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"But how come they happened to be here?"

Harof and others were completely puzzled. Are these people crazy? They actually plan to invade from the Land of Death. Which warrior came up with this idea?

Lin En was a little amused and helpless for a moment. He seemed to have wiped out an imperial border army for no apparent reason. The most important thing was that he had not figured out why.

……

Just as Lin En and others were checking the "results of the battle", the impact of the hydrogen explosion was sweeping across the entire empire at an extremely fast speed.

The destructive power was so huge that even the holy city 300 kilometers away could feel a slight vibration!

Pope Alvis stood on the Sky Tower, gazing at the aurora that suddenly erupted in the distance. The uneasiness in his heart had accumulated to the extreme. After hesitating for a moment, he took out the communication crystal ball, ready to contact Monroe who was far away in the City of Kerosene again.

Although it had been less than half a day and the communication device had not yet fully stored energy, emergency contact could still be made!

However, Alvis stood there and waited for three minutes, but there was no response from the other end!

The faint light from the crystal ball made his thoughts gradually sink to the bottom...

At this moment, the door of the prayer room was suddenly opened, and an archbishop reported anxiously, "Your Holiness, this is top-secret intelligence from the City of Kerosene!"

"Go ahead!" Alvis suppressed his anxiety and spoke calmly.

"Those wizards...the evil minions have used doomsday magic again. Just...just half an hour ago, many people saw another sun rising in the sky." The archbishop said in horror.

Not only that, dozens of cities in the western border of the empire felt the ground shaking violently at the same time.

Alves' back was immediately soaked with cold sweat, and he asked hastily, "Answer me, where did those wizards cast this magic?"

The archbishop replied cautiously. "It seems...it seems to be in the land of death..."

Chapter 466: You are destroying the foundation of the kingdom!

In the Land of the Dead?!

Alves' brain was stunned for a moment, and he almost lost his balance and bumped into the altar behind him.

"Your Holiness?!" the archbishop shouted in horror.

Pope Alvis reached out his hand to stop the Archbishop from supporting him, and then said with a trembling voice, "Immediately cast a spell to contact Thesis and have him leave that land of death, immediately!"

"But...but Lord Thesis went in an hour ago...I'm afraid now he is already..." the archbishop stammered.

In fact, when they received the news, they immediately used the communication magic, but did not receive any response.

Ninety-nine percent of them have been completely destroyed by the attack of doomsday magic!

Alvis obviously understood this, and his expression turned extremely ugly.

"Monroe..." Alvis growled, then he suddenly realized that this church spy selected by Gustav and personally assigned by him must have betrayed him!

What food war, volcanic eruption, it’s all bullshit!

This is clearly a conspiracy planned by wizards!

I was so stupid that I believed it!

I even believed it twice!

A strong feeling of humiliation suddenly surged into Alvis' mind.

Before this, Monroe was just a small adjutant of the God's Punishment Army. The fact that he could take on such an important task was enough to prove his trust and respect for him. However, not only did the other party betray his trust, he also dared to play tricks on him again and again!

Alvis' chest heaved, his eyes filled with anger and murderous intent.

If the other party was not now in the City of Kerosene, under the protection of the wizards, Alvis would have wanted to pull out his tendons and bones, extract his soul, and throw him into the endless purgatory!

"It may not be Monroe, maybe he has been captured by the wizards..." Saint Randall suddenly put forward a hypothesis.

According to Gustav's advice, Monroe was a warrior with firm beliefs and an extremely devout believer, and it should be impossible for him to be turned against the government in just two months.

It is also possible that the spies they sent were captured by those wizards, and the images seen before may have been disguised.

Those shaping wizards had strong camouflage abilities. It was not impossible to use shaping magic to transform into Monroe's appearance from a distance of hundreds of miles and hide from their perception.

Alvis sneered. He had sent quite a few spies into the City of Fire Oil, and they would report the internal situation to him every week.

Monroe has been staying well in the wizarding academy for the past two months, and his travels have been very regular. He doesn't look like he's being coerced or held captive.

I can only say that I was wrong!

Fortunately, he had considered the possibility of internal traitors before, so he divided the spies sent to the kingdom into several systems that did not interfere with each other. Even if there was a problem in any aspect, not all of them would be killed.

However, a whole 20,000 elite troops of the empire were sent to heaven just because of his credulity...

Thinking of this, Alvis felt heartbroken!

Most importantly, the wizards' use of doomsday magic once again overturned all their previous speculations, like a sword hanging over everyone's heart.

Just as Alvis was racking his brains for a countermeasure, he suddenly seemed to sense something and his expression immediately became serious.

Randall on the side was no exception.

It was the Lord who sent down the oracle!

……

The impact of the hydrogen explosion lasted for three full days and had not completely subsided. Just as Lin En had expected, the kingdom's opposition that had emerged due to the previous food war seemed to be silenced in an instant, and even the public security in various towns improved a lot.

No one dared to come out and offend the parliament at this time...

On the afternoon of the third day, the Wizard Council once again announced an important news, that is, a grand examination will be held in various cities in the kingdom!

Anyone who knows two hundred common languages ​​and is literate can participate, and the parliament will select managers for each city.

For this, Lin En should thank the church for its rule over the continent for hundreds of years. Although the languages ​​in different places are different, the writing has been basically unified, which saves them a lot of trouble.

When such heavy news came out, it naturally caused an uproar within the kingdom. Selecting officials from all over the country through so-called examinations was simply unheard of in the hundreds of years of history of the empire.

Moreover, the parliament did not restrict the background of candidates. The only basic requirements were proficiency in writing and the ability to speak the common language.

This means that even the offspring of a poor family has the opportunity to pass the exam and become the local lord overnight, but in the wizard's world he is called a mayor!

Even though the position cannot be inherited and there is a term limit, and one has to leave if one does not do a good job, it still attracts countless people!

After all, he has the management rights of an entire city. Doesn’t that make him the noble lord of the past?

Susan looked at the large notice on the wall and couldn't help but start fantasizing.

Both of his children are studying in a public college and are said to be doing very well in school.

In the past, Susan only thought that her children would be able to enter the wizards' research workshops and help out after graduating from the civilian academy. At least it would be much easier than what she and her husband did in the glass and gun workshops. But now she has seen a new path.

Susan didn't even dare to think about becoming a mayor, but there was still a slight possibility that she could become a village chief or a town chief!

"You are destroying the foundation of the kingdom!"

An earl of the kingdom looked at the black words on the notice board, almost unable to breathe, and shouted in despair.

He understood that from now on, noble lords bound by blood ties had become a thing of the past!

There are quite a few nobles in the kingdom who can feel threatened like him, but those great nobles who are not so smart have basically been cleared out in this food war. Most of the remaining ones are new-style nobles who can quickly take sides and have strong adaptability!

It's just an exam. Their knowledge and management experience far exceed that of ordinary poor people. If they can't even pass this, they might as well just go to a workshop to blow glass!

Many people even see it as a shortcut to family revival and reaching the pinnacle of power!

Within less than half a day after the announcement was made, applicants came in an endless stream, and soon the number exceeded ten thousand. Even many wizards were tempted. Compared to the boredom of learning magic, they were more willing to enjoy the wine called power.

Monroe, who had been depressed for several days, finally saw a glimmer of hope. If he could pass this so-called assessment and become the administrator of a kingdom, and then make efforts from within, he might be able to make up for his mistakes!

Otherwise, why not just stop bothering?

Ivana hesitated to speak. Sometimes she couldn't understand her colleague's thoughts, let alone which side he was on...

But under Monroe's repeated insistence, the two signed up. Although Ivana did not hold any hope, she also developed some interest.

The exam was scheduled for September 1st, which was also the time when the nuclear fusion reactor was completed. Lin En wanted to use the exam as a cover to draw everyone's attention. After all, the time when this thing was started was the most dangerous time. If one was not careful, everyone in the city would be in danger!

Of course, the importance of this selection test is self-evident. It is related to the alternation of the old and new orders, and cannot be sloppy at all. Lin En had to take some time to select some suitable public examination questions from the database of the intelligent brain as the test content.

A few days passed quickly, and a learning craze broke out in the kingdom. All the enlightenment books printed were sold out, and even street vendors would flip through a few pages in their spare time.

However, even if they tried to cram at the last minute, they could not change the current situation of illiteracy among the people of the kingdom.

The mere fact that one could write 200 common words and read an official document word for word eliminated 99% of the people. In the end, there were only less than 2,000 people in the entire Kerosene City who were qualified to take the exam.

Monroe was naturally among them. Before joining the God's Punishment Army, he was a baron of the empire, so this entry test was naturally not a problem for him.

After officially receiving the test paper, Monroe glanced at it nervously for a few times, and then relaxed.

It doesn't seem that difficult...

The entire test paper was divided into two pages. The questions on the front page mostly tested basic calculations and the ability to understand official documents, while the questions on the back page were mostly practical questions...

For example, this question.

[Dachun is a devout believer of a false god. He refuses to cooperate with ideological transformation and has strong resistance. If you were a local affairs officer in charge of this territory, how would you properly handle this matter? ]

What else can we do? Of course we arrest him!

Monroe sneered. He understood that this must be the wizards testing his level of obedience to the parliament. He must show the most disgust towards these devout believers who are loyal to the Lord!

After thinking for a while, Monroe decided to use the methods he used to capture wizards and followers of evil gods in the northern border of the empire, set them as examples, punish them in public, and use severe punishments to curb this trend!

Not only that, but we must also encourage mutual reporting locally, offer high rewards, and catch anyone who disobeys the orders of parliament!

After Monroe finished writing, he nodded with satisfaction, then sighed at the brutal rule of the wizards and how he had to pretend to give them advice.

Ivina was also looking at the test paper in front of her, but it was another question about food and poverty.

[Peter is a poor farmer. His ancestors have been growing wheat in the fields for generations and he is unwilling to try anything new. Now that the price of wheat continues to fall, how can he rent out his land, enter a workshop, or buy new farming machines to grow more economical crops to get rid of his past poverty?]

Ivana pondered for a long time, and soon began to answer the test paper. The other party was stubborn and it would not work to just persuade him. She could start with his neighbors!

If these people entered the workshops, their living standards would improve visibly. If they were then asked to build new houses, with the comparison and gap, these poor people who had been farming for generations would change on their own without even having to spend much time persuading them.

If this doesn't work, you can start with the family members and change the other party's mindset step by step. Ivina believes that as long as the poor man can see the tangible benefits, change is a matter of time.

Similar things have happened countless times in the kingdom. Ivina has chatted with many workers in her spare time and naturally knows some of the strategies commonly used by the parliament.

The rest of the topics were also very interesting, including how to resolve neighborhood disputes, how to improve the living standards of residents, and how to promote social stability.

There were twelve questions on the back, and none of them were repeated. The last question surprised Ivana greatly. It was about the conflict between wizards and the poor. As an official, she needed to choose to severely punish the wizards according to the law or let the poor swallow their anger and resolve the conflict.