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However, since the wizards captured the capital and occupied the entire kingdom, Beata's life has undergone tremendous changes.
When the wizards first proposed to gather scattered land and implement centralized, mechanized planting, they were met with spontaneous resistance from countless farmers. After all, for the kingdom's subjects who had been farming for generations, land was their most valuable property, and to some extent, even more important than life!
As long as the land is still there, at least the minimum living needs can be guaranteed.
Most people simply don't believe that the wizards who are portrayed by the church as the doomsdayers and spreaders of evil gods would have such good intentions, so they are extremely resistant to the so-called agricultural reform plan.
Just a group of farmers are powerless against spellcasters who have mastered the miracle called magic.
Fortunately, the parliament did not intend to carry out a large-scale massacre, but chose to reclaim the wasteland first, and used words and benefits to induce some less determined subjects to participate in management.
Without a doubt, Beate seized this rare opportunity and responded to the so-called big farm plan of the wizards. She became a large farmer who managed thousands of acres of land around her and witnessed magical automatic farming magic that was beyond her cognition.
Turning the soil and planting do not require any human or animal power. All it takes is a few people driving a huge alchemical device to easily cultivate thousands of acres of land.
Even watering and fertilizing are handled by special elemental wizards. Casting a magic called "Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium Yield Increasing Spell" once a week can significantly increase the wheat yield in the next year.
The most important thing they have to do is to cooperate with the agricultural reform experiments of the wizards based on past experience.
Of course, these high-ranking wizards were all very busy and did not have much time to waste on such "small things" as planting crops. After enduring the most difficult first year, they no longer assisted them in planting, but instead provided a batch of alchemical powder that could increase soil fertility and reduce pests.
Having enjoyed the convenience of fully automated planting, Beate even had a sudden idea and used all her savings to rent an airship for daily watering and fertilizing work.
After all, it is not easy to recruit farmers nowadays, as the prices offered by various magic workshops are frighteningly high. The farmers who previously resolutely resisted the agricultural reform plan and wished to die in the fields and live and die with the land have all entered the workshops to smelt iron and make glass.
Therefore, renting an airship was really a helpless move. It was also because of these magical alchemical creations that their entire family was able to manage thousands of acres of farmland properly.
However, Beate was not without worries. What worried him most was such centralized planting. If a large-scale drought or flood broke out, the food supply of the entire kingdom would be ruined.
However, over the past few years, Beate was surprised to find that her worries seemed unnecessary. Those wizards seemed to have the ability to predict celestial phenomena. The past year was even stranger. Even the wind and rain were fixed at regular times and in fixed quantities.
A while ago, a wizard apprentice sent them a questionnaire, asking them how much rain they needed each season, how many sunny days they needed, and which day was more suitable for rain...
After reading the questionnaire, Beate was completely confused. She didn't quite understand what the purpose of filling out these questionnaires was. The questionnaires even went into detail about the measurement of each rainfall. Could it be that as long as they filled out a report, it would rain on schedule?
However, things were obviously more exaggerated than he had imagined. After collecting questionnaires from hundreds of large farmers in the eastern region of the kingdom, he directly made a barometer for four quarters. After a whole year of observation, Beate was surprised to find that the weather in the entire region was exactly the same as filled in on the form.
Beate secretly asked a wizard who managed the farm and found out that this was domain, an ability possessed by very powerful wizards.
In fact, not to mention the kingdom, the entire continent is under the control of the magic star. If he says it will be sunny, it will never rain. If he says it will be windy, there will never be thunder.
After learning the news, Beata placed a statue of the magic star at home overnight. In his opinion, this was no longer magic, and only the omnipotent God in the Bible could do such an incredible thing.
Moreover, under the rule of the empire in the past, they had to go to church to worship every week, and they had already formed a habit. Now that it suddenly stopped, they were somewhat uncomfortable.
Therefore, even though the parliament explicitly opposed it, many citizens of the kingdom still retained the habit of praying, but the object of their prayers had changed from the Moon God to the Magic Star.
Anyway, no matter whether it is useful or not, it’s never wrong to worship!
In the evening, after harvesting a thousand acres of wheat fields, Beate led his wife and three sons in earnestly praying the routine, and then began to enjoy today's dinner - five pieces of white bread, a bottle of mead and a palm-sized piece of pack animal meat.
This is already considered a sumptuous meal. If it were five years ago, those petty nobles might not be able to eat these good things every day.
While Beate was calculating in her mind how much money she could earn from the wheat this quarter, she was listening to her youngest son telling her about the gossip and anecdotes he had heard at the Wizard Academy.
For example, the wizards have built a flying magic city, and there is a thing called recording stone that is popular in the royal capital recently. It is very magical and can record past events.
The last and most mysterious thing is that it is rumored that the Parliament is recruiting a group of pioneers in the kingdom at a high price to establish an outpost on the moon.
Beata couldn't help but pause while biting the beast of burden meat, and looked at her youngest son in astonishment, almost wondering if he was joking. But the latter quickly swore that he had heard this from his mentor, a great wizard, and that the parliament even offered him a monthly salary of twenty silver coins!
Beate looked up at the bright moon in the sky with doubt, and felt that she was becoming less and less able to understand the world.
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Just as the Beat family discussed, after more than a month of trying, Lin En successfully opened the portal between the Eternal Star and the Moon.
At this moment, the capital city became lively because of the recruitment order issued by the parliament.
Going to the moon is undoubtedly a novel and unknown concept for the kingdom's citizens. As the saying goes, there is always a brave man under a big reward, and the kingdom has never lacked people with an adventurous spirit.
In just one week, the 5,000 people who were going to the moon were gathered together.
In fact, what the parliament needs to build is not just an outpost, but a war fortress!
Because the last decisive battle with the Lord of the Undead directly destroyed the land within a radius of tens of thousands of miles, Lin En had already decided that the battlefield should no longer be placed inside the Eternal Star in the future. Otherwise, if the fighting really started and could not be stopped, that little bit of aftermath would be enough to cause a devastating blow to all living things on the entire planet!
The moon, which is not too far from the Eternal Star, is undoubtedly the most suitable choice.
Although there is no atmosphere here, it is surrounded by the Moon's Divine Realm and to a certain extent assumes the function of the planet's atmosphere. As for the gravity problem, it can also be adjusted by setting up a force field formation.
Once the lunar outpost is built, coupled with the two galaxy-class battleships that the parliament is currently manufacturing, it means that they have already stepped into the threshold of interstellar civilization!
Lin En can also take advantage of the situation to expand his divine domain to the moon until all of Diana's remaining power is wiped out. In this way, the former Moon God will have no chance of recovery!
"So you have found a way to locate foreign lands?" In the conference hall of the royal capital, Harof couldn't help but ask as he listened to Lin En's talk about the war preparations.
"Good!" Lin En nodded. This was thanks to the residual soul of the Moon God that they had discovered on the moon before.
After being dead for thousands of years, the other party's remaining memories became extremely chaotic, but he still managed to extract some useful information, such as the high-dimensional coordinates of the alien land and the method of locating that place.
This requires a medium, and it just so happens that the residual soul of the Moon Goddess has a faint connection with the foreign land.
"In that case, it's our turn to attack!" Anthony said expectantly. Before, they were trapped on the Eternal Star, dealing with the hordes of undead emerging from several portals, which was extremely frustrating.
Raphael even suggested that they had prepared a large number of nuclear weapons last time in order to deal with the Lord of the Undead, but the war ended too quickly, and they were fighting in their own territory, so they could not move freely.
This time they are directly waging a foreign war, and they can just launch a nuclear bomb first.
Lin En turned to look at Vittorio and asked, "How long will it take for our new battleship to be built?"
"It will be about two months!" Vittorio responded thoughtfully.
Lin En nodded. Two months should be enough to build an outpost on the moon.
Although it would not be a problem to continue to postpone and integrate the resources of the continent and the moon to build a few more galaxy-class battleships, Lin En was a little worried that the main world would find the foreign land first.
Just like I can find the coordinates of the foreign land from Diana's residual soul, if Ella is captured, then the location of the Eternal Star may also be exposed... It is always better to strike first than later!
Chapter 577 This is the power and authority of God!
A foreign land, a broken city - Arcana.
After the fall of Diana, the goddess of the moon, this prosperous sacrificial shrine was once reduced to a lair of the undead and demons. The stench of rotting corpses mixed with the filth of blood was enough to make people nauseous.
However, all this changed dramatically the moment the 'master' of the divine realm returned, and this dark, chaotic, and dying world also welcomed new life!
The divine light enveloped the entire land again, dispelling the heavy deathly aura.
Most of the undead that originally occupied this place were dissolved into pure energy under the sweep of divine light and used to nourish this barren land.
However, Ella did not mean to kill them all. She knew very well that the foreign land was not safe now. Even though she had cut off the space-time channel leading to the main world and the so-called Eternal Star in the eyes of the wizards, it was not 100% safe.
Most importantly, Ella obtained a shocking piece of information from the memories of several high-level undead, that is, the Lord of Death has fallen!
This news was completely beyond Ella's imagination. According to her previous expectations, even if the Lord of the Undead left the divine realm and she cut off the space-time gate connecting the two worlds, greatly weakening the opponent's power, it would still be easy to deal with those wizards.
All she did was to delay the pace of the Lord of the Undead a little bit, so that when the other party came back angrily, she would have completely controlled the divine realm and would be able to fight a life-and-death battle with the other party.
However, the development of things was obviously very different from her previous speculation. The Lord of the Undead who was trapped on the Eternal Star by herself actually fell!
Those wizards actually killed... God!
Ella simply could not believe the information she had obtained from the memories of the undead. After also reaching the realm of gods, this power that was strong enough to control the entire world could only be described as terrifying.
A legend is no different from an ant in front of her. Even the [Skyfall] that is powerful enough to burn mountains and boil seas cannot pose any threat to her now. As long as she wants, she can even use space conversion to return the attack intact!
But the Lord of the Undead, who had also set foot in the realm of gods and was more powerful than himself, actually fell on the Eternal Star.
Although memories can be woven and modified, the collapse of the Undead Legion cannot be faked. Another important piece of evidence is that there was no hindrance in the search for the memories of the Undead, which meant that they had indeed lost the protection of God.
This caused Ella to feel a strong sense of uneasiness.
Regardless of whether the Lord of the Undead fell into some kind of trap due to carelessness, or died, at least one fact is certain, that is, the wizards have mastered the power to kill God.
In view of this, Ella gave up the idea of slaughtering all the undead in the God's Domain, because she now needed an army that could fight, so she directly incorporated the remaining 5 million undead legions...
This is not impossible. Low-level undead lack intelligence and are just a group of machines that only know how to kill. Therefore, it is only necessary to control the lives of a few high-level undead to let them command the entire undead army.
But this is far from enough. Ella knows very well that the war between gods is the key to determining victory or defeat.
However, I had consumed too much strength when reviving the Moon God Realm, and I urgently needed to replenish my energy reserves...
The fastest way is naturally to gather believers.
As soon as Ella took one step forward, she had already reached the Broken City - Arcana. When she opened her mouth, a cold voice echoed throughout the entire foreign land!
"Come here, God's people! All suffering has ended. I will build a kingdom of heaven on earth, dispel all disasters, and give eternal light, water and food to the most devout believers..."
"My name is Ella, the God of the Moon, the creator of all things, eternal and supreme!"
The moment the words fell, divine power enveloped the entire city like ripples.
Towering statues of gods suddenly rose from the ground, their expressions were either compassionate, solemn, or kind... What was the same was that they all exuded a strong glow.
The ruined holy city suddenly shook violently, as if time had gone backwards. The ruined city walls recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye, the broken walls buried on the surface were pieced together again, and the dried-up lakes were filled with sweet rain again...
The remaining Moko people, halflings, and some orcs and goblins nearby all felt the call of God, left the dark caves they had been away from for a long time, and gathered in the Broken City of Arcana, staring in amazement at the miraculous scene before them!
In just a few hours, this long-abandoned and ravaged sacrificial sanctuary was restored to its original state!
After more than seventy years and after experiencing countless pains and tribulations, they finally waited for God’s return!
Excited cheers and excited shouts echoed continuously in the Broken City. Many of the remaining Moon God priests covered their faces and cried, gazing up with tears in their eyes at the magnificent buildings in front of them that looked like a dream, and kissing the ground beneath their feet like crazy!
At this moment, all that was left in everyone's heart was enthusiasm for God. They knelt on the ground spontaneously and prayed devoutly, begging for God's protection. Even though the name of God that had just been announced and the statue erected in the holy city were very different from the original ones, no one cared.
They only know that the suffering is finally over and they will all be reborn!
"Are these the only ones left?" Ella, hanging high in the sky, staring at the hundreds of thousands of believers of the Moon God gathered in Arcana, couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
Even if only a small number of believers were able to arrive here, they were still too few. After a sweep of her perception, Ella discovered that the remaining population in the entire plane was less than one million. Even if they all became her most devout believers, there was no way to replenish the lost power in a short period of time.
However, no matter how disappointed she was, every bit of faith was very important now. Ella used the [Bread Making Technique] again, and the elements in the void began to surge wildly. In just a moment, a large number of soft bread bricks fell from the sky.
The hungry believers ate the food given by God, and the faith that had sprouted in their hearts was once again strengthened.
In fact, the bread rain does not only appear above the Broken City, but God's grace will be bestowed wherever there is intelligent life!
This is the power and might of God!
Invisible golden threads emerged from the minds of the believers, stretching to an unknown area...
This is the faith link!