Zongman: Beginning with the Killer Queen

Inside the Key of All Spirits, there is a scene like a lantern coming on, and the bonded spirits with different postures are like lost pearls wandering in this world sea.

Although he was locked and unable to move, he still fought tenaciously, and brilliant light escaped from the inside.

Roland's eyes narrowed slightly, and at such an important moment, his expression became much more solemn.

A confused person who has no path will not be able to go very far if he blindly relies on the bonded spirit to improve his strength. However, giving up the advantages of the bonded spirit is a more shallow idea.

Even for Roland, who is in perfect condition, the spirit has a guaranteed function that brings new possibilities, let alone now.

The matter of extracting new bonded spirits is very important to him.

And the reason is very simple.

"I am too weak now."

When facing Aleister, Roland admitted this fact himself.

This is really not his Versailles, or trying to bury Aleister.

So weak that it makes people pitiful, this is Roland's feeling from the bottom of his heart.

After using the locking phase as an anchor point, the dream on the throne can be regarded as invading the world, barely allowing Roland to escape from the immobility dilemma, and also having a starting point for starting over in the human realm.

With the help of the power of the phase, Roland's strength did not show any significant decline.

But after all, the source of this power is the dream that has been severely damaged and has no vitality at all.

It's like a car with severely damaged parts. Although it still retains its general shape and can still drive, its speed and performance seem to be stuck there.

Roland's purpose was to pour in the fuel called possibility for propulsion, so that the car would reach the peak of its phase, where it would be refitted and put on the road again.

But to do this, he had to face a real problem.

Although this car called Bit can still run, it essentially fills an empty fuel tank with a large amount of water, and uses the difference in density between the two to suck up the residue underneath and use it to move forward.

This is a very high-risk behavior, and it is okay to drive Roland alone on the road.

But when it comes to recording the new scenery around you, leading the traffic and passengers behind, and even opening up new roads, it is powerless to gain a lot of possibilities and fill your own means.

After all, Roland's person is still a dream in nature.

There are many people in history who have had an epiphany due to dreams and changed their past completely, but the number of such people cannot be called large in any case.

No matter how bizarre the dream is, it will be gradually forgotten under the pressure of reality and become a corner of memories.

In other worlds, Roland wouldn't mind challenging Cthulhu to put you in a dream, and let the entire history and world process sink with the interference of dreams.

But after seeing the devil, he gave up this idea.

As long as the table is not turned over, for the devil, it is probably just a dream.

Therefore, Roland's only choice is to stay in the human realm and regroup with the possibility of small but sure changes, just like boiling a frog in warm water.

Waiting for the little things to add up, then take action in one fell swoop to complete a drastic change that even the demons did not expect.

Before this power reaches a certain scale, Roland not only has to guard against the prying eyes of the demon gods, but he also has to be more cautious.

It can be seen from the temple of Aleister that the reason why he lives in solitary life is on the one hand because he wants to guard against the devil, and on the other hand, it is not a compromise.

"At the pinnacle of people like Aleister, it would be fine if there are only one or two, but if there are more than one, with my current physical strength, there is still a risk of falling short."

Roland frowned. This body, whose personality serves as the base point, was evaluated by Aleister as the ultimate creature even without any systematic training.

But in Roland's own opinion, without using the phase, his physical strength is probably between the top and the extraordinary heroic spirits.

Although special attributes such as magic power are almost at full level, it is difficult to feel at ease with only the power of phase as a trump card.

Therefore, after reaching an agreement with Aleister, the first thing Roland had to do was to quickly realize his body's potential.

What's interesting is that Roland's own accumulated realms and the pure power flow that can be withdrawn from the phase at any time. Under this premise, he doesn't need to care about the longest process in the conventional path to becoming stronger.

What really needs to make him interested is... choice.

"So, what kind of power system should we choose?" Roland pondered.

There is already a field of knowledge on the Tree of Life. In the process of becoming a human being, many details of the forbidden world are still unfamiliar to him. However, in terms of public perception, Roland also gained the knowledge when the heroic spirit was summoned. , the Holy Grail gives them that level of modern information.

On the surface, the forbidden world is divided into the science side and the magic side.

Needless to say, the reliability of the magic side is natural. The strength of the Demon God who has taken a wrong path is astonishing to Roland. It is a completely royal path.

Relying on the magic knowledge accumulated from other worlds, taking the magic side of the road will make you advance at a speed of thousands of miles.

"But in this case, it is undoubtedly twice as much starting from scratch."

Roland sighed softly.

This tempting choice made him think about it for a long time.

But the more he thought about it, the more he noticed its shortcomings.

The first is accumulation. The overlapping phases of the forbidden world are a prison for the devil, but for the magicians in it, they are simply an inexhaustible source of power.

Theoretically speaking, every magician uses magic once, which is the result of the dual power of the physical phase on the surface and the religious phase to which they belong.

Roland's magic is special, but essentially it only has a single output port of the surface material phase.

It's enough to deal with weak magicians. Roland's output frequency is enough to cover this gap. But when facing a strong person who is also the top, and is dragged into a protracted battle or a high-frequency battle, this shortcoming may be exposed. .

To fully utilize this power, it is best to construct a corresponding religious aspect.

But this goes against Roland's idea of ​​turning his power into reality.

Moreover, even if he was very confident in himself, Roland would not be too confident in front of the devil who had exhausted all his magic.

For them, spells such as air magic may indeed be able to kill them at first sight.

Considering that the demon gods are all familiar with the original demon scriptures in various fields, and then use the ultimate knowledge of this knowledge to give birth to people with new paths.

This kind of magic from another world can only be regarded as strange, not correct.

Regardless of the devil, the magic that has existed in this world is easy for Aleister, who has traveled in the abyss, to find ways to restrain and deal with it.

What's more, this evil-minded bastard created the framework of modern Western magic in his own way, which greatly reduced the difficulty of getting started with magic.

Because of its universality, this framework that everyone can use has spread to the entire world, almost completely replacing the previous ways of using magic.

If magicians in the future want to create new religious aspects, in order to gather the power of faith, they must use Aleister's system to gather people.

As the creator of this theory, Aleister is naturally aware of the many backdoors and loopholes in this framework.

Therefore, even if there were any emerging schools of thought in the magic world while he was locked in the jar, as long as they were within the constraints of this framework, they would not be able to harm him at all.

Because of this naked conspiracy, Roland really didn't want to wade into the muddy waters on the magic side.

But compared to the magic side, the science side is not much better.

The end of science is theology.

In other worlds, this might just be a meaningless sigh, but in the forbidden world, it accidentally touched the truth.

Because the so-called scientific side is a concept artificially separated by Aleister using magic means.

The entire Academy City is essentially a replica of religious facilities such as monasteries and churches.

The perfect circular border that is isolated from the outside world, forms a system of its own, and achieves a certain degree of internal circulation of the social structure, which is proof of this theory.

The only difference between it and the windowless building was its size.

It's just that the building is to seal off the outside world, and Academy City is to influence the outside world.

For the outside world, they care more about superpowers, a path that only exists in fantasy, than Academy City's technological level that is decades ahead.

But as far as the information Roland gained was concerned, the so-called superpowers and magic came to the same end by different routes.

They are both essentially ways of interpreting the world.

Those who have the qualifications to explore the mysterious magic are those who have talents.

In the past, Roland also had such misunderstandings.

But starting from Dicuo, this idea began to gradually waver.

Because there are too many naturally strong people in this world.

Speaking more broadly, there is a god like Artosh who is invincible at birth, and a princess like Aige who can freely modify the script.

On a smaller scale, there are also the Virus Queen like Mana who controls the materialization of the soul, and the great youkai like Yakumo Murasaki who has mastered the realm without any effort.

The same is true for Xingyue, whom Roland is most familiar with. Even in the age of gods where strong men emerged in large numbers, gods who linked the roots were also born.

These people are the real talents.

Those who must rely on magic as a tool to achieve supernatural phenomena are beings without talents.

Yes, this path requires luck, will, and understanding, but it is much less difficult than allowing people to acquire talents.

Although the strong ones are often trapped by their natural strength and are unable to move forward, allowing the Demonic Path to catch up, this incident cannot change the gap in talent between the two sides.

Compared with magicians who need to learn, chant, use a series of methods, and even create religious aspects to interfere with reality, people with talents can freely interfere with the original aspects based on their personal reality in their hearts, and it will not cause phase distortion. Such a burden.

Using Xingyue as an analogy, superpowers are an alternative inherent barrier that does not use magic. They are the same type as the abilities that Roland imagined.

Aleister discovered this and gave those talents the title of "Rough Stone", calling this path superpower development.

He used his acquired efforts to understand the opportunities of this path, and then announced the path of seeking truth other than magic as another option, allowing Academy City to rise rapidly and become a behemoth that could not be ignored.

After all, the fact that the original magic was to imitate superpowers has long been forgotten in history.

The changes of the times, the desire of the people, and the ignorance of magicians, these factors jointly contributed to the birth of a faith called the scientific side.

It's just that compared to the additional religious phase that needs to be superimposed on the world, the ability user only needs the original physical phase to exist to use power.

This disparity furthered the world's obsession with a new religion called the scientific side.

It has become a consensus among everyone that magic and science are opposites.

"Should I say he is worthy of Aleister?" Roland said with some emotion.

To be honest, Aleister's plan was quite perfect.

He has read all the back and forward paths on the magic side, and cut off all the back paths. Except for the demon god, who has transcended the level, all magicians are in Aleister's pool.

Even if there are talented and gifted beings who resolutely devote themselves to science, they cannot affect this outcome.

Roland could see clearly that the being named Aiwass was the most basic angel in a world built purely by physical laws.

In other words, a master on the right path.

The term angel seems completely unscientific, but if you think about it carefully, you will know that since the original religious phase can be created based on basic physical laws, it can be seen that it is one of the phenomena allowed by the physical phase.

If you only follow the path of science, you will definitely not be able to defeat Aiwass.

This is a world that has been stipulated by Aleister. No matter what kind of accident occurs, the world will inevitably converge on the same line.

Aleister was afraid of Roland's unknown, and Roland was also worried about Aleister's ability.

Even in my current opinion, Aleister has almost achieved the ultimate.

Although he has not been able to see the follow-up to the original work, based on his current intuition, even without his own interference, Roland feels that Aleister's plan has a high probability of success.

Therefore, it is even more important to take precautions.

Roland knows better than anyone else that the best way to maintain trust is to not give others a chance to betray him from the beginning.

Anyway, no matter whether it is the magic side or the technology side, it will inevitably leave room for Aleister to interfere, so it is better to prevent it from the beginning.

"There is no other way. Although this guy is a bit dangerous, from a certain perspective, this may be the most suitable spirit for my needs and the most suitable for Academy City."

Roland said softly as if he had made up his mind.

He smiled slightly at the sea of ​​bonded spirits in front of him, and then stretched out his hand.

Although it is said to be extraction, Roland now has the authority to choose spirits below his own level.

As for the aspect that transcends magic and science at the same time, and also conforms to the style of Academy City, it seems to be very demanding, but after screening, the answer is actually surprisingly simple.

The so-called science side and magic side are just artificially defined paths.

In this case, just go straight to the essence and look for an existence that fits this literal meaning.

And Aleister had already written the name of this existence on the title.

In other words...a real superpower.

So, Roland held the gentle white light without hesitation.

"——The Contracted Spirit [Emperor of the Earth·Evil Bai Wunan]"