Mage Manual-Chapter 1327 - 970: Assaulting the Heavenly Curtain

The audience in the Woodland Arena was stunned.

Countless viewers watching the live broadcast were also stunned.

Even Dedarose and Sonia were a bit bewildered.

Has the Throne Hall gone mad?

This is a national broadcast, with over ten thousand people inside and outside the arena watching. Even if you want to arrest someone, must it be at this time and place? Doing so would only mean exposing the secrets and goals of the Four Pillars God Sect to the world—

"The Four Pillars God Sect, the largest anti-starry sky organization in the country, conspires to overthrow the Starry Sky Curtain."

Alysses’s voice resonated throughout the venue: "At this crucial moment when the Magic Master of Dazzling Star is about to step into a higher realm, to fortify the supreme wonder of the starry sky, and lead the Kingdom of Stars to achieve a great civilization, you incite the people’s hearts with delusions, attempting to undermine the Kingdom of Stars’ historical opportunity."

"You set up miraculous destruction everywhere, trying to penetrate the starry sky curtain that protects all lives."

Alysses pointed upwards with a raised hand, "Though you realize that the Magic Master of Dazzling Star has always used great wonders to shelter life, not only do you fail to express gratitude, but you destroy the Magic Master’s blessing for illusory reasons, even questioning the Magic Master’s goodwill!"

"The Kingdom of Stars and the starry sky share glory and downfall; without the shelter of the sky, how could there be a millennium of peace and joy?" Alysses’s tone grew passionate: "You mages, misled by Evil Gods, are under the delusion that your actions are righteous, believing that all acts of rebellion are for freedom—this is a grave mistake, a great folly, a grand betrayal!"

"The brilliant radiance of the Magic Master of Dazzling Star is far beyond your petty machinations to tarnish; no matter how hard you work, no matter how much you build, you can never shake a piece of the sky!"

"Those who lose their way and realize their errors may still repent; beneath the Dazzling Star, shine once more!"

"Dedarose, do you confess or not!" 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Sonia finally understood—Dedarose was not the focus, nor was the Four Pillars God Sect. The focus was that the Throne Hall needed to make an example!

Clearly, the Starry Sky Festival was over, yet the Starry Sky Curtain remained in eternal night, and for months there had been no daylight, causing unrest within the Kingdom of Stars, where various rumors and speculations were rife. If the Four Pillars God Sect wished to increase its members during this time, it would be effortless.

Although the Four Pillars God Sect had not acted, the Kingdom of Stars was not the sole resistance against the starry sky. More importantly, would the mages, who had long since learned independence, not gather to form a new anti-starry sky organization?

Mages are not fools; seeing others’ Mage’s Handbooks in the Void Realm would make them realize the existence of the sun, the moon, and the unfettered sky. Every mage knows they exist in a cage called the starry sky. Though this cage is warm, safe, and comfortable, it remains a cage.

A cage that prevents them from touching the real world.

But is living in a cage really that bad? It isn’t particularly bad, and most ordinary people wouldn’t have the arrogant thought of ’shattering the false starry sky,’ as mere survival occupies all their energy.

Who would leap off the balcony to die if they could be a plump house cat?

Yet the Void Realm, this insidious phenomenon, has the enchanting power to sway hearts. When you realize in the Void Realm that you can only rely on yourself, that all social bonds are illusory, and solitude is your only constant fate; when you master the Technique Spirit and study miracles, able to change reality and control fate through your will; when you traverse the Sea of Knowledge, wander the Time Continent, witness innumerable wonders, and experience life-and-death struggles firsthand...

You will swallow a poison named ’greed,’ with rebellion as a symptom, challenging authority as a side effect, and death as the most common outcome.

They are not unaware of the starry sky’s significance to the Kingdom of Stars, nor are they ignorant of the fact that destroying it wouldn’t benefit them. Yet they cannot suppress the aversion sprouting deep within their souls—it smolders endlessly like unquenchable embers.

Because the Magic Master of Dazzling Star did not give them a choice.

Blood Moon might not become a Blood Saint, the Gospel might not employ the Gospel Book, Senluo might not follow Great Skill, but how could Dazzling Star not exist under the false starry sky? What they loathe is not the starry sky, nor even the Magic Master of Dazzling Star, but the inescapable shackles!

Mages can willingly don any shackle, but they cannot accept being born as pets in a cage!

When the starry sky operated normally with day and night alternation, mages could suppress their inner rebellion. But now, with several months of eternal night, they cannot even deceive themselves, forced to admit the reality of living in a cage!

But before mages mastered their powers, the noble system crushed their rebellion with responsibilities, causing them to willingly become the world’s guardians. The cage binding them is not the starry sky above but the stability of the starry populace.

Logically, mages of the Dazzling Star shouldn’t be able to escape this millennia-stable societal system, as the Starry Sky Curtain truly blesses all things. However, a tiny loophole has emerged—can a starry sky engulfed in eternal night still protect its populace?

A curtain unable to provide daylight—does it really need to remain?

The dazzling brightness of the Dazzling Star’s brilliance managed to plant seeds of doubt in the mages’ hearts.

This place was supposed to hold unconditional belief in the Magic Master of Dazzling Star, but the problem is, the mages are unwilling!

Now that there’s finally an opening to tear through the Stars Blessing, how could they possibly miss it? Even the Four Pillars God Sect knows that recently over a dozen new anti-starry sky organizations have emerged. Older establishments like the ’Wave,’ which have existed for a century, have entered a period of rapid development and are expanding wildly!