Everyone in the room knew that what was going to happen was going to be a very heated discussion, and their attitude towards 'magic', or 'knowledge', made it impossible for them to be easily persuaded by the other party.

Even listening calmly to the other party's explanations and analyzing the problem rationally is quite a luxury.

Neither Gregory nor Calvin thought they could do such a thing easily, let alone the great nobles?

The gap in their way of thinking separates them from the two sides of the strait, and even if they look at each other from afar, they may not be able to see what the other side is thinking, and what kind of thinking has gone through to arrive at such a result.

The great aristocracy allowed some knowledge to be opened, just as the Church of Radiance and the Church of Knowledge are doing now, and these two churches are carrying out literacy education that will not know when it will end, which can shake the rule of the former aristocracy, but will not have any impact on the current political system of the empire, which has been transformed, but this kind of literacy education will allow them to gain a foothold in the new era, why not?

They had a long-term vision than the small and minor aristocracy, and instead of stopping the two churches, they would even try to promote the development of education.

But here's the problem -

The great nobles will not object to the spread of basic knowledge, but the knowledge of 'magic' and 'mechanics' must be in their hands, once it spreads, it will trigger a series of chain reactions, they don't know what will eventually lead to, until then, they will not allow uncontrolled things to appear within their control!

The mages of the empire can no longer take the two paths of 'battlefield mage' or 'R&D department member', but no matter what, no matter what path the mage takes, they need to obey the command of their superiors, and no 'wild mage' is allowed, and only one mage organization is allowed to exist in the empire, and that is the empire itself!

At this point, Calvin and the great aristocracy have an 'ideological' conflict - the contradiction between the great aristocracy, who represents the old social class thinking, and Calvin, who represents the magical thinking of the new age, is not just a difference of opinion.

From cognition to way of thinking, they can be said to be two diametrically opposed people, and it stands to reason that they can never get along peacefully.

"A few noble knights!" Calvin frowned, "I think I've made it clear before, the next will be the era of magic machines, with our current situation, there is already a distance between the Duchy of Sorrow and the Kurkut Empire, if we can't catch up, we will be left behind by them in the next era, and gradually lose our status - I think I have made it very clear before!"

"Lord Calvin, it's your business to develop the appropriate technology. A big nobleman crossed his chin with his hands, his face calm and composed, "What's more, didn't we allow you to set up an academy before?"

Hearing this, Calvin was furious.

With this sentence, you can know that he has never understood the relevant affairs, and he will not dismiss them before he knows about them...... He really didn't know what to say, but luckily there was a 'round table' going on, and he and they had plenty of time to 'listen' to him.

However, at this moment, Gregory suddenly stood up and said indifferently: "I think that you knights may not know enough about the upcoming 'Age of Magical Energy', just like the mobile phones you have in your hands now, in some time in the future, perhaps because of the emergence of a certain technology, the manufacturing cost of 'mobile phones' will be greatly reduced, and it will be possible to achieve the level of one person, can you imagine what that era will be like?" This is just one example, and I can even imagine that in the future, perhaps not far away, we will be able to have a 'fully automatic' production line, whether it is weaving or forging, we can carry out automatic production without human operation, and you also have a 'factory', you should know how much steel a factory can make in a day, how many weapons and clothes can be produced - the 'backwardness' in this era may not be the same as the 'backwardness' we previously knew!"

"If we say that the 'backwardness' of the past was only the backwardness of the country's military strength and wealth, then can you imagine the difference between the combat effectiveness of an ordinary soldier after he has a rifle and after he has artillery? From the day I sent the 'communication satellite' into the sky, I have understood that mankind has already possessed the technology of looking down on the earth from a high altitude, and in the future, there may be 'over-the-horizon' weapons and equipment that can carry out long-range precision strikes. In such an era, who can imagine what the future will be?"

Gregory's words made the faces of the captains change suddenly, and the nobles may not know what this concept is, but they can understand it.

'Over-the-horizon' long-range precision strike weapons – this weapon sounds scary, and if this weapon can appear, then a lot of things that cannot be used can be used there.

Just as they didn't dare to use poison gas to strike at the monsters of the Black Forest for fear of hurting themselves, the same goes for white phosphorus shells, they wouldn't be able to use this weapon unless it was necessary.

But if that 'over-the-horizon' weapon is really developed, then many 'unconventional weapons' can be included in the scope of 'conventional'.

"Gregory boy, what does this have to do with the restriction of opening up knowledge of 'magic'?

Not long after Gregory's words fell, one of the regimental commanders asked the question noisily, slamming his fist on the table, his hair scratching with the other, his brow furrowed, and he was puzzled.

The nobles looked at each other and frowned, but they all chose to remain silent for the time being, they also wanted to know the connection between them.

Gregory took a breath, glanced down at his left hand, and then took off his gloves and showed his all-metal hands.

"I'm sure you've all heard of it, I had lost control of my limbs before, and with Calvin's help I had them fitted, and for that I paid for my left eye, but at the same time, I gained great strength— In order to provide the strength to move my limbs, I am still wearing an inner armor, the nerves in my eyes are connected to the mechanical structure, and I rely on magic and nerve currents to transmit information, in order to prevent my body from being eroded by magic, I am still receiving physical improvements, which means that even if I don't have my current limbs, I can be stronger than a veteran of adventurers......"

No one knew why Gregory was mentioning this, but they chose to continue to listen quietly.

"And until now, our empire has not been able to make this level of transformation!" Gregory calmly recounted as he put on his gloves again, "Now this kind of technology has appeared in the empire because of 'communication', because the head maid launched magazines such as 'Star Sea Monthly' and 'Magic', and exchanges between major mage organizations have begun, and our empire is naturally no exception. Staying complacent will only slow down our development, and no matter how much we educate our students, we are already inferior to other mage organizations in terms of 'researchers'. ”

"Because there is no 'wild mage', there will be no 'wild mage discovers a certain phenomenon or invents a certain technology and turns it over to the organization', and the mages and mechanics who are in the same vein as us have already been marked in the process of learning, and their thinking will be like ours, and it will be difficult to find another way to find another way to solve the problem. ”

"In the past, we were able to solve problems because they were all within our knowledge, and we only needed to use our own knowledge to solve them, but in the future, we can't guarantee ......"

There was a kind of tranquility hidden in Gregory's bland words, and after thinking of what he had said before, he felt even more creepy in being a crowd.

- They can't believe what will happen in the future if the empire ceases to be 'number one in the world'!