"That's right...... Of course, the lords who ruled the central region turned against each other, and for a long time, they did not even intermarry with each other. Eventually, however, one day, two of the lords' families entered into a political marriage for the first time, and as a result of this, a girl was born. It was a child with an angelic appearance, and she had the most dominant desire of all the Fluct Light that appeared under orld...... Her name is Quinnella Quinnella. ”

Cardinal's eyes, looking upwards, were clouded with a mist as if they were wandering in the distant past. The lights placed between the bookshelves surrounding the room flickered gently, casting complex shadows on the girl's snow-white cheeks. In the silence that was as clear as the sound of a steel needle falling to the ground, she continued her previous statement, and her calm voice was oozing with sadness.

"At that time, it was Cuñera's father, one of the lords, who assigned the vocation to the children of Santoria, which was no longer a small village and had the size of a small town. At the age of ten, Quinella has already shown amazing talent in swordsmanship, sacred arts, singing, weaving, and other aspects, and everyone thinks that she can do it beautifully no matter what position she is given. However, her father was reluctant to let the beautiful Quinella go to work in the town......" Cardinal smiled faintly, with a hint of pity.

"What a stupid attachment...... In order to keep Quenella within his reach at all times, he gave his daughter the vocation of practicing divine magic. In the boudoir deep in the mansion, Quinella uses her wisdom to begin her interpretation of the divine arts, that is, the commands of the system. Until then, the inhabitants of Under orld had merely memorized basic commands and used them, and no one had ever considered the meaning of the commands themselves. However, if you are just trying to live, this is enough. ”

Indeed, when he was still in Lulid's Village, Yugeo and the other villagers only called out the Window of Stysia in order to understand the Mandate of Heaven.

"And yet...... Instead, with her terrible patience and insight for children, Quinella began to study the meaning of the words chanted when using commands, such as "generate...... "element", ...... "object", strange otherworldly languages. Then, she finally wrote the technique of "Thermal Arro Arrow" from the basic commands used in daily life, and changed the system commands that were originally just a tool to make life more convenient, into an attack that can damage other living objects. - Yi Yan. ”

Suddenly called by his name, Lin Yiyan blinked coldly and looked at Cardinal's face.

"Can you understand why the level of your divine magic exercise, that is, the value of 'System Access Authority', has risen rapidly?"

"Ah...... Probably know. Because you've fought monsters, the goblin gangs in the caves, and fought them off. ”

"Well, exactly. In short, this world is inhabited by inhabitants fighting against foreign enemies who have invaded the territory, and constantly strengthening their own settings, although that is only after entering the load test stage...... In other words, the only way to increase your permission level is to defeat enemies or use spells constantly. At the age of eleven, Quinella discovered this pattern by herself. That's when she was in the forest near her home, trying to attack the harmless Golden-tailed Fox with a hot arrow......"

“…… In other words, doesn't the so-called "defeat of the opponent" have to be limited to the monsters of the Dark Country......? ”

"Hmm. The so-called "increase in experience points" will inevitably occur as long as active units, including humans, are destroyed. Of course, people in this world can't kill people, and most people don't kill harmless animals. However, people with strong aristocratic genetic factors are the exception. They hunt for fun, and unconsciously make their stats stronger as well...... However, the eleven-year-old Quinella went hunting with the clear intention of increasing her stats. ”

Cardinal paused at this point and sipped the cup of tea to his lips. Then she held the teacup in both hands and continued to whisper, "Realizing that killing animals can increase her divine magic rights, she sneaks out of the house every night and carries out horrific killings without telling her family and villagers. If the old body who was in charge of adjusting the balance of the world at the time had the consciousness she has now, she should have trembled at her behavior. She has no emotion...... No, even with a certain amount of pleasure every night to sweep away the beasts around Santoria. The reduced animal units are replenished back according to the system commands...... And they'll be wiped out again the next night......"

- Lin Yiyan, who is a VRMMO gamer, Lin Yiyan of the times, is like that girl in order to strengthen herself, repeating this "hunting" day and night. In Lin Yiyan's view, the so-called MMO should be like this.

However, now, hearing Cardinal's words, Lin Yiyan felt a chill behind him. In the dark night, the girl who wandered deep in the forest in her pajamas, and once she found the beast, she burned it to death without even frowning her eyebrows. If Lin Yiyan were to summarize such a picture in one word, Lin Yiyan could only think of the word "nightmare".

As if infected by Lin Yiyan's fear, Cardinal also clenched the teacup tightly with his small hands.

"Quenella's hierarchy of authority climbs endlessly. And her parsing of system commands is progressing gradually. Eventually, she mastered several techniques, including the restoration of the Mandate of Heaven and weather prediction, which seemed to the inhabitants of the time to be tantamount to miracles. At the same time, the inhabitants of Santoria, led by her father, began to believe that Quinera was the son of God and revered and worshipped her...... And the thirteen-year-old Quinella also has god-like beauty...... Behind the gentle smile, Quinella finally understands how to fully satisfy the bottomless desire for dominance in her heart. A much more effective and absolutely powerful means than lords gaining land ownership, or warriors practicing swordsmanship...... That is, to deceive the world in the name of God. ”

At this point, Cardinal's words suddenly stopped, and his gaze shifted to the atrium of the Great Library—or the real world above it.

"The greatest mistake of the people who created this world was to introduce the concept of God in order to illustrate the incredible power of the system's commands. In the eyes of the old man...... For human beings, the presence of God is simply the most effective anesthetic. No matter how severe the pain is, it can be healed by the gods, and no matter how cruel the sins, it can be forgiven by the gods. Fortunately, the emotionless old body can't hear God's voice......"

Cardinal's light brown eyes shifted his gaze back to the teacup at hand, and he tapped the pottery twice with the fingers of his left hand, and the almost empty cup was immediately filled with a warm liquid from nowhere.

"Up to this point, it's just a blind faith. However, if such a miracle is witnessed with one's own eyes, it must be interpreted as a favor from God. …… The man who had been injured while farming was immediately healed, and after witnessing the predictions she had made three days before the storm, no one doubted Quenella's words anymore. She told the lords, including her father, that there was a need for a place to pray to the gods in order to awaken more miraculous powers. Soon, a tower made of white marble was erected in the center of the village. At that time, the land area was still very small, and the height was only three stories...... Regardless, it was the prototype of the central cathedral and the beginning of the 300-year history of the Congregational Church. ”

Listening to the story of the original saint Quinella told by Cardinal, Lin Yiyan reflexively remembered another person. Although Lin Yiyan didn't know her, he had only heard about her from Eugeo and Serka - a young girl who had shown a talent for divine magic since she was a child, and was given the vocation of serving as a trainee nun in the church, Alice Bassbeck.

However, in Yugeo's description, Alice of Lulid Village is a young girl who treats everyone gently. At the same time, she is also the sister of that Serka. No matter how she thought about it, Lin Yiyan didn't think she would do such a thing as sneaking out of the house in the middle of the night and killing the beasts around her.

So, how did Alice improve her system login privileges?

Lin Yiyan's consciousness gradually sank into the abyss of doubt, but he was immediately pulled back by Cardinal's voice.

The inhabitants of the time, without exception, believed that Quinera was a shrine maiden blessed by the god Stysia, and would go to the White Tower every morning and evening to pray, and offer a portion of their harvest without hesitation. Among the lords who were not related to Quenella, there were also people who did not like her at first...... But Quinella even solved the problem. In the name of God, she bestows the title of knighthood on all lords and nobles. In the past, although there were still people among the ordinary peasants who were disgusted with the lord's plundering of the harvest, the other party was an authority recognized by the gods, and even if he was reluctant, he had to obey. After becoming a nobleman, the lords also decided that it was better to obey her than to oppose Quenella. ”

Cardinal clicked the teacup back into the saucer and stared straight at Lin Yiyan.

"It's quite lengthy, but that's why there's feudalism in Under orld."

"I see...... It is not a system created for the need to maintain law and order, but simply an identity system for domination...... ? In this way, it is natural that high-ranking nobles have no sense of responsibility as nobles. Hearing what Lin Yiyan said, Cardinal frowned and nodded.

"You must have seen with your own eyes what the great nobles and royalty were doing in their private domains. If it weren't for the taboo catalogue that forbade killing and harming, it's hard to imagine what hell the world would become. ”

“…… The one who created that taboo catalog was that Quenella, right? In other words, even she has the most basic moral heart...... Is that so? ”

"Hmph, is that really the case?" Cardinal let out a lovely snort from his nose, "—and though I've been thinking about it for years, I still haven't figured out why humans in this world can't break the rules of the authorities in their upper positions. At this point, even the old body is no exception. Although the Congregational Church is not the superior of the old body, so it does not need to be bound by the taboo list in the first place, it is not right that the old body should not violate many of the rules imposed on the Cardinal procedure. In fact, the old body locked himself up in this ghost place for hundreds of years, precisely because he was bound by orders that he could not disobey. ”

"Can't defy the rules of superiority...... This is no exception to Quenella, isn't it......? ”

"Exactly. Because the taboo catalogue was created by herself, she didn't have to be bound by those laws, but she still couldn't disobey the rules that she had been instilled by her elders when she was a child, and now she just added some new orders to it. Think about it, if her parents hadn't taught her that she couldn't hurt others, would she just be content with killing animals? I'm going to slaughter humans who can make them rise faster, right? ”

The cold hair on Lin Yiyan's back stood upside down again, and he forcibly endured the discomfort and spoke, "Hmm...... In other words, in this world, hurting others is a taboo that the "original four" has engraved into the children's consciousness from the beginning, and Quinella just made this clear and then added some other details...... Right? ”

On the face of it, it is. However, that guy definitely didn't want the world to be peaceful. - By the time she was in her twenties, Quenella's beauty was increasing day by day, and the towers she lived in were also building one floor at a time, and she had countless disciples under her. White pagodas similar to those in the central part of the country were erected in the villages, and the ruling organization of Quineira, which had begun to be officially named the Congregational Church, gradually became a rock-solid organization. However...... As the population did undoubtedly increase, so did the range of the people's habitation, and she began to feel uneasy when it finally expanded beyond Quenera's reach. In the land of the border, will there be people who have discovered the secret of the exercise of divine magic like himself? In order to be able to rule all human beings for sure, she made laws written in black and white. The first of these is to remain faithful to the Congregational Church, and the second is to prohibit murder. Why, thinkest you? ”

After a pause, Cardinal looked at Lin Yiyan quietly and continued, "--Because, of course, if you kill a person, the authority of the killer will rise. The Church forbids killing for that reason. There is no ethics, morality, or goodness in that law. ”

Feeling a slight impact, Lin Yiyan reflexively tried to argue, "But...... But weren't killing and injuring the first four moral taboos? Even if there is no requirement of the church, people still have such a basic ethical outlook, don't they? ”

But what if parents don't educate their children? Although the probability is very low, what happens to children who are born separated from their parents, that is, the original superior beings, and grow up without receiving moral education? If such a child has the genes of nobility, he may really follow his own desires and slaughter the humans around him, and eventually obtain a higher level of authority than Quenella. In order to minimize this possibility, Quenella compiled a book called the Forbidden Catalogue and distributed it to all towns and villages. At the same time, it has become the obligation of parents to educate their children to comply with the taboo list from the first page from the day they can understand speech. Listen, if you think that the human beings of this world are kind, industrious, and full of fraternity, it is only because this is the ideal state for the absolute ruling body of the Church. ”

"But...... But ......" Lin Yiyan shook his head desperately as if he was resisting what Cardinal said. In any case, Lin Yiyan didn't think that the people he saw in Lulide Village, met during the journey, and met in the Sword Cultivation Academy—Serka, Ronier, Tijie, and Soldilina's seniors...... and the respectable kindness and humanity of Eugeo, all of which are programmed to be enforced.

“…… That's not all the reason, is it? At least...... Isn't that part of Fluct Light that comes from the prototype? Isn't that kindness something inherited from our human souls at work......? ”

"Thou hast seen the counter-evidence of this." Cardinal's unexpected lines made Lin Yiyan blink two or three times.

"Huh......?"

"It's the goblins who are ruthless in trying to kill you and Eugeo. Do you think that they are mere program code? They are the product of the very opposite command to the prototype of Fluct Light that is the exact opposite of the taboo catalogue - that is, to make them kill, to plunder, and to follow their most primitive desires. Listen, they're human beings, human beings in a sense. ”

"......" Lin Yiyan was speechless.

In fact, Lin Yiyan did not fail to consider this possibility. More than two years ago, the monsters that confronted Lin Yiyan in the underground of the Ending Mountain Range, those goblins, the dialogue and movements were too natural, and they did not have the common procedural mechanical sense of monsters or NPCs in ordinary VRMMO games. Not to mention for the time being, the intense lust in their yellow eyes is definitely not something that can be expressed by simple texture mapping.

However, Lin Yiyan did not conclude that they were also humans with Fluct Light and accepted it. Although Lin Yiyan killed two goblins in order to save Yugeo and Serka......