Chapter 764: The Spiritual Foundation of Faith (Madoka and Lycoris Have Collaborated)

"MASTER, what's going on?"

After leaving the town, Mashu was still confused, while Duanmu Huai snorted.

"What? Didn't what I said just now make sense?"

"No, I still don't understand. That's called sophistry..."

Mashu was speechless.

"Sophistry? Maybe it's sophistry, but at least it's certain that they are not ordinary humans, but more like puppets."

"Puppets?"

"Yes, apart from anything else, you see they are not afraid of me at all. Do they look like ordinary people?"

"Ah............"

It has to be said that after hearing Duanmu Huai's analysis, Mashu was speechless. Indeed, with Duanmu Huai's face, it would be good if he was not afraid of being scared by these mountain villagers. As a result, they almost ignored Duanmu Huai.

"Besides, I have figured out the logic of this group of people."

Duanmu Huai snapped his fingers.

"Logic?"

"Yes, do you know why you are being targeted?"

"This............"

"You have heard of witch hunting, right?"

"Ah."

Hearing this, Mashu suddenly realized.

"Historically, witch hunting started in Europe and then spread to America. Of course, there are many different opinions about the reasons for witch hunting. If you ask me, it all comes down to the abnormal climate at that time, so someone had to take the blame, so the women of lower status at that time were unlucky. Only this group of barbarians would do such a stupid thing."

Speaking of this, Duanmu Huai sneered. His country had experienced natural disasters in history, but people at that time would not be stupid enough to use women as scapegoats. Basically, the emperor was the one who was unlucky at this time, because natural disasters meant that the emperor was punished by God because of his unworthy position, which meant that the emperor should get out and change the dynasty.

In contrast, the barbarians in Europe were servile and only dared to attack the weak, but did not dare to cause trouble for the church and the king, so there was witch hunting. If you have the ability, you can also revolt as peasants? As a result, they only dared to kidnap a few women to vent their anger. This shows that this group of barbarians has always been bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

"In this case, the defense measures of this town are very clear. It is obvious that the actions of these villagers are to exclude female magicians. Compared with the previous time when Fiore came, it was the same. Both you and Fiore are magicians, and witches are women who can do magic. Otherwise, you see that there are two of us in the house, and those guys only go to you and don’t take me seriously. This is not normal no matter how you look at it, right?"

"Uh... That’s true."

Mashu also had to admit that Duanmu Huai’s analysis made sense. To be honest, she and Duanmu Huai were in the same house. In the movie, everyone generally thinks that Duanmu Huai is the bad guy...

"Hey? But according to what you said, MASTER, they didn't catch me in the end?"

"This involves a priority issue. You should know that there is a saying that heretics are more hateful than pagans... Well, looking at the villagers, I almost understand a little, but let Medea and Irisviel explain the details."

"It is the embodiment of the spiritual foundation of faith."

At the same time, Medea and Irisviel also appeared out of thin air, and appeared beside Duanmu Huai after removing their spiritual bodies.

"This is undoubtedly a magician's workshop, and it is still operating autonomously."

"It is based on the belief of the Middle Ages, and combined with witch hunting as a mirror comparison, it deepens the belief to operate... Well, I have to say that modern magicians really have a lot of strange ideas."

"It should be said that it is crazy."

Duanmu Huai curled his lips. In the world of Faerun, magic and divine arts are separate. Magic is magic, and divine arts are divine arts. But in this world, magic and divine arts are actually the same. According to Irisviel, although the Holy Church is a religious organization on the surface, its confrontation with the Magic Association is not because of the oracle of the gods it believes in, but to compete for the spiritual foundation as the mysterious benchmark - yes, in this world, the Holy Church has the greatest mystery with religious belief as the spiritual foundation.

As the saying goes, there can't be two tigers in one mountain. To put it bluntly, the clergy in this world are actually a kind of magician. It's not like the world of Faerun, where mages are mages and priests are priests.

The reason is also very simple. After all, there are no real gods in this world at present, so it is naturally impossible to grant the Holy Church divine arts. So what the Holy Church uses is essentially magic, but it is magic that is biased towards the soul system.

Even the angels in this world, in terms of magic theory, are also the names that magicians use to fix the originally ambiguous magic power and form a solid existence. It's not like the world of Faerun, which comes from Mount Heaven and belongs to the followers of gods.

So you see, the same words have different meanings in different worlds and different civilization systems.

If Duanmu Huai summons an angel from Mount Heaven, I don't know what the magicians in this world will think of it.

Mashu seemed to not understand a bit, so Irisviel began to explain to her.

"The religious beliefs of the Middle Ages tended to be dualistic, good and evil, angels and demons, black and white, life and death. Their religious beliefs revolved around mutually opposing dualisms. Simple, direct, convenient, without ambiguous boundaries, Easier to be accepted and adopted by ordinary people.”

"I would say that it was only the ignorant people in the Middle Ages who were uneducated that were deceived by this kind of thing. After all, their walnut-like brains may not be able to understand a more complex world."

Duanmu Huai mocked unceremoniously from the side.

“So this town………?”

"There must be a magician recreating faith and battle here. Didn't I say before that the residents of this town are too devout and enthusiastic about their religious beliefs? Then, if you want to show your beliefs, you must have enemies with them. It’s like in order to show the greatness of God, the devil must appear in the legend.”

Irisviel looked at the town below and spoke in a low voice.

"To put it bluntly, it's just an old-fashioned threat tactic."

Duanmu Huai snorted.

"These idiots like to scare others in this way. The devil is watching you. If you don't believe in gods, you will be dragged into hell by the devil. So you must believe in our Lord. Only by believing in the Lord can you go to heaven. If you don't believe it, you will be the devil. If God really loves the world as said in religious legends, then shouldn't he love everyone unconditionally? Doesn’t this mean that gods are essentially the same as devils?”

"Well……………"

If such words were heard by religious believers, they would definitely be furious, but Duanmuhuai didn't care about such trivial matters.

"So it can be seen that this town serves as the basis for the operation of the workshop. Through the correspondence between the devout religious beliefs and the witch hunting behavior taken to prove the devout beliefs, a magic circle with faith as the spiritual foundation is created cyclically. I'm afraid there is only one purpose..."

"The Vortex of Roots, these heretics really won't stop until they open the door to subspace. I should really consider again whether to kill all the magicians in this world... If I can't do it now, I will have to put it on the agenda in the future."

Duanmu Huai said that he was really bored here. He had encountered similar things several times this year. According to the Tribunal, they were all caused by heretics trying to open the door to subspace. To be honest, Duanmuhuai has more than once had the idea of ​​​​exterminating the magician family in this world, but unfortunately this is a world in the past, and we still need to rely on these magicians to stabilize the past and connect to the future Chaldea. .

Forget it, it's not too late to give these magicians an order to exterminate them after saving the world.

"If my guess is correct, even if we don't come here, someone will be hunted by the witch tonight, but outsiders have a higher priority. And the witch is still just a heretic in the final analysis--hahaha, Heretics are more hateful than heretics, this sentence really makes sense.”

In the final analysis, religious beliefs need enemies, Christianity needs devils, and Buddhism also needs demons. Only in this way can they establish their image as saviors in front of mortals. The witch is a very good tool. It is impossible to verify how many people died while hunting witches in the Middle Ages, but it is estimated that none of them are true.

Just like Duanmu Huai said, if the witch is really that powerful, then these ignorant people who only know how to wield pitchforks and sticks still dare to go up and cause trouble? If the other party waved his hand, they would be dead.

So, this is just a ritual after all.

A ritual to prove that God is greater—well, for the Inquisition, they are very familiar with this method.

Therefore, what this ritual requires is the prey of the opposite, heretics, witches, heretics - well, as expected, heretics have the highest priority.

So after the man was pointed out as a heretic by Duanmu Huai, the flow of the entire town began to change, just like the artificial intelligence, because it discovered a higher-level threat, it changed its priority and put the witch aside.

"Okay, that's pretty much it. Can we just destroy this place?"

"I don't think so."

Medea shook her head.

"The opponent's workshop has been entangled with the spiritual veins. Forcibly destroying the town will cause irreversible damage to the spiritual veins, and will also affect the large area of ​​​​land here. The best way is to go deep into the core, completely close the workshop, and then Re-open the spiritual veins.”

"So I still have to take action?"

Duanmuhuai sighed silently.

"Okay, let's go to the town again tomorrow to check out the situation. I hope this idiot core will be easier to find."