On the afternoon of the next day, Gao Wen convened major senior personnel such as Hetty and Carmier to officially announce the current status of the Magic Goddess and various information obtained from Amoen, Julu, at a closed-door meeting.

The double-layer thickened crystal windows isolated the howling cold wind outside the house, and only the cold sunlight shone into the house. The atmosphere in the small conference room with strict protective measures seemed to be more solemn than ever.

Gao Wen sat at the head of the conference table, Hetty sat on his right side, amber dissolved into the air as usual, and a magic net terminal was set on the left side of the conference table, and two great consuls, Victoria Wilder and Berdevin Franklin, were appearing above the crystal array.

"It seems that the goddess of magic really won't come back... Although Milmina is still there, from the perspective of priesthood, the goddess of magic has 'fall'," Victoria broke the silence. "After the fall of White Star, the world once again experienced the fall of the gods."

"Unlike the time three thousand years ago, the belief in the goddess of magic does not have that much influence on society, and his 'departure' will not impact the existing mage system," Pittman said, "I had discussed with His Highness Hetty yesterday, and we should be able to survive this turmoil more easily."

"The premise is to take action as soon as possible," Hetty took the topic and looked up at Gao Wen sitting next to him. "Ancestors, after the feedback from the Magic Goddess disappeared for several hours, a mage noticed the abnormality and reported it to the local government affairs department. Until now, reports from all over the country are increasing. They are still patiently waiting for the imperial capital to give a response, but the news will soon spread among the people."

For a long time, wizards have been the upper structure in human society. Their deep-rooted influence in society has not disappeared with the drastic social changes in this country. If this group cannot be stable, it will become a big trouble.

In them, relying on saturated entertainment media to occupy the public's attention, relying on some public opinion control to control the situation is limited, and it may even lead to the opposite effect - after all, the gods that others believe in are gone, and it is obviously not suitable for you to spread the movies to help you liven up...

"First of all, let's announce the news of the fall of the Magic Goddess as planned. This matter cannot be concealed, and the more it hides it, the more it will cause rebound and chaos," Gao Wen nodded and said slowly. "The reason for the fall of the gods does not need to be explained by the official, nor should it be explained clearly. After this, we will carry out a nationwide, large-scale, and extremely solemn public activity."

The Imperial senior officials in the conference room and on the communication lines may not have reacted for a while. Berdevin Franklin, who was connecting, couldn't help but speak out in curiosity: "Open activity?"

"The whole country mourns the death of the Goddess of Magic. I will personally write an article as the ruler of the Empire to express my condolences. Then, Victoria, you will lead the most prestigious mages to summarize the life of nostalgia for the Goddess of Magic and devoted their lives to the people. Finally, we will set a finale for the ceremony, make some holy objects, symbolic relics, and other things, and then burn them to ashes and carry them into the sky and sprinkle them into rivers, lakes and seas - may He rest in peace."

After Gao Wen's low and serious words fell, everyone in the conference room looked at each other for a moment. It was obvious that they had not kept up with Gao Wen's ideas yet, especially Hetty showed an incredible expression - she often came into contact with disobedient plans, so naturally she knew that in the long run, all gods were destined to turn from protectors of civilization into enemies of civilization. What her ancestors had been doing was to confront those gods who were gradually falling into madness. Therefore, a massive "mourning" project seemed strange and unreasonable to her.

The Grand Duke Bodewen, who was connected, said with a little hesitation and thought: "Is it to give the mages across the country a catharsis point and stabilize their emotions..."

"Not only that," Veronica, who was sitting opposite Gao Wen, holding a platinum scepter, suddenly spoke at this time. She had a look of a suddenness on her face, and she had obviously understood Gao Wen's intentions vaguely. "I understand what you mean, Your Majesty, you need to make this matter a 'conclusion'."

"This is called the 'final conclusion'," Gowen saw that almost everyone at the scene showed thoughtful expressions after Veronica spoke, and couldn't help but smile on his face, "The Magic Goddess is 'dead', no matter what the reason is, no matter whether He is a god or something else, no matter what He did and what it affects, in short, He died, this God no longer exists, the source of faith has disappeared, and we will mourn Him in deep pain-the mages can be sad and missed, but no matter what, everyone will clearly know that there is no magic goddess in the world.

"This mourning must be as serious as possible, the influence must be broad enough and large enough to form a world consensus and a public opinion, so that those who do not want to accept it must also accept it, and those who are willing to question cannot find the object and reason for questioning.

"Of course, Duke Bedevin said it right. This is also a 'explanation' for the mages across the country, so that they can have the opportunity to vent their emotions. We must guide their emotions to mourning so that they don't have time to think about other things."

After Gao Wen finished speaking, everyone was shocked and suddenly realized. After all, this idea itself was not too unimaginable. Using funerals and other activities to attract attention is a more conventional operation. The key is that the fact that "holding a funeral for God" is too incredible, so no one has considered it in this direction at all.

After thinking for a while, Hedy couldn't help but look up again, looking at Gao Wen with a weird expression: "Is this really okay?"

"Believe me, there is no more effective way," Gao Wen nodded with a smile to the always worried "Cecil Butler", "This will be the first funeral we hold for the gods. If it succeeds as the guide, transition, and solidification I expected, then this funeral will become a reference for the future."

References for the future... As soon as these words came out, the expressions of Rigti and others in the conference room suddenly became even more strange than before. However, as a group of people who had witnessed two divine disasters with Gao Wen and even witnessed "pseudo-god bones" with their own eyes, they knew that behind these words, there might be an inevitable situation in the future.

As long as civilization is still moving forward and as long as the cruel rules of this world are still operating, there will definitely be other gods falling, and after each god falls... Emperor Gowen Cecil will be buried with them in a grand manner.

Even Amber, who was invisible to attend the meeting, couldn't help but show her appearance. She looked at Gao Wen for a few more times and sighed in her heart - the final conclusion... This is really an appropriate phrase.

He is worthy of being the one who once lifted the coffin.

Gao Wen waited for the people in the conference room to digest the previous topic. Heti, who was standing beside him, also completed the record of the meeting process, and then cleared his throat and spoke: "Next, it's time to discuss the issue on Tifeng."

"There is another god of war that may have been crazy over there," Veronica said calmly, "If it is just an academic sense, this is a valuable observation sample. We can intuitively understand the characteristics gradually revealed by the gods after they fell into madness and the subsequent series of impacts on the present world."

“But this is not just an academic issue,” Gowen said. “It’s time to write a letter to Rosetta Augustus—the ‘abnormal change’ of magic goddess Milmina may be a good opening topic…”

...

The mist enveloped the imperial capital of Tifeng. The faint sunlight shone through the clouds and mist, creating a dusk atmosphere in the city below. In this autumn, the courtyards and open-air corridors of Obsidian Palace also began to blow the colder wind. Only in the royal garden protected by the greenhouse barrier is green and warm.

Matilda Augustus stepped into the royal garden in the atrium of the Obsidian Palace, and the warm breath rushed towards him, quickly dispelling the cold air brought back from outside. She walked along the pebbled path to the depths of the garden. In the dark sky near dusk, she saw her talented father standing under an orchid-leaf pine tree, as if she was staring at the flowerbed under her feet.

It was a poorly growing flower bed.

"Father," Matilda stood a few meters behind Rosetta, lowering her head, "I'm back from the Great Church."

Rosetta did not look back, but just nodded lightly and asked casually: "Did Malm Dunit receive you in the inner temple?"

"Yes," Matilda nodded, "and still follow etiquette specifications and procedures."

"At least it seems that everything is normal on the surface, isn't it?" Rosetta nodded, his eyes still not removed from the nursery. "Tell me what you see, we urgently need to know what is happening in the Great Hall now."

"I directly asked the Pope about recent rumors about churches in various places - because these rumors have spread, and it is abnormal if they don't ask," Matilda nodded and replied, "Marm's crown did not have a positive answer or explanation, only saying that someone was maliciously attacking the Church of the God of War, and the Great Church had already launched an investigation into the parish where the rumors appeared... This is a response that conforms to his identity and the situation at that time.

"The Pope himself does not look anything unusual, and our conversation is in line with the normal situation, but I obviously felt a little strange...the atmosphere in the Great Hall.

"There is a tense and depression atmosphere that covers the entire Great Hall. Although every priest I see seems to be fine, that atmosphere does exist, and it is also true in an empty place. It gives people the feeling that... the tension and depression breath is emitted by the Great Hall itself.

"I talked to some priests without attracting attention. The ordinary priests in the Great Church obviously knew the rumors from all over the place, and their answers were no different from those of Malm. But one thing I found is strange... Some priests seemed a little excited when answering me, as if they were offended - but I can be sure that there was nothing wrong with my words and deeds, and used very peaceful and even more favorable words to the church of the God of War."

The latter abnormality mentioned by Matilda sounded like a not-so-important detail, but Rosetta turned around with a serious expression on his face: "Do you think there are... something else in the 'excitement' of those priests?"

"It's just a vague feeling," Matilda said. "Their emotions came very suddenly, and they all apologized with nervousness and a little confusedness. When talking to them, I could always feel my gaze moving around, and the priests sometimes had a sudden hoarse voice... I felt that their emotions seemed to be affected by some external factor, which made me feel very uncomfortable."

"What else have you seen?" Rosetta frowned. "Have you discovered anything about the Great Hall itself?"

"... Some corridors in the Great Hall are a little dark," Matilda thought carefully and said in an uncertain tone. "I don't know if it's my own illusion. There are countless candlelights in the Great Hall and new magic crystal lanterns, but I always feel that it's dark there - it's a kind of psychological 'dark' that doesn't affect my vision. I confirmed with the servants, and it seems that I am the only one who has this feeling, and no one else notices the abnormality."

Rosetta's brow frowned little by little, and he stared at his daughter without saying a word for a long time.

Due to the influence of the curse that originated from two centuries ago, members of the Augustus family... were somewhat different from ordinary people in terms of "perception", especially in certain fields involving gods. They often saw and heard things that ordinary people could not detect. It was precisely because of this that he asked Matilda to check the situation of the Great Church.

Matilda himself is obviously very clear about this.

But the young empire pearl was not as "experienced" as her father - she only observed those details, but did not dare to make terrible conclusions like Rosetta Augustus.

"Father," she couldn't help but speak, "You think..."

"The influence of the God of War Church in Tifeng is deeply rooted," Rosetta suddenly broke his silence and said something inexplicable to Matilda, "just like an ancient tree that has been rooted for thousands of years, its roots have become part of this entire land, and everything that grows on this land is more or less affected by it."

Matilda opened her mouth and wanted to ask something, but suddenly she heard unconcealed footsteps coming from the side. The black-haired maid stepped into the garden at some point. When the footsteps sounded, she had already arrived ten meters away.

"Diana," Rosetta looked at the other party, "What have the wanderers found?"

"The priests who had the accident may have a very blasphemous and twisted death, so the bodies were disposed of secretly and quickly. Many witnesses have been controlled by the local church. The wanderers tried to confirm the status of the witnesses and confirmed that at least four priests were crazy due to mental pollution," Diana, the headmaid, reported in a calm and plain tone. "In addition, it has been confirmed that the church in some areas has reduced the scale of weekly prayer meetings and closed some of the church facilities in the name of the church repairs. The relevant orders came from the Great Church, which was personally instructed by Malm Dunit and did not pass the Cardinal Order. It is an abnormality in itself to instruct such a thing."

Matilda listened to Diana's report and suddenly couldn't help but open her eyes wide-
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