The sword is not destined to prevail against the pen.

This is the idea that Roland had articulated to him when he was a student in Alfheim, an anthropologist.

The former knight-apprentice had lost his mentor, reputation, status, and freedom during the elves' occupation of Agen Toraton, and was ready to reach the end of his life in a labor camp. Later, due to policy adjustments, in order to demonstrate "tolerance", "co-prosperity and coexistence", and "differentiated justice", people like him who can read and write were given priority amnesty, and were allowed to study at national universities and teach to human students (who were also selected) in order to set an example. Because of his life experience, values, and moral problems, this gentleman didn't buy it much, and on the other hand, Stacy didn't care about him as long as he didn't oppose the government and the consuls. As a result, Roland was one of his many students and one of the high hopes of spreading "heresy" about the democratic republic in college.

The sword was destined to outperform the pen—one of the most important of the scholar's many thoughts, and one that Roland had embraced in its entirety.

Perhaps violence can succeed for a while, and bloody and brutal killings can silence opposition for a while, but just as the storm will pass, the sun will rise after the long night, and tyranny will come to an end. No amount of violence can contain people's minds, and beneath the surface of stability and peace, people's discontent and anger will accumulate energy like lava under the rock, and one day the monstrous anger will erupt like a volcano, burning all the evil and injustice that weighs on the people's heads.

Roland was convinced of this, even now.

Indeed, under normal conditions, no matter how powerful an empire is, it will eventually fall into decline after a long period of time. No one and no country can escape this historical cycle.

However, that is under normal conditions, or rather, it is limited to the fact that the dominant class is still within the constraints of common sense and limits.

Siegfried Otto Lelin, the omniscient and all-powerful agent of divine will, is not among them.

Transcending human common sense and wisdom, and even transcending time, reigning on the long river of history, after seeing the results and ends of countless choices, avoiding all kinds of mispaths and mistakes, making absolutely correct choices, and guiding the world to a set shape.

Li Lin has a lot of time to complete this work slowly, compared to "eternity", the life of an individual, the history of the human race, seems too short.

Therefore, he will definitely choose to boil frogs in warm water to dissipate the enthusiasm and edges of people's hearts little by little.

If ten years is not enough, it will be 20 years, if 20 years is not enough, it will be 50 years, and if 50 years is not enough, it will be 100 years, 200 years, 300 years, or even 1,000 years. After a long time when even the rocks will be weathered into sand and eventually reduced to ashes, who will remember or know how to live outside the Empire and obey the choices and ways of thinking outside the Empire?

To be the enemy of the omniscient and all-powerful is such a desperate thing.

Roland knows very well that Li Lin doesn't really care whether this deal is agreed to or not. For him, this is just a small detail that is not even a pleasure, and success is gratifying, and there is no need to care about failure.

"The result is the same anyway. ”

Roland looked at the smiling face without pupils, and said coldly:

"That's what you're talking about, I guess that's what you say. Indeed, acceptance or rejection are just sides of the same coin, different paths to the same end in your plan, and the same result will inevitably be achieved in the end. So you don't care what I'm going to do, all you have to do is make adjustments to the details of my answers to make sure the plan goes smoothly. But ah, all-knowing and all-powerful power, you may be underestimating humanity too much. ”

It is true that human beings often make mistakes and do things that are extremely stupid. Many times it can even feel incorrigible.

But even so.

Not giving up the dignity of being a human being, being reserved as a human being, not succumbing to malice and persecution, and showing the pride of being a human being until death.

There are people like that.

"You just watch, just look at it condescendingly, interpret everything with formulas and data, and judge the value of people with the dichotomy of 'useful' and 'useless'. Turning a blind eye to all the precious and beautiful things, or simply treating them as useless burdens. That's why you're pushing for the development and deployment of the Legion, not only to strengthen the Empire's armed forces, but also to exempt more people from military service and servitude, to paralyze the people through charity, and to cut off the 'unnecessary' part of their psyche little by little. You can't see anything, human dignity, love, possibility, tenderness......"

"Even such a gentle person can do things that hurt or even destroy others. ”

The lazy teasing cut off Roland's indignation, and in the face of the sneer with a bit of pity, Roland was speechless for a while.

"Now that I've said that, I'd like to ask. ”

The fluid metal that mimics the organage is questionable.

"Now, Roland. What is the basis for your assertion that human beings should be treated as human beings, and who determines what kind of human beings should be treated?"

"Of course it'......"

"It's the humans themselves. ”

Man is the head of living beings, the darling chosen by God, and the existence that distinguishes him from beasts and livestock.

This is a popular opinion among human countries, and it can also be said to be basic common sense.

If there is only one intelligent creature in this world, this can indeed be true, but there are other intelligent species in this land besides humans, and in their opinion, human beings are nothing more than unilateral self-talk, and they themselves are the chosen people chosen by the Mother God.

"The orcs believe that humans are nothing more than failures, and the dwarves believe that humans are made from the leftover residues of the mother goddess when she created all things, and as for the elves...... I don't think I need to say more. As a result, all races except humanity itself considered humanity to be inferior to themselves, and according to the democratic principle of the minority obeying the majority, the status of fourth-class citizens granted by the empire to mankind was entirely justified. Of course, you could say that empires are not democracies, and that applying democratic principles is a conceptual substitution and sophistry. So how about we look at it from the perspective of being the steward of the world? As a divine agent, I can tell you clearly. As a large and restless race, the only right thing to do is to ensure the safety of the world and other races, and to prevent humanity itself from self-extinction. ”

Raising the corners of his mouth, Li Lin said gently:

"Understand, this is not oppression and oppression, but protection, so to speak, this is love. ”