Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 791 Must Magic Die?

All lives are equal because they are ordinariness, and beautiful because they are fragility. However, when some lives are unwilling to admit their own ordinariness and attempt to separate themselves from other lives and become messy existences such as extraordinary beings, magicians, or gods, they have already abandoned the most precious gift bestowed by the goddess.

Thus, from ancient times to the present, the exploitation and plunder of ordinary life by extraordinary life has never stopped, and the world has become their playground, operating for performing all kinds of crazy and cruel dramas. There is no difference between an ant and an ordinary person in terms of life, but the difference between an extraordinary person who has mastered magic and ordinary life is like a chasm that cannot be crossed.

Some people may say that the world has always been like this, and has never changed since ancient times. But Tiandis is not the kind of person who goes with the flow. Once she has her own ideals, she will definitely take action to change the world. This is why she founded the Witch Society, secretly guided the history of the world, and appeared in front of Lingge and others today.

"That's true, but," Alice finally understood what Tiandis wanted to express. She looked a little conflicted. Obviously, Tiandis's grand ideals were relatively unique among the many game villains she had seen. "I don't think there's anything wrong with such a world, right? Magic, magic, gods, religion, and various supernatural organizations and forces, aren't these all very classic fantasy settings? Besides, if you think it is magic that distinguishes supernatural life from ordinary life and makes them reborn equal, don't forget that the person who gave the world magic is also the goddess who created the world. Do you want to say that the goddess of creation did something wrong?"

"Of course it's wrong."

Tiantis replied without hesitation, and did not change his attitude just because the target of his criticism was the great goddess of creation: "The goddess created the world and established the laws, which is great, but the biggest mistake she made was to allow living beings to use magic, because the desires of living beings are always expanding infinitely, especially the desire for power. And you, Miss Alice, you just think this is interesting from the perspective of a bystander. This attitude may come from the various entertainment products you play in the world of Earth, such as the games you have been mentioning. They have given you too many unrealistic fantasies. . But as far as I know, even in that world without magic, technologies such as cloning, human modification, mind replication and genetic modification have always been considered unethical and unsupported. Obviously, the wise men in your world have realized how much harm extraordinary life above ordinary life will cause to society. If you create a group of lunatics who claim to be gods, their bodies are stronger than space battleships, and they can cause landslides and tsunamis with a wave of their hands, fighting for so-called beliefs or other unknown things all day long, and completely treating ordinary people as nothing, at that time, will you still find it interesting?"

She asked Alice in return, and the golden-haired maid tried to imagine such a scene and shuddered: It is indeed not very interesting. She is just an ordinary gaming geek. If she is affected, she may not even know how she died.

"The harm caused by extraordinary life is more than that." Tiantis continued: "All life worships the strong. This is their nature. However, submission to minions or admiration for wisdom will not affect the stability of the natural order. It will only make the world more prosperous and beautiful in limited competition, and civilization will grow and develop in the pursuit of individuals. But the worship of extraordinary life is different. It is essentially the weak denying their ordinary existence and eager to change their life form, even if they abandon their original values. That's why the mad god Abraham devoured the ashes of his own kind to strengthen himself, or the believers of animism sacrificed their souls to call for the arrival of the imagined gods. When people and ants are no longer proud of their innate values, and are wholeheartedly pursuing to become extraordinary people, magicians, and even gods, do you think this is normal?"

Alice was speechless.

She naturally didn't think it was abnormal when playing games or reading novels. On the contrary, if there were no extraordinary elements such as magic and gods, she would think that the games and novels were meaningless. But until she was in them and listened to Tiandis's description, she felt how distorted this order was for those ordinary lives.

"So," Saint Shallia suddenly asked. Her eyes were still clear, reflecting the face of the black-haired girl. She was not beautiful, but she had a power called ordinary, which was impressive. "Is it just to change this situation that the Witch Society slaughtered those false gods and evil gods while secretly guiding human history, wanting to emulate Alice's world and embark on a path dominated by wisdom and reason?"

From the Second Dark Age to the Mist Moon Massacre, from the Magic War to the Darkest Ten Days, the Witch Society has never dropped its butcher knife on false gods and evil gods. The Crimson Disaster Mecanthus, the Blue Wind God, the Glorious Sigma, the Black Saint, the Principle Against Heaven... have all been killed by this butcher knife, and the most recent victim is named Gundaruf, the Silver Evil Moon of the Shikilia Peninsula.

Tiantis stretched out a slender finger, drew a circle in the air, and said slowly: "Our planet seems big, but it is actually very small. Compared with the universe, it is just a drop in the ocean. But on this tiny planet, there are so many ambitious people who call themselves gods and fight for the power to dominate this miniature kingdom. Don't you think this is ridiculous? The Mirror Star World should be a stage left by the goddess for mortal creatures to compete for freedom, not a playground for them to play tricks, so I asked these unwelcome guests to leave."

"You can think so."

Of course, for those extraordinary beings, this kind of order is normal, and it is also the ideal world they have always pursued. If there were no natural disasters, the four empires might still stand until now, and the emperors who ruled the four empires would still be as high and mighty as they were ten thousand years ago, deciding the fate of millions of lives with a single word; if there were no Steam Cult, the Metosh Empire established by Saint Junio ​​would not perish, and the five teeth of the Taguao Desert would still drive humans to build their castles and palaces; similarly, if there were no cults united, who knows what kind of chaos those secret societies and extraordinary forces would cause in human society? Even Rochelle, the walker of the Fertile Soil Sect, is killing innocent people in the name of God, not to mention the Heavenly Feast of the Blood-Red Banquet, Solomon of the Thirteen Hermits, Gundaruf and Linsas of the Silver Moon...

She turned her gaze to the young man next to her: "Lingge is also a magician, but he has never had that kind of idea, and he has never thought about embarking on the path of becoming a god. I believe he is not an exception. There are many people in the world who think this way, but you..."

She paused here, pursed her lips, and did not continue speaking, but everyone understood what she had not yet said: However, you indiscriminately massacred aliens and magicians, causing many innocent sacrifices. Can such behavior really be called equal and beautiful?

Alice shrank her neck quietly. She was not sure whether she also belonged to the category of "unwelcome guests". Saint Shallia continued to stare at Tiandis with a quiet gaze and asked word by word: "In this case, why are there those innocent aliens and magicians? I think that not all lives that have mastered magic will distinguish themselves from ordinary lives, right? For example-"

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From the wind fairies in Rostin City to the rotten wood fairies in the Shikilia Peninsula; from the mirror elves under the blue sky and sea to the aliens lingering in the Evangelical Convent... they are just the tip of the iceberg. There are many more sacrifices that have not been made public, and are gradually sealed in the cold text archives of the Witch Society.

Facing her question, Tiantis closed her mouth and did not answer. It was not because she was speechless after being refuted, but because this question reminded her of some unpleasant memories in the past: excluding this time, the young royal power of order had reincarnated three times, and every time they recovered their memories of their past lives, Tiantis would find them and explain her ideals and plans to them. They always talked well before. After experiencing betrayal and war, the girls of order also began to learn to reflect and realized that the existence of extraordinary life might be a hidden danger to the mirror star world. If this hidden danger is not resolved, catastrophes like the Hundred Races War, the Dark Dragon Tide, the Dark Ages and Catastrophes, the Divine Changes, and the Natural Changes will repeat sooner or later.

However, the two sides disagreed on how to solve the problem, and the question raised by Saint Shalia was the key to the disagreement. Every time this topic was discussed, the two sides often parted unhappily, and when they met again, they were already enemies. The difference in ideas was engraved deep in the soul and was due to nature. It could not be changed in a few words, so Tiandis was worried. She felt that it might be the same this time.

"Heh." After a long silence, Countess Nevill suddenly sneered, her tone not without sarcasm: "It seems that Miss Tiantis herself finds it difficult to answer this question. I'm afraid in her heart, anyone who has touched magic power will naturally bear an unforgivable original sin."

As a demigod, the Countess was somewhat indignant about what Tiantis said. It was not that she felt the same pain as those false gods and evil gods who were slaughtered. In fact, she did not have a good impression of those guys. It was just that according to Tiantis, if a person pursued strength until he gained the power of a god, it seemed that he would definitely cause some harm to the world. Could it be that they could not become stronger for other reasons, such as wanting to control their own destiny, or wanting to protect their precious companions or relatives...

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but glance at Leticia, but her good granddaughter was still glaring at Tiandis at the moment and didn't notice the gaze from her grandmother.

"You are right." The Countess's words brought Tiantis back to the real world from her trance. She said coldly: "Anyone who has touched magic power and received its favor is guilty of original sin. Even if they do not think of themselves as superior to ordinary life, the facts and essence will not change. Therefore, as long as they exist, they have indirectly aggravated this phenomenon of inequality."

"So you're going to use massacre to solve it?" Nevile sneered, "That's a really rough method."

"It's really brutal." Facing her sarcasm, Tiantis nodded and admitted, "Kill one evil god, and ten false gods will appear; kill one hundred extraordinary people, and a thousand more magicians will appear... It's impossible to completely solve the problem. As I said before, the desire of living beings for power is always expanding infinitely. Perhaps this is the price of fragility. What we, the Witch Association, pursue is a way to completely solve the problem."

Completely solve the problem? Nevile curled her lips slightly, thinking that this was unrealistic: "How to solve it?"

"It's simple. Solve it from the root."

"At the root?" Nevile was stunned for a moment when she heard this answer, but soon she thought of something and her face changed drastically: "Wait, you guys are not going to..."

But she didn't have the chance to speak out her guess. Tiantis had already said word for word the conclusion that she had always believed to be the only correct path after careful consideration -

"If we believe that extraordinary life is not the original sin, then magic is the original sin." She said: "In this case, only by completely eliminating the existence of magic and allowing all life to return to its ordinary and fragile state can the planet under our feet operate in an orderly manner as it has since ancient times, and nature and civilization can continue indefinitely in a limited life."

Her tone was calm and even, and her voice gradually shredded in the wind, then floated away, as if reaching a very far place. On the Indorsis Bridge, there was another long silence. Countess Nevill slowly exhaled, as if she had exhaled all the foul air accumulated in her lungs. She looked at Tiantis with an inexplicably complicated look: "I never thought that you would have such... blasphemous thoughts."

Magic power is the legacy of the Goddess of Creation, and the Witch Society wants to cut off magic power. If this is not considered blasphemy, Nevile really can't think of any other words worthy of describing it.

"Blasphemy?" Tiantis shook his head. "On the contrary, we are just correcting the mistakes that the goddess missed when she created the world. Just like when the fourteen young girls in the Heavenly Temple thought that among all the intelligent races, their mother only forgot to give humans the qualifications to use magic power. They thought this was a mistake, so they believed the words of that man and entrusted the royal sacred vessel to him."

She looked at Saint Xia Liya, because the shepherdess was the eldest sister of the young royal powers, and the decision was made by her after consulting her sisters, but the latter bit her lower lip and did not respond. That was a very long memory, and she had not yet fully recalled it. She could only feel her state of mind at the time from Fei Er's narration, but it was more like looking at flowers in the fog, and it was unclear.

"It is only now that we stand at key historical nodes and look back at past events that we are surprised to find that the mistakes we need to correct are not made by humans, but by the goddess, by all people, and even by the entire Mirror Star World."

Tiantis did not embarrass or question her intentions. He quickly withdrew his gaze and said coldly to everyone: "If this planet and the mortal life on the planet still want to continue to survive, then magic must die."

"That's the conclusion I've come to."

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(End of this chapter)