"Is what Jiu'er is playing now Philip's mother..."
Annan's expression suddenly became a little strange.
Although it is still somewhat difficult to connect the elf girl with long golden curly hair and eyes as bright as emeralds, as delicate as a doll...with that fat man Philip.
But looking at Jiu'er's current appearance, he can probably imagine what Philip the "Orator" was like back then.
"...But, adoptive mother?"
Annan suddenly realized something: "What about Naveli Flamel? Since she can come back and become the cornerstone of this nightmare, it means that at least she has not died after Philip grew up, right?"
"Neferi left Philip a long time ago."
Victor replied: "The social structures of elves and humans are different... At least after the empire period, elven parents rarely leave their children. After all, the elves are quite high-ranking in the empire, and no one will force them
You don't need to work long hours to leave your children behind.
"To take a step back, even if you leave your hometown, you will definitely go to a place with a magic device... So if you want to build a house, you only need to 'imagine' and the old house can be rebuilt instantly."
Whether it is a facility or the surrounding environment, it only requires precise imagination to recreate it in an instant. No construction time is required, and no money or materials are required—cursed energy is such a convenient thing.
Because of this, the resistance to "abolition of curse power" is very high.
Even though many elves know in their hearts that the use of curse energy will cause huge pressure on the world...but it will not cause "immediate disaster" after all.
The elves have an invincible unified barrier that gathers all the power of the twelve righteous gods and twenty-four wizard towers. Even if the entire outside world is submerged in gray fog, its height is higher than the clouds, it will not affect them at all.
life.
Rather, it would be better to say that the gray fog attacks the "whole world" anyway.
To the east of the living desert are the "people of blood and charcoal" who exiled them at the beginning of the second generation. They will also suffer from the destruction of the world by these gray fogs - and because of the obstacles of the living desert, they still
There is no way to come and settle accounts with the elves.
[Living Desert], as an epochal disaster, is not just a "huge conscious desert".
Since it is conscious, it is possible to have the power of curse.
To put it simply - they have already become spirits, why are they still not allowed to practice?
The desert, which is larger than the Yasselan Empire at its peak, is itself an extremely huge "demon". Once it enters the territory of the living desert, it will be eroded by it... The extraordinary power is constantly and slowly
And as long as the light is lost in the desert, the whole person will be swallowed up by the irrational desert in an instant.
——Only light can maintain the sanity of the desert beneath our feet.
But the living desert doesn't just slowly swallow extraordinary power.
But because it has wisdom in a rational state and understands sustainable development——
It will drain about 80% of the extraordinary person's power every day to avoid directly sucking him to death, and then wait for him to recover naturally. The longer you stay in the desert, the less power the desert will absorb, at least 50%.
, in order to "encourage" extraordinary beings to survive inside the desert.
But if a transcendent being preyed on by the desert tries to leave the desert, the resistance will increase - if it is already close to the edge of the desert, the resistance will be even greater.
Even in the daytime when it is rational, it will directly attack and try to kill the escapees - and then drain them and return them to the gathering place as a warning.
It does not welcome mortals to come in. Even if the extraordinary person is too weak, or if a mortal comes in directly, it will quickly kill them and throw them out.
Because the desert is greedy and always hungry.
There are not many "oases" inside that can provide survival - it can hardly bear the urge to swallow these water and nutrients. The reason why it is kept is just to give some food to the extraordinary beings trapped in its body to prevent them from dying suddenly.
...just like a farmer saving some rice to feed chickens.
The only ones who can cross the living desert multiple times are those who reshape their bodies in the light world, do not need food at all, and no longer need a "god" to carry objects, and even if their extraordinary power is suppressed, they can fly through it with only physical power.
Adult dragon in the desert.
One of the reasons why the elves still used spell energy after they first arrived in Yasselan... was to take revenge on the "people of blood and charcoal".
Because they used the magic power, the whole world will be eroded by gray fog.
And they had already expected it, and when the gray fog began to spread, they had already set up a large barrier.
When the gray fog covers the entire world, it may be a way to kill the enemy...
As for whether this will have any side effects?
——Of course there will be.
The elves can see clearly that excessive use of spell energy will make them confined to the area inside the big barrier, making it difficult to expand outward. Then when the population reaches a limit, the conflict will become more intense.
And as the curse energy is extracted, the world will become more and more fragile. If the mist world is weakened to be weaker than the world next door, then when the world approaches, the wall of the world may suddenly collapse - this world
People may suddenly fall into another world and never come back.
However, these problems.
All of this will be borne by the "last generation".
And what if before that, they used curse energy technology to develop technology that could span the world?
——What if their technology has advanced to the point where they can absorb the "world blood" of the world next door without having to extract the world blood of their own world?
There are many "just in case" situations that make it impossible for the elves to stop using the magic power.
It is impossible for them to sacrifice their current living welfare, or even completely subvert the tradition and technology tree of the entire civilization... to protect future people they will never see in this life.
Protecting the future of strangers... is really too unreal.
"Shortly after giving birth to Philip, Nafli went to help her father preach in various places."
Victor paused and replied softly: "At that time, I was bound by my identity and did not stay with them for the first time. But I have been paying attention to their actions.
"The biggest difference between Nafli and her father Ernest is that she gave up on 'convincing everyone' from the very beginning. Ernest gave speeches in every elven city to convince others about the use of spells.
The huge irreversible harm in the future tells them that we can also build a glorious civilization without relying on magic...
"But Nafli did not do this. From the very beginning, she decided to convince the upper echelons of the empire, those 'sages' who had the right to speak - even the emperor.
"Nafuli persuaded many people, including me of course. In order to protect myself, I did not immediately join the group that banned spell energy, did not go to every city to preach, and did not use my own
influence others through the right to speak.
"What I did was very simple. It was something that even now is deeply tabooed by people. It was also the biggest 'sin' I carried."
Victor said softly: "Because at that time, besides teaching the Daughter of the Storm...
"——I am also tutoring His Majesty the Emperor's children and responsible for teaching them the principles of life."