Chapter 479 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

“Are you talking about creating some new magic to improve people’s living standard?” In the hall of the Sanctuary, Ariel, the Goddess of Ocean, who was the best talented in magic, pondered for a moment and nodded with a smile. “It’s a good idea. Improving the living standards of the believers will help maintain their beliefs and strengthen their power. When they become powerful, they can promote the expansion of the beliefs, and that will finally lead to a virtuous cycle.”

Sui Xiong was surprised at that. He had never expected something like that, but he was relieved after thinking. Only with goals could people have motivation, and only with benefits could people have enthusiasm. If his idea could benefit the people as well as his friends, wouldn’t that be the best result?

“Yes,” Sui Xiong laughed and said. “So I think we can work together to sum up what troubles people have in their lives that can be solved simply by magic, and then create some magic correspondingly.”

“I don’t think that’s a good idea.” Yorgaardman, the God of Justice who always wore shabby clothes, shook his head and showed his disagreement. “Spell-casting is a very difficult thing, and it takes a lot of time and resources to train the spellcasters. Thus, if it is just to solve some nonurgent problems, it will be a waste to spend so many resources.”

“But it’s better than to not solve the problems,” Manissy, the Goddess of Wealth, said. “It’s better to have a solution than to not.”

“You’re too naive.” Yorgaardman sighed. “You see, the resources of training the spellcasters are mainly controlled by three forces now. The first and largest one is religion. However, the gods are antagonistic towards each other. Besides preaching religion, the spell-casting ability of the clergymen is mainly consumed in a meaningless confrontation between gods. Thus, there are few resources that they can spare.”

Seeing that everyone nodded slightly, he went on saying, “The second one is aristocracy. The spellcaster consumes a lot of money, so usually, only those nobles and business families can afford that. When businessmen acquire the ability of spell-casting, they will mostly seek aristocratic identities. Similarly, many spellcasters who were scholars and adventurers before also prefer to become aristocrats. For example, there are a large number of spellcasters settled in the Mifata Federation, but as long as they reach mid-level, almost all of them will be nobility.”

“But the nobles do not care about the lives of the civilians. Although there are some outstanding and honest men like the late Baron Keane, most of them are still hostile to civilians. There was some magic that could help improve people’s living standard in the past, and the nobles mastered a lot of these spells. But did they use these spells to benefit the civilians? They have never thought about it at all!”

All the gods sighed with gloom.

“The last one is the adventurers. They are very strong, but they are like sand and don’t have even the most basic organization. They may be a powerful force in destruction, but if it’s for construction, they can’t help. Not to mention other aspects, how can the adventurers who have always pursued freedom settle down for a long time and work for ordinary people? Do you have any idea?”

The gods thought about it for a moment. They looked at each other and shook their heads.

Yorgaardman talked a lot in one breath and finally took up his glass and poured a lot of wine into his mouth. “Generally speaking, after we create the new spells, it will not help improve people’s living standards but will become a tool for the nobles to enjoy themselves.”

He had spoken quite reasonably, and everyone couldn’t help but fall deep into thought.

To talk about the understanding of human society, none of the gods could know as much as Yorgaardman. He was not only born at the bottom of human society, but he also always walked around in the appearance of a mortal. He saw too much of the joys and sorrows of the mortals as well as the good and evil in the human world. All the gods on the spot together couldn’t know more about the world than he did.

If he believed that the magic to improve people’s living standards would only serve as a tool for the nobles to enjoy themselves, then that would probably happen.

However, Sui Xiong still wanted to try.

He felt that magic, like technology on earth, would never have any vitality if it served only a few people. If he wanted to usher in a great development of magic and to further promote the progress of the whole society, he should let the power of magic serve the public and popularize it.

But Yorgaardman was right. Talent and resources were required if one wanted to learn magic. It was like two high thresholds, ruthlessly shutting out the vast majority of ordinary people from magic and made it impossible for them to enjoy the benefits of it. Correspondingly, why should people who had crossed these two thresholds condescend to serve ordinary people?

How was this kind of problem solved on earth? Sui Xiong thought about it carefully and tried to find a solution.

On earth, not to mention those backward areas, in the relatively advanced and developed areas, almost everyone had to learn scientific knowledge. But in fact, for the vast majority of people, what they learned was still far from the scientific front. For example, Sui Xiong was a college student, and he had studied for 16 years from primary school to university. But the scientific knowledge he had learned just belonged to the mainstream level of society. If he wanted to do scientific research with what he had learned… Look at how many times he had tried to produce a blast furnace and how many times it exploded and failed; one would know that there was still a long way for him to go.

So, on the earth, how did people solve the problem when they couldn’t keep up the pace with science?