Necromancer: Becoming a God from a Lord

Harvey almost kept his watch to get himself out of the tedious experiment, and sat in front of the magic brain instrument when the castle clock reached nine o'clock in the evening.

He didn't want to miss this week's spellcaster exchange meeting. An incident involving factional conflict within the Federation had been discussed repeatedly in the forum. Although it was all private discussions among small groups of members, Harvey, as a forum administrator who could spy on and monitor in all directions, basically knew the ins and outs of the matter.

The cause of the incident was still because of the research paper he published anonymously. After the Federation's communique was widely distributed in the entire spellcasting community, it finally brewed the final result of the conflict between secular public opinion and ideas.

There have always been spellcasters in the Federation who are clearly inclined to the church or have the status of shallow believers. Most of them come from the ancient spellcasting families of the seven major wizard kingdoms, typical conservatives in faith.

Most of these spellcasters, as they age and their family power weakens, have stagnated their research on the way of magic, and their ability to cast spells has gradually reached a bottleneck, and then they inevitably fall into confusion in their ideas and cognition.

"The source of magic, the existence of the soul, the laws of the world..." These questions will undoubtedly deeply trouble them, but they are simply unable to get answers from the existing magic knowledge system. In the end, they can only choose to believe in the existence of gods and attribute all unknowns to the power of gods, becoming a special group of wizards who have faith in gods.

This led to Harvey's anonymous paper, which completely offended this group of spellcasters after Chief Kemo Salas made a separate paper evaluation and published it publicly.

[Son of Flame: Humph, this group of fence-sitters is not questioning the paper evaluation of the Council. What they are really worried about is offending the church and causing the covenant to break, so that they can't get along with both the Federation and the church. ]

[Frost Giant: Don't forget, the administrator Mr. Turing also said that the forum is a forum for "casters". If you can't stand on the same front, I suggest you get out of the forum as soon as possible! ]

Harvey reached out and knocked on the table. The two forum members who usually have completely different personalities, now sang in unison with each other in an unusually tacit manner. It seems that they have formed a short-term alliance in advance and began to ridicule the conservative members in the forum who have a neutral attitude.

[Fa Shield: Now there are a large number of spellcaster families with close ties to the Federation, who have publicly expressed their dissatisfaction with this paper and... its author. They are protesting jointly to withdraw the value review of this research document and ask the review committee to disclose the author's identity. ]

Sure enough! Harvey couldn't help but feel fortunate that he chose to publish the paper anonymously through the forum. If he submitted it publicly to the Federation, or exposed his true identity in the forum and transferred it through other members, I am afraid that he would have been pushed to the forefront of public opinion at this moment.

The conservatives in the Union had a very clear purpose. To appease the dissatisfaction of the church and divert the contradictions between the two organizations, they undoubtedly needed to launch an independent target to prove that this was not an official act under the instruction of the Union.

On this issue, Harvey could be said to have empathized with them. As a necromancer who was discriminated against by the Union and suppressed and hostile by the church, the various unfair treatments suffered by the spellcasters of his faction were simply too numerous to mention.

[Storm Walker: If even the members of the Spellcaster Forum cannot reach a consensus and allow our internal members to be targeted by the church, it would be a complete violation of the original intention of the forum. I think Mr. Turing would never agree with it! ]

This gentleman was also one of the first members in the forum to publicly oppose the church's actions. After all, one of his students died innocently in the bloody cleansing operation of the church witch hunters.

That tragedy also directly triggered the first offline cooperation of the Spellcaster Forum, a secret revenge operation jointly participated by several high-level spellcasters headed by "Son of Flame", and the result was naturally a great victory to annihilate all the witch hunters.

Harvey had secretly marked "Storm Walker", "Son of Flame" and several people who participated in the revenge operation. This group of people were obviously the radicals who hated the church the most in the Southern Wizard Kingdom and the Spellcaster Union, and they could be trusted and won over to a certain extent.

Among the old members, "Fa Shield", an official of the Union, and the two "Mirror Men" of the Alchemy Exploration Society, could not disclose their biased positions due to their sensitive identities and chose to remain silent on this issue.

Although several alien spellcasters opposed it fiercely, they would not really help in reality unless it involved their own and their ethnic interests, so their attitudes seemed a bit ambiguous.

But what Harvey is most concerned about now is actually the two legendary spellcasters of the Federation, "Scorching Lord" and "Shadow Knight", whose true identities have long been exposed to him.

He wants to see whether these two nominal top leaders of the Federation will choose to withstand the pressure of public opinion from within and the public opposition of the church and stand up to protect an independent spellcaster they have never met without the administrator Turing's personal appearance.

It is the nature of human nature not to get up early without profit. Harvey had already thrown them an olive branch representing his own value earlier - the powerful anti-magic energy weapon that transcends the times.

If they are willing to bear all the pressure from reality and the troubles from the outside world for themselves, Harvey is naturally willing to hand over the imitation formula or mass-produced product of this weapon, and fully help the Federation to gain an overwhelming advantage in the subsequent battle against the demons, so that they can gain a public opinion reputation that surpasses the church among the southern countries and secular noble groups.

If there is no need to form a war alliance with the church, and the Federation can independently resist the massive invasion of the demons with its own capabilities, it means that the alliance relationship between the two becomes insignificant, and those fence-sitters and wizard families must make a choice on which side to stand.

[Scorching Lord: Mr. Kel'Thuzad does not need to worry about the opposition and protest from the church. Mr. Shadow Knight and I personally guarantee that we will never choose to make the author of the paper public, and we will not reveal the specific member information of the Spellcaster Forum...]

[Shadow Knight: But... the members of the Union representing the Southern Territory Wizard Family, led by a high-level archmage from the Blackrock City Battle Mage Corps, publicly declared that they would challenge Mr. Kel'Thuzad to a "truth debate". This is a tradition that has been passed down since the ancient wizard era. We cannot refute or oppose this proposal.]

Harvey was stunned, and tried to recall various related deeds about the "truth debate" from the historical knowledge he learned in the Undead Academy in the past - this is indeed a tradition that has existed since the ancient wizard era. When two groups of spellcasters have conflicts and disputes over certain magic doctrines and theories, in order to avoid fighting over a disagreement, most of them will choose to have a one-on-one academic debate under the joint witness of legendary spellcasters or the ancient wizard council to solve the problem.

After all, if spellcasters, who have acquired extraordinary abilities, fight in groups because of factional academic struggles, the damage and scope of the damage are devastating. If you don't pay attention, a small town will be crushed into dust in an instant. It is absolutely necessary to strictly control and prohibit it.

But Harvey's magic theory and academic research direction are really very unconventional and involve violations. If he really confronts and debates with a long-established great wizard, he will probably be defeated in less than ten minutes and will be unable to resist at all.

After all, he is just a mid-level wizard who wears a high-level spellcaster vest in the spellcaster forum. The reserve of magic knowledge and the breadth of thinking are not at the high level.

[Frost Giant: Good, good! The "truth debate" that is rarely seen in recent years, I think any member of our forum should not be afraid of this challenge, hum! A battle mage also wants to have an academic debate with Mr. Kel'Thuzad, which is simply self-humiliating. Doesn't he know that the author of the paper is a research-type spellcaster? ]

[Scorching Overlord: The high-level archmage originally wanted to propose the equally ancient tradition of resolving disputes - "magic duel", but Mr. Shadow Knight and I rejected his request on the spot, so he was forced to change it to "truth debate"...]

[Son of Flame: What? "Magic duel"? He is a high-level combat mage, and he challenged a research-type spellcaster to a magic duel? Too shameless! It's simply a shame for mages! I strongly oppose it! ]

No mistakes!

[Man in the Mirror: Indeed, this is completely inconsistent with the tradition of fairness and justice, and I strongly oppose it! ]

[Storm Walker: Despicable! He was afraid that he could not defeat Mr. Kel'Thuzad in academic debate, so he proposed the magic duel so rudely. What? Want to directly destroy a researcher's body physically to achieve the purpose of destroying his academic thoughts and research results? 】

For a time, the forum exchange meeting was full of anger. Most of the spellcasters who were on Harvey's side cursed and ridiculed, expressing dissatisfaction and contempt for this behavior of suppressing and persecuting independent spellcasters in a roundabout way by borrowing the ancient wizard tradition.

The two legendary chiefs were helpless. After all, they could only come forward to resist the opposition from the church from outside. They were also helpless about this ancient tradition that had been passed down and existed for hundreds of years within the Federation.

It is true that the truth is in the hands of a few people, but if further explanation is needed, the real and complete meaning is that the truth is in the hands of the "living" few, because most of the losers have been blasted into pieces by high-level spells in the spell duel...

[Kel'Thuzad: Thank you for your support. Since there are fellow spellcasters protesting and challenging me, then out of my persistence in truth and knowledge, I must also respond to the other party's provocation. 】

[Son of Fire: Not bad! Mr. Kel'Thuzad, don't be afraid. I will personally attend the "Truth Debate" in Alayeh and publicly express my support for you! 】

[The Man in the Mirror: I will also personally attend the event and publicly support Mr. Kel'Thuzad! 】

[Kel'Thuzad: Uh... everyone, what I mean is that since the other party is a battle mage, the challenge I intend to accept is actually a one-on-one "magic duel" with him. 】

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