Chapter 32 - The Blackness of Blood
Obsidian is a planet covered in deep black obsidian, and unlike the blue Earth, Obsidian is pitch black and almost as if it does not exist in the universe when there are no lights.
And this obsidian everywhere is said to have been coagulated by the blood of innocent people.
In Davion, the mage has the supreme position, and a mediocre mage can wave his hand and be worth half a day's hard work of ten able-bodied workers. Ordinary people have absolutely no capital to match the mage, so the mage is in an unshakable dominance.
And who can become a mage is not determined by itself, but by multiple dominant genes. It can be said that in Davian, a person's fate is decided long before he is born. Although the people were dissatisfied, they did not dare to directly confront the mage court. On the other hand, everyone hopes to give birth to a mage offspring to improve their status in life. The people of Davian live in this extremely unequal environment, with resentment and envy.
Although the Davians did not know what genes were, and did not have Mendel's pea experiments, they found that mages were more likely to give birth to mages, so that ordinary people had no chance of intermarrying mages and had to live at the bottom of society for generations. No matter which vassal state you are in, a mage who gives birth to an ordinary person will be ridiculed. However, there is a bloodier rule in Obsidian.
Once the mage is born into an ordinary person, the child will be immediately erased.
The average lifespan of ordinary people in Davion is about 100 Earth years, while mages can live up to 300 to 500 Earth years depending on their mana. But a child can't show the ability to use magical energy until he or she is ten years old. In Obsidian, the children born into the mage's family all tremble for fear of being wiped out at the age of ten. There are also many mages who have seen their siblings killed as children and become resentful, cruel, or ruthless.
Although such a cruel and bloody law is indeed coincidentally in line with the laws of heredity, the number of mages in the Obsidian Kingdom has not increased as a result, but has decreased. Because such a law caused a lot of civil strife, the number of mages lost in the civil strife was even higher.
"This is really a dystopian society......" Seeing this, Christina couldn't help but sigh.
Lena has planted spies in Davian's countries, and since Histasa is reluctant to reveal information, she has to let the spies risk passing on the information. It's not a risk for Lena, though......
With that in mind, Christina continued to read the information from Obsidian.
Under such a bloody system, the Obsidian Kingdom (specifically marked as a kingdom in the intelligence, because the current Obsidian Empire is already a unified dynasty that has unified the four kingdoms) has not received any significant development. On the contrary, it has increased a lot of public resentment, mainly from those low-level mages. Although low-level mages can also enjoy the aristocratic treatment of the mage class, in the eyes of the big nobles, that is, high-level mages, they are no different from commoners. They do the dirtiest and most tiring work of mages, and they are treated the worst among mages, but they are always in danger of being slaughtered by their children. If the high-level mages are indifferent to the lives of children because of their power and status, and have lost their basic love as animals, then the low-level mages still have a bit of a calf licking affection.
"Unite all forces that can be united...... "Christina remembered the famous words of a certain ancient man in the East." If you attack Davion, you can take advantage of the discontent of the low-level mages and civilians. ”
And now the Obsidian Empire, because it has unified the four kingdoms, so the entire Dawei Security Department is implementing this bloody system. No other kingdom has ever seen such cruelty provoke civil revolt. If this is the case, it is believed that the other three kings will not tolerate what the obsidian king does. If Earth can form an alliance with the Three Kings, then the losses will be much smaller.
"So the current situation is likely to become a situation where the three kings unite with the earth to besiege Obsidian...... "Christina has been a researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences, and she has studied military theory a little, and the enemy of her enemy is her friend.
"No, maybe they're all like Histaza, and they don't want Earth to meddle in their internal affairs......"
I don't want to think about this, it's good to leave these to Zhang Chuanlan and Bala, after all, she is the president of the Academy of Sciences, and she is not the commander-in-chief of the fleet. Although the titular commander-in-chief of the fleet, Marshall, is too untrustworthy.
"Good...... Let me take a look at Davion's technology. Christina yawned, rubbed her eyes, and continued to look at the dense information on the screen.
Davion's level of technology is equivalent to that of the Earth around the first year of the Common Era, but they can attach magic energy to cold weapons and transform them into magic weapons, and they don't know if they can penetrate the Earth's composite alloy armor.
Each kingdom has a different way of using magical energy. Obsidian mages are good at controlling rocky lands, Azure mages are fond of using ice and lightning and thunder, Yellow Sand mages are perfect at controlling sand, and Emerald mages seem to be good at creating illusions and creating spiritual connections.
"Hey, make no mistake. It seems that we are dealing with the enemies of a fantasy novel. Christina felt that she shouldn't be allowed to analyze the information as the head of the academy, and that she should find a way to see if she could resurrect Tolkien to solve these problems.
Such a thing cannot be solved by calculation. With such a vague description of "able to control earthquakes and even volcanic eruptions", who knows how much damage they can cause to the Earth fleet. If you give the initial velocity, the material of the warhead, the shape of the projectile, etc., Christina can easily calculate the damage capacity of the shell to various armors when used in various media. But with such a vague description of the strength of an individual's mana leading to the strength of an attack, she really didn't know how to estimate the damage.
"It would be nice to be able to give a standard value...... But we need a Davion Master to cooperate with our experiments......"
"By the way, if Histasa can cooperate......"
"Alas, she doesn't even want to tell us about Davian's customs, how can we expect her to cooperate with our experiments."
"I'll take a look, Ruby Mage, who is good at using fire and can transform into a dragon...... Hey, I see. Christina gave a wicked smile and called Shirley.
"Go and ask Lena and Histasa and ......talk to them," Christina whispered, and Shirley nodded.
"Dean, don't always deliberately create such a mysterious atmosphere, it's clear that there is nothing to keep secret." Shirley spit expressionlessly.
"Good! Go get them to the lab! Give them a try! I'm going to compare the damage of their spells! Obviously, it's not the first time Christina has been complained about like this, and she is a little annoyed.
"Yes...... It's ......," Shirley replied perfunctorily in a long voice, and slowly walked out of the office.
Note: Tolkien was the creator of the Tolkien system. The Lord of the Rings, World of Warcraft, etc. all belong to Tolkien's magical system.