Chapter 43: Equality
After this incident, Sigurt ushered in a quiet time.
The potion entrusted to Niusis caused a huge sensation in the upper circles of the royal capital, and sales soon bottomed out. As a result, Sigur has also harvested a large number of magic energy stones, which have various attributes.
The Magic Stone is a stone capable of storing occult energy, which is hidden deep underground, making it difficult to find. Many of the items made by the sorcerer, and even the refining of potions, require this mysterious stone, so it has been used as a trading currency in the occult circles.
Sigur selected the dark attribute magic energy stone and used the energy in it to try to repair the auxiliary devices in the body.
However, the later repairs don't seem to be so simple, this auxiliary system seems to have experienced some kind of catastrophe, many internal functions are blocked, and the energy required to repair is even more astronomical, at least in Sig's current magic stone.
Seeing that there was no hope of repair, Sig simply suspended for the time being, and then continued to study the ancient Bailun language.
As time passed, the thick book of classical language was opened page by page by Seeger, getting thinner and thinner.
It's just that the closer you get to the back, the more inexplicable the content of some of the words in it becomes, and Sig seems to understand it, and it is foggy.
What's worse is that these words are still the core words in the Bailun language, and if you can't understand these words, don't really want to understand the works written in Bailun language.
"Sure enough, it's always very difficult to study on your own. Sieg closed the book and sighed.
The next day, Sieg locked the door early and prepared to go out.
The door of Samuel next door was still locked, and the guy hadn't been back for three days.
Samuel's identity seems to be that of a private investigator, who has been commissioned by someone to investigate the mysterious events of the corpse of the woman in white that frequently occur at the corners of the mouth in Redbridge University.
The corpse of the woman in white gave Sieg a very strange feeling, especially the worm that came out of her belly, which was even a bit similar to the legendary black magic.
Dark witchcraft is another branch of occultism, and those who use them are called dark wizards. Unlike sorcerers who use their own bloodlines to pry into mysterious powers, these dark wizards use the mysterious and mysterious negative energy of nature to master strange abilities that are difficult for mortals to grasp.
However, because most of these people are evil and inhumane, they have been reduced to the dust of history before the end of the ancient era. Sig learned this when he was learning Baillen and looking at the history of that ancient empire.
However, in the last millennium, there has been a faint hint of revival of black witchcraft, and the mainstream of it is the madmen of the blood worship school.
The people of the Blood Worship School are willing to give up everything for power, and Sieg even feels that, to some extent, they have broken away from the human realm and become a mad creature in the pursuit of power and blood.
Sigurt didn't want to get into some unnecessary trouble, after all, he had enough trouble right now.
Stepping out of the small red building, Sig followed the roads on campus to the inner district, where Redbridge University students and faculty study.
Sieg prepares to meet with the professor that Fanny had recommended to him and ask him about the meaning of the last words of the ancient Bailon language.
It's late autumn, and the maple trees on both sides of the road are bright red as if on fire, and the scattered leaves on the ground are crushed in the dirt by the passing carriages.
The avenues on campus are quiet and there are fewer pedestrians. Despite having more than 50,000 faculty and students, Hongqiao University occupies a large area, so it is not crowded.
As he walked through a plaza, Sieg saw a crowd of students about his age standing under a statue carrying a large banner.
Many people passing by around were attracted to the past, and the crowd became more and more, so it was not lively.
Seeger noticed that the giant banner had a large line written in bright red letters: "Born with human rights, created equal." ”
His footsteps couldn't help but stop, and his eyes became sharp.
"It's the revolutionaries!" Sieg didn't expect them to be so rampant on campus, this is simply a slap in the face of the royal power, no wonder the Wilden family is preparing to rectify this place.
Under the giant banner, on a podium, a plainly dressed girl with a ponytail is telling the newcomers around her about her ideas and the origins of the idea of republicanism.
The students here are both commoners and aristocrats, and they are all attracted to each other and listen attentively.
"To the north of Blackcastle, there is a great nation called the Republic of the Great Eagle. There was no nobility, no royal power, and all were called citizens. Citizens have the right to vote and can decide for themselves who is the leader of the republic......" The pony-tailed girl had a beautiful voice, and she patiently told the students around her about her thoughts.
Most of the republican ideas of the kingdom now come from the Giant Eagle Republic in the north, which is a very powerful country and a beacon in the hearts of many revolutionary parties.
One of the purposes of Seeger's trip was to arrest the revolutionaries, but he did not do so. Seeger himself has no political affiliation, and has an indifferent attitude towards either the monarchy or the republic.
Curious, he followed.
The girl in the speech has pale skin, a small face, and a weak body, which always makes people can't help but have a hint of desire to protect.
"The so-called republic is to return power to the people, to completely eradicate those privileged classes, so that the sons of the poor and the sons of the nobility can have equal status......" Although the girl looked very weak, her eyes were bright, especially when talking about the idea of republicanism.
At this time, a student in the crowd couldn't help but ask, "Miss Daisy, are you saying that we commoners can get the same status as those noble lords?"
"Classmate, please remove the word "master" from your words just now. Daisy, who wore a ponytail, smiled and said, "All men are born equal, and when the gods created man, they all used the same materials. The reason why the aristocracy became aristocracy is because their ancestors once made great contributions to the country, which is certainly respectable, but this does not mean that they can be privileged forever. ”
The new students around were suddenly shocked, and the crowd began to whisper. Most of them had never heard of this kind of trendy thinking, and no one had ever dared to tell them that commoners could also stand with the nobility.
Sieg also found this kind of thinking very interesting, after all, he himself was not interested in aristocrats. He suddenly arose and began to ask, "Miss Daisy, since all men are created equal, what about those alien slaves in the New World, they are also flesh and blood intelligent races, should we give them freedom?"
On the New World, there are thousands of strange races, these races are very similar to mainland humans, although they have strange appearances and skin colors, and the degree of civilization development is far inferior to that of mainland humans, but this does not prevent the other party from indeed thinking and feeling humanoid species.
Since the discovery of the New World hundreds of years ago, many countries on the East Coast have set off a carve-up frenzy, establishing many colonies and trading companies there, and the exotic races of the New World have also been widely used as slaves and sold on the continent to perform labor with high mortality rates.
Miss Daisy was slightly stunned, she had never been asked such a question before. Because the people on the continent subconsciously don't regard those alien slaves as human beings.
"This question...... This is a bit premature. Daisy hesitated, then continued, "Isn't it ridiculous to talk about the human rights of alien slaves when we don't even realize the human rights of our own race." ”
Sieg frowned.
At this time, the surrounding students also laughed.
"Classmates, equality for all means people, if they are given freedom, what about cats and dogs?"
"Classmate, you have deliberately expanded the scope of the republic, and this only applies to us humans. ”
"Those xenomorph slaves, dirty and ignorant, you want them to stand with us and have the same status, oh my!"
“......”
People seemed to be laughed at by Sig's words, and the atmosphere became lively.
Sieg couldn't laugh.
He looked at the commoner students in front of him who were full of superiority and unwilling to be in the company of alien slaves, and he couldn't help but think of those nobles who also had a sense of superiority and disdained to be in the company of commoners.
Sieg shrugged his shoulders and quietly left.