Mage? Spell Engineer!

Richard forced a smile in response to Rorschach's "quip."

Bart also reacted and showed an incredulous look: "Is it possible that you don't want to stay in the alliance?"

"The Alliance? It's just a tool for the rebels and a small group of people to realize their ambitions." Richard shook his head: "Its banner is to end wars, but its method is to initiate wars; it wants to pursue equality and reform, but its initiators are all He is the son of a prominent noble. Even if the alliance is successful, the nobles are still in charge of the overall situation, but they have changed the direction on some matters. So, why do we need to let the empire and its people bleed? "

Bart showed an angry look: "Do you know what you are talking about? Do you know who is leading the alliance now?" Then he changed his expression and spread his hands towards Richard:

"Rick, you have become a general. If you come to the alliance, it is not impossible to be a marshal and lead all the troops. You should have seen the guys in the alliance. We have first-class artillery, the best assaulters, and airships." The much better air force just lacks a good general.

"If you come, we will definitely be able to conquer everything. Not to mention the empire's current territory, even unifying the continent of Ferallen will not be a problem!"

Richard's eyes wandered between the two former classmates, and then confided: "Libusi and I have experienced the turmoil initiated within the Imperial Army and have seen their wrong efforts. In the name of righteousness, they want to To overturn something, but in the end it just blindly creates killing and chaos.

"Now that the Empire and Valois have signed an armistice agreement and the war between the two countries has ended, then I remember that the full name of the alliance is the 'National Salvation Alliance', right? The crisis in the Empire has been resolved. Does this alliance still have any significance?"

"Are the crises and ills of the empire just because of external enemies? The real root lies within it! Valois is more advanced than the empire, so it can defeat it against the odds. The alliance is more advanced than the empire, so we should replace it. We, are Us!" Bart prepared to give a eloquent speech again, which was a skill he mastered better than casting spells.

However, his words were interrupted by Libus: "Who is 'we'? My father and I are certainly not, right? Then, my brother, the fool you manipulated as a puppet on a string, is considered 'us'?" As far as I know, the Byrne royal family"

Hey, little girl, don’t talk nonsense. Besides, you have to be as insane as His Highness the Second Prince. Rorschach stopped the unnecessary quarrel and asked Richard what he thought: "I, Bart, and the top leaders of the alliance all hope that you can join the alliance. As for whether you continue to be a general or come to the Mage Tower to study magic, it is your freedom. Now. , you are unwilling to join because of your doubts about the alliance, are you?"

"It's not that I'm unwilling to join, but that I'm unwilling to betray the empire. I'm not loyal to the emperor. You should be able to understand me."

"If you are willing to devote your life to the glory of the empire and its people, then isn't the stronger the empire, the better?"

"certainly."

"Now that you've looked at it, Byrne, is the Special Zone more powerful than the Empire? Are the people living in it better off than the rest of the Empire?"

"Rorschach, you are trying to be tricky." Richard pointed out the window: "Everything outside is amazing. You have brought incredible good lives to the residents here, but can this be universal? What I have seen There are magic circuits, alchemy equipment, and golems everywhere. There are many more apprentices and spellcasters on the streets than elsewhere.

"Can you guarantee that other regions can do the same? If you conquer the whole world according to Bart's words, and the whole world follows the living standards of the residents of the special zone, can the resources of the plane and your economic system afford it?

"If not, then for those people of the empire who cannot get a new life, will there be any difference between the rule from here and the rule in the imperial capital?

"If not, why make others go through war, pain and bloodshed again, just to fulfill their ambitions?"

These words choked both Bart and Amelia, and they were speechless for a moment.

Rorschach took a step forward and asked Richard to go out alone with him to talk. He pulled Richard to a door, leading to the Langster Space Center.

After pushing the door open, they entered a silver-white building. Here is another tower, its antenna part is used to send and receive signals, track and control the entire ladder system. Looking down from the top of the tower, there are three huge circular buildings with a diameter of forty meters below. They stand upright, one-third embedded in the ground, surrounded by complex pipelines, facing many tracks, and rows like "ribs" of multiple arches.

From time to time, the ring would briefly activate, and the portal would move in and out. Ground crews are like ants circling food a thousand times larger than their body size. They not only pull these things around, they also move them.

"You may have misunderstood Byrne and what I am doing." Rorschach calmly narrated: "Rick, you must think that the Special Zone is just an exception. Yes, its properties are somewhat similar to Valuana and the Imperial City. It is the 'best place' in a region, bringing together a large number of resources and talents. The results here cannot be a vision that can trick everyone into dying for it, because not everyone can be born in Valuvana, the Imperial Capital and the Special Zone."

"Before you said it, I didn't understand where my suspicion came from, but when you said it, I did think so. I have studied the Great Revolution, read books written by the Valois people, and talked with prisoners , and finally came to a terrible conclusion:

“The more you need to be saved and changed, the greater the price you pay, and the less you get in the end.”

"Let's not discuss the past, let's not talk about Valois anymore, just talk about the current situation." Rorschach looked at the space center: "Some things can't be said directly to Bart, otherwise he will definitely scold me.

"The Alliance will stop here, and it will coexist with the Empire."

"Why?"

"The National Salvation Alliance should have been destroyed. The people who initiated it were too naive, powerless, and inexperienced. The reason why it has developed to this day is the support of the Arcane Senate and the Guild. Their dissatisfaction with the Empire has accumulated to an irreconcilable point, and they want to completely overturn the table. What we want is not the current emperor to abdicate or turn into ashes, which is easy. What we want is an empire that will never produce an emperor again. "

Richard had an expression of "as expected": "No wonder Bart said he would beat you. So this "we" does not include him at all. You are now a member of the Senate, and I am a valuable object that can be used and needs to be won over, right?"

"Not this. Let's go back to the topic just now. The reason why the Senate changed its mind is because the end of the world is approaching. All signs indicate that the Mother Goddess is about to wake up. The information disclosed to the public now says that He is an evil god, but in fact, good and evil have no meaning to Him, and He is not bringing us destruction out of any moral standpoint.

"In the past, the guilds and the church misjudged His threat, thinking that He was an ordinary evil god. Today, when the gods are silent, no equal gods can compete with Him, but we may not be unable to fight if we unite.

"But with the subsequent outbreak of disasters around the world, the Gray Elves handed over their mythological books to us, and analyzed the legends of the Tuatha de Danu and many primitive pantheons, the Senate has determined His status.

"He has countless incarnations, is the founder of the ancient pantheon, is the breeder and terminator of all things, is the god above the gods, and is second only to the creator. After He created all spirits, He fell into hibernation, and when He woke up, it was the end and the beginning of the next cycle. In other words, if He wakes up completely, the destruction of the world is the destined ending."

In fact, these mythological compilations are just to eliminate the last fluke. Through the records of various races and different beliefs, it is proved that the brainless people in the underground cult are not bragging.

Richard had never come across such information before. Like most people, he had the same impression of the Earth Mother as an evil spirit among many gods. Now he was still a little bit unbelievable: "Then what's the point of what we do?"