78 Gods? Terminants?
Phantom art is to create a virtual illusion that is false and real, and use the caster's manipulation to deceive and reconnoitre. However, since Thrandis is only for explanation, then there is no need for the phantom to be so realistic, as long as it can speak.
Lin Dengwan contacted Thrandis as soon as he arrived, and asked her to teleport into the library as a phantom clone to explain and tell the truth to the people who were fooled and used. To make a revolution is not just to fight and kill and show off muscles, but also to mobilize the masses and let the masses know the true faces of these heavenly guys.
Artoria and the two monks who accompanied him were the first breakthrough point.
Thrandis, Nadeshiko, and Nagato led Valahar's rebellion for a long time, and they are well aware of the situation of the United Kingdom. As a shipwreck with the dual powers of the Light Templar and the Dark Templar, Thrandis even had the audacity to walk in the void to enter the Great Library of the Mountain Domain, secretly investigate the origin of the United Kingdom of God, and thoroughly figure out the ins and outs of the so-called "Kingdom of God".
Today, her knowledge comes in handy.
"Some of us have sublimated into gods? What do you mean? ”
As Artoria asked, Ebster and Luther raised their heads at the same time, and they were eager to acquire this theological knowledge.
"Ever heard of the Matthew Effect?"
"The Matthew effect? Do you mean polarization, where the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker? ”
The term was taught to her by Lindenwan, who occasionally gave his two students a little sociological knowledge in between teaching magic. The term Matthew Effect was coined by Artoria in Lindenvan's "Little Classroom in Sociology."
It seems that this Countess of Clamorgan is a good student.
"Yes, I used to think that the world with magic was happy, because magic is an all-powerful force that can quickly develop productivity and make the progress of civilization faster.
But now I've changed my mind, and there are pros and cons to everything. Wealth will always tend to be concentrated, which is unavoidable in any world, and in a world without magic, the people at the bottom can often break the old world by flipping the table and redistribute it. After all, no matter how much money a person has, no matter how powerful his strength is, his life is no longer than a bullet.
Of course, some socialist and reformist theories have also made a great contribution to avoiding social crises.
However, in the world of magic, everything can be solved by magic, and the power of magic makes the lower class people inherently weaker in terms of strength. And the crossroads at which man and God parted ways is a technique - soul transformation.
In the past, this technology was called 'intellectual domain expansion', and its principle is very complicated, so I won't go into details. But through it, the power of the human soul can be expanded hundreds of times. In the end, you can even break away from ** and become a 'godhead'. ”
"Do you mean...... 'Godhead' is 'artificial'?"
"Yes, it has the effect of making it easier for a 'person' to use magic and deconstruct the mysteries of runes more quickly. Although these "artificial gods" are not as powerful as the heroes who came later, they were revolutionary at the time. It is precisely because of this technology that magic has developed rapidly, and things such as the Plane Stone, the core core technology, and the construction of puppets have been developed after the 'Wisdom Domain Expansion'. ”
"This ...... This is a good thing, if everyone has this kind of strength, then wouldn't everything be solved? ”
"The problem is that 'intellectual domain expansion' consumes a lot of resources, and only those who can hold most of the resources in their hands have the spare energy to carry it out, and ordinary people can only sigh at it.
These technologies do not bring about the well-being of the public, but the establishment of the status of 'gods'. Because of the creation of the Construct Golem, the 'gods' were able to allow the Construct Golem to produce everything for themselves. Since there is no longer a need for artisans, peasants, and cleaners, it makes sense to kick out all the ordinary people in their own private domains.
According to the laws of the time, land, minerals, forests, knowledge, and all the resources you can think of could be privately owned, and thus a small kingdom of gods on earth was born. Those outside the kingdom of God do not even have access to any education other than literacy, because this knowledge has been bought out by the rich with money, and in order to learn, they have to go to the most expensive private colleges.
Although it is possible to buy books and learn on your own, when it comes to the attainment of magic, no matter how hard ordinary humans try, they cannot surpass those who have gone through the 'intellectual field expansion'.
In this way, the Matthew effect appears not only in possessions, but also in power and knowledge. The rich have become more learned and powerful, while the poor have become more ignorant and physically and mentally weak; The absolute solidification and segregation of classes thus took place at its root.
People who have become 'gods' are beginning to realize that they are no longer the same as everyone else, or even the same species anymore. They don't want to live with these foolish creatures anymore, and they don't even want to share the lake, the air, and the rain with them. In their view, the exhaust fumes emitted by those shudras would drift in the wind and pollute the clean air in their own territory. Those ragged and ignorant Shudras would damage their eyes even if they appeared in sight.
Because of this, the great magic was activated, and the earth was torn apart and separated; Thousands of small divine kingdoms were lifted up and combined with each other to form the current upper and middle realms. And the physical plane is the mortal world, the plane you come from. This event is known in the records of the 'gods' as 'Sen Luo Ascension'. ”
"How could it be ......?"
It turns out that they are just a bunch of losers abandoned on the ground, just a bunch of luthers who have lost even the value of exploitation. But what shocked her even more was yet to come.
But it didn't end there. After the 'sublimation of Senluo', the kingdom of God is not completely ignorant of the material realm. The Plane Stone is the main energy source of each plane, and it is also the economic foundation of Heaven and each 'Kingdom of God'.
Its outer shell is a completely solidified magical energy that can no longer be used directly. And under the thick shell, there is a semi-liquid active magic energy that can still be used. Well...... In terms of structure, it is somewhat like an egg, with an inedible shell wrapped in a nutritious egg white yolk.
The so-called core core is nothing more than an empty shell of a plane stone that has been drained of energy, and it can be regarded as the residue of burning magic.
But even this kind of empty shell is also a treasure with spatial attributes. As the high concentration of magic continued, the small space collapsed and expanded to accommodate all the magical energy. After the magic energy cup was drawn, a space similar to Sumeru mustard seeds was formed.
What's even more powerful is that the core, that is, the thoroughly solidified magic shell, still has unique properties. If you carve the inside of it according to certain rules, it can have many other effects: for example, the metal is arranged in a certain order. ”
"Poetry of Forging! Demon Armor!? ”
Hearing this, Artoria shouted out in a gaffe, she knew what was going on with the casting process of the magic armor like a dancing god.
"Yes, in fact, inside the core core, the 'suppliers' of each core core, I mean the 'gods' of the various kingdoms of gods, have long carved fixed patterns. The Forge Verse only activates some of the patterns. ”
This process is a bit like FPGA programming, the core core is the chip, and the various gate structure circuits in it have already been set up, and the craftsmen are actually using the FPGA language to select and connect these 'gate structure elements'. "Of course, since it is the magic pattern etched by the gods, it is naturally up to them to determine what can and cannot equip us. We don't have bargaining power, unless, we can master the etching technique ourselves.
The topic is a bit off the beaten track, and now we return to the previous question; After the establishment of the United Kingdom of God, the gods discovered a new problem, that is, the mining of plane stones would destroy the beautiful environment of the Kingdom of God, and the intelligence of the self-discipline puppets no longer satisfied them, and they could only receive some rigid instructions. For example, the standard command to stop the construction golem from working is "Stop", so the golem will not understand the command to say "stop" or "stop it".
Soon, however, there was a lowest-cost option for these two issues - the Shudras. ”
"This ...... How can these two be related......"
As soon as Artoria was halfway through his words, he thought of the believers who were working in the plane stone mines, the altars that all the major sects had, the only tribute that the gods asked for was the plane stones, the towers of Babel that guided souls, and the "heavenly years" of ordinary people who were sixty years old.
Thrandis's foreshadowing made it all together, and she looked at the two monks in confusion, only to find that Ebster and Luther had the same expressions.
"Yes, the solution is religion. Let religion spread, and let the Shudras, who have fallen back into the dark ages, believe in God. In this way, the believers will not pollute the 'heaven' where the gods are located by mining the plane stones of the material realm, and in this way, the souls of the believers will be able to reach the 'good' heaven they yearn for.
There, the souls of the believers will be 'sublimated', washed away from memories and emotions, and poured into the core core to make the 'soul core'. As long as these soul cores are used as the logical center of the construction puppet, the problem of rigid construction instructions can be completely solved.
After the age of sixty, the human body is already aging, and the soul is also beginning to age. The sluggishness of the mind in this world is not only due to the brain not being able to keep up, but also the exhaustion of the soul. For the gods, a tired soul not only affects the quality of work, but also reduces the lifespan.
In short, harvesting before the age of sixty will give you a logical center that satisfies the gods.
As for blood sacrifices, they are forbidden, because it is extremely difficult to cleanse the soul full of resentment, and it can even lead to a violent escape. And the children's faith is not strong, so it is easy to get rid of the moth. For the purpose of safe production, blood sacrifices have been banned. However, the immature souls that have passed through the blood sacrifice are very powerful, and they are very suitable for making 'soul bombs'. But this weapon of mass destruction is also on the list of prohibited goods.
In order to prevent the Shudras from developing a new magical civilization to compete with them, all in-depth research on runes was forbidden. Core cores and magic armor can only be used to fight each other forever, and any attempt to develop productivity on a large scale will be strangled by unscrupulous means, as is the case with Gru, who died nine years ago.
By oppressing the living and the dead, the heavenly kingdom of the gods will be happy forever! My soldiers, they don't fight to survive, they just want to fight for the right to die for themselves and for others. This kingdom of heaven is built on the wailing of all beings who cannot die! ”
PS: This chapter is slightly bigger......