Chapter 513: Fortunately, I am still there (in short, there is still a sixth update, please vote for me!)
——Standing on the top of the mountain.
The second prince's words echoed in Ian's ears.
——Standing on the top of the mountain, people are just like ants. You can't even see their existence at all, let alone their happiness and dreams.
——Standing on the top of the mountain, you can only see a city, a province, and an entire country.
——People who stand on the top of the mountain will become cold-blooded, and will ruin a group of present people for the sake of an untouchable future.
——As long as you stand on the top of the mountain, everyone is a tyrant.
Mikael originally thought that Ian would refute his slightly cold-blooded words, or nodded silently to express understanding - he could feel similar emotions, two complex and conflicting feelings echoing in Ian's heart, he
The heart light body can sense such fluctuations.
However, after a brief pause, Ian just asked with some confusion: "Is the top of the mountain in the imperial capital... very high?"
Ian was doubtful from the bottom of his heart.
The prince was stunned. He didn't know whether to laugh or sigh: "No. Indeed, the top of the mountain is not high, but if you go up, there is nothing."
"Everything that human beings can possess is above the earth. Any higher heights are meaningless."
--wrong.
Ian thought so.
——This is not right.
——There is a lot of meaning, obviously it is so vast.
Everything that humans have is definitely not just what can be seen on the top of the mountain... but also everything that can be seen when looking at the stars!
He could not deny that Mikael's words were reasonable to a certain extent on the continent of Terra, but the fifth energy level with such powerful power was still checking and balancing each other on the continent of Terra, as well as various people who had already reached the threshold of near-interstellar society.
This kind of technology should not have caused this land to become so dire.
They shouldn't use these technologies that can travel to the stars to kill each other, they shouldn't be so internally conflicted...
They can go further...
But soon, the white-haired boy understood, or in other words, recalled the reason.
He recalled that when he raised his head in the golden field, he saw a sky with few stars, dim and pitch-black, as terrifying as an abyss.
That piece of nothingness cannot inspire any romance, imagination or reverie in people, nor can it provide people with imagination, fascination and thinking.
There are no stars there.
Yes... Ian suddenly understood, he finally understood.
——The people of Terra... grew up in a world without stars.
They never look forward to or fantasize about the brilliance of the night sky.
They never wondered or thought about what was in the galaxy.
They simply don't think there is anything worth looking forward to and exploring.
People in this world...have lost the stars in their hearts.
Their highest point is just a mere mountain top.
That's all.
--so.
Ian thought.
——They are all prisoners wandering on the earth.
Therefore...all the powerful people in this world are checking and balancing each other, consuming all their power internally in vain.
unless……
——A sixth-level person appears.
This is what Mikael really wants to tell Ian when he comes to see him this time.
He encouraged Ian's ambition and agreed with Ian's wisdom, but told him in various euphemistic ways not to care about ordinary people.
No, that's not right.
There is extremely strong sadness deep in Mikael's heart. As he said, he once walked on the borders of the empire, saw the poorest people, and did anything an ordinary person would do - this
The prince who barely conceals his admiration for Inaga II, like his grandfather, longs for the happiness of all mankind.
He cares about people. Whether they are ordinary people or sublime beings, he cares about these lives.
Therefore, he understood... just making a few more bottles of potion, just developing some technologies, is nothing more than increasing some productivity that has long been surplus. Technology cannot change today's predicament.
For a world with the fifth energy level, for this land with extraordinary power, sublimated skills and spiritual energy, just productivity and some technology are completely meaningless.
Countries check and balance each other, and major forces rely on and fight with each other. They are like crabs in a barrel. No one can climb out alone.
There is obviously a way to make everyone in the world happy, and Terra has all the answers, but it is still because of people themselves that these answers cannot answer the question.
Only the pinnacle and most powerful sublimator can break this sad deadlock.
The black sun that is enough to suppress the entire world.
In Mikael's opinion, Ian's wisdom, even if it cannot reach the fifth level, can definitely accumulate nourishment and experience for future generations of descendants, so it must not be wasted - he wants to completely let the continent of Terra gain
To change, we must accumulate the path leading to the sixth energy level step by step.
Moreover, it's not just the empire. I'm afraid all other countries and major forces think the same way.
No matter who it is, no matter which path it is.
As long as there is... this bound land and the people imprisoned in the Starless Realm, they can move forward again.
After the second prince left, Ian was still sitting on the chair in the laboratory. His mood became a little heavy, but in the final analysis, the boy had actually thought about everything Mikael said to him.
The social problems here are countless times more complex and simpler than those on earth... because the essence of all problems ultimately comes back to the gap between ordinary people and sublime people.
And more fundamentally, human desires.
How to restrict human desires and maintain a huge order without being backlashed by it? This is an eternal topic.
"Indeed, now is not the time to use your identity as the first level of surface energy to fight against a behemoth like the Alchemy Group. Mikael's advice in this regard is correct. Let's change the research direction first."
Standing up, Ian prepared to continue counting the equipment in the laboratory: "I have to start planning for the territory. I have to think about the future development plan."
"Research on the Extreme Realm must also be put on the agenda. The sixth level...the teacher's conjecture is just a conjecture. Although it has indeed made me stronger, I am not yet completely sure that if I complete all of it, I can reach the third level.
Six energy levels.”
"The sixth energy level is definitely not as complicated as the five realms, but it is not as simple as just cultivating it."
Thinking of this, Ian closed his eyes, recorded a long list of schedules in the silver chip, and then smiled.
"Interesting, a wasteland waiting to be developed. This is the challenge."
The white-haired young man laughed and said: "Yes, how boring is such a world? The fifth-level powerhouses check and balance each other, and the major countries throw endless wealth and resources into the abyss of mutual confrontation and restriction. Pre-era civilization
The cutting-edge technology and the sublimation skills of Terra that have almost reached the threshold will gradually stagnate, and even a little development will destroy the civilization itself and drag the entire civilization system into the abyss."
"A world rotting in crisis and silence, a world where technology will in turn destroy civilization, a world without stars, a world where all human souls are bound by gravity."
"This world is really boring."
"Fortunately you have me."
He stood up, his eyes lit up with silver-blue fluorescence: "I really want to thank His Highness Mikael - he pointed out to me the real problem of this world."
"Not only the absolute power of the sixth level, but also the stars that reshape people's yearning in people's hearts - otherwise, no one will look up to the sky."
"It seems that I still have a lot of things to prepare before I really go back to my hometown to farm."
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6 updates! I finished writing the plot related to the second prince in one go. Please give me a monthly vote!
The real dilemma facing the world of Terra is revealed, but not all.
I believe everyone who reads this knows that I am not writing about any problems in modern society at all, nor do I reflect anyone. What I am writing about is the dilemma that a post-apocalyptic civilization may encounter in a science fiction setting.