Chapter 18: You Can Only Come Here, Not Beyond (5600)
"Brother, brother? That's not good."
Seeing his brother's smile, Elan rarely shuddered a little - it wasn't for Ian's expression, Ian looked good in everything.
What Elan is worried about is the attitude of the representative behind Ace's statement.
Even at the age of fourteen, with a group of the world's most talented and high-ranking people, Elam understands the meaning of 'politics' and 'negotiations'...... Ian sent Ace to the Flamelands, and no matter what Ace did, the nations would assume that it was Ian's will.
Elan originally thought that this was Ace's personal statement, afraid that his brother would take the blame, but now he looks at it...... Is this all Ian signaling?
But why?
Elan turned his head and looked at the screen.
Ace's accusation against the Light Controlling King is actually the accusation that most people in this world secretly make against the fourth and fifth energy levels in their hearts.
The better you live, the more meaningless the suffering of the past becomes. If it is really a lack of productivity, or some other reason, that people can only live like this, then all this is a microcosm of the times, and they cannot refute and are unwilling.
Can ...... now
Of course, even now, people will not really question it so much, because they also know very well that the current peace and happiness are also built on the fifth energy level, if they are annoyed, will there be such a life?
They underestimated the fifth energy level.
It used to be ability, now it's mentality.
The fifth energy level doesn't care about these things.
"Elan, I'm teaching you right now."
Ian sat aside and motioned for Ellan to take a closer look: "Can you refute Ace's words?" β
ββ¦β¦ I remember that Brother Ethan said that all the taxes of the empire were handed over to the empire, and the royal family did not take any of them. β
Elan was silent for a while, and then hesitated a little: "The fifth energy level of many countries actually does not use people's wealth for themselves. In turn, even themselves, in collecting the most important strategic resources of the country, those who are important. β
"It's like...... Brother, you're like this. It is the fifth energy level that sustains the state of humanity, not the other way around. Humans do not have a fifth energy level. β
Lowering his head slightly, Elan's voice lowered: "If it's to blame other people, I don't think it's a problem, after all, I don't know about other countries." But I was thinking that if the people of the Silver Peak Collar accused you like that, I would be angry. β
"Brother, Ace's questioning, is it really not counterproductive?" He said: "If the fifth energy level of some countries is as good to civilians as you are to your brother, it will only have the opposite effect, right? It's like a star...... The people of the Far Shore Island can respect her. β
"Not bad." Ian nodded slightly: "You remember very well - it's true, the fifth energy level of this world doesn't actually need people. Their families are sufficient in their own right to sustain themselves, and they are individuals and small collectives independent of human society. β
"Ace's accusations are completely questioned by 'ordinary people who don't know this'."
"That's why there's weight."
"Weight?" Looking at Elan's genuinely puzzled expression and listening to the other party's inquiry, Ian replied with a smile: "You will feel dissatisfied because you know." β
"I know it's shallow, but it's because I know."
"The fifth level will feel ridiculous, also because they know it."
"But here's the question, who else doesn't know?"
"The vast majority of ordinary people ......"
Elan said slowly, and then his eyes lit up: "The majority of the voters...... They don't know! β
"That's it."
Turning his head and continuing to look at the father and son facing each other in the light curtain, Ian said lightly, "So now, they should also know." Know the logic behind all this, the thinking of the fifth energy level, and the 'real truth' behind it. β
"Elan, my goal is a perpetual motion machine, not a legitimate accusation."
"I don't want to argue with them, I just need votes."
"As long as you want a perpetual motion machine, the fifth energy level needs to be explained. This does not allow them to be arrogant or disdainful, for they have desires in their hearts, and they have to ask for others. β
"So, they have to explain, explain why the fifth level doesn't need ordinary people, and then show that they don't need ordinary people, but they still protect sentient beingsβthat's where the fifth level of rule comes from. The 'love' in their hearts. β
"Brother, in that sense." Elan couldn't help but say: "The fifth energy level, it seems to be all, a good person?" β
"None of them are human, so how can they talk about good people?" Ian shook his head slightly, and sneered: "They all think they are higher beings, why do they force ordinary people to look at them from the eyes of humans? β
"Elan, your thinking is still limited to 'reasonable'."
"But in this world, there is no need to be reasonable."
"My purpose is not to belittle the morality of the fifth level at all, it makes no sense."
"My purpose is to get the 'great righteousness'."
"I, Ian Silverpeak, am unique in this world, different from other fifth-level and noble."
Staring at Ace in the light curtain, this 'missionary' of his own, Ian chuckled, "It doesn't matter if the fifth energy level needs ordinary people, whether they need to protect ordinary people or notβno matter how reasonable and normal they have done in the past. β
"They can indeed return to the state what they have received from the state, and even contribute to the maintenance of the state, to defend it against natural disasters and to shelter its citizens...... They did a good job, but apparently, not as good as me. β
"I'm better."
"I, Ian Silverpeak, have been kind to ordinary people since the beginning. Don't stop doing it because I'm weak, don't change because I'm strong. β
"Compared to me, all the fifth energy levels are not loved."
"Compared to me, all the fifth energy levels are flawed."
"The most important thing is not whether they love it or not β it doesn't matter at all. The important thing is that I am better than them, more loving, and without flaws. β
Elan was stunned for a moment.
He's smart and can sense that it's his brother trying to remind him, and he hopes he can learn some kind of 'way of thinking'...... It's just that he may have lived in a normal person for too long, and his thinking is too right, so he always has doubts.
So, Elan couldn't help but ask: "In this way, when this video spreads, all the fifth energy levels ...... Do you want to respond? β
"The fifth energy level will not lie about this kind of thing, and their hearts will not allow them to lie to weak ordinary people......"
"Therefore, they have to say that they don't care about ordinary people's true thoughts, and let your brother ...... Can you get more tickets? β
"Nope."
Ian shook his head: "They may explain, but they won't respond to these accusations." β
"Accusations are illusory, why respond? They are clearly for the perpetual motion machine, so they are willing to make ordinary people's lives better, this is the rules of the game of the star gods, they can't beat the perpetual motion machine and other people together, so they need to abide by the rules, they are willing to admit this. β
"And the people of their kingdom may even accept this explanation, and even love their leaders as much as Elam, you love me, because they know their leaders better."
"But they will also remember me, remember me, the Prophet of Silver Peak, who was different from the beginning, and know that if this world falls into my hands, they can live a better life."
"They won't reject me, that's what I want."
"Then brother, why did you do this?" Elan was really puzzled: "In this way, isn't it forcibly snatching tickets from the hands of the fifth energy level?" They will definitely be angry, and even work together to target you, brother! β
"Am I afraid of that?"
Ian asked rhetorically, "Isn't that what I want?" Elan, am I not a better person than those fifth energy levels? β
"They can not care what ordinary people think."
"I can also ignore what ordinary people think."
"Elam...... From the bottom of my heart, I don't care about how people in this world live, whether they have enough to eat, whether they can dress warmly, whether they have dreams and hopes. I don't care if they love or hate. β
"I'm just going to the heavens."
Looking up at the setting sun, Ian said slowly, "But I overcame my inner desires and instincts - I didn't do it. β
"This is where I am."
"In this world, it's not a 'reasonable' desire that others can admit. You have to be better than everyone else. β
"I'll teach you one more thing, Elan." Ian turned his head and said to his brother seriously, "If you want to defeat everyone in this world, you have to do what no one else can do. β
"If you want to dominate the world, you must do good things that no one in the world can imagine."
"To do something unprecedented, incredible, unimaginable."
"Be like me, do things that are beyond the norm, things that you can't dream of."
Elan Moran.
He was thinking, thinking with all his might, thinking about the context behind it all, his brother's true purpose.
He wasn't stupid, and the bright teenager quickly figured it out.
"If there is no perpetual motion machine." Elan said softly: "The fifth-level powerhouse doesn't care about the opinions of civilians at all. They don't care about all this, and it really has nothing to do with them. What they do can even be called the sheltering gods, against all the monsters and natural disasters, as well as the invasion of others. They've done enough well. β
"This is the 'jurisprudence' of rule, they are the well-deserved and irreplaceable kings and rulers of this world."
"But because there's a perpetual motion machine, and they want a perpetual motion machine, they have to do more. It is useless to be reasonable, you have to pay twice as much, so that people can feel 'love', just like how fair parents treat two children, both children will feel that the other is more favored and they are left out. β
"They were one step slower than their brother...... Brother stands on the high point of 'righteousness', and no one can be higher than you. β
"This is the real declaration of war - because brother, you have what they don't have, and it will indeed attract everyone on this continent to your rule."
"But this is Terra."
Raising his head, there was a glint in Elan's eyes, and he said to Ian seriously, "Brother, this is Terra. Reverence for the powerful and the strong Terra. β
"Ethereal righteousness can only bring potential advantages, as long as someone can defeat you and admit mistakes, they can also have such 'righteousness'!"
"Yes." Ian smiled, "The premise is, defeat me." β
"It's not me who challenges them to defeat, it's them who challenge mine."
"I'm standing on a high place, and they need to climb to the top of the mountain to be eligible to challenge me."
"Let's wait."
Ian widened the light curtain: "Soon, there will be the first challenger." β
"And, Elam. That's all I can say to you. β
The Prophet lowered his voice, closed his eyes, and whispered to his brother what he really thought: "The fifth level is originally derived from 'ordinary people'. β
"Sixteen hundred years ago, the sky fell. It was the forerunners who selflessly spread all the knowledge and passed it on to all people in every shelter. β
"At the time of the Lost Age, it was all the Terrans of the entire Sanctuary who selflessly contributed their all, pooled their technology, reorganized their resources, and created the 'original Fifth Energy Level'."
"At that time, was anyone selfish? Does anyone think that sheltering one's fellow citizens is a kind of giving? Does anyone think that when you become a fifth energy level, you become another more powerful existence? β
"Yes, the fifth energy level at that time, the survival time, may not be able to exceed forty-eight hours, and it cannot afford more than two battles. Everyone who is chosen is a victim of power. β
"But you think this is to choose a person to sacrifice him?"
"No...... At that time, the Terra people volunteered, and everyone wanted to die first, to bear the power enough to destroy themselves, and to fight against the enemies of civilization. β
"If you take a slow step, you don't usually perform well enough, and you are not respected, you can't afford this mortal sacrifice."
"And these original fifth energy levels, all dead. It took the death of one fifth level after another to defeat those alien gods, and the sacrifices of generation after generation laid the foundation of the new era. β
"All of the current Fifth Levels are nothing more than 'successful successors' built on the selfless sacrifices of the previous generation of Terra. They shelter sentient beings? This is their responsibility and obligation! Stabilize the data of the fifth-level bloodline, those technologies, those resources, are they all obtained by themselves? It's all the spoils of sacrifice from the ancestors! Their original source is the contribution of all the sanctuary people, all human beings! β
"Of course, they are chosen, and there are reasons why they are chosen, but if you have to say that only they can do it and sacrifice, it is nonsense. They are just the ones who got rich first, and because they don't have enough resources, they have to choose one to achieve and shelter everyone. β
"That's their obligation, not 'giving.'"
"Elan." Ian looked around the world, "I'm not going to say these things to anyone other than you. You have a backtracking horizon, you can see the real history of the past, but other people can't see it, they can only imagine it, so they ignore it. β
"These words are 'reasonable' but meaningless words."
"Sixteen hundred years later, there are countless ways to argue for it, and even if it's the 'true truth,' they will find many reasons to convince themselves."
"The origin of thousands of years ago is too far away from now, for those who have obtained the power of the fifth energy level because of their own bloodline, this is not an accusation, and they will not feel it, and even, some people will feel that this is a bondage, just like generations of sun god birds are desperate, almost crazy."
"It's useless to talk to them about obligations, only noble people feel guilty and reflective, and the vast majority of people just think, 'What does this have to do with me.'"
"Morality is useless, so I don't want morality, I just want the nominal 'righteousness'. It is a righteousness that makes them angry and angry, and if they do not act, they will lose. β
"And in the end, I will conquer it with strength."
"This is what Terra is today...... The most general jurisprudence. β
Elan silently wrote it down.
The debate in the light curtain continues.
[That's why you're spreading the fifth-level bloodline?] γ
The King of Light calmed down, he fully understood that this was the arrogant provocation of the Silver Peak Prophet - but he was not qualified to respond, he was only the fourth energy level, although it was already very high, but it could only look up to the fourth energy level.
He stared at his son and said in a deep voice, "Because the fifth energy level is the property of all mankind, you want to spread it so that everyone can get it? γ
"Or else? Father. β
Ace replied seriously: "Doesn't all the inequality in this world come from this? The powerful bloodline is more powerful than the low-level bloodline, and the soul light group is the insect type demonic beast that can suppress all the spiritual light system, just like a king ruling over the people. This kind of bloodline suppression makes it impossible for human beings to be equal even if they obtain the arcane path. β
"In that case, it's better for everyone to cultivate a similar and powerful fifth-level bloodline. Anyway, according to people's talents, the vast majority of people will be stuck in the first energy level, a small number of second energy levels, and only true geniuses can reach the third energy level. β
"There will be classes, there will be differences, but it will be much fairer than before."
"What's wrong with that?"
- The glory of the ancestors, the uniqueness of the family, you don't care at all!
The King of Light had a gloomy face, but he understood very well what the ancestors and family meant to Ace? He really didn't pour any love into his son, so why did the other party have any empathy for the family and himself, and what sense of honor did he have?
[This is my deserved retribution, I finally understand this sentence]
The Light Riding King let out a long breath, but he laughed instead: [Yes. Ace, you're welcome back. What you said is indeed right, the future right path of the arcane path seems to be to popularize the bloodline, so that people can judge the level of talent and effort.
[The fifth-level bloodline, since the emergence of the arcane path, is destined to be popularized one day. I never doubted this, but I didn't expect it to be so fast, that Yinfeng Prophet was so aggressive, I thought I looked down on him, but I didn't expect to underestimate him]
[But, Ace.] I can not question the arcane path, but you, I must question]
The Light King looked at the determined missionary, and he raised his hand and pointed to the 'heir' in front of him: [Ace Nemasas, Flame Land Eastward Campaign, Demon Legion Forward Lurker, Rank Major]
[You treasoned after being captured by Yinfeng Ling, causing heavy losses to the national strategy of the Flying Flame Land, and now you have returned to China without being pardoned]
At this moment, the light on the fingers of the Light Controlling King shone more and more, and his voice was as cold as ice: [Ace, you must die]
"No criticism of words is worse than criticism of force. That's right. β
Ace Nemasas laughed, and the succubus preacher raised his hand, grasped the core of his necklace, and then shouted before the light burst out from his father's hand, "My lord, save me!" β
As soon as these words came out, in the Bison Mountains, Elan saw his brother also point a finger in the air, and this light crossed the void, beyond time and space, and followed the vein where he could not see clearly, to the far side.
And Ace also saw that a white figure suddenly appeared in front of him, which made him feel extremely relieved, and the phantom also pointed forward, and the invisible and qualitative power came first, crushing the power in the hands of the King of Light, making him unstable and retreating dozens of steps.
And behind him, the terrifying power came out of his body, obliquely piercing into the sky, causing the clouds in the sunset to be stirred and turned into a huge colored vortex.
[What, what?! γ
Raising his head, the aether was surging all over his body, and he was almost stunned by the volley that randomly pointed at the air, disrupting the flow of the aether throughout his body, and the self-detonating heavy blow looked ahead in astonishment, the white phantom had dissipated, but he was still staring at the cyan glowing terminal on Ace's chest: [Volley, you can defeat me?!] γ
Then, he said furiously, "Ian Yinfeng, how dare you contribute to my Flying Flame Land?!] γ
[I judge the traitors of my own country, do I need you to put your beak in it?!] γ
But no one responded to him. The white figure has dissipated.
Only the remaining spiritual energy brilliance fluttered in the sky, leaving a trail in front of the King of Light, and he spoke silently.
- You can only come here, and you can't go over.
(End of chapter)