Chapter 79: Will you never provide false information?
"Why do you have to say so absolutely, Mr. Ringer?" Gloria put down the tea cup and gently tapped the edge of the cup and plate with her pipe, making a crisp ding-dong sound, accompanied by a somewhat playful tone: "You need to know the world
Nothing is impossible in the world. As long as all wrong answers are eliminated, the remaining answers, no matter how incredible, are facts. This is something that even the detective cannot change."
Regardless of the reactions of the other two companions, Ringer's first reaction was to frown deeply and asked: "You mean, you want to make me believe that you single-handedly subverted the rule of the Steam Order and replaced their status.
Is the United Church actually the same organization as the former?"
During the Steam Holy War, the Steam Order, which was weakening due to internal divisions, was no longer able to curb the rise of other sects. It was during that period that the Seven Orthodox Churches, secretly supported by the Witch Association, entered the stage of history and became active for the first time.
It directly destroyed the headquarters of the Steam Order in Platinum City and took away the foundation on which they relied: the core steam technology and magic technology research data, laying the foundation for their strong rise at the end of the war.
In fact, the contradiction between the two goes far beyond that. According to Rochelle's oral account of the Hundred Years War, the Cyan War, the Fog Moon Massacre and other historical events, it can be seen that the Witches' Association has always firmly promoted the use of potions by itself.
The magic system was innovated and established on the basis of the magic system. To this end, they did not hesitate to kill gods, destroy paganism, and expel extraordinary people to the continent across the sea; but the Steam Order was the founder and promoter of the magic system. They promoted
The magic system of the past has completely overturned the flourishing magic system, just as the magic system of the past overturned the flourishing potion system.
From this point of view, the two sides are undoubtedly life-and-death enemies. How can they come from the same organization? Or is this the conflict between different factions within the Witches' Association? That mysterious and powerful organization is far less united and harmonious than it seems to outsiders?
"You're talking about the Steam Holy War. I don't have much information about this war, but I can deduce a conclusion from the clues." The detective girl pushed down the monocle on the bridge of her nose with one hand, and the lens
The reflection of the light made her gray eyes appear inexplicably deep: "It is said that it was an experiment led by the witch association. The purpose was to verify a certain energy that is impossible for humans to use in this era, but something unexpected happened during the experiment.
Unexpected events caused the experiment to completely lose control, and the Steam Holy War broke out. After the Steam Order, which the association single-handedly supported, experienced the "disintegration of the machine body" incident, its influence was gradually declining, and it was no longer able to help them maintain their rule. Because of this, the Witch
Only then will the association abandon the Steam Order and instead support the Union of Orders, and by manipulating the latter to defeat the former, seek prestige and benefits for the newly established Union of Orders so that they can continue to maintain their influence over the countries in the Western Continent after the war.
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She sneered: "So to put it bluntly, the Steam Jihad is just a trick of the witch association to clean up the mess for itself after having fun, and at the same time change a new identity as a disguise, and the left hand is the right hand. This kind of situation is in Lunweiting's finance
We can often see this in the center, but the difference is that those stock companies send their agents to jail to help them take the blame, while the Witches' Association directly makes the entire Western Continent bear the price of their failed experiments."
experiment?
Ringer's expression moved slightly and he subconsciously asked: "What kind of experiment?"
"I don't know." Gloria shrugged: "This is top-secret information, and apostle-level members are not qualified to review it. I only vaguely heard that it is related to a church called the 'Creation Goddess Cult'. But
Later, I searched through the information and could not find any relevant information about this church. It must have been erased by the Witches' Association."
it is as expected.
Ringer glanced at each other and saw the different expressions in their eyes: Saint Xalia's thinking and sorrow, Alice's suddenness and thoughtfulness, and he immediately knew that they had thought of him together.
During the Battle of Virtual Root Swamp, the fear witch Feir once mentioned the "anchor effect", believing that the "power of faith" provided by goddess believers would act like an anchor to lock the souls of girls after reincarnation and help them recover their memories faster.
and power. After realizing this, the Witch Association decided to take action to completely destroy the Creation Goddess Religion, and at the same time suppress the beliefs related to the goddess. It was necessary to prevent these sisters from causing trouble to them before the Eden Plan was realized.
Perhaps it was because of this incident that the Witches' Society realized the existence of the "power of faith" and decided to establish the Order of Steam and began to conduct research and experiments on it. In this way, the time when the Witches' Society first appeared on the stage of history was
Not in 1399, when the Order was jointly established, but in 1161, when the Order of Steam was established, which is more than two hundred years earlier than Ringer suspected.
Following this logical reasoning, there are sufficient reasons to explain why they gave up their previous practice of hiding behind the scenes and began to interfere in the historical process openly: because they need a huge power of faith to conduct research, and a person hidden in the darkness
The church cannot attract a large number of believers, and will only be regarded as a false religion or a cult by those in power. As for what the content of that experiment was and what consequences it had, Gloria did not know. Ringer and others
But it is clear that it is the birth of the steam engine god Alexander, the most famous "deus ex machina" event in the history of mystery!
As for the subsequent disintegration of the machine body, the Steam Holy War, the God-seeking Ceremony (Sacred Stone Magic), the "Religious Decree", the "Truth and Civilization Initiative Convention"... they are all just the subsequent effects of that incident. Just like Gloria
As said, everything the Witch Association did was to clean up the mess of its own failure.
In addition, if the Steam Order and the United Order are regarded as the same organization, both are disguises of the witch association, then some mysteries are also regarded as unsolved mysteries in the history of the mysterious world.
, all received reasonable explanations.
Why did the great wizard Merlin, the great sage Nicoléme, the beast mage Aleister, the minister of magic Ursula and the seven-crown magician who once established the magic system in the final wild battle where magicians replaced them?
Others were silent and turned a blind eye to the defeat of the magician? Why was the steam machine, the foundation of the Steam Order, invented by Watt, the philosopher of the association? Why is the origin of the magic system mysterious, and no one knows its founder, but it is
It has been jointly controlled by philosophers such as Clausewitz, Dureny and Helmut, as well as the Steam Order and even today's religious orders. It is regarded as the sharpest weapon in the hand and has never fallen into the hands of outsiders...
A failed experiment, a successful infiltration, and a detective girl with a mysterious origin brought these historical truths buried deep in time to the Ringers in an unexpected way.
"Looking at your expressions, you seem to believe what I say."
Gloria's voice woke the guests up from their trance in time. She was seen biting her pipe, and a cunning and playful look flashed in her eyes under the monocle: "I told you a long time ago, like
A famous detective like me will never provide you with false information."