City of Witches - Chapter 1155
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– homunculus(homunkulluseu):Homunculus
– Prometheus(peulomeseuteuseu):Prometheus
– Kether(kete-eo):Kether
– Erelim(elellim):Erelim
The video footage that was shown in the Neo War, which revealed the historical truth about witches and humans, was not entirely fictional. The footage showed the enslavement of witches and the use of the Angel as a decisive weapon, which could potentially shake the pride and self-esteem of witches. The footage was seen as a game-changer that could lead to chaos and destruction, and Lydia Magnus, the witch leader, had kept the footage a secret. However, her son, Finn, decides to release the footage in order to turn the game around.
Witches’ City – Episode 1149
EP.1155 #276_Prologue (3)
#1149
1.
While traveling, Shiwoo asked his godmother, Frau, who was currently staying inside Hexennacht, about everything that had happened.
[Yes, Godfather. I will check it right away.]
The United States was a representative friendly country of Gehenna, but Shiwoo wanted to confirm that this surprise announcement was not triggered from within Hexennacht.
Frau accepted Shiwoo as her godfather and pledged her loyalty.
She had also secretly persuaded other Werpanas who were centered around Finn to return to Hexennacht.
However, that was something that was done in secret.
Frau was still a public figure with great influence within Hexennacht, and accordingly, she would report quality information to Shiwoo.
[This incident is not related to Hexennacht. At least not externally. Judging from the seriousness of the matter, if there had been any sign beforehand, a report would have been made to Your Grace from other godmothers. But I will contact the other sisters.]
“I understand. You’ve worked hard.”
[It is my greatest blessing to be able to serve Your Grace.]
As soon as the business-like contact was cut off, a sigh escaped his lips.
She had seemed a little quiet lately, but this unexpected incident had occurred right away.
His head was pounding with fatigue.
“I expected it to some extent, but it doesn’t seem like it was something that happened under the leadership of the entire city of Hexennacht, like the previous flood incident.”
“I understand.”
After leaving the valet parking, the location point Seoul branch, which he had gone up to, was already under a state of emergency, reminiscent of the stock market that had been hit by a big shot.
All the employees were yelling with their handsets pressed to their cheeks, and the phones were ringing incessantly, while unorganized documents were fluttering around like garbage.
As he arrived at the branch manager’s office, which had been remodeled like a Hanok, Branch Manager Sua was putting down the handset with a face full of worry.
“Ms. Sua. What’s going on here? I’m sure there were regulations on magic research when the agreement was made.”
In fact, even before the flood, magic research had been secretly conducted under the leadership of various countries.
At that time, there was a need to deal with Homunculus and the public without the help of witches, and the witches’ ‘spirit body’, which promised immortality, must have been a tempting research subject for those in power who were destined to die.
However, as far as Elloa knew, the various attempts had been in vain.
Witches were beings too powerful for humans to capture and use as experimental subjects, and above all, the witches who called themselves Prometheus, had Kether the Duke kill them most resolutely and made the countries involved pay the price.
In a sense, it was an unwritten rule that was more strictly observed than ‘witches should remain mysterious’.
Even after Kether disappeared, and even after the flood, this rule had been firmly upheld.
Gehenna demanded that all magic research not be made public in exchange for ending the ‘flood’ at a secret meeting of heads of state from each country.
Although the other witches did not know the contents of the ‘Ark’ and the history of the world from which the Witch of Creation had escaped, the reason for this demand was that the opinion of Duke Erelim was actively reflected.
‘Humans are very dangerous beings.’
‘At this point in time, when the Homunculus that suppressed such humans have disappeared, we do not know when or how the wisdom of the magic that has fallen into their hands will threaten us.’
‘As I said before, I am not suggesting that we persecute them with radical and active measures.’
‘However, a minimum of constraints will be required.’
The remarks of Duke Erelim, who was also revered as a great sage, easily drew the agreement of the orthodox witches.
It cannot be denied that there was a sense of arrogance and a desire for monopoly unique to witches behind such easy agreement, that ‘we cannot allow mere humans to study magic’, but Shiwoo, who had seen the ‘Ark’ firsthand, also tacitly agreed.
The historical truth implemented in the Neo War was not merely a fiction.
The human malice seen in the Neo War was not entirely foreign either.
Rather, I felt a sense of déjà vu.
However, in the end, the choice that Siwoo, Eloa, and Lynne made was to postpone their decision.
They chose to remain silent about the truth they had learned in the Ark.
If the witches of this world were to learn the truth, it was clear that an uncontrollable chaos would ensue, and that chaos was likely to take a radical direction.
Therefore, their stance was to prepare for the possibility while also buying time.
“The White House spokesman said they were completely unaware of this fact. They said that an eccentric entrepreneur acted unilaterally out of curiosity…”
“That can’t be true. They’re trying to cover it up.”
“The girl’s opinion is the same.”
The United States has long been a country whose space development capabilities have surpassed those of other countries.
However, even considering that, the technology that was unveiled on live television today was so advanced that even Siwoo felt that it was ‘a bit dangerous.’
It wasn’t a technology that could be stripped of its mystery and perfected in a day or two.
If the technology that had been revealed was simply ‘psychokinesis,’ there would have been no need to be so tense.
That was a realm that could be achieved with a little talent and enough magical power.
“That magical particle accelerator is not so simple.”
“They’re drawing in the sparse magical power around them, ‘magnetizing’ it, and implementing their own magic?”
“At least if there’s no manipulation in the data we’ve seen, that’s what it seems like.”
Although the result was inferior, humans had created another form of ‘stigma’ without relying on the witches’ magic.
A stigma made of steel and electricity.
Much sooner than expected.
In some ways, it was understandable.
In the Neo War timeline, humans had struggled to use magic because their science was so far behind.
The current timeline is an era where humans have set foot on the surface of the moon half a century ago.
The base technology they already possess is different.
“…Gehenna will be in an uproar again.”
Many witches probably won’t take this well.
In particular, the Duke of Erelim, who has been unusually quiet lately, will surely react very strongly.
I feel a headache coming on, and I instinctively reach for some painkillers.
“What should I do?”
I can’t be sure that the same tragedy will be repeated in this timeline as a result of magic falling into human hands.
But I can’t say for sure that it won’t happen again either.
The possibilities were open in both directions, which made the choice even more difficult.
That was the path of suffering that Eloa and Siwoo had chosen to walk.
However, there was no time to brood over my frustrations.
“Branch Manager Sua!”
A witch who had rushed into the branch manager’s office showed her a terminal with a face as pale as a ghost, as if she were screaming.
A video was playing on the channel that had once broadcast the sinking of the US 7th Fleet at Hexennacht.
Judging from the curvature of the surroundings and the unique ripples spreading around the edges of the screen, it was filmed with a magic crystal ball.
Eloa and Siwoo gasped when they saw the video.
The interior of a building that could only be described as a state-of-the-art museum.
Through the panoramic windows, the flashy neon signs from the tall buildings outside left afterimages like crushed bugs.
In the center of the screen, a drone was diligently doing its duty, buzzing around and making cheerful mechanical noises.
[The first exchange between humans and witches began around the 15th century. Witches imparted magical knowledge to humans, and humans spread science to witches.]
[Witches naturally took their place in the upper echelons of human society and exploited humans by colluding with a small number of powerful people.]
[As the witches naturally took their place in the upper echelons of human society and exploited humans in collusion with a small number of powerful people]
The Witches’ City – Episode 1150
The release of footage about the history of witches and humans heightens tensions over humans’ study of magic. The footage includes the enslavement of witches and the use of the ultimate weapon called Angel, which could shake the pride and self-esteem of witches. The footage is seen as a game changer that could lead to chaos and ruin, and the witch leader Lydia Magnus has kept the footage a secret. However, her son Finn decides to release the footage in order to turn the game board upside down.
[Since witches have virtually no lifespan, this hierarchy was extremely solid. A deformitysituation occurs in which a relatively small number of witches monopolize wealth and power]
[During this period, humans were nothing more than slaves to witches]
The video contained a record of the interior of the ‘Ark’.
2.
In the past, magic crystals were revolutionary objects.
They were transcendent ‘artifacts’ with a wide range of functions, including real-time long-distance video communication, recording of video and still images, and many others.
However, the story changed with the universalof smartphones, the epitome of civilization.
Magic crystals were more expensive than the latest smartphones, inconvenient to carry, and difficult to maintain.
Even so, the reason why many witches still use crystals as communication devices is not simply due to old-fashioned inertia.
This is because they have several unique advantages.
One of them is that “it is very difficult to manipulate recorded records”.
Manipulation itself is easy, but it is easy to spot.
If you look at the details and study them, you may not know, but there are no leisurely witches who put in the effort to manipulate the video without leaving any traces, so it is often adopted as meaningful evidence in the courtrooms of Gehenna.
The object Finn found in Lydia’s vault was a video stored in such a crystal.
And it was a seal that was almost completely crumbled and could only be barely identified in its form, which was magically sealed perfectly.
It was the seal of a strange angel, half meat and half machine.
[Let’s see…. Okay. Vlog exploring the futuristic city of Daejeon. I’m recording this because I think it might be useful.]
The unrealistically thriving abandoned human city ‘Ark’.
The untold stories of this world, the identity of the witch of creation, told through the mouth of a drone in a museum.
Witches who were conquered by cruel humans and became sexual playthings.
The ultimate weapon ‘Angel’ that overwhelms Ursula and Priscilla.
All of those scenes are captured in the crystal.
Finn had a keen political sense, so he could predict the butterfly effect that would occur if this video were released to the outside world.
Gehenna, which has inherited the maintenance of Kether for generations, has a pro-human aspect.
In contrast, Hexennacht can be seen as an extremely radical form of witchcraft.
However, there is one thing in common between Gehenna witches and Hexennacht witches.
They all have pride and self-esteem that reach the sky.
What would happen if this video were released to Gehenna and Hexennacht?
How would the witches react when they learned that the world they had been so proud of had fallen into the gutter at the hands of humans, and that it was still happening?
Confusion.
Confusion.
There is nothing but endless confusion.
Unpredictable chaos and ruin lie there.
“Mother….”
Finn could also understand why his mother had left this video in the vault where she kept her personal belongings.
His mother was a cold businesswoman.
If it was profitable, she would act, and if it was not profitable, she would not act.
Unlike her other achievements, she was a public figure who preferred to find profit in a tense order.
That’s why she must have judged that the video had no meaning when she was alive.
This video is an extreme move that completely turns the game upside down.
You don’t need unpredictable chaos on the game table, even you can’t predict it.
But it’s different for Finn.
Now that everything is at a disadvantage, being able to shake the board without hesitation is no different from randomly rearranging the pieces on a chessboard just before checkmate.
In this way, Lydia Magnus’s true legacy, the game changer, was neither the Gnosis’s egg with its powerful magnetic magic, nor the strongest artifact that could defeat any enemy.
It was a simple truth that was all too clear.