Alien Knights

After sending away Cumberland's soul, Todd walked toward the depths of the island along the path paved with moss and stone slabs.

After walking a short distance, Todd saw his daughter.

Aurora was tugging on the manticore's tail, asking the manticore to play with her.

Todd, who was angry and funny, walked up to Aurora, tapped her head gently, and said seriously: "Let it go."

When she turned around and saw that it was her father, Aurora instantly opened her mouth in grievance, looking like she was about to burst into tears.

Todd squatted next to Aurora, sighed, and asked softly: "Why did you bully that poor guy?"

Aurora wiped her eyes with the back of her hand: "I didn't want to bully it, I was just too bored and wanted to find a friend to play with me..."

Todd shook his head helplessly and turned around to take a look.

The manticore, which had escaped the entanglement of the young dragon, was hiding behind a big tree, looking at Aurora with a horrified look on its face, as if it had seen a man-eating beast.

Todd rubbed Aurora's little face and asked, "How do you plan to make friends with it?"

Aurora sobbed and said: "It has been avoiding me and doesn't want to be with me. I can only catch it to prevent it from leaving me."

Todd brushed Aurora's bangs with his fingers and said softly: "If you use force and intimidation to force others to stay by your side, you will never get friends, at most they will be slaves."

Aurora raised her head, opened her eyes wide and asked, "Then what should I do?"

"You have to show your friendly side and provide help for free as much as possible, so that you can gain friendship." Todd turned sideways, motioned Aurora to look at the manticore behind the big tree, and whispered: "My daughter, Think about it, what can you do to show kindness to the other person?”

Aurora tilted her head and thought for a while, then reached out from the cloth bag on her waist to take out some dried meat as snacks, and shook it towards the manticore.

When the latter saw the dried meat, he shrugged his nose and quietly poked his head out from behind the tree, but his body was still on guard.

Todd whispered to Aurora: "You're almost there, try harder."

Aurora picked up a piece of dried meat, put it in her mouth and chewed it. While eating, she used the expression on her face to indicate that the food was very delicious.

The manticore cautiously walked out from behind the tree, approached Aurora a little bit, and looked hesitantly at the food in the latter's hand.

Seeing Aurora clutching the dried meat tightly, Todd smiled and said: "Remember what I said, in order to get something, you must first learn to give up something else."

Todd's words made Aurora hesitate for a moment.

Then, she gently placed the cloth bag containing the dried meat on the ground and took a few steps back.

Seeing this scene, the manticore hunched forward and carefully observed the girl's movements while extending its mouth towards the cloth bag.

Slowly, the manticore finally came to the cloth bag. It stretched out its barbed tongue and rolled a piece of dried meat into its mouth. After chewing only a few mouthfuls, it immediately narrowed its eyes in contentment, and its thick and long tail also Keep shaking.

Soon, after devouring for a while, the manticore finished the dried meat in the cloth bag. Like a docile big cat, it slowly walked to Aurora and kept rubbing its head against the latter. calf.

Aurora, who was full of surprises, squatted down and stroked the beast's chin with her fingers. Amidst the other's comfortable purring, she excitedly said to Todd: "Father!"

Todd nodded happily and said: "Stop bullying it and cherish this hard-won friendship..."

As he spoke, Todd turned and walked forward. His voice became softer and softer, and was almost inaudible.

"After all, the more precious something is, the easier it is to despise it, and you will only regret it after losing it."

Todd walked along the forest path. Boulders and trees were floating in the sky, and Leviathan's towering tentacles were looming.

Scathach, whose purple hair danced in the wind, held the slate of Genesis in his right hand. While looking at the distribution of buildings on the ground, he motioned to the angels around him to arrange them in order.

"Deviate the track of the soul portal in Antucci Hall to the northwest, turn the energy base thirty degrees clockwise, and lower it slowly, that's good."

Dozens of angels, under the command of Scathach, waved their wings while working together to return these floating buildings to their places one by one.

After directing the construction of this area, Scathach turned his head and saw Todd.

Slowly descending from the sky to the ground, Scathach asked Todd: "Have you finished dealing with worldly affairs?"

Todd shrugged his shoulders and smiled: "For you, those are just commonplace things; but for me, those are the people I care about."

Scathach put away the slate and said quietly: "Kingdoms, wars, and rule are all in the past. The focus is on how to continue to reproduce the race and how to avoid extinction."

Todd remembered something and asked Scathach: "By the way, I have some questions to ask you about the angels and demons you created."

"Please say."

"I asked Shields and Mathenas to preside over a soul trial today. The two of them judge things from very...different perspectives."

Todd considered the words as he said: "Shields's judgment on the value of the soul is more...conservative, while Mathenas is more...radical."

Scathach corrected Todd: "Your description may be a little biased. Shields is more inclined to maintain order, and Mathenas is more inclined to choose chaos."

Todd was a little confused: "I always thought that angels represent lawful good, while demons represent chaotic evil."

Before Scathach could speak, a deep voice came from Todd's feet: "Ah, I know this. Thousands of years ago, a group of philosophers divided the value orientation of the soul into four extremes - mutually opposing ones. Law and chaos, and good and evil in opposition to each other.”

Scathach shrugged at Todd: "This is the topic that Leviathan is most interested in."

Leviathan's voice came from the underground again: "That's right. Todd, do you remember the questions I asked you in the soul space?"

"Which orientation, self-interest or altruism, is more suitable for the survival and progress of the race? Should gods with power interfere in the choices of sentient beings?"

"These problems actually boil down to the fundamentals, which are the opposition between law and chaos, good and evil."

Todd rubbed his temples and said, "Wait a minute, before discussing these issues, what I want to ask is, what is the value orientation of angels and demons?"

Scathach replied: "Shields represents the ultimate in lawfulness, and Mathenas represents the ultimate in chaos. When they think and evaluate issues, they will consider them from two different extremes, and finally end up in the end." An agreement was reached through consultation and compromise. This is also the reason why I created them in the first place, introducing two opposing sets of algorithmic mechanisms to carry out numerical quantification of the soul, and finally reflected in the scale."

Todd asked, "So, angels are not good and demons are not evil."

Leviathan said: "Good angels and evil demons are just words used by the world to coax children. But this topic returns to the focus of our previous discussion. Law and chaos represent the state of all things, while good and evil , is nothing more than a creature’s subjective self-judgment. When I say this, do you understand?”

Todd frowned: "I don't quite understand."

"Let me put it this way, even if all living things are extinct, the dual opposites of order and chaos will still exist in the universe, because their existence does not require consciousness as a basis; and good and evil are the differences between language and language by intelligent creatures. Subjective judgment of behaviors and phenomena, if living things die, there will naturally be no so-called good and evil.”

Todd thought thoughtfully: "I understand a little bit."

Leviathan said again: "Let me deepen this topic a little deeper. Goodness and evil are themselves a false proposition. They neither exist nor exist..."

Todd interrupted Leviathan: "Wait, I'm a little confused."

Scathach shook his head and said: "Leviathan likes to use this philosophical tone to discuss these issues. To put it simply, the emergence of good and evil is often accompanied by the user's subjective assumptions. For example, against me, Leviathan Witan and Todd, for us, kindness means stopping genocide and allowing all sentient beings to exist in a virtuous cycle."

Todd nodded and said, "Yes, that's right."

Scathach stared into Todd's eyes and said softly: "In order to achieve the best goal in our minds, sometimes we have to take some uncomfortable actions. For example, sometimes we have to cheat. Believers, hide the truth from them; sometimes, we will ask others to give up personal property and pursuits to meet the needs and development of the group; sometimes, we will even...even have to sacrifice a person or a race to force them to give up The right to continue living..."