Versatile Mage: Summon eight demons at the beginning

Chapter 176 Rules of the Holy City

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"You guys wait here, I'll go down and pull the person out."

After saying that, Lu Cheng and Tianhen Baihu jumped down into the deep valley in front of them.

Mu Ningxue and Su Meng stayed at the edge of the rift and did not follow them down.

“Aunt Su, are the people below the real ice victims?” Mu Ningxue asked.

"It should be." Su Meng nodded.

"The sealing of the victim requires a corresponding environment to complete. The Holy Court chose to seal this person in Tianshan. It is very likely that he is an ice-type victim."

Mu Ningxue hesitated to speak, and Su Meng pulled her to sit down, "Ask if you want to."

Mu Ningxue paused and said, "Aunt Su, you are also a victim. What do you think of the Holy City..."

"You want to ask me what my attitude is towards the Holy City's actions, right?" Su Meng said.

"Yeah." Mu Ningxue nodded.

"Then what do you think the Holy City is?" Su Meng asked.

Mu Ningxue shook her head, "I don't know."

The mainstream perception of the world is that the Holy City is the leader of the human magic era. It was the Holy City that led the establishment of the Magic Association, united human magicians from all over the world, and brought order to human magicians.

The Holy City is omnipresent in the development of the human magic era, yet it seems to have done nothing. However, it is undeniable that the Holy City is a holy place for magicians. Even the fact that there has been no magic war between human countries is largely due to the existence of the Holy City.

In other words, in the past, magic wars broke out between human countries, and it was the Holy City that took the lead in establishing the Magic Association to reduce those violent conflicts. Lu Cheng said that the World Academy Competition is actually a substitute for war.

Put those precious resources in one place, and then each country will send out its young talents to compete and fight for them.

If it weren't for the existence of the Holy City, an absolutely powerful and violent organization, humans in different regions would also go to war just like the demons in different tribes.

In other words, in the mainstream perception of mankind, the holy city has an absolutely positive image and is a symbol of order.

However, among the people she met, everyone had no idea about the Holy City...

"Everyone has a different standpoint, so their judgments are naturally different," said Su Meng.

"From the perspective of the vast majority of humans, the Holy City is indeed correct, because without the Holy City, the middle and lower classes of humans would have almost no way to survive."

She used to be an alien wizard, and she knew very well what problems existed within humanity.

As the most powerful violent institution of mankind and the maker of laws, the Holy City is an absolutely positive guardian for the weak. However, for the powerful, the Holy City is an obstacle.

The higher you climb, the more you dislike the Holy City.

"For the weak, rules are a protective umbrella, but for the strong, rules are shackles," said Su Meng.

"The Holy City is neither good nor evil. It simply represents order. Order creates a safe zone for the weak. However, order is rigid, while people are fickle. Using unchanging order to restrict fickle humans is bound to cause many negative reactions."

"Moreover, with any rule, there are bound to be things that are not taken into account, and there are bound to be loopholes. But without rules, most people will die."

"The weak regard the Holy City as a god, and the strong regard it as the greatest evil in the world. They think that the existence of the Holy City inhibits the development of mankind, but in fact..."

"Do you like war?"

Mu Ningxue was stunned and shook her head.

"The rules of the holy city are actually to suppress the occurrence of war." Su Meng said.

"You can think of human society as a giant organism, and the Holy City as the brain and immune system of this giant organism. Heretics are beings that may or are causing this giant organism to have abnormal reactions."

"This anomaly could be positive or negative, but until it grows stronger, no one knows what its true nature is."

"So, the Holy City chose to eliminate this existence. Since we are not sure whether it is good or bad, we should give up judging."

"As long as nothing changes, nothing will get worse. This is the rule of the Holy City."

Any change is uncertain. It may be positive or negative, but the process is definitely turbulent.

Change may bring humanity into a better new era, or it may lead to eternal destruction.

Therefore, the Holy City chose to suppress all changes. As long as there was no change, there would be no danger.

"So, this is also the reason why the Holy City treats the victims?" Mu Ningxue said.

The power of the victims is enormous. The power itself has no attributes, but the person who possesses the power is uncertain.

The victims can be positive or negative.

It is possible to control it, or it may lose control at any time.

And unlike normal mages, whether the victim's power gets out of control has nothing to do with the victim's own wishes. Just like a natural disaster, it may suddenly erupt.

Shengcheng didn't want to gamble on whether the victims were controllable, so it simply threw away the option. As long as this unstable force didn't exist, there would be no danger. "Yeah." Su Meng nodded.

"The Holy City only wants to maintain the status quo. Humanity is lucky not to have regressed. How can we dream of moving forward?"

"So, you don't have to worry about whether the Holy City is good or bad. After all, the Holy City itself doesn't think it is a good person."

Mu Ningxue was stunned. "Could it be that they still think they are bad people?"

"That's right." Su Meng said.

"The archangel actually sees himself as the most profound evil in the world, because humans are a kind of evil, fighting violence with violence and evil with evil. They never think of themselves as good people."

Mu Ningxue was stunned, her mind was a little confused.

"Do you think this world is a little different from what you thought?" Su Meng said with a smile.

"Yeah." Mu Ningxue nodded.

The glorious and righteous holy city regards itself as the greatest evil?

"There are many things you haven't thought of." Su Meng shook her head.

“The Holy City is actually the one that wants to initiate change the most.”

"Huh?" Mu Ningxue was confused.

Why does it not change for a while and then change again?
"Because there is not enough strength." Su Meng said.

"Archangel Raphael told me that human change will eventually come, but definitely not now. Humans today do not have that power. The duty of the Holy City is to do our utmost to prevent change from happening before humans have that power."

"You can think of the Holy City as a large dam that will not let water through until the river level is higher than the dam, or the force of the river is strong enough to break the dam."

"To put it bluntly, weakness is the original sin."

“If humans had enough power, the ability to try and fail, and the ability to bear failure, they could do whatever they wanted, but humans don’t have that.”

"With the current power of mankind, if we easily launch a revolution, as long as there is a little accident, we will be doomed."

The existence of forbidden spells is enough to maintain the balance between humans and demons. However, if humans rashly seek progress and make the demon empire feel threatened, the original balance will be broken.

Although humans seem to be constantly improving, in fact, the top power of humans has not changed for thousands of years.

Forbidden spells are the pinnacle of humanity.

The emperor was afraid of the destructive power of the forbidden spell, so he did not rashly start a war.

But once humans have the power to transcend forbidden spells and break the status quo, the original chaos in this world will really become what most people think, a war between humans and all other demons.

"Do you think the Holy City I described is different from what you saw?" Su Meng touched Mu Ningxue's confused face.

"Hmm..." Mu Ningxue nodded.

At first, she learned about the Holy City because of Ding Yumian. Out of her affection for this friend, she almost subconsciously regarded the Holy City as a bully. But after learning about the Holy City, she discovered that the Holy City was justice in the eyes of most people in the world. Without the Holy City, there would be no peace for mankind today.

But now, the holy city that Su Meng talked about was completely different from the holy city she knew.

The glorious and righteous holy city is actually full of villains?
Even the archangel who is the leader of the holy city regards himself as the worst evil in the world?

Moreover, the holy city that seeks to remain unchanged is actually waiting for change to occur?
What is this mess?

"This is actually easy to understand. The Holy City is an organization, not a person," Su Meng said.

"There are many people in the Holy City, including Archangels, the Holy Court, the Court of Dissenters, and top magic clans from all over the world. With so many people gathered together, there will definitely be disagreements."

"What you saw was what the Holy City did after unifying the differences. What I just said about the archangels was only the archangels' cognition, and it was also the original intention of the Holy City's establishment."

"But archangels are also human beings. They can't really abandon their selfishness. They think one thing, but naturally, it's impossible for them to do it so ideally."

"Just like Ah Cheng's two friends from the Inquisition, aren't they also biased when they encounter things related to him?"

The original intention of the Holy City was indeed for the future of mankind, but over thousands of years, this original intention has gradually been distorted, and mages from all over the world have gradually become the main force in the Holy City.

The Inquisition, the Court of Heretics, the Inquisitors, the Heretics, the Judges, the Priests, they all have their own positions and their own selfish desires. Even the archangels cannot ignore the interests of those magic clans, otherwise the Holy City will be in internal strife or even split at any time, and then the order that the Holy City seeks will also be in chaos.

This concern has led to repeated concessions and compromises, and the Holy City is no longer the holy city it once was.

Even the archangels have begun to think about giving up on the Holy City today. One can understand this by looking at the archangels who have been basically silent since returning to the Holy City.

Raphael once wanted to show his skills after returning, but after returning and seeing the true appearance of the Holy City.

Show off your skills? Show off your shit!

Trash!

It's already a luxury if it doesn't get worse, how can we expect it to get better?

(End of this chapter)