Chapter 11 If you don't give it a try
The silence lasted only for a short time and was broken by Joshua himself.
Under the white lights in the information hall, the warrior breathed, and he shook his head and said, "Forget it, no matter what they do, there must be a pro-war and a pro-political faction."
If there is no contradiction or conflict between each other's ideas, it is no longer considered human.
He said to himself like this, and suddenly stood up. Joshua looked around the entire information hall. He looked at the dense information storage and laughed: "Everyone's thoughts are impossible. I'm a waste of effort to get into such a thing."
“……Eh?”
No. 3, who was originally behind Joshua, was thinking about how to comfort Joshua, blinked and stunned for a moment. After a while, she stuttered and said, "Wait... wait, Joshua, don't you look like you just now, very, very... very angry?"
Very confused and at a loss? No. 3 has been unable to say this sentence, because these two words have nothing to do with the calm, calm and defensive Joshua, who looks like he doesn't seem to be at all decadent. The girl of artificial intelligence even doubts whether there is something wrong with her observation system, so that she can see hallucinations with her artificial intelligence.
"Angry? Of course I was angry. These people have never seen the true appearance of the evil god. They just fought with the Black Mist mother. They actually started to retreat so early. I know they are cautious and want to lose before they win. But I am the only one among them who has seen the evil god. I didn't want to run away. Why are they so nervous about doing it?"
In response, Joshua waved his hand, and a silver light wheel appeared behind him. Many translucent crystal fragments were shot out from the light wheel. A large number of data light spots flowed in the fragments, like No. 3, connecting the storage of the entire information hall. While helping No. 3 transfer data, the warrior leisurely crossed the trail in the hall: "But that's all. If I have to say, I was not angry because of their caution, but simply felt unhappy."
"Don't feel good?" No. 3 read instinctively, with a strong and incredible tone.
"I'm not happy, why don't they believe that I can't achieve the realm of a sage?"
Speaking of this, Joshua squinted his lips and snorted: "I can achieve legendary realm from silver within a few years, and it takes ten years to reach a level comparable to a god. At this time, there are at least twenty years before the invasion of the evil gods."
"At that time, I will definitely be stronger than the Black Mist Moon, or even stronger than ordinary evil gods. If I have good luck, it is not impossible to find the opportunity to become a sage. Look, aren't you telling me about the 'weak evil god'? This is a very valuable clue. If I really find a trace of the realm of the sage, then everything in the future is still hard to say."
“The most important thing is.”
Speaking of this, Joshua turned his head and patted the head of No. 3 who had been following him all the time. At this time, he was stunned by the sound of the head of No. 3. The warrior smiled and said, "How can I, a warrior who has seen a lot of knowledge and faced the true appearance of the evil god and the afterimage of the sages, and talked with the gods and laughed. How could I need you to comfort me?"
"I have saved the world and destroyed the world. I once helped a galaxy civilization defeat the void monster that devoured the stars. I once turned a world that even time was twisted back on track. Destiny was just something I could rewritten when I got up early to do push-ups. The evil god invaded. Now I'm anxious to shout "It's over" is not my personality."
During the conversation, countless data flows flowing in the translucent crystal that Joshua spread out suddenly stopped. The warrior noticed this and said easily: "Okay, the data transmission in this hall has been completed, and you can go to the next one."
"What?!"
At this time, No. 3's expression became even more incredible. She scanned the information database in shock and found that Joshua had indeed transferred all the data in the entire information hall within a few minutes. No. 3 looked at the progress bar that had already shown that '1% transmission was completed' and murmured: "My transmission speed is 144 times that of an average extreme magician. How could it be..."
"Everyone is artificial intelligence, just one is born by parents and the other is created by engineers and researchers. In my opinion, you are just an ordinary human being the same as me."
At this time, Joshua had already walked towards the exit of the hall. He waved to No. 3 behind him: "I still have some things to do on the Winter Castle, so I won't accompany you for now... But if there is any information about the sages, I can notify me at any time."
"Okay, OK."
No. 3 nodded subconsciously, then watched Joshua leave the hall. After pausing for a long time, she suddenly reacted in disappointment: "Wait, who is human?!"
And outside the hall.
Joshua's smiley expression quickly became calm and cold.
"Sage."
He stretched out his right hand, stared at the palm of his hand, and whispered the word and the name of this person, as if he was chewing on the endless profound meaning contained in these simple words.
"Evil God."
He clenched his fists, raised his eyes, and spoke the nickname in a indifferent tone, and didn't know what kind of emotions were surging in his heart.
Finally, all emotions are condensed into two words that cannot hear any emotions at all.
"interesting."
After saying that, his figure disappeared. He could see that the space outside the large information database had a space crack almost at the same moment. It appeared quickly and then closed rapidly, as if it was just an illusion.
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"The evolutionary speed of human beings has been slow."
Moldavia, Winter Fort College, year-end lecture speech at graduation.
In the trapezoidal hall, nearly a hundred students were sitting upright at the forefront, and behind them, hundreds of other lower-grade students were also sitting, staring at the original stage and the center of the podium seriously.
A middle-aged mage calmly endured the gaze of all the students. Under the light, he used magic amplification to send his voice into the ears of all the people present without any tension or hesitation.
"As we all know, humans, elves, dwarves, halflings, dwarves, and even extinct centaurs and orcs, have the same bloodline as us in a sense. In the primitive wilderness tens of millions of years ago, the oldest human race had not yet been divided. At that time, there were many alien races in this world, with many environments that had not been developed. Our ancestors lived in a warm plain environment, and had not moved for millions of years."
Nostradamus, Isrel sat at the top of the hall. The two of them restrained their breath and looked at the middle-aged mage with a calm expression. No student or tutor noticed that the two supreme leaders of the empire were behind them at this time. But at this moment, a figure appeared and sat beside Isrel without hesitation, which attracted the two of them to look sideways.
Joshua made a "quiet, watch carefully" gesture to the two, and then stopped talking, and stopped Nostradamus and Isrell's intention to ask, temporarily put aside the idea of asking Joshua what he was doing before, but turned around and continued to listen to this long-planned speech.
"But an abnormal climate change now seems to be the prelude to the first Ice Age, which forced our ancient and primitive ancestors to begin to migrate from their homeland. During the long migration of hundreds or thousands of years, some humans went to the south of the wet jungle, some humans went to the west of dry mountains, and some humans chose to stick to their original place... It can be said that at that time, there were as many choices as many tribes as humans had. Our ancestors began to spread to the whole world for the first time."
"Those who go to the south, turn into today's elves, enter the mountains are the ancestors of the dwarves, and those who stay in place are the oldest cold-stricken barbarians. Halflings and dwarfs are all created by moving into narrow and warm underground tunnels, and the lucky ones who migrate to the same warm plain as before are the ancestors of ordinary humans, like you and me."
"The form of life will evolve due to the environment. This is the fact that we can observe in countless experiments and practices. The shark lizards in the north are all ice-related, while the south almost all have the power of water and earth. Fire dragons live around volcanoes, while the thunder dragons have always lived on the tops of mountains in rainy areas. This is not a coincidence."
The middle-aged mage on the stage is a Xishan man. His voice is magnetic and thick, and he also has a little Xishan accent. But everyone present didn't care, because he had conquered all students with his profound academic foundation in the past few years, so he got the opportunity to give a speech on stage: "While we transform the world, the world will also transform us. Life constantly adapts to different environments, and generations are more powerful than generations. Data shows that the average adult strength of humans eight hundred years ago was only a barely black iron level. Now, in Moldavia alone, our sixteen-year-old boy has the average strength of the middle-level black iron level, and this level is rising at an incredible speed."
"But these are just illusions." Suddenly, the mage who gave the speech made a decisive move: "This is not the illusion that our life form is rising, but is simply rich in nutrients, everyone has meat to eat, and everyone can practice."
"The speed at which life can adapt to the environment can no longer keep up with the speed at which life transforms the environment."
"Our evolution has actually been stagnant."
These few short sentences immediately caused a low noise throughout the hall. Although these scattered conversations and exclamations were calmed by the instructors present, it can be seen that all the students had obvious surprise and confusion in their eyes.
The mentor on the stage is still giving speeches.
"With the advancement of technology and the popularization of practice, as extraordinary power becomes more and more deeply rooted in all civilized lives of our tribe, including elves, dwarves, halflings, etc., our bodies have long no need to adapt to the environment in all the intelligent life of Mycrov. We have clothes and houses that can keep warm, practice methods that can resist the severe cold of zero or one hundred degrees below zero, and magic and fighting spirit that can enter and exit the void. It was thousands of years ago, in the last era, that life no longer needed to passively adapt to the environment. The progress of our ancestors' wisdom is enough to replace the adaptation and evolution of our bodies."
His voice was very loud, and even the three legendary powerful men on the last side of the hall could clearly hear it. Isrell's expression was calm, Nostradamus' expression was uncertain, and Joshua nodded with a smile.
"Our wisdom makes us unique, and the pan-human civilization circle becomes the overlord of the entire continent. Since then, our race has no challenge except civil war. Because of this, our evolution has completely stagnated, or has become very slow and can no longer keep up with our footsteps."
The mage who gave the speech was very devoted. It could be seen that this was the deepest thought in his heart. He looked around the hall and shouted loudly: "Now, our civilization is about to enter the void. There are any races. Can we directly enter the void without relying on practice or magic equipment?!"
"No! Even dragons cannot do it! Except for the ancient dragons and void beasts that only exist in the legend, there is no life that can survive in the void by relying on the body! We humans have the ability to enter and exit the void, but there is no body that matches them. This is the glory of our wisdom, but it does not mean that we should accept this weakness! It is time to change, our wisdom should not accept this fragile carrier calmly. Natural evolution takes tens of millions of years to achieve a great progress, but that is the matter of the ancient wilderness era. Now, we should take the initiative to change!"
"It took the ancestors hundreds of thousands of years to go from eating raw meat and drinking blood to learning to ignite and cook. It took them tens of thousands of years to develop from community scatteredness to tribal era. They spent tens of thousands of years playing with stone tools and tens of thousands of years to build large houses. They just learned to forge metals eight thousand years ago, and then reached the peak of civilization a thousand three hundred years ago! The speed of progress of civilization is not something that natural evolution can keep up. The primitive tribes in some remote islands far south, whose residents' physical fitness is even worse than our twelve-year-old boys, whose natural evolution has lost its meaning. We cannot rely on mutation to adapt to the void and the infinite world in this multiverse!"
"Only through wisdom, magic, fighting spirit, and through our wisdom, can we transform our bodies 'human beings', 'intelligent life', adapt to this era of void and this vast and boundless multiverse. This is me."
Speaking of this, the speaker pointed at himself, then reached out and pointed his fingers over all the students present in the grade: "It's also you."
"It is the direction that all of us, the entire civilization, should work hard in the future."
The lecturer on the stage was still saying some ending words. The students on the stage were applauding wildly, and they could hear the noise echoing throughout the hall, but it was no longer important, because at the end of the hall, a quarrel that lowered the voice was being held between several legendary powerful men.
"Jothia!"
Nostradamus whispered: "Is this your plan? Do you want to promote the rationality and legitimacy of 'human transformation' within the Winter Fortress Academy, and then use these students as a basis to promote your theories to the outside world?!"
As he said that, the old master thought of the "perfect human prototype experimental subject" in the fourth practice room of the sacrificial ground of the Ten Thousand Worlds, which made him creepy, and those incredible void monsters that should only appear in the nightmare. He couldn't help but breathe: "You really plan to transform the entire human being... You are not kidding."
"I never joke, at most tell a few cold jokes. Nostradamus, at least eight years ago, you should have discovered this."
Joshua didn't care about the old mage's questioning. He looked calmly at the speech tutor who was flushed and excitedly waved to the cheering students, and whispered: "The current human beings are still stagnant at least a million years ago. It is our wisdom that has stagnated his evolution, so it should be our wisdom that has once again improved him. This is our civilization and the first step to becoming a true void civilization."
"Who do you think you are? God or a sage? Can you be sure that the transformations you are going to do are really suitable for humanity?"
Nostradamus rubbed his temples. He had calmed down and said seriously: "Although humans are indeed fragile now, they are at least stable in our civilization. Our society exists based on this fragile body. If one day everyone will suddenly fly, then our architectural style and society will change drastically. What you are going to do now is not just to let humans fly, but to make humans become extraordinary people."
"This change is enough to cause great turmoil between our society and civilization. People will no longer be human. The most important thing is that you cannot be sure whether this transformation is safe! Even so, you still have to do this!"
"Otherwise." Joshua replied coldly: "Whether it is suitable or not? How can you know if it is not modified? Do you think that fighting spirit and magic practice are not transformations? Then what are the legendary strong men like me and you? The mages of lich transformation, elemental transformation, soul transformation, and talisman culture are stronger than dragons, faster than birds, and can enter and exit the void with physical body. Isn't this a special and unpopular transformation?"
"I just want to popularize this kind of transformation to everyone. You can't understand me. It's so weird that I don't plan to force transformation. Instead, I subtly move our civilization to adapt to this behavior and let them actively transform themselves."
"What's more, I'm a human." As he said that, Joshua pointed at himself, then pointed at Nostradamus and Isrel: "You are both. Even we are humans, why are they not after they transformed?"
Nostradamus seemed to be planning to refute, but Isrel, who was located between the two, made helpless gestures, signaling both of them not to speak for now: "Okay, what's wrong with this little thing? Teacher, do you think that this transformation will cause social turmoil and even induce the collapse of 'human self-identity'. Radcliffqing was thinking about the future. What he said was true. Our civilization is entering the boundless void, and the fragile body is indeed a burden to drag down."
"You have argued once before because of the evil god's problem. Why bother to argue again? This kind of problem is not..." Speaking of this, His Majesty the Emperor pondered for a moment, then sighed: "Okay, we can decide on this."
"I know, Master Nostradamus, you are not completely denying my thoughts."
At this moment, Joshua spoke again. He turned his head and looked at the old mage with a headache expression. The warrior said calmly: "It's just that you feel that such a big thing needs to be thoughtful and planned for decades, and then implemented steadily. Only in order to push the entire civilization into that new era without any confusion."
"But we have no time anymore, we have all started to think about whether to turn people into souls and store them into coordinated magic circles to take them away. So what is the transformation of humans?"
The warrior whispered, "If you don't try, you will never have a chance again. This is the case with resistance and confrontation, so is me."
After talking, Joshua got up and left the hall, leaving only Nostradamus and Isreal in their seats.
"……Ha ha."
After confirming that Joshua's life reaction had completely disappeared from the fluctuations of time and space, the originally depressed and dull Nostradamus actually changed his expression and chuckled softly. He let out a breath, and said in relief or pleasure: "He finally has the idea of 'wanting to become stronger'."
On the side, Isrel's incarnation nodded slightly, and he sighed: "I really didn't expect that we actually played this role."
Nostradamus closed his eyes and said in a somewhat tired voice: "Joshya... He is the fastest advancement and closest to the sages, including the data of the Age of Light... I said this sentence a few years ago, but I still have to say it again now."
"If anyone is most likely to achieve the 'statute of sages', then there is no third person in the whole world except him and Igel. Igel is already an old man. He is very talented, but his pattern has been limited to the Mycrov civilization. Only he can surpass him, Joshua, and only he has wandered in the multiverse at such a young age. Only those who have traveled through many worlds have the opportunity."
"But this guy only has the belief of 'challenging strong enemies' in his mind, but he does not have the determination to 'become stronger'. For him, his strength is just a challenge ticket. No matter how much he says, it is just a tool. His talent is really good. Even if he doesn't care, he can become stronger quickly, which makes him weak in this aspect."
Isrell nodded in agreement: "And now, he wants to become stronger. The first time he did not think, "One day I will challenge the sages", but "I will achieve the realm of sages as soon as possible". Although it seems the same, after all, how can I challenge the sages without the realm of sages? But the most important thing for the former is to "find the sages", while the latter is to "become as strong as the sages"... It can be regarded as turning his thoughts around."
"etc."
Suddenly, Nostradamus frowned: "You said, will Joshua discover our purpose?"
"Don't worry."
Isrell shook his head indifferently: "So what if you find it? This is his own idea, and we are just providing an opportunity. This is not a lie. After all, if he cannot achieve the realm of a sage, we will never be able to bring a group of ignorant and uninspiring feudal subjects to fight the evil gods in a decisive battle."
Chapter completed!