Fanatics of the Magic Academy

Rose opened her eyes and, incidentally, activated [Materialism].

He rubbed his temples, figuring it was around 5 a.m.

He probably spent about 8 hours in the dream.

Rose mentally organized the information he had learned from his audience with the gods.

First, 32,000 years ago, this world was ruled by mythical beasts and gods.

In that era, limited by the social environment, only the supernatural powers of faith, which were easier to develop, could be cultivated.

Then, through a series of coincidences, a civilization that believed in "human supremacy" was born.

This is the ancient dragon faith. They spent over 2000 years pushing their own path to its extreme, slaughtering almost all the strange beasts of that time.

In the end, almost all of the elites perished together with the strongest alien beast at the time.

Then, the gods took the opportunity to completely annihilate the Ancient Dragon followers.

Then the 15th Gu Long, a follower of Gu Long, killed all the gods by his own power.

However, this also caused it to lose the foundation of its own faith in a very short time, and it quickly perished.

Then the gods emerged from people's thoughts.

Because the mythical beasts disappeared, the long era of the gods, which lasted for 20,000 years, began.

It has a stable social environment and a long history of cultural accumulation.

From this process, the premise of developing rational power was established, and a completely new extraordinary system gradually emerged: the magician system.

Ultimately, the mage system completely overturned the system of gods.

For some reason, Rose felt a bit tense, as if the supernatural system of this world was a bit too simple.

The birth of an extraordinary system is actually based on long-term social stability.

Another supernatural belief system ruled an era simply because its initial development was easier.

According to Gu Long, even honing a skill or engaging in social activities can enhance one's faith to some extent.

He began to understand why the gods were so difficult to eradicate; it was because once the population reached a certain size, people with high levels of faith would emerge through interaction.

However, the elevation of faith does not necessarily mean becoming a believer, and the body undergoes alienation.

However, when five people with strong faith simultaneously develop faith in a certain image, then the deity will emerge from people's thoughts.

The gods in this world truly possess extraordinary power, so as long as gods are born, a society centered around them will inevitably emerge.

Besides the gains mentioned in the report, another gain was that he acquired all the knowledge and research results of the ancient dragon believers.

Although this knowledge was left behind by a civilization 2 years ago.

However, Rose believes that the knowledge contained in this civilization that once suppressed an era may be no less than that of the existing magic system.

Not only that, Gu Long also left him a "dream".

All this knowledge is contained within this "dream".

According to Gu Long, this "dream" seemed to be of great use and was of great help to him.

However, the specific applications, the nature of this "dream," and the specific help it can bring to Rose are things that Rose needs to explore for himself.

Something that Gu Long, the supreme leader of a civilization that ruled the world 2 years ago, said was of great use must be something that couldn't be too bad.

Finally, Gu Long used special methods to put himself in an extremely special state.

In essence, He had fallen into death.

However, in a sense, He did not die.

It's like a living, breathing corpse lying in the dream He left behind.

His death was so that his body could become the path of Rosetta.

But He did not die completely, so that He could continue to suppress the gods.

According to the characteristics of deities, if the deity worshipped by believers dies, their followers will also die.

If the ancient dragon, a god above all gods, were to die, then all the gods would die.

Then these gods might use death to escape the magicians' control, and they will emerge from the thoughts of other believers.

This could lead to more intense social unrest.

For Gu Long, he didn't care much about how the society of magicians was cannibalistic, how it systematically oppressed and exploited the lower classes.

Guided by the past ideology of "human supremacy and the slaughter of other races," these issues were considered internal human affairs, and He did not care.

Even saying that He helped Rosetta embark on a completely new path wasn't for the sake of making people's lives better; it contained two calculations:

Firstly, He wanted to pass on the ancient dragon faith, even if the beliefs within it had changed. This special social organization formed by utilizing the characteristics of the gods' corpses was the true core of the ancient dragon believers.

Secondly, He sought liberation. For a former human supremacist, every moment as a deity was torture.

However, releasing the gods to continue roaming the world was absolutely unacceptable to Gu Long.

Gu Long's state is somewhat similar to the methods a magician uses to deal with gods.

Magicians used similar methods to deal with gods, suppressing them to the point that they could not use their divine power or respond to their followers.

They seem to be in pretty good spirits, and they even have the energy to pull Gu Long, the god of death from 20,000 years ago, out of his mind.

Clearly, Gu Long's handling of himself was far more sophisticated and thorough than how magicians dealt with gods; after all, he was once a leading figure in a belief system.

Their understanding of deities and faith far surpasses that of modern magicians.

After all, everyone has their own area of ​​expertise.

Rose rubbed her eyes; it felt like a long time had passed even though only one night had gone by.

No, that's not right.

How could Rose, a follower of Gu Long, have such feelings?

As a follower of Gu Long, I have an extremely keen sense of time.

Logically speaking, such a time misalignment should be absolutely impossible.

Even when Rose was still a follower of the Ancient Dragons of Glimmering Light, he already possessed the ability to keenly grasp time after experiencing unconscious meditation.

Now, having advanced to the [Shining Ancient Dragon Follower] level, this ability to judge time can be accurate to about 50 seconds.

Therefore, the occurrence of this situation must be due to some kind of anomaly.

Rose carefully sensed his own state, but in his materialistic state, he could only use his rational ability to perceive the characteristics of things to scan his body.

This perception is quite crude, unless you activate [Wind Network Perception] to build a wind network within your body for more precise scanning and feedback.

However, Rose had a better solution.

He cautiously activated [Wind Net Perception] first, expanding the range of the Wind Net to its limit, and then confirmed that there was no threatening presence around him.

He decisively abandoned his materialistic state, his azure pupils tearing into gilded vertical pupils.

Driven by immense faith, Rose's muscles became highly active, and his body, which was extremely abnormal for his age and size, began to awaken from its slumber.

Subsequently, Rose quickly assessed his own condition by utilizing the high level of self-control, physical control, and intuition that came with his strong faith.

Everyone has their own area of ​​expertise. Faith is far superior to reason in terms of internal self-monitoring, but similarly, reason is still better at perceiving and acquiring information over a wide area of ​​the outside world.

Rose quickly determined the source of the anomaly: he had indeed been through a very long time.

His soul and body experienced different periods of time.

His soul experienced approximately 23 hours, while his body experienced approximately 8 hours.

The time difference is about three times.

After Rose determined the source of the anomaly, a conjecture immediately came to his mind:

"Could it be that time in the dream that Gu Long pulled him into could be accelerated? That would explain the discrepancy between the soul's and body's perception of time."

If it's true, then the value of this dream will far exceed Rose's imagination.

Because Rose has two advantages over ordinary magicians.

One is a [fervent materialist] who is immune to the systemic attacks on a mage's mentality and rationality by society.

Another advantage is that he can switch between the identities of a believer and a magician, and he has a much faster rate of focus recovery than the average magician.

Compared to a regular magician, they can learn a spell much faster.

Now, if time could truly be accelerated within that dream, and if the Ancient Dragons had stored almost all the knowledge of their followers within it,

That means that learning can be done in dreams.

At the same time, it also means that the knowledge barrier built by the magician society using phonetic characters no longer exists for Rose.

Because knowledge barriers are not insurmountable; they can be overcome with a significant investment of time.

If dreams could accelerate time and facilitate learning, then Rose could potentially learn more schools of magic than other magicians.

This would objectively and fundamentally allow Rose to break free from his dependence on the magical society, and even enable him to live independently of it.