MTL - Overturned Tower-v2 Chapter 16 Ascension of Delphinium

Now she has learned a small part of the history that has been discovered by them through the "history" stored in the Tower of Babel...

For example, in the first Mage War in 868, it swept through wars all over the world and created a brilliant mage civilization—with dragons as kings and emperors, elves as ministers and princes, and many mage towers rose from the ground.

Before that, scattered all over the world, many different religions also bonded, supported, and united with each other after the war, and established a unity called "the Church". Only in Chongguang Island, we can barely see the shadows of those "old religions".

- The old gods are dead, and the "new gods" based on the power of the holy order are born.

At the same time, the long-lived species named "giants" were completely wiped out, and the population was greatly reduced. The whole world has entered a period of brilliant pioneering. Everything became prosperous... The elves born from that time called it the "Golden Age". This is the "earth" they miss, not the land that was broken and decayed during the Islamic war.

Until 1100, three hundred years later, the religious war that lasted for 20 years destroyed everything. This world has been truly destroyed once.

With the gradual escalation of the war situation, the "spells" reflected from the mage's mind became more vicious, and the technological weapons used by the church became more deadly.

The earth is cracked, vegetation is dry, and resources are exhausted. Even clean water has become a luxury. The city-state collapsed and the kingdom perished.

Commerce and culture were almost completely cut off, and the works of art and money of the old era lost their value. A famous painting is not as safe as a gun, and fresh and clean meat cannot be bought with a handful of gold.

Deserts and destructive hot winds have rendered almost all land-based spaces uninhabitable. All the food grown was destroyed, and the fertile soil became a desert full of radiation or life.

When people stand desperately in front of a cursed blackened lake, they can see their own "reflection" crawling out of the water surface with a malicious smile and dragging them to the bottom of the lake; the rare clean lake water may sink at the bottom of the lake a radiation source. Anyone who came to drink water may slowly vomit, lose hair, have diarrhea, and eventually die from internal bleeding.

Pieces of radiation areas in the middle of the desert caused terrible distortions to both animals and humans. A man with two heads, a fish with legs, a desert lizard with a human face... People can no longer distinguish whether it is the distortion caused by radiation or the distortion caused by the curse.

The number of people who died directly in the war was less than one-fiftieth of the total population; but the series of effects caused by the war killed nine-tenths of the world's people in twenty years, and nearly The inheritance of the entire old civilization was completely destroyed.

"—They've been doing it all the time."

Russell's voice sounded in Delphinium's heart, and the wall of nothingness formed by the cognitive barriers collapsed. Delphinium is also of course aware of a fact:

That is... the people who landed on the empty island, of course, cannot be all the remaining survivors. Because such a dry and barren world, it is impossible to live in groups; and people whose bodies have been deformed are not allowed to enter the sky island again.

Sky Island just lifted off and left after "feeling that it's almost pretending". According to the estimate of the Tower of Babel, each empty island should initially accommodate more than 10 million people.

Today, the population of Sogo Island is only about 20 million, making it the smallest empty island. And there are about 40 million people in Happy Island.

Both Tongshen Island and Sun Island have more populations than Happy Island, while other empty islands have fewer populations than Happy Island.

From 1120 to 1203. ． ． ． ． ． Eighty-three years have passed since the establishment of the seven empty islands. In just over 80 years, seven completely different civilizations have been formed.

The population of Happy Island has nearly quadrupled compared to the beginning. From this, we can see what a wonderful "paradise" she had thought the degenerate and decayed Sky Island was for those who fled from the ground at that time.

The delphiniums can't even imagine, dare not imagine at all - those "belated" survivors of the earth, when they realize that the only one who rescued them from the doomsday

What kind of resentment and despair would he have when his ark was fully loaded and left forever.

It was only after she saw the sheath that she realized....It turned out that the land full of curses and radiation, which was considered "impossible to survive" by all Sky Islanders, still stubbornly survived human civilization.

All Sky Islanders believed that the "punishment of exile" was actually equivalent to the death penalty. Because people can't survive on that land for a long time, this is actually equivalent to throwing people into the sea and politely giving each other a board. Rather than giving the other party hope of survival, it is better to say that he is using that hope to torture him to death.

And after understanding the "history", Delphinium realized how vicious and just this "exile" was.

The punishment of the giant dragon is also so reasonable and terrifying. It is not just a disguised form of death penalty "pretentious", but a punishment that is far more painful and meaningful than the death penalty.

There is no need for torture, just let them go to the "doomsday civilization" on the ground to survive until they die. In this way, those sinners can be shocked to realize that the world they hate so much is already a paradise that others can't ask for.

At that time, what kind of pain, what kind of regret, what kind of enlightenment, such hysteria they will have... are all predictable results.

The delphinium at that time felt that the dragon was so wise and just. They must have a high enough perspective and have a rational and loving heart towards human beings to make this weird but just punishment. not the father

A teacher is not a mother, but a mentor—a teacher who is either gentle or stern.

But now, delphinium understands from Russell's words... what he has overlooked. -yes.

If war is so painful, why didn't the dragon stop it in the first place, but wait until the world has been destroyed before finally striking out?

Now Delphinium finally has the answer she didn't want to realize.

The short three hundred years of the golden age was the last gift of the dragon to "human beings".

It's like a mentor showing mercy and allowing students to have a last night of fun and fun before preparing for exams. After that, it is necessary to give up all entertainment to pay off the debt.

Yes, dragons don't see individuals who exist in a certain era as people who need to be watched. Their loving and gentle gaze has been on the group of "humans" throughout history.

Just like the players of "Civilization" or "Stellaris" 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 instead adopt cold-blooded and ruthless strategies.

—It is precisely because the religious war has reduced enough population that the dragon can use its heart to power the floating city, so that the old civilization in the golden age will not really fall into the doomsday of self-destruction in a flash In...but by sacrificing these twenty years, civilization can continue for another hundred and sixty years.

For the giant dragon, this is an extremely cost-effective deal.

But now the population has increased, so they are planning another "release".

From this perspective, human directors and some elf directors seem so merciful

What an irony. The power holders who oppressed the people and made human beings feel pain suddenly "woke up" in a decent manner at this moment, and became the guardians of individual human beings. The "compromise and reform to maintain stability" they carry out is precisely to delay this pressure...to end the event that has been determined by the dragon, which can destroy the vast majority of people and make a very small number of people The reborn "war" is postponed as long as possible.

Just like these two Dr. Zanbai...they are so jealous and terrified of the "werewolf".

They are not afraid of this villain who does not know his true identity, but are afraid of the great revenge thought trend caused by the "werewolf". Fearing what this trend of thought will bring... [War] that they have suppressed for a long time.

Human beings may hold different ideas and walk on different paths. They will also one day, for each

Fighting each other from the dreams they hold.

But as the real manager of this world, the giant dragon who can understand everything from the highest level of "data" only hopes to "reduce the population a little bit more", the world is about to be unable to bear it.

They don't care what humans are going to do.

Church and Mages. Citizens and protesters. Companies and mercenaries. Directors and Salaried Slaves.

People live for imminent pressure, struggle 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 the high dragon is so cold and just. And everything they did was 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 kills what it loves, really... .”

-Lethal dose of love.

At that moment ~www.novelbuddy.com~ the huge spiritual impact 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 detached herself from her position and realized the great, selfless, ruthless love of "Mother World" for every small person in the arms of the world.

Only then did Delphinium finally understand what is called "lethal love".

Why does the psionic energy with such a name strengthen the blue shift and belief of others...

When the perspective is beyond mortals, beyond the individual, beyond the collective... When breaking free from the body called the individual, crossing the wall of Leviathan and entering the sea of ​​group subconscious—

That love for the "collective" is undoubtedly fatal... The next moment, Russell suddenly reached out and knocked Delphinium unconscious.

She lost consciousness in an instant.

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