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"Oh, um, Mr. Barca?　What on earth are they doing?　Why are they all gathered like that, silently writing something on a piece of paper without saying a word?"

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"Ah, the painter. No, those guys over there are the ones I've gathered from all over Vulcania. They're all working for me now."

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"Work?　You didn't leave him to do the paperwork, did you?"

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"Yes, no. They are all unusually knowledgeable in some field. I have them compile information on the history, culture, and biology of the Kingdom of Fontana.

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"...... Oh, so you've started something again. You mean that you are compiling information in various fields? Is that why you called me here?

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"Yes. You are also a bearer of the culture of painting, aren't you, Mr. Painter?　Naturally, I think they know many stories about painting that ordinary people don't know. That's why I asked him to come here.

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"Oh. I'm confident that I know more about painting than most people because I've studied various techniques. ....... But I don't want to go in there. I think they're all just a bunch of strange people who have gathered there under Mr. Barca's supervision."

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"Well, they're certainly some of the most well-known freaks I've seen in all the years I've been collecting people who excel in one art or another. They're all geeks and enthusiasts who are unusually knowledgeable in a particular field. But rejoice, painter. You're one of them."

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"Well, it's complicated."

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　While doing my job as Minister of Finance in the city of Fontana, I embarked on a new initiative.

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　I have a new idea: to research the history, culture, and ecosystems of the region.

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　I want to gather solid information not only from the books that have been circulating, but also by actually examining actual objects and accumulating concrete evidence.

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　It is a tremendous task to break away from the existing information, which is a mixture of myths and legends with uncertain authenticity.

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　In fact, I had wanted to do some of these things in the past.

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　But they have not been realized.

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　Because my position was not that strong.

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　It is very difficult to research all the history and produce a book that contains only the facts.

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　This is partly because of the technical and knowledge difficulties in picking up and selecting only the facts that are free from mistakes.

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　But the more serious problem was "whether it is socially acceptable or not.

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　For example, what if I had denied the history when I had just been knighted by Carlos that "the nobles left the royal family of Doren because of the tyranny and treachery of King Nero, who was once the king of the kingdom of Doren and was known as a foolish king?

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　We know for a fact that King Nero was actually a twin, a woman who was not supposed to be the heir to the throne, and yet she succeeded to the throne, causing chaos in the Kingdom of Dorren.

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　It was a distorted history created by the winners of the power struggle that started from that incident and the nobles who took advantage of it in order to run their own fiefdoms away from the royal family of Dorren.

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　What would have happened if he had told the story of his denial when he was just a knight in the service of the nobility?

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　To deny the story of the foolish King Nero would be to undermine the basis of the independent rule of each noble family.

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　In that sense, even if it were true, it would not have been welcomed by anyone.

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　There is also the story of the royal house of Dorren and the birth of the church.

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　That too was a fabricated history.

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　After all, the Church claims to have received power from God and to have given divine blessings to the people.

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　What would happen if a woman with a precious magic was tricked into becoming a god by combining her magic with a labyrinthine nucleus?

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　At the very least, the Church would never forgive those who claimed it.

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　In other words, no matter how true the facts are, it is often not possible to publish them in a serious manner in society.

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　But with me, things are a little different now.

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　I am already near the top of the independent Kingdom of Fontana, and as a shield of God, I am on the same level as the Pope, the highest ranking member of the Church.

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　Furthermore, he is in direct contact with the God concerned.

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　To some extent, they were in a situation where they could not be blamed even if they disclosed radical facts.

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　Nevertheless, we do not want to disrupt the social order.

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　For the time being, I intend to write the history book in such a way that there will be no trouble with the Church.

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"Oh, thank you. My name is Mosh and I have been invited by Mr. Barca to participate in the painting. Please accept my best regards.

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　To compile such a history and other information into a book, we first called together a group of experts.

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　More than several hundred eccentrics gathered in a room at Barca Castle in the heavenly realm.

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　They are geeks who specialize in a particular field.

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　Mosh the painter, Mihm the doctor, Billy the beast-user, Creon the singer, Kili the astrologer, the celestial observer.

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　Or a man who has worked as a builder in various places, a dressmaker, or just an old man who loves animals....

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　There really were all kinds of people in Vulcania.

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　It's a collection of oddballs that I've been gathering since the beginning of Balka as a knightly domain.

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　In the end, I intend to put all the information in a book with proof.

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　But before that, I thought I would get the stories from those in the know, write them down, and then check if the information is correct or not.

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　For this purpose, I have gathered together a group of people who are familiar with the details and those who have been tipped off that this person is unusually knowledgeable about the details.

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　The information provided by these people will first be compiled and used as the basis for the discussion.

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　However, an interesting phenomenon occurred here.

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　When I gathered all the geeks, enthusiasts, and weirdos in one room and told them to "make a book that contains all the information you know," something happened that I never expected.

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　Perhaps it was because everyone in the room had been named by Kyle.

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　Everyone was in the same room, silent and focused.

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　At first, I was also worried because no one was talking in the room.

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　But it seems that they were all talking in telephony.

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　Moreover, they were all using the magic of parallel processing.

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　This is like Prince Shotokuji's ability to listen to multiple conversations and distinguish between them all.

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　What is even more amazing is that you don't even have to speak when you are in [telepathic communication].

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　In other words, while using [parallel processing], you are able to transmit what you want to say while listening to others, and they are able to hear what you say.

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　In short, the people here with a perverted and obsessive thirst for knowledge were simultaneously and silently explaining their knowledge to others to the best of their ability, while listening to what others had to say, asking questions back if they did not understand something, and offering rebuttals if they had any.

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　And, as an added bonus, they were being "photocopied" onto a stack of plant papers at their disposal.

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　It seems that those who excel in one art are often well versed in other fields as well.

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　For example, memes, which are doctors, know a lot about the human body, but they also know a lot about plants such as medicinal herbs, the animals that eat them, and the local climate of each region.

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　If there is something wrong with the animal stories told by the animal lover, he immediately confirms or corrects it, which means that the information is not only gathered from those who know a lot about animals, but also checked by other people.

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　In this way, information that has been properly scrutinized from various fields is piled up as a huge amount of documents with written contents.

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　Perhaps, this kind of thing might be called collective knowledge.

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　Since "a group of weirdos" doesn't seem to be a good description, let's call this discussion the "Wise Men's Meeting" for now.

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　Thus, the writing of the "Book of Knowledge," which I thought would take several decades to complete, proceeded at a speed far beyond my expectations.

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