Chapter 1053 Prelude to Changing Times
Held eventually brought in Auston, a lifelong friend, and the life trajectories of the two have changed dramatically since then.
The two of them established a secret association in Victor City, a small border town in Raton Kingdom, and named it "Sage", the honorary title of alchemy.
In the beginning, they just helped those exploited and unable to survive in the city, helping each other and finding a way out.
Ordinary civilians, workshop workers, handicraftsmen, small traders, almost everyone among the "sages", and even some like-minded extraordinary people were added later.
Most of them are superhumans who have been forced to survive by the major churches, and even necromancers and vampires, etc., which makes the power of the "Sage Association" expand rapidly in a short period of time, but it also becomes a mixed bag.
Although Held and Auston also know that this is not conducive to the development of the Sage Association, but now their power is too weak, any extraordinary power is very important.
In just a few short years, the Sage Association's secret influence has continued to expand, and soon it has become a force that cannot be ignored in Victor City.
And Held and Auston both became fifth-order alchemists and the co-leaders of the Society of Sages.
They began to try their best to change the living conditions of the members of the Sage Association, such as teaching alchemy, and trading alchemy goods between members at lower prices, etc.
At the beginning, everything went smoothly, but soon the lord of Victor City and the Church of Darkness soon became aware of the existence of the Society of Sages.
A secret society has formed such a huge force in secret, and it has also made everyone no longer believe in gods. This made the Sage Association immediately named by the official kingdom of Lima as an evil society, and began to carry out brutal and bloody suppression.
Not only did Victor City secretly gather soldiers, the Lima royal family also mobilized a large number of clerics, extraordinary people and elite soldiers to suppress it.
Although the Sage Association has a lot of power in Victor City, it is naturally vulnerable in the face of the power of a country.
When it was encircled and suppressed by the Kingdom of Lima, the internal hidden dangers also broke out completely.
There are many people in the Sage Association who want to come in and take advantage, such as the blood clan and the necromancer. They just want to use the power of the Sage Association to avoid the pursuit of the church, and they don't really want to help them at all.
As soon as the army of the Kingdom of Lima arrived, the tree fell and scattered, and these people became the first to escape.
After a bloody battle, Held and Auston managed to escape, and at this time, there were only less than a hundred people left in the Sage Association.
The backbone was slaughtered by the Lima royal family, and the remaining ordinary members were either imprisoned, or quickly cut off with the Sage Association, and even took the initiative to report other members to make contributions.
Held and Auston's years of hard work vanished overnight, leaving them devastated to the point of giving up the absurd idea of changing the world.
"Our foundation is still too weak. In the face of transcendents and alchemy weapons, the force of ordinary people has become dispensable."
In a wilderness ridge outside Victor City, Auston bandaged his wounds and looked at Held with a wry smile.
Herder's face was heavy with grief. The loss of the Sage Association this time was too heavy. Many close friends were killed in that siege.
He nodded and took a deep breath, "This is the era of gods and supernatural beings. Ordinary people can't integrate into it at all. If this continues, they will be abandoned by this era sooner or later. It will be an extremely terrifying time. In the future, I seem to have seen what kind of scene that will be."
Auston sighed, looking a little dejected.
Before he could finish speaking, half of the more than 100 surviving people announced that they had withdrawn from the Sage Association, expressing that they just wanted to live well.
Held and Auston did not reluctantly, expressing their understanding and respect for their choice, and let them leave on their own.
The remaining fifty or so people firmly expressed their intention to follow the two of them all the time, which also made them regain their confidence and began to think about what to do next.
They got together to discuss for several days, but there is still no feasible solution.
On the fifth day, Auston suddenly came up with an idea, "If we can enable ordinary people to use alchemy props to do all kinds of things that only extraordinary people and alchemists can do at present, then, they be able to fit into this era!”
Heard heard the words and reacted like a dick, he slapped his thigh, "Yes, ordinary people in this world occupy 99%, if all of them can use alchemy props and control alchemy weapons , that will no longer be a dispensable existence!"
"But how can ordinary people be able to use alchemy tools, they have no mental power."
After Auston finished speaking, he quickly revealed a wry smile.
In addition to those ordinary alchemy products, for those key alchemy props that determine the development of the world, such as the world's large steam locomotives, airships, alchemy ships and alchemy cannons, etc., these require the spiritual power of extraordinary people to motivate, In order to activate the alchemy array inside, let the alchemy props exert extraordinary power.
As small as the core machinery of various workshops, such as printing presses, steam engines, and alchemy firearms, etc., all require a certain amount of mental power, so the operation and progress of the Western Fantasy World cannot be separated from the extraordinary.
Herder's eyes lit up, he stood up abruptly, "There is nothing absolutely impossible in the world, as long as we don't give up, we can always think of a solution!"
After determining the goal of struggle, the remaining members of the Sage Association, led by Held and Auston, quickly left the Kingdom of Lima and went to the Kingdom of Locke, the southernmost tip of the Alchemy Continent.
They changed their faces, withheld their original names, and established the Golden Rose Academy in a small town in the Kingdom of Locke.
This academy not only teaches alchemy, but also imparts knowledge to ordinary people, becoming a student where extraordinary people and ordinary people coexist.
Here extraordinary people and ordinary people live in harmony and equality, and there is no discrimination or differential treatment.
While Held and Auston were teaching alchemy, they worked together to study methods that would allow ordinary people to use alchemy tools.
After another seven years had passed, an explosion sounded suddenly from a certain room in the Golden Rose Academy, which immediately attracted the attention of the entire academy students.
However, the students seem to have come to see it for a long time. In recent years, the two deans' laboratories have come here from time to time.
It's just that this time is a little different, because they heard the ecstatic voices of the two deans from far away.
"Success!?"
"Yes, it was successful!!"