Lux's Farewell

Chapter 975: Extra Chapter: Noxus: Low Moral Advantage

When the birth of an extraordinary person is no longer a simple competition of talent, then embarking on the path to becoming extraordinary is no longer a personal matter.

As an imitator of Demacia, Noxus, under the leadership of Rell, kept pace with the times, started its own extraordinary training program through the "Noxus Talent Certification Act", and joined this vigorous wave of extraordinary liberation.

However, since Noxus itself is a latecomer, and Rell still needs to work hard to reconcile the domestic environment, and even after three generations of Swain Darius Rell, Noxus has not been able to completely eliminate the old aristocratic forces in the country, the wave of extraordinary liberation in Noxus is obviously not as big as that in Demacia.

From a competitive perspective, Noxus, which is already one step behind, seems to be falling further behind.

What’s even more terrible is that due to Noxus’ consistent expansion strategy, the entire area surrounding Noxus, whether it is bordering, across the sea, or not related at all, has bad relations with Noxus.

Historical issues have directly led to Noxus always being in a passive position in international relations. When Noxus was strong, this kind of international relationship allowed it to solve problems through force more unscrupulously. But now that Noxus has declined and can no longer wield its fists at will, its desire to catch up quickly has become a fatal burden.

This is not counting.

What's even worse is that Noxus itself has poor land and insufficient resources, which inevitably leads it to the path of expansion and plunder. Once this path is blocked, even if Rell barely catches up with the wave of extraordinary liberation, I'm afraid Noxus can only barely hang on to the end of the wave and barely keep itself from falling behind.

This is obviously inconsistent with the Noxians' expectations of their status.

Under this situation, Noxus, after several twists and turns, finally regained some of its imperial style - after realizing that they could not continue infighting, the Noxians began to try to overtake on the curve.

Military adventures have failed, and those who wanted to engage in military adventures will either die in the war or lose power completely.

Relying on the same old path was completely proven to be ineffective after a series of failures, and Noxus was forced to find a completely new path.

This path must be different from that of Demacia, and it must be able to overtake on a curve. It would be best if Noxus could do it but Demacia could not.

It seems that when all the above conditions are combined together, it seems like a fantasy. However, when the right to education has achieved "public-private integration", many poor children in Noxus schools who do whatever it takes to get ahead have inadvertently opened a new door for Noxus.

As we all know, Demacia's education can be roughly divided into two parts: basic education and higher education. The former is compulsory (although it has just barely covered the entire country), and the latter requires selection.

The combination of the two, together with other aesthetic education, social education, etc., constitute the current Demacia education system.

In Noxus, in order to seize the lead in the wave of extraordinary liberation, many schools have chosen a more crazy form of education - no basic education, but directly higher education.

There is no doubt that this is a very unhealthy way of education. Students without basic education cannot establish complete values, and overly strict and even forced higher magic education may even cause students' personalities to become distorted.

Although this method of education requires little investment and provides immediate returns, from the students' perspective, their lives can actually be considered ruined.

After all, starting from a simple test at the beginning of school, your life has been completely planned. It is a very scary thing to not learn anything other than a certain subject.

But the Noxians had no trouble doing it.

Not only are there no pressures in Noxus schools, but even the students themselves and their parents don't think there's anything wrong with it.

Why? Because Noxus has a low moral advantage compared to Demacia.

What were schools like in Noxus in the past?

Just look at Riel's school and you will know: only the children of nobles can actually attend. Even if the children of commoners are lucky enough to get in, they can only be consumables.

But now?

Although the lives of students who enter school are completely distorted and may easily suffer irreversible personality distortion, and they may even be completely eliminated by society with the development of the times, they have a brand new channel for upward mobility.

In the past, even during the most powerful era of the Noxian Empire, this upward path came at a price: at that time, if the children of ordinary people wanted to stand out, they had to go to the battlefield and turn their flesh and blood into fuel to drive the imperial war machine forward.

For Demacia, it is completely unacceptable to cultivate a group of science-biased students with distorted personalities who may be eliminated by society in the future. Neither Kalya nor Lux will consider this.

  But for Noxus, this is completely feasible and even progressive - after all, it is better than the Scouts, right?

After receiving systematic magical education and participating in the extraordinary liberation wave, the Noxians brought out their former military imperialism, and the result was magical and produced amazing results.

When the Noxian Talent Certification Act was promulgated, Noxus's magical education had just taken shape, and everything remained on paper. Apart from a theoretical framework structure, there was almost nothing else.

But only ten years later, Noxus had more than two hundred magic schools of all sizes, and the radicals had already begun providing super-standard magic education to children as young as five years old.

Twenty years after the promulgation of the "Noxus Talent Certification Act", many fields in Noxus have an astonishing number of extraordinary people. Their theoretical knowledge is a mess, and their practical abilities are extremely biased, but they can demonstrate astonishing production capacity in appropriate fields.

If Demacia wants to develop the textile industry, the education system will train sixty textile workers with basic culture who can operate simple or complex textile machines; then train twenty other supporting personnel, ten senior magicians who have received higher education to enchant textiles, and ten scholars who improve textile technology or enchantment theory.

The Noxians start weaving at the age of five, and train a hundred students to use various magics to weave. Apart from this, they don't know anything else, but they have an amazing level of technical skills in weaving.

Although many people would lose their jobs and fall into hardship once there were large-scale changes in textile technology and changes in the popularity of textiles, overall, the overall textile level of Noxus has been effectively improved.

Demacia chose a unified layout and horizontal cooperation.

Noxus has taken the path of vertical division and specialized franchise.

These two horizontal and vertical lines also represent the two schools of thought in the first fifty years of the extraordinary liberation wave - it was not until the rune magic finally underwent a transformation and the rune stone industry finally took shape that the extraordinary liberation wave finally entered the next stage.

The beginning of the new book has been written. I was planning to send it to the editor tomorrow and then upload it.

But today I got the news that someone from my hometown is leaving and needs to go back soon. It will take several days to take a plane and a train.

I can't stop updating during the period of publishing a new book. I haven't been able to write steadily and with peace of mind these days. To be on the safe side, the new book cannot be published tomorrow. I'm afraid it will have to be delayed until next Monday. I'm very sorry.

If I have time these days, I will update the extra chapter of the magic penetration stick, and then save as many manuscripts as possible for the new book.