Chapter 397: The King's Proof
"Sir Li, do you want to eat something, but it's only a starch paste with a cooking packet. How about blueberries and tomato sauce?"
"What kind of disgusting way to eat it, is the orange smell of preservatives not enough? There's chili curry powder."
"I'm sorry, it looks like I've run out of other cooking kits, only blueberries and grapes."
Well, after all, the heavy flavor seasoning package is in the folk black market, but it is as precious as currency......
"Forget it, just fry it dry and add more salt."
So the whirlpool chef stir-fried for a while, Li Pan and Ludwich took the plate and made a meal, and found a place to sit down in the whirlpool help canteen. Crush the vitamin tablets, mix them with flavorings, and stir them in the sautéed potato paste.
After all, everyone is a partner of the legion, and of course it's okay to have a meal in the cafeteria. However, the taste of this elf prince is also quite heavy, and the highly concentrated seasoned blueberry powder stirred the plate of paste into black, and Li Pan felt a disgusting sweetness in front of him.
Ludwich doesn't care, look at the spice packet,
"Vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates...... The nutrients are quite sufficient.
Although you are a food desert and full of industrial pre-products, you can fully meet the physical needs of high-intensity work, and you have a real sense of satiety, and you can feed a large number of people at almost zero cost, thanks to these free food distributions, you don't need to think about supplies."
"Let me first state that these things are just raw materials, specially for the poor who do not have social security, and there are still serious pre-made dishes in restaurants in the city."
Li Pan was so angry that he chewed the mashed potatoes,
"You thin-skinned and tender-skinned, you also look like a pampered prince and nobleman, are you used to eating?"
"When you are hungry, you have something to fill your stomach, and what is not satisfied."
Ludevich chewed slowly, elegantly spooning his meal.
"And your Excellency guessed wrong, I'm not a big deal.
Although I was born into a royal family and was fortunate enough to be educated from an early age, I was born with a genetic defect, my magic power was much lower than that of my kind, I had almost no talent to become a magician, I was short and thin, and in the eyes of the elves, I was born with a disability. There is also this particular hair color and eye color, which is even less pleasing in the culture of the elves, and is seen as a symbol of 'ugly, evil, and ominous'.
Because of my existence, the royal family has been criticized, and political opponents have spread rumors in the court that I am a product of Noai, an inferior half-elf, in order to insult the honor of the queen mother. Therefore, I was naturally alienated from the royal family and discriminated against by my fellow clansmen, and so far I have not been recognized as a royal family, and I have almost been raised by the people......
Li Pan frowned and interrupted him,
"Hey, what are you doing first? I'm here to help you take that squid stem, why are you talking all this nonsense to me? Do you want to do it? If I don't do it, I'll go if I'm full?"
"Thanks to Your Excellency Lee's help, I am really grateful for being willing to act as an internal response to our army. However, as the front-line commander of the legion, I can't take your word for it, and rush to mobilize the whole army and follow you to attack the guardian of the gate."
Ludevich elegantly straightened his forehead bangs,
"And although Your Excellency has become a partner, we still don't know each other, and we can't cooperate to exert our combat power. Therefore, I believe that it is necessary to form a bond of comradeship through appropriate social interaction before the war, to reach empathy and consensus. Don't get me wrong, it's not for you personally, it's for all the companions who join, and I will make friends with them and get to know my teammates, which is the duty of a leader.
Of course, I understand that the difference between races also exists objectively, and I also know that although I am an outlier in the race, the elves are too beautiful and elegant, and it is inevitable that some people will be ashamed of themselves and not be able to let go, so please don't feel inferior, everyone is honest with each other, and speak freely."
Li Pan squinted at him,
"Oh, it's going to be a plot, isn't it...... So you were your mom and something?"
Ludevich broke the defense with grace,
"That's a rumor! It's slander! Although the probability of genetic mutation is low, it is also a normal natural phenomenon, okay? At the end of the day, elves are just a possibility for human evolution, and the next link, I can only be regarded as an atavistic at best!"
Li Pan, "Don't get excited, this is not the first time I've seen a living elf, it's just curiosity. So can you really interbreed with people? And what about other non-humans? Goblins, for example?"
Ludevich looked at him, took a deep breath and regained his elegance,
"Yes, although human settlements have been scattered in different star systems since the split of the Legion, and different ecosystems and civilizations have developed, it hasn't been too long.
In fact, most human subspecies have not yet reached the threshold of reproductive isolation, and there is still the possibility of interbreeding, but because of genetic diseases, the offspring are not easy to survive.
And...... In fact, in Elven language, 'goblin' refers to indigenous humans like you, who have not achieved glorious evolution, decay and mutation, and are genetically inferior.
After all, you see, compared to the elves, you are short, ugly, weak, and have a bad personality, savage, lustful, stupid, greedy, and discredited......
That's why some people insult me as a 'Goblin Prince.'"
Li Pan, "Hey, the prejudice part doesn't need to be described in such detail......
"Legionnaire, here's the garbage truck, here's a list of recyclables."
At this time, an explosive-headed vortex girl came over with a list, scanning His Royal Highness the Prince with a red light flashing with her prosthetic eyes, and took a selfie.
Ludevich took the report, glanced at it, smiled and nodded,
"Thank you, Jana, for your great help. Trouble to the N9 storehouse."
"Yes, that's what I'm supposed to do!"
The girl with the explosive head was very excited, as if the fans of star-chasing were trembling with excitement.
Li Pan looked at him,
"You're very popular, Goblin Prince. Obviously so weak, he actually became the commander of the legion, did he use that magic electric eye to sweep around?"
"You say this 'Eye of the King'? Your Excellency is also proficient in magic, but I'm not very good at it. It is precisely because I am weak that I can only hide behind the scenes, do some management and calculations, and assist everyone in their work."
Ludevich took out the terminal at the dining table, typed the list on the keyboard, and chatted.
"As for the 'King's Eye', this is the magic of the magic eye that is secretly passed down by the Avalon royal family, and it is also a talent magic that can only be awakened by the orthodox royal bloodline, so I said that I am not a wild hybrid.
It's just that I'm very unlucky, and the awakening is the absolute domination magic called the 'King's Proof.' This is a secret method that can make servants absolutely obedient, and is considered a symbol of the Mandate of Heaven.
As a first-class magic eye, the 'King's Eye' has a high political status in the civilization of the Elven Empire, but it was inherited by a concubine like me, whose bloodline has deteriorated.
And my magic power is already lower than that of my kind, and it is consumed by this magic eye, so this 'king's eye' is just a pure burden and chicken ribs for me.
Due to the lack of magic, the pair is far purer than my blood, years
Older elves, this magic is useless, and it is purely superfluous to bully those races that have no magic patience. And the real masters all have extremely strong willpower, and in the battle of life and death, these small spells can not interfere at all.
It is for this reason that I am increasingly disgusted by the royal family, and is considered to have tarnished the 'proof of the king'."
Li Pan filled another pot of mashed potatoes,
"So you came to the City of Night alone to prove that you have lived up to the expectations of the bloodline? A true king?"
Ludevich confessed,
"There is indeed a consideration in this regard, after all, you can not care about other people's gossip, but as a son of man, who wants to see a mother show a disappointed expression towards him.
But to be honest, if it weren't for the fact that I lost the possibility of becoming a magician because of this 'King's Talent', I probably wouldn't have given up the way of magic and concentrated on studying those Ancient Legion technologies."
Ludevich turned the terminal around and pointed to the blueprint on the screen,
"Let's get down to business, it's simplified
The Starlink communicator, in the era of the Ancient Legion, was used to communicate with low-Earth orbital celestial bodies as a ground antenna, and an all-in-one machine that received and emitted gravitational waves.
Because the whales that are now roaming the Star Sea have also evolved organs similar to gravitational wave communication, in the Elven Empire, this ancient device is used to communicate with the Star Sea whale group.
Now that the company has seized the Sword Stone, it plans to summon a whale swarm, or something. We can sabotage the company's plans by doing the opposite, building communicators, and warning the Star Whale of the dangers of this universe."
Li Pan was stunned,
"It's that simple...... No, you are all exposed, and you are not reckless to seize the sword stone by force? What if the device doesn't work?"
Ludevich is quite confident,
"Now that the Legion has lost a lot of combat power, it's not the time to start a war with the Guardian of the Gate, and I estimate that this time the company will immediately hold a summoning ceremony, the Vortex Gang is still training, and the Legion has not yet taken shape, so I'm afraid it's too late to launch a surprise attack.
Although this device is ancient but reliable, in the elven world, it has always used gravitational waves to call the starry sea whales, like a lighthouse to guide them, so that the whales form a periodic cruise between the world trees, using the whales as cargo ships, and closely connecting the various star worlds.
In exchange, we will also have the whales lay eggs under the World Tree to protect their young until a new colony is formed. You can understand it as a symbiosis of civilizations."
Li Pan doubted,
"Coexistence...... Can different intelligent races really coexist?"
Ludevich shrugged, "It's man-made. It is true that there are pirates who can hunt whales, but maintaining communication between civilizations is much more important than the resources on the star whales, so the various races have been working together to fight the whalers."
Li Pan looked at him,
"I don't mean the fish."
Ludevich also understood what he meant, thought for a moment and replied,
"In the early stages of conflict and war, casualties are inevitable, but whether it is vicious competition or benign interaction, as long as we maintain communication, we will find a way to coexist sooner or later.
As you can see, our legion is not a single race, and we didn't choose to coexist peacefully and work together from the beginning. In the past, we fought and fought for limited resources and living space, but in the end, we reached a consensus and achieved peace, and we came here hand in hand, right?"
"But that kind of so-called peace, only because you are too weak, just rookies pecking at each other, no one can destroy who is still wasting resources in vain, and the benefits are too low, so there is no compromise to be reached, isn't it?"
Li Pan put the magic meter next to the notebook,
"Those magicians may not be able to understand it, but the Goblin Prince, you know science, you should know how big the gap is between the Legion and Pangu, right? Do you really think that this little trick can overturn Pangu?
As you can see, this outdated MIMR and the recycling resources from the garbage dump are enough to easily recreate the ancient technology of the legion and arm a group of scum into an army.
Do you know how many such production lines there are in the sky? I tell you, orbitplant, like the stars in the sky! I can't count them!
The company can literally grind your civilization into mustard powder, and sweep away the scum!
Under this gap in absolute power, what is the need for the strong to respect and coexist peacefully with the weak?
If it were you, would you coexist with the meat on the plate? Will you talk to the bugs under your feet on an equal footing?"
Ludevich was silent for a moment,
"I can guess what the company's leadership will do, after all, according to your logic, the weak have no choice, do they?
However, I can only say that if I had won, I would have chosen to live with the weak."
Li Pan smiled,
"It's better to say than to sing, Your Majesty, probably only a stinky boy like you would believe that humans still have good intentions."
Ludevich shook his head,
"I'm serious, don't look at my appearance young and thin, but I'm an elf anyway
I have spent two hundred years so far, and I have been married twice."
Li Pan was shocked, "Damn! No, if you're an elf, you're not an adult at two hundred years old, right? Aren't you breaking the law?"
Ludevich smiled bitterly,
"It's true that the royal family doesn't allow it, but because my fellow people think I'm ugly, my two wives are goblins, well, uncivilized indigenous human races, so there's no law.
Of course, compared to the elves, they can indeed be said to be dying in the twilight of life, as weak as insects."
Li Pan snorted coldly,
"So what do you want to say, because you are a natural outlier, so you have compassion for the same weak?
So if you lead the Legion to victory and the Legion completes the conquest, can you spare the inferior goblins on Earth and work towards multi-racial coexistence?"
"Can't you...... I mean...... At least I never thought they were bugs......
Ludevich's eyes wandered for a moment, as if he was caught in a memory, and muttered,
"You know, the Queen Mother never wanted me to compete for the throne, and my people had better go as far as I could, and never appear in the eyes of the royal court.
So I grew up living away from the canopy of the royal court and in the roots of the big trees, well, this kind of slum or something, and made my wives there.
It was a short time, but I can still remember the moments I spent living with them. That memory, that feeling, is definitely not a fake, fabricated thing for me.
Although the world is small and the reality is cruel, people can really understand each other and live together.
We humans are not born apex predators. We were once weak creatures. I
Isn't it because of hugging each other and working together that we can survive the cruel natural world?
The elven royal family that is high above, although I can no longer see the living beings under my feet, I am different from them.
I can see that everyone is real, and they are all real people living in the world......
Everyone wants to live, everyone has feelings, how many crazy people in this world have to destroy everything? The vast majority are actually ordinary people with blood and tears, aren't they?
This universe is so big, even whales can soar freely!
Ancient human beings are so great, our footprints are all over this galaxy!
So far, mankind has created so many miracles and built an incomparably splendid civilization!
And human beings ...... The time of human beings is so short, it is really like a meteor, and it is fleeting when it is full of brilliance......
Really, all the happiness, all the bits and pieces, will pass in the blink of an eye, why waste precious time, cannibalism, killing more than once?
Why can't everyone live happily in front of them? Isn't that what everyone expected? So isn't it strange in the world now?
Just because of the greed, fear and suspicion of a few madmen! Do you want to destroy everything you have, all those fleeting beauty!
Burn up all the fertile earth! Knock down all the stars in the sky! I don't want that world!"
Ludevich slammed his fist on the table, and the surrounding whirlpool gang looked over, and the restaurant was silent.
"I...... I want, I want to build a world where even my wives can live with a smile.
Even if it's just a fleeting peace, I want to create a world like that.
Because I'm not weak! Because I have the ability! For the king should lead them forward! Towards the world that everyone wants! That's the duty of a leader!
It's not hiding behind! Command others to die for their stupid and ridiculous desires and fears!
Even if I'm weak now, I have a lifetime to try! Go to failure! Go for it!
Even if it may be only a temporary success, if only a false peace can be achieved! That's enough!
Because for people who are weaker than me, that short period of peace may be a lifetime that they can spend happily with a smile......
Li Pan was silent for a while,
"Unexpectedly, you kid is serious...... Did you really get sick in the brain when you came out of the womb......
Ludwich looked at the magic meter,
"Do you really think it's a disease to expect a peaceful world, maybe, it doesn't matter.
We are a legion far from home and on the way home,
We have the same blood flowing in our veins as the ancient ancestors who stepped into the sea of stars without hesitation.
When we leave our hometown, we all have the consciousness that we will die on the way."
Then he looked at Li Pan and stretched out his hand, there was no magic gathering in the king's eyes, but there seemed to be a strange flame, shining,
"Li Dalang, you want to be an eagle dog under the company for a lifetime.
Or join us in changing the world!"
Li Pan was stunned and sighed,
"Fool...... Okay, let's get in."
So Li Pan held his hand, and then before Ludevich smiled, the elf prince was suddenly stunned.
He saw behind the ninja, the eight-armed bodhisattva, emerge from the underworld, and wrapped his hands and feet down, protecting himself at the core.
Then in the sky, three stars broke through the clouds and shone in mid-air, radiating brilliant brilliance.
Endless proton nuclei bloomed, burning the sky red and the earth bloody.
In just an instant, everything was destroyed by the hot wind that was boiling at overpressure.
So the little bugs with determination and expectation burned to ashes in front of Ludevich's eyes.
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