Kubei was just an ordinary pencil and button pusher working a day job, hating his boss and making horrible speeches when one day he fell asleep after pushing an all-nighter. When he woke up, he was bound to a chair, facing three creepy robed women and in a body way too young and way too weak to be his own. As he slowly came to, he realized that he was no longer in the same universe as he was before. He had teleported to the Kingdom of Helius, where an all-powerful church rules its lands and wages war against the elusive group known only as Mages. Armed with an incredibly cocky neural interface that just won’t shut up and his own sheer wit, our MC will find himself not just fighting to survive, but maybe even something bigger than himself.
Upon seeing this, Benjamin could not help but let out a sigh.
How could the Church think of such a thing?
It seemed that the Declaration of the Freedom of Magic had gained some popularity and now even has a song about it which has been sung by bards all around Carretas. Magic was mysterious and powerful, and people yearned for it. The people’s reaction to it was no surprise.
But now the Church was willing to use dictatorship and fear to suppress its circulation.
The commoners would be afraid to get into trouble and would end up minding their own business to avoid trouble. The Church had only captured some "examples" so there would not be any resistance. At the same time, they strike terror into the hearts of those who still hid the books.
Using this method, they had managed to subdue the sudden burst of interest in magic.