Chapter 501: The Age of No Magic
[In fact, at the beginning of its birth, our universe was the same as yours. It was full of magic and all civilizations in the universe were under the management of gods. 】
Winster began to tell Owen about the buried ancient history of their universe that he discovered during his investigation.
The reason why magic disappeared later was because a major revolution broke out in a very developed magic civilization a long time ago.
The people at the bottom who had been oppressed for a long time rose up in rebellion and made huge sacrifices to successfully overthrow the magical ruling class.
In order to prevent the elite with magic power from returning to power, the people at the bottom who finally became the masters of the country ordered a complete ban on the research of magic power, magic and magic stone technology, and completely gave up the use of magic power, a convenient resource.
Since then, this civilization has embarked on a different development path.
The science and technology of the entire society has achieved rapid and huge development, transforming from the original magical civilization into an advanced scientific and technological civilization.
And this civilization is the oldest civilization that Winster mentioned before - the Noahic civilization.
Some people may ask, why didn't the gods stop the major revolution of Noah's civilization?
The reason is actually very simple. The responsibility of gods is to control the number of civilizations in the universe and keep them within a reasonable range.
As long as it is within the specified time, civilization has the right to develop independently, and gods will not actively interfere with the development process of civilization.
Unless the civilization encounters a major crisis within a specified period of time and is in a precarious state and is about to perish prematurely, the gods will have no choice but to help it tide over the difficulties.
At that time, Noah's civilization was still within a specified period of time. The overthrow of the magical ruling class by the people at the bottom was just a change of political power. There was no need for the gods to stop that major revolution.
What's more, there are so many civilizations in the universe, and gods don't have the energy to understand each civilization in detail.
For a civilization within a specified period of time, the gods usually only take a quick glance at it to confirm that the civilization is not in danger of extinction, and then go to check on the next civilization.
Only when a civilization enters the countdown to its demise, the gods will pay a little more attention, use magic power to create a large number of monsters to attack everywhere, and watch indifferently as the civilization goes to destruction step by step.
In this way, Noah's civilization went further and further on the development path of science and technology until it entered a countdown to extinction.
A large group of monsters of unknown origin suddenly appeared in various places, wreaking havoc everywhere and attacking the Noah people.
Fortunately, the Noah civilization mastered advanced science and technology and quickly annihilated the group of monsters of unknown origin. However, not long after, monsters with greater numbers and stronger combat effectiveness appeared in various places.
At the beginning, Noah's civilization couldn't figure out where those monsters came from? Why did they appear endlessly in various places and attack them.
After destroying waves of monsters, Noah's civilization finally discovered that the gods were responsible for all this.
Unwilling to perish, Noah's civilization decided to rise up against the gods and seize its own destiny.
Ever since, the Noah civilization formulated a plan to destroy the gods, gathering all the top scientists to resist the monsters while secretly developing super weapons that can kill the gods.
Emperor Tian paid off. With its strong scientific and technological strength, Noah's civilization successfully developed and manufactured a super weapon, and then used it to severely damage the gods, causing them to fall into a permanent sleep state, and the magic that filled the universe also disappeared.
Since then, Winster's universe has entered a magic-free era.
Of course, it's not a good thing when the magic in the universe suddenly disappears.
Because magic has always existed since the birth of the universe, it has been completely integrated into this universe, and everything in the universe is more or less connected to magic.
Give a simple example——
Pegasus does not simply rely on its wings to fly, but requires the use of magic power to take off smoothly. After the magic power disappears, Pegasus will no longer be able to fly. Monsters like this that are highly dependent on magic power will face the crisis of extinction.
In other words, after the magic disappears, all civilizations in the universe will encounter a sudden catastrophe and be forced to adapt to the next era without magic.
This is almost a devastating blow to the vast magical civilization.
Only the Noah civilization, which had given up its magic power long ago, managed to survive the catastrophe with ease and became the only super civilization in the universe.
In an age without magic, science and technology are the only options for the development of all civilizations.
Due to the loss of the control of gods, the number of civilizations in the universe has indeed become out of control.
In order to ensure their own survival needs, each civilization is aggressively expanding outwards. The civilization that was born first suppresses the civilization that was born later, and the technologically advanced civilization bullies the technologically backward civilization. The entire universe falls into a chaos of competition between you and me.
Seeing this situation, the Noah civilization that caused this phenomenon had to take action and summoned all known civilizations to form a joint cosmic will to jointly build a standardized cosmic order system, which continues to this day.
But this does not solve the fundamental problem. After all, the total amount of matter in the universe remains unchanged and cannot support the survival needs of an increasing number of civilizations.
On the surface, the civilizations in the universe seem to be getting along very peacefully, but in fact they just don't want to offend the Noah civilization.
Secretly, there are still many civilizations that have been born after discovery. They will not take the initiative to report them to the will of the United Universe. Instead, they will use various shady means to quietly erase their existence to avoid the emergence of strong competitors in the future.
United Universe Will has a special statistics on the number of civilizations born since then, and its statistical graph curve is in an obvious downward trend.
Needless to say, there must be some civilization that secretly attacks the civilization that was born later, without reporting it to the public.
Noah's civilization also knew it very well and turned a blind eye to this matter.
Hearing this, Owen suddenly found a question and asked it aloud in his mind.
[Wait a minute, your universe has suppressed post-born civilizations so hard, how did your civilization avoid destruction and develop to this day, Winster? 】
[This is a good question, please listen to me slowly...]
Winster told Owen that since there are so many civilizations in the universe, and each civilization is different, there must be a truly peace-loving civilization.
Otherwise, who reported the discovered post-birth civilization to the will of the United Universe?
The civilization on Earth where Winster lives is very lucky. It was discovered by a peace-loving civilization and then blocked by them.
This is actually a kind of protection to avoid being discovered by other warlike civilizations and then being destroyed.
Until the technology of the earth's civilization develops to the point where it can break the shield and blockade on its own, it proves that the civilization already has the means of self-defense, and other civilizations will not dare to take action easily.
Chapter completed!