Blue Sword

Staff writer: Aureliano

Just yesterday, the Internet was finally restored in Solomon City.

This also means that the three major disasters caused by the rising tide of magic in Solomon City: water outage, power outage and network outage have all been resolved.

On the day the Internet was launched, a netizen from Aquileia came to interrogate me and said that he prayed devoutly every day. Why did God punish him by making him thirsty without water during this period, not allowed to access the Internet, and without electricity? Sit back and watch as the monsters attack his town and harm his people.

Here, I would like to share a story with you, hoping that believers can understand its meaning:

A long time ago, human beings walked freely and multiplied on this land, and lived happily.

One day, all the angels gathered before God, and the devil was among them.

God said: "Devil, where did you come from?"

The devil said, "I come from purgatory."

God said: "Have you ever passed through the Lord's plane? Can you see the humans I created? Do they still love me, respect me, and glorify me?"

The devil said: "How can human beings believe in God for no reason? It's not because you protect them and their families, protect everything about them, and their happiness is given by you. I bet that if you destroy everything about them, They will curse you right away."

God said: "Of course. You can do whatever you want, but if you lose, I will punish you."

After receiving God's permission, the devil began to weave a conspiracy. It first released all kinds of terrifying supernatural monsters from the plane, allowing them to freely invade humans.

In the blink of an eye, countless people lost their families, relatives and property.

So at God's sign, the Archangel Michael came to the world. He found the then emperor Constantine I and told him how to open a factory, how to organize an army, and how to fight against supernatural monsters.

Under the organization of Emperor Solomon and officials, the believers began to work hard to build city walls, deploy weapons, resist the invasion of supernatural monsters, and beg God for blessing day and night.

God says, “Look, even though you bring disaster upon them, they still honor me.”

The devil said: "Of course, they just follow inertia, just like a flock of sheep blindly following the leader. If there is no emperor and empire, will they still believe in you as always?"

God said: "You can do whatever you want, but if you lose, I will punish you."

After receiving God's permission, the devil began to bring disasters to Solomon's empire.

As a result, Emperor Constantine's will was deceived. He disbanded the loyal Guards of Solomon and instead recruited cheaper foreign mercenaries who did not believe in God, making the army full of all kinds of evil ideas.

He also expanded the bureaucracy, making it greedy and persecuting the people. Groups of people even abandoned their hometowns and fled to the wilderness in order to avoid tax burdens.

As a result, the Solomon Empire gradually weakened, but the devil's tricks did not stop there. It cunningly realized that the empire's national power came from its advanced technology and strong industrial productivity.

It opened the entrances to three sub-dimensions, causing the evil tide inside to spread, destroying almost all of the empire's scientific research data and production materials.

Finally, a hundred years later, the weakened Western Solomon Empire collapsed. It was destroyed at the hands of rebellious foreign mercenaries, and also died from the break of its own industrial production chain and the loss of technological civilization.

Thousands of churches were destroyed, believers were massacred, and the surviving people could only sit on the ruins and dig wild vegetables and earthworms from the soil to eat.

"Lord, why have you abandoned us..." The mournful cries continued one after another on the ruins of the empire.

At this time, the Archangel Gabriel came to the world. He guided the only scholars to form the Holy See, maintain the fire of civilization, and use God's teachings to educate unbelievers, convert the barbarians to civilization, and spread the glory of God to the world again.

Although the once glorious empire was destroyed, countless countries were established on the ruins of the empire, and more churches were expanded from the southern part of the continent to the northernmost part, spreading the will of God.

God said: "Look, even if you destroy human countries, destroy churches and beliefs, humans can still rebuild them and keep the glory of faith and civilization alive."

The devil said: "Of course, because they will instinctively gather together under natural disasters, like a herd of scattered zebras, and eventually re-elect a new leader and establish a new country. If I make them interact with each other, Suspicious and betrayal of each other, will they still maintain their faith?”

God said: "This is your last chance. If you lose, I will punish you."

So the devil used its trump card: it spread evil secret knowledge and taught humans how to collect spiritual materials from extraordinary monsters, how to make extraordinary potions, and how to take them to obtain extraordinary abilities.

Therefore, a large number of extraordinary beings were born. They first began to annihilate extraordinary monsters, but these monsters were quickly killed.

The desire to become stronger and the thirst for extraordinary power dominated their wills, and they began to kill each other and plunder each other's extraordinary strength and extraordinary characteristics.

People gradually became suspicious of each other. Ordinary humans are afraid of the power of extraordinary beings, while extraordinary beings regard ordinary people as nothing more than trivial matters. In order to obtain power and status commensurate with their strength, extraordinary beings began to interfere in the upper-level politics of various countries, causing a lot of turmoil and power reshuffles.

This kind of dominance system based on extraordinary strength is unstable because the group of extraordinary people is promoted too fast. Often last month, a certain transcendent murdered the local lord and gained the power to rule. This month, he was killed by a new, more powerful transcendent.

As a result, wars continued, dynasties fell, crowns fell to the ground, towns were slaughtered, and corpses were everywhere.

At this time, Archangel Raphael came to the world and taught the Holy See how to use anti-magic magnetic fields to restrain the use of extraordinary abilities. It allows the Holy See to educate the people and let them know that supernatural power is harmful and evil.

It tells the princes and nobles of various countries how extraordinary beings destroy our existing world:

Extraordinary people do not produce, they only know how to plunder. They pursue continuous upgrading and becoming stronger. As they advance, they will continue to advance, and as they become stronger, they will become stronger. This process consumes a lot of manpower and material resources. When they die one day, all these resources will be wasted, and none of them can feed the people.

They wreaked havoc, destroying towns and razing villages, and showed no mercy. They have lost human empathy and do not even think of themselves as human beings. Instead, they regard themselves as part of the devil and are willing to degenerate without repentance.

Under the teachings of God, the Holy See began to ban supernatural powers. The Templar Knights and Demon Hunters traveled among the countries, catching the extraordinary people who caused trouble, and tried and removed them. Countries have also begun to control the people to bring order, teaching them to abandon evil and embrace the light.

So the devil's three tricks failed. It lowered its head under the glory of God and tried to quibble. At this time, the archangel Uriel came with a flaming sword and directly knocked the devil into purgatory, where he will never be able to stand up again.

Dear readers, please think carefully: Which tribulation in life is not a test sent by God to you?

If you succumb to hardship, then the devil's will will succeed; however, if you keep improving, God will bless you and free you from suffering. Everything you lose will be returned a hundredfold.

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