Capítulo 931: Chapter 659: Influence (Part 2)
The players are Eve’s assistants, not troublemakers causing chaos.
However, the players who haven’t had much interaction with the Human World may not fully understand the true impact of the Battle of Morning Star City, but Eve, who has gradually gained more and more believers in the Human World… clearly understands the shocking effect that battle had on the Human World.
Over a dozen Elf Divine Favored, a Legendary Black Dragon…
In front of a Legendary Mage, several High-level Professionals, hundreds of Silver Knights, and an army of tens of thousands, they rescued a noble with elf blood and destroyed a central district of Morning Star City…
That wasn’t a small town, but the second largest city of the Western Domain of the empire, second only to the capital.
For the Rosen family controlling the Imperial Expedition Army, for the Holy Mania Empire, and even for the Eternal Church, it was like a severe slap in the face.
Yet, strangely, this event that caused a huge shock in the upper echelons of the Human World’s society did not provoke a strong backlash and retaliation from the entire Holy Mania Empire.
On the contrary… there was severe disagreent in the Human World over the view of this event.
One important reason is a piece of Magic Image circulating in the black market.
This is the focal point of the whole incident, the Half-elf Girl who summoned elves, the heir of the Wells family from the Zelolan Viscount Domain, Sofia von Wels and Duke Rosen’s image.
The Magic Image ticulously recorded how Duke Rosen promised Sofia, how he colluded with the Eternal Church to deceive and threaten Sofia, aiming to take both the girl and her family, the Wells family, under his control… Eventually leading to the girl’s anger, she summoned the Elf rcenaries for help using the summoning statue.
The release of this image instantaneously caused a massive upheaval among the upper class of the entire empire, most of the imperial nobles’ focus shifted to the actions of the Rosen family, while the elves’ destruction gradually faded from attention.
It wasn’t forgotten, but the scandal of the Rosen family took precedence, making the strength of the Elf Clan less of a focal point in the Human World…
anwhile, nurous forces in the Human World’s black market began inquiring about the summoning statue of the Elf Clan, spending lavishly to purchase it…
It is rather interesting.
The Morning Star City incident involves noble struggles, political maneuvering.
Politics has always been a complicated matter.
Greater power also ans stronger enemies within the power circle.
The Rosen family is in the lilight, naturally, there are many in the imperial noble circles who despise it, with such an opportunity appearing, soone is bound to try to cut a piece from Duke Rosen…
The protagonist of the event, however, has mysteriously disappeared; rumor has it that the runaway Sofia has fled to the Elf Forest, gaining considerable support and sympathy.
Of course, how many are truly sympathetic and how many are rely using the girl’s experience to attack the Rosen family, is a very subtle matter.
Intriguingly, despite Sofia’s actions and the destruction caused by the elves, imperial law is sufficient to strip her of noble status, yet, the reigning Empress Maria II of the Holy Mania Empire scolded Duke Rosen’s deeds and dismissed the proposal from so nobles to strip the Wells family’s title.
What kind of political struggle lies within, is not our place to know.
Overall, the Morning Star City incident is like a stone thrown into the water, churning up the entire ruling class of the Holy Mania Empire, making the situation that was already chaotic due to the awakening of various Evil Gods and Fake Gods even more chaotic and torn apart…
The Eternal Church, however, remains rather calm, simply recalling Bishop Santis, withdrawing his clerical status, and revoking his administrative and religious powers.
And as for the commoners… naturally, another piece of gossip over dinner about the decadence and foolishness of nobles and the church.
Yet, apart from players who have so awareness due to the Amway Chamber of Comrce having branches in many Human World cities, most others remain oblivious to all of this.
But Eve, through the feedback from so believers, indeed watched a good show.
Only, Eve is also involved in this show, as the Magic Image was released into the black market through the hands of players at Eve’s behest.
This was Eve’s probe of the Human World…
The Human Kingdom is the eternal Church’s stronghold, and the human pantheon is Eve’s strongest enemy in the future, and among them, the most pressure on Eve cos from the basic belief base of the human pantheon with its hundreds of millions of believers…
The more stable the basic belief base, the stronger the True God of Faith’s power.
A thousand years ago, when the human population in the Segis World was far smaller than today, the Eternal Lord and other True Gods were already formidable, but now, humans make up over three-fifths of all intelligent species across the universe, how powerful the human pantheon might be now, is a profound unknown…
Even though the number of True Gods in the entire pantheon may have diminished, the Divine Power accumulated by each surviving True God, the power they possess, is certainly terrifying.
And they might very well be Eve’s strongest enemies.
Perhaps now is not the ti for confrontation, but after the War of the Gods and Demons ends, after Eve ascends to Mighty Divine Power, and after the seal of the Segis World is completely lifted, she might face the strongest True God force in the universe.
Laying groundwork in advance, embedding so nails, is necessary.
At least… through this probe, Eve saw the centuries of nobles’ decadence, church’s decay, social division, class stratification…
In one word, it’s chaos.
In two words, it’s torn apart.
Corrupt politics, chaotic politics, and highly acute social contradictions…
Eve suddenly realized that although the foundation of human gods’ belief is very large, it might not actually be stable.
It’s like an ever-expanding cake, seemingly large, seemingly glorious, but in fact, filled with various holes, and not firm.
This also indirectly explains why, after the seal of the Segis World started to loosen, various evil forces could easily stir waves in the Human World.
Because of chaos, because of darkness, there are loopholes to exploit.
For Eve as well, otherwise… she couldn’t have been unwittingly worshipped as a faith by a few human villages.
A thousand miles’ dike breaks from an anthill.
Eve thinks, to defeat the Eternal Lord, it might not just depend on direct divine warfare.
However, regarding the specific operation of this, Eve only has a rough idea; actual action requires prudence and experintation.
And Sofia, whom the players rescued from Morning Star City, is who Eve plans to experint with first.
Hmm…
Perhaps calling it an experint sounds inhumane, let’s call it a pilot instead.
Eve still harbors considerable expectations for Sofia.
However, the Half-elf girl taken to the Elf Forest by the players, is currently not in a good state…
Outside the deluxe suite of the Amway Tavern at Gray Harbor, Li Mu and Dema looked at the closed doors, frowning slightly.
“Is she still not eating?”
They turned to the tavern attendant beside them, an elf from the Oros Half-plane, and asked.
“Yes, Lord Li Mu, Lord Dema, Miss Sofia has been keeping herself locked in the room, not allowing anyone to enter, it’s been several days now.”
The elf answered respectfully.
Upon hearing this, Li Mu and Dema exchanged a glance, their expressions helpless.
“This is troubling, completing the hidden task requires getting Sofia to convert to the Goddess… her temperant, can’t be forced.”
Dema said with a bitter smile.
Li Mu thought for a while, then sighed:
“Let’s try knocking again.”
With that, he stepped forward and knocked on the door again.
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