Shepherd Tantra

Chapter 1263 As expected
That is the sound of the sand clock.

All the extraordinary people in the world heard a new message at the same time in their hearts -

[The promotion ceremony for breaking through the seventh energy level on the Path of Devotion will be changed to a separate lunar eclipse ceremony]

[The power of devotion is boiling, and the nine rivers along the way are becoming more turbulent——]

[Starting today, all paths will gain universal healing abilities, halving the mana required to heal any injury and doubling the healing effect]

[The barrier between the dream world and the material world has become weaker, and the difficulty of praying, communicating, summoning, and divine descent to the beings in the dream world has been significantly reduced.]

[——The law of balance has been updated, and the new balance point has been established]

In the past years, the Sand Clock has only announced new laws twice. The announcement, which was not made once in thousands of years, has been made three times in just a few months.

At this moment, even the most dull-witted extraordinary person should know very clearly... a new era has arrived.

"……so good."

Even Aiwass breathed a sigh of relief.

He no longer cared about what the good master's Water Crow Guard wanted to convey to him.

After listening roughly and knowing that the meeting was tomorrow morning, he hastily dismissed the other party - Aiwass was already eager to contact Grey to see what the situation was like over there.

It was definitely a great achievement that Grey was able to successfully persuade Yan Tiansi to death.

After all, the strength of Yan Tiansi is one of the best among the Tiansi who will be "dismissed" by the Tail Ring in this round. Moreover, Yan Tiansi's ability is not really suitable for fighting.

According to the information mentioned in the letter sent by Gray, Yan Tiansi has the power to transform "civilization".

The technology and war preparations that the dwarves had accumulated for thousands of years were transformed into fire elves by her.

Activated magic cannons, activated heavy mechas, activated mechanical fortresses, activated steel cities... Not only were all these things gathered together, even the dwarves were swallowed up by the destructive flames and turned into mechanical dwarves one after another.

All organic matter turned into inorganic matter, and all inorganic matter gained life and rationality.

This ability is quite similar to that of the Balrog - Aiwass had seen the Balrog use a similar ability to demonize the Temple of Silver and Tin during the promotion ceremony.

However, at that time, the ones who were transformed into Flame Demon derivatives were just a group of palace guards, housekeepers and maids... They were either holding cold weapons or bare-handed. Some even held candlesticks and mops, which were not normal weapons at all.

After all, their core is a flowing living flame. Even if these weapons are enchanted, they cannot withstand the temperature of the flames and will disintegrate on their own shortly after the battle.

However, Yan Tiansi is different - as the god who controls fire, steel and casting, these "weapons" demonized by him will not become more fragile after gaining life, but will become stronger; and these organic lives mechanized by him will gain the advantages of inorganic matter.

In fact, Aiwass believes that this is Yan Tiansi’s core understanding of the path of dedication and the source of civilization: civilization does not necessarily require people.

This is not necessarily wrong.

If nothingness completely permeates the world, this may be a way to continue "civilization". After all, the essence of nothingness is "meaninglessness", but for artificial intelligence, steel and machinery, this is a false proposition - their existence itself is meaningless. This is precisely the tool race born from nothingness, but it will not be destroyed by nothingness... It is better to say that they may become tools of nothingness in turn and survive.

——Just like cattle, horses, cats and dogs are domesticated by humans and survive.

How can this not be considered a kind of "civilization"? It's just the worst kind of civilization.

Just like the Star Crystal People, who inherited the Atlantis civilization of the ancient scaly people... If the living reach the end one day, based on the concept of survival or evolution, the machines hatched from their bodies may become a new civilization.

Both His Holiness the Pope and Yan Tiansi himself actually felt a little vague about this concept, and did not have a clear understanding of their own paths... On the contrary, they were not as able to understand Yan Tiansi's thinking as Aiwas.

It’s a pity that the current era is still a bit behind.

If another hundred or two hundred years pass, when the era of automation and artificial intelligence arrives, Yan Tiansi may be able to figure it out.

Now, Yan Tiansi is stuck in the paradox of "if civilization continues to develop, it will no longer need humans" and "can a civilization without humans be considered a civilization?"

Her ideas are advanced and extreme, but her cognition is simple and her morals are traditional - this is why Yan Tiansi feels painful.

As the world's top craftsman, Yan Tiansi would repair and optimize the problems when assimilating these metals. Although Aiwas was confident that Yan Tiansi could easily defeat him with his own strength... However, Aiwas was not willing to fight against the accumulation of thousands of years of war of the entire dwarven civilization.

——It is known that the military technology of the dwarven civilization is comparable to that of the elves, who had the most martial virtue thousands of years ago. However, the elves have already returned to the fields and turned swords into plowshares, and they can just take out an ancient cruiser, the technology of which has already crushed modern technology... Then, to confront all the military technology accumulated by the dwarves, wouldn't it be equivalent to Aiwas having to fight to the death with the entire civilization?
Even if the entire human civilization were tied together, maybe - no, definitely - they would not be as difficult to defeat as Yan Tiansi!

Needless to say, those mechanical dwarves were essentially dwarves. If Aiwass were to defeat them, it would be equivalent to personally exterminating an entire race and destroying an ancient civilization that had been passed down for thousands of years.

Even if Aiwass could survive, this war would inevitably lead to chaos in the world.

Not to mention how many innocent people will be affected by these things... Just the series of reactions that will arise after the ambitious people discover the forbidden technology that the dwarves have hidden for thousands of years will be very troublesome.

Fortunately, Grey is reliable enough.

He convinced the stubborn Yan Tiansi by talking nonsense.

——According to Gray's previous letter, she should have allowed Yan Tiansi to release her own power and become a Tiansi walking on the ground. Just like the former crown master, through such asceticism, she sought new possibilities for her own path.

Just when Aiwass prepared the ceremony and was about to contact Gray...

The benevolent leaders urgently convened a small meeting.

Among them were Mahidfraun and Ismail, who had just left - of course, Aiwas was not among them.

"Brothers and sisters," a voice sounded slowly, "our decision is correct.

“——The extremely powerful Yan Tiansi was indeed defeated by this young Pope alone!

"The Great Abyss cannot compare to the Blazing Flame. If that is the case... do you think you are no match for the Pope who just succeeded you?"

(End of this chapter)