This was probably the most speechless and boring trial Cheng Shi had experienced in recent times.
The trial had already begun two days ago. He and the two teammates beside him had done nothing but travel, travel, and travel, with nothing but probing and testing besides. There had been no danger whatsoever around them along the way, while everyone in the group remained alert, though still nowhere near the point of making a move.
Amid this complicated and awkward atmosphere, the three of them finally reached the Borogao Highlands of Shuanghu Prefecture before sunset on the second day. Looking at the Grand Inquisition banners blotting out the sky across the highlands, they finally realized that the grandest battle of the late middle period of the Civilization Era was about to erupt right before their eyes.
The flames of war had been brewing for a long time, but no nation had yet been established.
The true spark had not originated in the Grand Inquisition, either. It had erupted from the Tower of Reason.
When the Scholarly Council poured all the experimental resources under its control only into the experiments it approved of and favored, the scholars who had walked the path of Truth for years without glimpsing hope, and who no longer had the resources to continue advancing, realized that if things continued this way, Truth would fall into the hands of only a few.
This clearly ran counter to the Tower of Reason's vision of knowledge circulating freely and wisdom being universal, so protests from within began first.
At that time, the various faiths underground were no longer silent, either. As countless different beliefs accelerated their wanton spread across the surface, the protests within the Tower of Reason grew increasingly fierce, eventually erupting into large-scale clashes divided along the lines