Fanatics of the Magic Academy

Rose quickly arrived at Mason's place.

Rose saw Mason flipping through an unknown book in the tent from afar.

Rose thought for a moment, then shouted outside the tent:

"Mr. Mason!"

Mason looked up and saw it was Rose, then his eyes fell on the fruit in Rose's hand.

A smile appeared on his face:

"Oh, since you're already here, you even brought something."

Then, he stood up and unceremoniously took the plastic bag from Rose's hand.

Then he took out a piece of fruit, wiped it on his clothes, and took a bite.

Rose nodded and said:

"Yes, Mr. Mason, I've finished reading this book."

He handed the book to Mason, who put the fruit aside, wiped the fruit juice off his hands, and took the book.

After careful inspection, no damage or wrinkles were found.

Mason nodded and placed the book on the small bookshelf he had built in the tent using templates.

Rose looked around Mason's tent, where books were neatly arranged on small bookshelves.

Some of the book spines were slightly damaged, but it was clear that they had been carefully smoothed and maintained.

Mason asked Luo about the racetrack with great interest:

"How was it? What are your thoughts?"

Rose, adopting a fearless, youthful demeanor, shrugged and said:

"I don't think I can't beat a remnant of the old era."

According to the book, the so-called "believers" are nothing more than a bunch of guys who have been swept into the grave.

There are even high-ranking figures who keep and produce believers, which shows that these guys are nothing special after all!

What kind of danger and aggression could a group of domesticated animals possess?

That cult member was just lucky and wasn't found.

Just because those bounty hunters can't find them doesn't mean I can't. I'm different from them; I'm very familiar with the slums.

And I am small in stature, as a child who survived in the slums,

I wonder where a kid like me, who comes to the slums, would hide!

Of course I know!

The part about not blushing or feeling anxious, and the part about being stress-free.

Rose seemed to have completely forgotten that she was a cult member.

This is what a veteran actor is like.

Rose's main purpose was to provoke Mason, as Rose knew that old Deng was a coward.

Otherwise, why would he have lived in the slums for 30 years?

Mason's face turned red.

How could Byd Kenneth let him take care of such a thing?

Didn't he hear any scary stories about cults when he was a child?

Oh, this little thing is an orphan; it has no more driftwood.

Mason patted his chest and thought, "Oh well, I already accepted Kenneth's bribe."

I learned a lot of non-magical knowledge from Kenneth that only high-ring mages could experience and understand.

Mason sighed and said:

"Indeed, according to this book, believers do not seem to be so terrible or powerful."

That's because of an early project of the Magic Federation called the "God Castration Project."

"A plan to castrate the gods?"

Rose chewed on those words.

Mason continued:

"Do you know about vaccines? Oh, you don't have the chance to come into contact with this stuff in the slums."

Byd, you who have lived in the slums for over 30 years, you have the most shame to say such a thing!

"The principle behind vaccines is to activate the human immune system by inactivating the virus."

The "God Castration Project" is similar; the Magic Federation weakens gods by keeping them under control, rather than killing them outright.

This is to cut off the source of power for the 'believers,' because if the gods are killed, as long as there are still believers, gods will be born from people's thoughts.

Castration, on the other hand, does not mean killing the deity, but rather using special methods to "deactivate" the deity, making it harmless.

It allows believers to receive divine responses when they have faith, but they cannot obtain divine power; they only experience physical alienation.

Without corresponding supernatural abilities, these emasculated gods are like an inactivated vaccine injected into the Magic Federation.

"By dehumanizing believers, they can produce and persecute with impunity."

Rose was silent for a moment, processing the information.

That's awesome; it completely severed a supernatural system at its root.

This Magic Federation is quite something.

Mason gave Rose some time to understand and process what he was saying before continuing:

"However, in this case, each 'vaccine' can only be used on one type of believer, even though the Magic Federation has imprisoned and castrated the vast majority of the world's gods."

However, there are bound to be some who slip through the net. These believers who are not on the federal record are called "cultists".

Unlike those castrated believers, they possess the full power of a believer, not just empty shells whose bodies have undergone alienation.

The reason for the emergence of such cults is either that the belief is too ancient, so ancient that it had already disappeared before the age of gods.

A god, half-dead and barely alive, lingers somewhere, and then suddenly awakens in this era.

Either certain beliefs have extremely high requirements for believers, and only a very small number of exceptional individuals can awaken to this faith.

People had no idea that such a god existed, but He was indeed watching over humankind.

In either case, the federal government's approach is simple: apprehend the believer.

Then they crippled the god behind him, threw him into a special device to continuously extract his divine power, so that their followers could never obtain supernatural powers again.

Mason continued:

"Although this plan is public, and theoretically everyone can find it in very old official documents,"

However, the authorities deliberately concealed and did not publicize this plan.

The reason is simple: because there were some idiots who previously believed that believers without supernatural powers were no different from ordinary citizens and had human rights.

They actually went to the streets to protest! No, wait, they've even written the execution of religious believers into the constitution. What if they really did open up freedom of religion then?

If a few fanatical believers came and performed a few blood sacrifices to save the gods and free them from their predicament, they would behave themselves.

Mason looked directly into Rose's eyes and said:

"So, damn it, I told you to stop thinking about that cultist all the time, you Erduolong?!"

Ordinary people would be too busy staying away from those lunatics to even think about it. If that guy hadn't died, he might be performing a blood sacrifice in some corner of the slums!

He'd only just awakened his faith and he'd already killed 30 people. Having lurked in the slums for so long, who knows how far he'd grown!

Seeing that Rose was silent, Mason thought his words had worked and nodded inwardly.

Little did he know, Rose was frantically checking the panel and the legacy of the ancient dragon followers he had received.

He searched for a long time but couldn't find a single prayer related to blood sacrifice.

There wasn't even a single thing related to blood sacrifice.

No, where is the blood sacrifice?

Rose frowned and continued to ask:

"Do all believers perform blood sacrifices? Do all believers need to perform blood sacrifices to increase their strength and advance in rank?"

Mason was stumped by Rosé's question about the Thunder.

He looked at Luo Saibo strangely:

"What else? In a belief system, blood sacrifices to gods are just like meditation is required for magical pathways. How could there be believers who do not perform blood sacrifices?"

"If the faith system hadn't been so bloody and cannibalistic, the magic system would never have completely replaced the faith system!"