who can compile the "Declaration of Free Magic", they must have their reasons for doing this." Norman heard this and shook his head, but still Said so.
Aiden thought for a moment. Also, have hope for that group of people.
After all, they are the ones who can compile the "Declaration of Free Magic"!
"Also, there is another news." Norman also spoke at this time, and said slightly excitedly, "I heard that in order to publish newspapers, they now have secret contacts in every city. Maybe we can also contact them. It’s their turn!”