Chapter 25: The Road to Extraordinary Civilization

Loranda limped out of the dead world.

This is really no way, even if the holy light has the power to heal the body, but there is a limit, the holy light of ordinary priests can only heal external injuries, and internal injuries have to be handed over to necromancers to deal with, and although the holy light of the high priesthood can heal internal injuries, it cannot guarantee that it can return to a 100% state.

As the most powerful Extreme-level paladin in the current McCrove world, Lorenda's holy light is enough to live and die to the bones, but even so, after being beaten back and forth by Joshua in the sky and the earth seven or eight times, the paladin now needs to walk with a cane.

Still, Lolanda was very happy—not even because he had caught the tail of the Legendary Way, but because he had finally figured something out.

There are some questions that don't need answers.

- Why is the multiverse like this? It's not about human beings, and the most important thing before thinking about it is to change it.

Why is the mountain on the doorstep? Why is there a river outside the door? Why are there wild beasts wandering around my house? Thinking about the 'why' doesn't solve the actual problem, the first thing to do is to make a road in the mountains, build a bridge over the river, and catch or kill the beasts around the house.

Humanity is a race that transforms the world for its own use, from beginning to end, even in the multiverse.

And after Joshua watched Lolanda climb from the center of the earth to the surface of the earth's crust, he was sent away by the positioning and teleportation of the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Ground, and then nodded slightly.

Joshua is naturally happy that his friend's strength has improved, both Lolanda and Brandon are very good opponents, they have a lot of potential, and the fighters are optimistic that they will become legends in the next few years.

After all, not everyone is the same as him, when he advanced to the legend, he happened to have the power of the entire Grandia world and the state empowerment of the king of the soul burner, and the advanced legend of ordinary supernatural powerhouses is not something that can be solved by an epiphany, but a long process of continuous thinking, intensive research and mastery, just like learning.

Although Lolanda's legendary way is a bit complicated, in general, it can change the properties of matter through his special holy light - the heat-resistant becomes heat-resistant, the conductive becomes insulating, and the originally strong armor will become as fragile as a biscuit under the effect of this power.

For example, if a material is an ordinary conductor at room temperature, but becomes a superconductor when it is close to minus 200 degrees, and becomes an insulator when it exceeds 200 degrees, then Lolanda's holy light acts on this material and randomly catalyzes it into special properties that require various 'states' to be transformed.

At present, according to the information of the short encounter, Joshua can confirm that Lolanda himself is not able to control this power very well now, but this is not a difficult task, judging from the giant hammer and shield that the opponent can easily transform the holy light into a near-material form, Lolanda has already studied the nature and form transformation deeply, and he will soon be able to master his own power.

"In this way, even without fighting, Lolanda can become a good material science expert."

The teleportation light of the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Ground disappeared, and Qiao Shuya nodded slightly with some emotion: "The power of the legendary powerhouse can be used not for battle, but for the development of technology, or for some infrastructure construction that transcends the times...... This is perhaps the most orthodox way of technological progress for an extraordinary civilization. ”

Communicating with many legendary powerhouses, and obtaining a lot of information from the Great Unified Database and the Metal Dragon God, Joshua is now very familiar with the development of the Glorious Age and the development of civilization before the Shining Age, and in his opinion, a transcendent civilization similar to the world of Microve will go through the following three steps.

First, in the primitive barbaric era, because of mutations, the high-energy environment gave birth to souls, or the intelligent students who gradually evolved and then gained the ability to think gathered into a group, and like ordinary wisdom, they went through a series of basic steps such as making tools and creating languages. During this period, there may be some different changes due to different races, for example, some races are born with fire, or control flowing water and other extraordinary powers, then they will have a clear advantage in obtaining fire and crossing rivers and lakes.

In this period, supernatural power is only a tool, similar to the invisible third hand, except for the surrounding beasts with the same supernatural power, the way of survival and technology accumulation is similar to that of ordinary civilization, this era begins from the ancient primitive stone tribe age, and will continue until the tribe gathers intelligent individuals enough to become the prototype of the state.

But in the second age, the beginning of the age of civilization, everything was very different.

At this time, the vast majority of extraordinary civilizations will put their wisdom into the aspect of 'individual strength', and the person with the strongest individual strength will become the leader of civilization and race, whether it is fighting with wild beasts, fighting with other intelligent life, or transforming nature, individual strength is the key point of this period, and the original social class will also be born as a result, and the powerful person is naturally the existence of a higher class, and there is no situation where the strength is strong but the social status is low - and this simple and crude division, It is completely different from the system of ordinary intelligent life that divides rights and classes by various methods such as 'rituals', 'customs', 'blood', and 'mandate of heaven'.

This period, for a transcendent civilization, will be very, very long, because of the system of dividing classes by strength, the rule is too stable, for the king who has stabilized his own rule and holds super extraordinary power, any reform and improvement that does not meet his wishes is something that can be extinguished at will, and if the technology progresses, he can also learn and improve himself at the first time, after all, he can become a king, his talent must be first-class, as long as he is willing, there is basically no genius who can challenge his position.

Even if it is a coup d'état, he also has far more resistance than ordinary civilization leaders - if this king is strong enough, even if the whole world regards him as a demon king, there is no way to affect him to continue to rule the world, and ordinary wisdom civilization will be due to system, technology or other reasons after hundreds of years, a major reshuffle and progress is different, even if the extraordinary civilization is because of the death of the ruler and the subversion of the dynasty, it is unlikely to bring much institutional and technological change, let alone progress, because of the new ruler, It must also be a powerful and extraordinary powerhouse.

It is impossible for an ordinary person to become a leader of an otherworld.

Thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of years are feudal eras, medieval times, or national eras—the second era of the long transcendent civilization, that is, civilizations that can last so long and concentrate all their wisdom on improving the strength of the individual can easily fall into the 'thousands of years of solid rule of the strongest' or' Different powerful people have challenged each other for thousands of years', the stronger the individual strength, the more likely it is to cause the stagnation of the development of technology and social institutions, and many transcendent civilizations will destroy themselves when they reach this point.

If you want to break this repeated cycle, you can only rely on a long time to accumulate, for example, tens of thousands of years have passed, and a large number of transcendent classics scattered among the people have unconsciously popularized the entire civilization, and the long-term immersion in transcendent power has even led to the optimization of racial talents, all of whom have a certain amount of transcendent power, and even farmers can use spells to water and fertilize.

In this way, the transcendent civilization can finally embark on the path of overall progress like the normal intelligent civilization, because at this time, the wisdom concentrated on the 'individual strength' is finally liberated due to the popularization of the supernatural power, which can be used in all aspects of life, and then bring about great institutional and ethical reforms - of course, this is also the most dangerous moment, many transcendent civilizations are in the process of reform, or accumulate a large number of contradictions, leading to the self-destruction of civilization.

Of course, in addition, there is another relatively rare possibility - a super-strong person far beyond the upper limit of the era suddenly appeared in a certain transcendent civilization, and this strong man, after suppressing the world, took the initiative to lead the progress of civilization, took the initiative to carry out social system reform, and even took the initiative to popularize supernatural power, and forcibly brought the entire civilization into the third era in a short period of time with his own strength.

Separated from the childhood of civilization, the later period of the era of civilization, that is, the original era of glory, and the period where the current era of starfall is located.

Joshua knew that the previous Starfall Era was still in the second period, but because of the legacy of the Glorious Era, the guidance between the gods, and the blockade and cutting of various civilization gathering areas in the Central Black Forest, the Starfall Era did not have an incomparably powerful 'all-civilization ruler', but blossomed in all directions, giving birth to many different types of social forms, which could learn from each other and make rapid progress on both sides.

But not long ago, just after Joshua solved the problem of the spark in the Microv world, the Starfall Era slowly stepped into the third era.

And the important symbol of this era is that 'the top extraordinary powerhouse takes the initiative to use his own power to help other members of civilization improve their technology', in other words, the legendary powerhouse takes the initiative to popularize the technology they have comprehended, feeds back the civilization, and achieves a win-win situation for both sides and accelerates growth.

In previous times, although the strong were powerful, they were only strong in their own right, and it was impossible for the king to go to the mountains to mine, and the archmage of the court would not rain rain for the peasants, even if occasionally, but it was only a special case. In order to ensure the stability of their rule, they will deliberately block the exchange of knowledge, so that the class is solidified and civilization is difficult to progress.

But in the third era, the strong people who have basically reached the limit of individual strength have realized that only the progress and exchange of the entire civilization, the convergence of countless ideas, the conflict and running-in, and the creation of sparks, can the self who has fallen into the obstacle of knowledge can see the world from another angle, and then break through their previous limits. At this time, they will deliberately cultivate civilization, and even cultivate strong people of the same level.

At this point, the transcendent civilization has a clear advantage - just like Joshua, with his power, it doesn't even take two weeks to build a Void Babel Tower, and if it is also just after the end of industrialization, it will enter the current ordinary civilization...... No, even if it is an earth civilization in the interstellar age, if it wants to build a super space elevator of the same scale, it will take decades to prepare and build.

Because long ago in the second era, the strong people of the transcendent civilization have sharpened their technology and strength to the point that far beyond the third age of ordinary civilization, after the industrialization of ordinary civilization, it will take one or two hundred years to touch the edge of the technology of the mother world, but as early as in the second and even the first era, the powerhouses of the transcendent civilization have been able to enter and exit the void.

The Mycrof civilization has actually just ended the industrialization of magic energy, that is, the period when ordinary civilization has just finished industrialization, and its total population is almost similar to the industrial civilization of the same period, but due to the technical feedback of the legendary powerhouse, the Starfall Era can directly build a magic energy technology creation of the level of the Void Battleship in less than ten years.

And because of the progress of civilization and the popularization of extraordinary power, the number of extraordinary powerhouses will increase, and there will naturally be more and more legendary powerhouses, and every time a legendary powerhouse appears, it will bring a large-scale technological innovation - just like Loranda, if he officially becomes a legend, then the Mycrof civilization will undoubtedly usher in a major earthquake in terms of material science, a big innovation, and the paladins who have the power to change the nature of matter and even energy are just existing, It can directly improve a civilization's technical level in the field of related materials.

This is a mutually accelerating, win-win situation for both sides, the extraordinary strong are no longer the ruling class high up in the eyes of ordinary people, and ordinary people are no longer waste of food in the eyes of the extraordinary strong, just raising toys to play, the estrangement between the two sides gradually disappears, and this final era may be the original glorious age and the sanctuary civilization conceived, 'all men are gods' or 'artificial gods'.

However, the problem is still the same old one.

"Population......

Thinking of this most important question, Joshua couldn't help but sigh: "No matter how fast technology progresses, it still needs a population to maintain it...... There is no population, no matter how powerful the warship is, it is unmanned, and the automatic AI intelligence with low fraud is not efficient, and the high-level artificial soul intelligence, such as No. 3, is hard to find. ”

After all, it is a creation of an extraordinary civilization, and it is always a little bit of a point for a purely intelligent program to work perfectly.

Today's Starfall McCrove civilization, the problem is not 'technology', there is a large unified database and many legendary powerhouses, they have returned to the level of the Glorious Age in some technologies, but those who have technology and do not use technology, no matter how trapped the technology is, it is useless.

With a population of two billion, it is impossible to afford a civilization in the Void Age - you must know that even the Schart civilization has a population of tens of billions, and such a huge and complete civilization system can support a perfect Void Fleet!

"It's a pity, if it weren't for the fact that the teleportation energy consumption of the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrifice Ground was too great, and it was not worth simply teleporting the population, I really wanted to go to the Star Sea World to find the people in the Atrium."

Thinking that he still had the title of 'New God of the Atrium', Joshua couldn't help but recall the wisdom plants that used psionic energy in the Star Sea World - the Atrium people had already entered the interstellar age thousands of years ago, and they perfectly met the needs of today's Mycrof civilization in terms of experience and ability, if he could, Joshua really wanted to go there and hire a group of experienced crew members to come here.

However, the Star Sea World is now undergoing a great purge of the evil gods' families - according to the legend of the Star Sea World, the Canghai Sage Faina said, the Star Sea World has now launched a full-scale counterattack against Chaos, and the Atrium people have also joined a civilization alliance in the surrounding galaxy to clean up the families of the plague evil gods. They are engaged in a holy war between order and chaos, and there is no extra force to send out.

Located on the other side of the multiverse, the incomparably huge Star Sea World is the hardest hit area by the invasion of evil gods, if the Mycrof civilization is in the next few decades, it will usher in a large number of evil god invasions, then it has already been invaded, just because the size is too large, and now there is still the strength to fight back.

Excluding all the races that did not meet the requirements, Joshua and the other legendary powerhouses agreed that the only alien people who could be hired or controlled by the Microf civilization today were the eight-legged fungi of the 'Star Herders', the Chartresses, and some of the Abyssal Demons.