Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 793: Value orientation towards human beings?

"I admire you more and more, Mr. Ling." Tiantis looked at Ling with eyes full of praise. She seemed to never hide her favor for the young man in front of her, even though he was just a weak mortal. But it didn't matter. The Witch Society was established to eliminate the gap between mortals and supernatural beings. Therefore, his ordinariness was not a weakness, but an advantage.

She looked around, then raised her head, taking in the soldiers standing by silently at both ends of the bridge and the airships cruising in the night sky, and said with emotion: "In the beginning of the association, I didn't have many trustworthy partners, because essentially, it was difficult for me to trust others. Besides Carabosse and the others, there were only Fei, Bailong, Matalia and Campella around me. Oh, Matalia is Galileo in later historical records, and Campella is Plato... But when they voluntarily became philosopher phantoms in another world, their original names were no longer used, and I haven't mentioned them for a long time."

"At that time, the association was still weak, and its headquarters was not located on the floating base Ladist, but in the ruins of a place called the Iron Eden Reglagios. That was where I woke up. After the disaster of the apocalypse, the upheaval of the world awakened me, and I felt that I came to the world for a noble mission."

She narrated slowly, her calm voice gradually spreading in the night: "We huddled in that desolate ruin, using the few resources we had, constantly searching for information, constantly deducing and calculating, constantly starting over... and finally formulated this plan to replace the rules of magic with the rules of physics, which is what you know as the Eden Project. And you, Mr. Ling, just from a few words just now, you have deduced the whole picture of this plan. This is a very rare talent. Have you never thought of using it for a better purpose?"

After a lot of twists and turns, the topic returned to her initial invitation to Lingge. Apparently, Tiandis had never given up on this idea. But Lingge's attitude was still as cold as at the beginning: "It's just because you have given enough clues. Guessing riddles is not a rare talent. And-"

He frowned slightly: "I'm afraid what I said is not complete enough?"

Judging from the various actions of the Witch Society, the Eden Project is obviously a very large project, which includes all factors related to the magical environment, including extraordinary people, magicians, aliens, monsters, spirits, false gods, evil gods, etc., and what Lingge just mentioned is only a small part of it.

Tiantis smiled, neither admitting nor denying, and continued: "Improving the magic power application system and reducing the number of magic power users and the frequency of use have indeed weakened the magic barrier of the Mirror Star World. If the magic power concentration of the entire Mirror Star World is defined as 100% during the period when I just established the Witch Association, then by the time the magic system was born and promoted, this proportion had dropped to 90%, and by the time the magic guide system was born and promoted, it had dropped to about 75%."

"The weakening of the magic barrier caused the physical rules from Earth to begin to apply to this world. So at that time, our Witch Association began to introduce a large number of scientific concepts and technological creations from other worlds, from simple glasses, clocks, window glass, oil lampshades, to complex papermaking, printing, steam engines, etc. Whether you agree with the association's approach or not, there is at least one thing you should be sure of, Mr. Ling, that is, civilization began to develop from this time, and various innovative creations have truly changed the form of society and people's lives. Before that, the knowledge of intelligent creatures was only used for the study of magic, and ordinary people could not benefit from it."

Then she stared at Tiandis blankly: "So that's why the Witch Society..."

She continued, "Although science and technology are thriving, and the threats from extraordinary people, magicians, false gods and evil gods have been completely suppressed by us, the situation of the Eden Project is still not optimistic. Because in the process of promoting the two systems, we gradually discovered that the impact of human activities on the magic environment is very limited. Even if these two systems can completely replace the previous system, the degree of weakening of the magic barrier is not as great as we imagined. Reducing the magic concentration of the Mirror Star World to 75% below the standard line may be its limit. If we want to continue to reduce it, we can either develop a new system. But for us, the magic guide system is already the most concise and efficient magic application system, and there is no possibility of further simplification; or..."

Linger could only remain silent. As a university student majoring in history, he was well aware of this. With Galileo's formulation of the celestial calendar as a landmark event, civilization had almost no substantial development in the ancient times before the Common Era. Except for Saint Tomi's creation of a religious system, the establishment of the first city-state in human history, and the reforms in law, commerce, and handicrafts, the rest of the time seemed to be in endless wars and fighting. In the past, historians believed that it was a civil war between the four empires, but now, perhaps the civil war between the extraordinary people and the foreign wars between the four empires and the alien regimes should also be counted.

Her pause here was meaningful, as if she was sure that the audience would be able to guess it even if she didn't say it. As expected, Alice suddenly had an idea and shouted, "Or we can take action against other extraordinary life forms, such as aliens and monsters!?"

His silence revealed an attitude. Although the young man did not admit it directly, Tiantis felt that this attitude was already very sincere. After all, faced with solid facts, many people's first reaction was not to acquiesce, but to refute. Even if they knew very well that they were wrong, getting them to admit their mistakes was even more difficult than slaughtering all those false gods and evil gods.

"The surge of magic power and the resonance of magic power." Tiandis's lips curled slightly. "These two phenomena are the theoretical basis for our next plan, proposed by two philosophers of the association, Copernicus and Bruno. The former believes that the concentration of magic power in the Mirror Star World is affected by March. Every time the ascending season comes, the concentration of magic power will rise and become more active; every time the descending season comes, the concentration of magic power will fall and become quiet. This is the only known phenomenon that can cause changes in magic power concentration. The latter believes that the changes in magic power in the ascending and descending seasons are essentially caused by the activity of 'magic creations', which include all races that are born with magic power, including monsters, demons and even magical plants, as well as extraordinary people and magicians who stimulate their spirituality to control magic power. It is the continuous activity of these magic creations that resonates strongly with the ubiquitous magic power, which leads to changes in magic power concentration."

"Both phenomena indicate the same fact: there is a unique connection between the magic power of the world and its creations. Creations absorb magic power from nature and feed it back through their own activities, so that the magic power of nature is always maintained at a constant value. This means that even if the association reduces the concentration of magic power by improving the magic power utilization system, the spontaneous activity of various magical creations will gradually repair this barrier, making all our previous efforts useless; but it also means that as long as we interfere with the creations, we can also interfere with the changes in magic power concentration."

So, how can we interfere with creation to reduce the concentration of magic power? The simplest and most intuitive method, the method adopted by the Witch Society at this moment, is just one word: kill.

From the previous killing of false gods and evil gods, killing extraordinary people and magicians, to the later killing of aliens and monsters, killing demons and magical plants, they are all for the same purpose, the purpose that runs through the whole process.

"I see."

Linger understood it completely: "No wonder you said that choosing humans is not an emotional orientation, but a value orientation."

The human race, led by Saint Tomi, betrayed the Girl Kingship, so why did the Witch Society still stand firmly behind them? The answer is simple, because humans are the only intelligent race that is naturally unable to use magic. In other words, if we must create a world where magic does not exist, then humans are the most suitable race to live and develop civilization in such a world, while other aliens and demons do not have this advantage.

When the hatred of the past and the ideals of the future are placed before you, what choice will you make? The chaotic young queens gave their answers.

"They all believe that this is a revelation from their mother. Otherwise, why did their mother ignore humans when granting all spirits the right to use magic? If there is a race that is destined to be chosen, they would rather believe in their mother's choice."

Tiantis's words echoed slowly on the bridge, and the young man suddenly remembered Fei'er's melancholy mood and relieved eyes when she was telling the history of the ancient times in the Xugen Swamp. For a moment, he felt mixed emotions.

Even he is like this, not to mention Saint Shallia and others who are also the Girl Kings.

As victims of betrayal, the Order Kingship forgave humanity because it realized its own immaturity and felt that the Chaos Kingship's ideas were too extreme and would never succeed. The Chaos Kingship also forgave humanity for its own ideals, for the beautiful and equal world that Tiantis envisioned.

Same forgiveness, different original intentions, but the same complicated feelings.

Ugh.

The shepherdess sighed softly.

Fate is so tortuous that it is always unpredictable.

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)