Now she has learned a small part of the history that they have discovered through the "history" stored in the Tower of Babel.
For example, the first mage war in 868 swept the world and created a brilliant mage civilization - with dragons as kings and emperors, elves as powerful ministers and princes, and many mage towers rising from the ground.
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Many different religions that were previously scattered around the world also adhered to, supported, and united each other after the war, and established a unity called "Church". Only on Sogo Island can you still barely see those "old religions".
The shadow of the existence of "Japanese religion".
—The old gods are dead, and the "new gods" who exist based on the power of the Holy Order are born.
At the same time, the immortal species named "Giant" was completely destroyed and the population was greatly reduced. The whole world entered a glorious period of development. Everything became prosperous. The elves born from that time called it "gold".
Era". This is the "land" they miss, not the land that was broken and decayed during the religious war.
It was not until 1100, three hundred years later, that the religious war that lasted for twenty years destroyed everything. This world had been truly destroyed once.
As the war situation gradually escalates, the "spells" reflected in the mage's heart become more vicious, and the technological weapons used by the church become more deadly.
The earth cracked, vegetation withered, resources were exhausted, and even clean water became a luxury. City-states collapsed and kingdoms perished.
Commerce and culture are almost completely cut off, and the art and money of the old era have lost their value. A famous painting is not as safe as a gun, and a handful of gold cannot buy fresh and clean meat.
Deserts and destructive hot winds have made almost all land space uninhabitable. All cultivated food has been destroyed, and fertile soil has turned into a desert that is either full of radiation or full of life.
When people stand in despair in front of a lake that is blackened by a curse, they can see their own "reflections" with malicious smiles crawling out of the water and dragging them to the bottom of the lake. If the lake is rarely clean, it may calm down at the bottom of the lake.
A radiation source. Anyone who comes to drink water may slowly vomit, lose hair, have diarrhea, and eventually die of internal bleeding.
Radiation areas one after another in the middle of the desert have caused terrible distortions in animals and humans. People with two heads, fish with legs, and desert lizards with human faces. People can no longer tell whether these are caused by radiation.
distortion, or distortion caused by a curse.
The number of people who died directly in the war was less than one-fiftieth of the total population. However, the series of impacts caused by the war killed nine-tenths of the world's people in twenty years.
The entire inheritance of the old civilization was completely destroyed.
"—They actually do it all the time."
Russell's voice sounded in Delphinium's heart, and the wall of nothingness formed by cognitive barriers collapsed. Delphinium also naturally realized a fact:
That is, of course, the people who boarded the sky island cannot be all the remaining survivors. Because such a dry and barren world cannot live in groups at all; and people whose bodies have been deformed are not allowed to enter the sky island again.
The sky islands just took off and left after "feeling that they were almost ready." According to the Tower of Babel's estimate, each sky island should have initially accommodated a population of more than 10 million.
Today, Sogo Island has a population of only about 20 million, making it the least populated sky island. And Happy Island has about 40 million.
Both Tongshen Island and Sun Island have a larger population than Xingfu Island, while the other Sky Islands have a smaller population than Xingfu Island.
From 1120 to 1203... only eighty-three years have passed since the establishment of the seven empty islands. In just over eighty years, seven completely different civilizations have been formed.
The population of Happy Island nearly quadrupled from the beginning. From this, we can see how beautiful the empty island that she already thought was degenerate and decadent was to those who escaped from the ground at that time.
"Heaven".
Delphinium cannot even imagine, nor dare to imagine - those survivors on the ground who "arrive too late", when they realize that the only one who can save them from the doomsday is
What kind of resentment and despair will you have when your ark is fully loaded and you leave forever?
It was only after she saw the sheath that she realized that human civilization was still stubbornly surviving on the land that was full of curses and radiation, and was considered "impossible to survive" by all Sky Islanders.
All Sky Islanders believe that the "punishment of exile" is actually equivalent to the death penalty. Because people cannot survive on that land for a long time, this is actually equivalent to throwing people into the sea and politely giving them a piece of it.
The plank. Rather than giving the other person hope for survival, it is more like using that hope to torture him to death.
After understanding "history", Delphinium realized how vicious and just how "exile" was.
The dragon's punishment is also so reasonable and terrifying. It is not just a disguised form of death penalty, but a punishment that is far more painful and meaningful than the death penalty.
There is no need to torture them, as long as they are allowed to survive in the "doomsday civilization" on earth until death. In this way, those sinners will be shocked to realize that the world they hate so much is already something that others cannot ask for.
Heaven.
At that time, what kind of pain, what kind of regret, what kind of enlightenment, and such hysteria they will have are all predictable results.
At that time, Delphinium felt that the dragons were so wise and just. They must have a high enough perspective and have a rational and loving heart towards human beings to make such strange but just punishments. Not that
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Mother, but mentor—a teacher who may be gentle or stern.
But now, Delphinium understood from Russell's words what exactly he had overlooked. - Yes.
Since the war was so painful, why didn't the dragon stop it from the beginning, but waited until the world had been destroyed before finally taking action?
Now, Delphinium finally got the answer she didn't want to realize.
The short three hundred years of the Golden Age were the dragon's last gift to "humanity".
It's like the tutor shows mercy and allows the students to have a last night of fun before preparing for the exam. After that, they have to give up all entertainment to pay off their debts.
Yes, dragons do not regard individuals who exist in a certain era as people who need to be looked at. Their loving and gentle eyes look at the group of "human beings" throughout history.
Just like players of "Civilization" or "Stars" or other games of this type, they love and take care of their own civilization.
But precisely because of their rationality and fraternity, they can adopt cold-blooded and ruthless strategies.
-It is precisely because the religious war has reduced enough of the population that the dragon can use its heart to power the floating city, so that the old civilization of the golden age will not really fall into the end of self-destruction in an instant.
中. But by sacrificing these twenty years, civilization can be extended for another 160 years.
For the dragon, this is an extremely cost-effective deal.
But now that the population has increased, they are planning another "release".
From this perspective, the human directors and some of the elf directors appear to be so compassionate.
What an irony this is. The powerful people who oppressed the people and made human beings feel pain suddenly "woke up" in a decent way at this moment and became the guardians of individual human beings. What they carried out "
"Maintaining stable compromises and reforms" is precisely to delay this pressure to make the "war" that has been determined by the dragon capable of destroying the vast majority of people and allowing a very small number of people to regain their lives as much as possible.
Postponed.
Just like these two Dr. Zanbai, they are so afraid of "werewolves" and so afraid.
They are not afraid of this villain who does not know his true identity, but they are afraid of the great revenge trend caused by the "werewolf". They are afraid of what this trend of thought brings. They have suppressed it for a long time - [War].
Human beings may hold different ideas and walk on different paths. One day, they will have to fight for each other.
They fight each other because of their dreams.
But as the real manager of this world, the dragon who can understand everything from the highest level of "data" just wants to "reduce the population a little bit more", and the world is almost unable to bear it.
They don't care what humans are going to do.
Church and mages. Citizens and rebels. Companies and mercenaries. Directors and wage slaves.
People live for the impending pressure, fight for reality, and sacrifice everything including their lives for their "love". People are independent of each other, love each other, hate each other, unite with each other, and kill each other. And they stand above others.
The giant dragons are so cold and just. And everything they do is so correct and ruthless.
And this may not be a kind of "love".
Delphinium lost consciousness and murmured in a low voice: "A love that cannot be understood, a love that cannot be recognized. A love that will kill the thing it loves, truly."
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A lethal amount of love.
At that moment, the huge mental shock made Delphinium's perspective suddenly rise infinitely - she seemed to have become a giant dragon for a moment, overlooking the earth.
For the first time, she completely transcended her own position and realized the great, selfless and ruthless love of the "Mother of the World" for every small person in the world's embrace.
Only then did Delphinium finally understand what "lethal love" means.
Why can a psychic power with such a name be able to strengthen other people's blue shifts and strengthen other people's beliefs?
When the perspective transcends mortals, transcends individuals, transcends collectives, breaks free from the body called individuals, crosses the wall of Leviathan and enters the sea of collective subconsciousness -
That love for the "collective" is undoubtedly fatal. The next moment, Russell suddenly reached out and knocked Delphinium unconscious.