Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 932: Yulia Wants to Be a Celestial
“…That may not be the case.”

Hearing Yulia's words, Aiwass felt a little embarrassed for a moment.

To be honest, when Dr. Gatling invented the Gatling gun, his original intention was to increase firepower and reduce the number of casualties on the battlefield...

...Well, if this idea is pushed to the extreme, it is not wrong.

Because when firepower is infinitely improved until weapons that can truly destroy everyone are born, the number of people going to the battlefield and being killed or injured will indeed decrease - with the same idea, when machines that improve productivity evolve to the extreme, perhaps Yulia's idea will come true.

But before that, I'm afraid things will hardly develop the way she expects.

But even so, Aiwas still gave full affirmation to Yulia's research: "But I think there is nothing wrong with this idea. In fact, Yuli - you have greatly underestimated all this."

"……underestimate?"

Yulia was surprised by the high evaluation given by Aiwass.

She was familiar with Aiwass.

According to Aiwas's character, he always speaks his mind on such important matters.

He would never give a wrong evaluation just to take care of the emotions and self-esteem of his friends and relatives - although good advice does not persuade the damned, and mercy does not save people. Even if the other party clearly expressed that he did not want to listen, or had strong resistance, Aiwass would finish what he should do and what he should say.

"That's right. The machine you developed is no longer just about 'promoting the development of the times'. If everything goes well, it can even be called an epoch-making leap - it may become the greatest invention in human history!"

“…Is this really possible?”

Hearing this, Yulia shrank back a little.

"That's right," Aiwass nodded seriously, "Because the inventions of mankind were actually invented once by the old civilization. Even the things they have not invented are just the products of compensating and optimizing based on the unique disadvantages of humans, the 'beast-like species of elves'.

"In other words, these inventions are all 'beneficial to the progress of human civilization' rather than 'beneficial to the world'. Even if these things really come into being, they are entirely possible to be invented by other races such as elves, dwarves, and dragons.

"But your invention is different - it's something only humans could develop."

"…Only humans…Why?"

Yulia was stunned for a moment.

At that moment, she felt that she had vaguely grasped the key to the problem——

"Because humans are the most well-rounded race, but also the weakest."

Aiwass answered: "Humans inherited the instincts of devotion, balance, beauty and dusk from the elves, love from the constant self, and transcendence from the snake father. With the instinct to survive, we have gained adaptation, with the instinct of unity and group, we have gained authority, and with the instinct to pursue the truth, we have gained wisdom...

"Humans are the only race that possesses adaptability to all nine paths at the same time, and all nine paths are perfectly balanced. Apart from humans, every other race naturally tends to lean towards a certain path when they grow up... Only humans are different.

"Only humans, when they grow to adulthood in complete health, happiness, and ease, will not be inclined to any path. In the Theocracy, elves without the desire to devote themselves are considered outliers; but on the human side, those who are completely inclined to any path are called 'extreme' by us, and are proof of a poor mental state.

"——That is why humans are the only ones who naturally do not possess any racial supernatural abilities."

Aiwass said slowly: "But from another perspective, this is exactly the peculiarity - only humans will look at it from the perspective of 'abandoning all extraordinary powers'. Therefore, rather than saying that humans are the sons of Hengwo and the Snake Father, it is better to say that humans are the darlings of the Sand Clock.

"It is not difficult to achieve your design goal. Necromancer has the ability of 'Awaken: Ghostly Sage', and the Path of Devotion can directly request the apostles of the Path of Balance to calculate through prayer. There is no need to say more about the Path of Wisdom.

"And if it's an elf or an alchemist from the Star Antimony, it's just as you said - they will create a computing device that uses magic power. This kind of device based on elemental transformation or rituals is much more difficult and stable than your 'Analytical Machine'."

"...Brother, what you mean is," Yulia understood after hearing this, "this is an invention that other races would never think of?"

"That's right. Just like humans can breathe and smell, they wouldn't specially invent a device to allow a race that can't breathe to smell. For example, the Atlanteans, these scaly creatures can move freely in the water, they never thought about how to let people on earth dive into the sea."

Aiwass nodded and said seriously: "The machine you invented is a 'completely disenchanted computing device' that only humans can invent.

"...You can definitely become a pioneer, Yuli. If everything goes well, you may even have a chance to become a heavenly priest!"

"It would be great if I could become a celestial official in the future." Yulia sighed, "Thanks for your good words... I will work hard towards this goal in the future."

Her words were not as light as those of ordinary people when joking - precisely because she was confident that she could do it, her words seemed heavy and serious.

It was an undisguised desire for power.

Because Yulia nearly died as a child, she longs even more for the ability to survive.

"There really is a chance - or, rather, it's almost inevitable."

Aiwass's words were so confident, as if he had seen such a future with his own eyes: "In the future, this kind of device will be infinitely miniaturized. Everyone can have many such computing units. Relying on these computing units, the processing of many daily affairs will be automated, just like everyone has several followers around them... and all this does not even require magic power to complete.

“When conducting a census or calculating taxes, there is no need for hundreds of priests to pray day and night, waiting for the numbers to appear in the blanks, but it can be easily calculated by human power.

"The calculation and prediction of trajectory are no longer exclusive to those who are adaptable and wise. With enough convenient computing power, data can also be compressed and decompressed - telephones and telegraphs will no longer need wires, and you can even see the face of the other party!

“When you want to buy specialty products from far away, you no longer need to find someone to buy them for you. Instead, you can remotely browse product features and prices, place orders, and pay for them anywhere, and then have the products automatically shipped back to you. All this can be done easily as long as there is enough cheap computing power!”

Aiwass's words even made Yulia full of confidence.

Her eyes lit up and she hugged Aiwass happily: "Brother, you are a genius!"

From Aiwas's words, she got a lot of inspiration for inventions - many parts of which could even be considered for implementation now!

What Aiwas is thinking about is the future of cheap and popular computing power that will be achieved after demystifying it.

Even now, we can use spells to supplement computing power and complete part of it in advance - for example, the cross-sea wireless audio and video that can only be achieved with at least the fourth-level rituals, as well as the remote ordering and logistics distribution models, all have considerable room for development!
The former can be made into a detachable, portable, fully automatic ritual array - for example, by hiding the key parts in a mirror, you can use it to communicate with friends at any time, or set up surveillance at home that can be viewed at any time.

This is not difficult... It is said that the Theocracy has similar technology, but it has not been put into civilian use.

The latter is simpler - placing an order remotely is easy, but the difficult part is actually the payment process.

This requires banks to open up the monetary credit system... When the bank confirms that there is money in the buyer's account, it can record and generate a bill for the seller, and automatically deduct the money from the buyer's account. Finally, a batch of banknotes are mailed to the seller regularly, so that the transaction can be completed without any contact.

As for shipping... we can only rely on large freight companies.

But it feels like it might actually work!
The only problem is that the workload of the bank has increased by an unknown amount... It is just as Aiwass said, this step can only be completed completely if there is enough computing power...

Thinking of this, Yulia admired Aiwas even more.

But Aiwass just smiled bitterly and shook his head: "This is just borrowed knowledge from another world, or even... stolen knowledge. If I really had this ability, I'm afraid I would have embarked on the path of balance long ago."

When he said this, he felt a sense of powerlessness.

The first time traveler, Ai Shiping, invented so many things and made so many friends when he was the Heavenly Master of Reincarnation. He has complete knowledge of the other world, unlike himself, who only knows the "game memory" that he doesn't know whether it is true or false.

He can invent all kinds of magical things and has a strong adaptability to the path of balance. Unlike me, I have no talent for balance at all.

As a human being and the "darling of balance", Aiwass himself does not have the adaptability to the path of balance - even when his "original body" almost became a pillar of the path of balance.

All of this was so ironic that Aiwass began to doubt... Was he really just a tool, a consumable? Was his fate calculated, and was he just a chess piece being manipulated? His self-proclaimed resistance was like a puppeteer manipulating a puppet to cut its own strings...

"—I don't think it has anything to do with this, brother."

At this moment, Yulia suddenly spoke and said softly: "Whether this knowledge comes from another world, is taught by someone, is learned by yourself from reading books, or is realized by yourself... it is all new and real to me. If I had not listened to your words, I would not have been able to complete this step; if I can really achieve some success, it must be related to your words.

"...I don't know why, but I feel like you...are a little too obsessed with 'reality'."

The white-haired girl stared at Aiwass, her tone somewhat puzzled: "This seems to be more than the first or second time... Why?"

(End of this chapter)