Overturned Tower

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. .

After the war, many different religions that were previously scattered around the world bonded, supported, and united with each other to form a unity called the "Church." Only on Sogo Island can you barely see the shadow of those "old religions" that existed.

——The old god is dead, and the "new god" based on the power of Holy Order is born.

At the same time, the immortal species named "Giant" was completely destroyed, and the population was greatly reduced. The whole world has entered a period of brilliant development. 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.

It was not until 1100, three hundred years later, that the Islamic War, which lasted for twenty years, destroyed everything.

This world has 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 is cracked, vegetation is drying up, resources are depleted, and even clean water has become a luxury.

City-states disintegrate and kingdoms perish.

Commerce and culture were almost completely cut off, and the art and money of the old era lost their value. A famous painting cannot give people a sense of security as much 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 the food grown was destroyed, and the fertile soil turned into a desert full of radiation or life.

When people stand in despair in front of the cursed black lake, they can see their own "reflections" with malicious smiles crawling out of the water and dragging them to the bottom of the lake; in rare clean lakes, they 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.

Radiated areas one after another in the middle of the desert have caused horrific distortions in animals and humans. People with two heads, fish with legs, desert lizards with human faces... People can no longer tell whether these are distortions caused by radiation or distortions 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 landed on 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 anymore.

Kongdao just took off and left after "feeling that it was almost done". According to estimates from the Tower of Babel, each empty 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. There are about 40 million people in Happy Island.

Both Tongshen Island and Sun Island have a larger population than Happy Island, while the other Sky Islands have smaller populations than Happy 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 formed.

The population of Happy Island has nearly quadrupled compared to the beginning. From this, we can see that she already thought that the fallen and decayed Sky Island was a beautiful "paradise" for those who escaped from the earth at that time.

Delphinium can't even imagine, nor dare to imagine - those survivors on the ground who "arrive too late" will have a lot of emotions when they realize that the only ark that saved them from the apocalypse has been fully loaded and left forever. What resentment and despair.

It was only after she saw the sheath that she realized... 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 then politely giving them a board. Rather than giving the other person hope for survival, it is better to say that he is 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. That is not just a disguised death penalty, but a punishment that is far more painful and meaningful than the death penalty.

There is no need to torture them, just let them survive until death in the "doomsday civilization" on earth. In this way, those sinners will be shocked to realize that the world they hate so much is already the paradise that others can only ask for.

By then, what kind of pain, what kind of regret, what kind of enlightenment, what kind of hysteria they will have... are all foreseeable results.

At that time, Delphinium 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 be able to make such strange but just punishments. Not parents, but mentors—teachers who may be gentle or severe.

But now, Delphinium understood from Russell's words... what exactly she had overlooked.

--yes.

Since war is so painful, why didn't the dragon stop it from the beginning, but wait 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 was as if the tutor was merciful and allowed the students to have a last night of fun before preparing for the exam. After that, it is necessary to give up all entertainment to pay off the debt.

Yes, the dragon does not regard individuals who exist in a certain era as people who need to be looked at. Their loving and gentle eyes gaze upon the "human" community throughout history.

Just like players of "Civilization" or "Stars" or other games of this type, they love and take care of their civilization.

But precisely because of their rationality and fraternity, they can adopt cold-blooded 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, and that the old civilization of the golden age will not really fall into self-destruction in an instant. In the end...but by sacrificing these twenty years, civilization can continue for another one hundred and sixty years.

For the dragon, this is an extremely good deal.

But now the population is larger, so they are planning another "release".

From this perspective, the human directors and some elven directors appear to be so compassionate——

What an irony. The powerful people who oppressed the people and made human beings suffer, suddenly "woke up" in a decent way at this moment, and became the guardians of individual human beings. The "compromises and reforms to maintain stability" they carried out were precisely to delay this pressure...to put an end to the crisis that had been determined by the dragon and could destroy the vast majority of people and bring a very small number of people back to life. The "war" was postponed as long as possible.

Just like these two Dr. Zanbai... they are so jealous and afraid of "werewolves".

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

Human beings may hold different ideas and walk on different paths. One day, they will have to fight each other for 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 more." The world can hardly bear it.

They don't care what humans do.

Church and mages. Citizens and the Uncoded. Corporations and mercenaries. Directors and wage slaves.

People live for the impending 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 aloof 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, truly..."

——Lethal love.

At that moment, the huge mental shock caused Delphinium's perspective to 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 that the "Mother of the World" had for every small person in the world's arms.

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, the individual, and the collective... breaks away from the body called the individual, 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.

She lost consciousness in an instant.

Grass, absolutely amazing!

I just finished typing, and I originally wanted to update it regularly until 12 noon today, but the first chapter was accidentally sent directly due to a slip of my hand... Then the second chapter that has been written will also be posted together (