At this point, Xiao Chen finally understood why this continent had developed into the current situation. Everything was due to the arrangements made by the ancestors of the Source Tower thousands of years ago. Xiao Chen did not agree with his extreme approach, but he felt the tragedy and helplessness in these arrangements. However, the current development speed of the continent seemed to be much slower than Asilos expected.
The saint has the guidance from He Jin in her hands, but the current level of development here is equivalent to the level of the late Middle Ages on Earth to around World War I, which is equivalent to covering the distance that would take hundreds of years on Earth in thousands of years.
Something unexpected must have happened in the meantime.
When this picture dispersed, these golden spots of light did not form a new picture, but gradually turned into a human figure.
This is the appearance of a young woman, with long hair draped over her shoulders, looking very quiet.
Xiao Chen knew that this was Louisa, the tower spirit of the Tower of Origin.
"Sir Xiao Chen, I finally have the opportunity to communicate with you." Louisa said.
"You know my name?"
Louisa said: "Although the Saint has not truly awakened, my consciousness has actually been awakened. I heard the conversation between you and the leftover woman before, but I have no way to communicate with you.
This generation of saints has a very bad temper and is very resistant to my existence. They often threaten me with death. That’s why I haven’t been able to awaken yet.”
"So you already know why I'm here?" Xiao Chen asked. He was secretly on guard, ready to counterattack with his mental power if the other party made any unusual movements.
"Yes, I showed you the images just now on purpose. This way you will know what happened on this continent in the past and what caused it all.
Now I want to know, how do you feel after knowing all this?" Louisa asked.
Xiao Chen said: "It is difficult for me to judge whether Lord Asilos is right or wrong. What is in front of me is the result of thousands of years of evolution. This is a fact that cannot be changed. Instead of judging the deeds of the ancients, it is better to use your brains to think about how to do things well in the future.
One thing I can tell you for sure is our determination to fight against the God of Nature. In addition, the development path of combining technology and magic is exactly what we are doing in the East Continent. From the current point of view, we seem to be doing better than here. "
"Eastern Continent?"
"Yes. We are from He Jin's hometown and came to this world accidentally for similar reasons. In the East Continent, we spent a lot of effort to transform it into what you see." Xiao Chen conveyed many images to Louisa in his consciousness. This way of communication between souls can transfer information much faster than conversation. In a moment, Louisa had a considerable understanding of the territory of the Tower of China.
"This... is the result of your five years of work?"
"Yes. So I believe we can help the Western Continent and help you achieve your mission."
"Five years... I have worked for thousands of years towards a similar goal." Louisa, who rarely showed her emotions, had a visibly depressed tone in her voice.
"What happened in these thousands of years that made things progress so slowly?" Xiao Chen asked.
"That civil war lasted for nearly five years, consuming all the mages and nearly destroying the entire country. When the mages fought desperately, they caused terrible collateral damage. The population was reduced by one third, a large amount of farmland turned into desert, and many cities and towns turned into ruins. Technology regressed by hundreds of years.
Famine and plague after the war killed nearly half of the remaining people. "
"Why did so many people die after the war? Famine and plague, didn't Asilos solve these problems?"
"Because he took advantage of the end of the war to start destroying all magic items. He called this the 'magic sweep operation'. No magic array or magic item would be left behind. With an almost crazy attitude, Asilos destroyed everything related to magic. Only the most valuable books and magic props were sealed inside the White Tower.
However, ordinary people at that time had almost no idea how to live, because in the city ruled by the magic tower, every aspect was related to magic, including food, clothing, housing and transportation. There were lighting arrays at night and heating arrays in winter. Many tools used for labor also had simple enchantments, which could greatly improve efficiency. Farmers would use magic fertilizers to grow crops, and miners would use explosive props to mine. After losing these, life in most villages and towns was completely changed. Some villages and towns barely survived, while others could not survive and disappeared quickly.
Asilos transformed my soul and put me into a baby's body for the first time, and then died half a year later. It was fourteen years later when I regained my memory and fully awakened. Compared with the magic tower territories of other times, what I ruled at that time was like an indigenous tribe.
At that time, four generations had passed since the Tower of Origin came here. When I woke up, I talked to the people living in the capital as a saint. They had become very ignorant and had no idea how to live a better life. They just worshipped me as a god. They no longer knew how to read, what the world looked like, what the seven towers were, and the gods of nature. They didn't know that there was a great power called magic in the world, which was once in the hands of their ancestors. The knowledge they knew was all so-called legends and secrets. Magic had become an evil thing, the power of the devil to manipulate the world. Later, it was Marcelino who told me that in the more than ten years when I grew up, their judicial organs had repeatedly told these residents about magic, and even their own executors believed it in the end. "
"Then how did you guide them to restore civilization?" Xiao Chen asked.
"I followed the notes left by Asilos and started to guide them from the beginning. I let them start to master writing again, and then explore the most basic mathematics and physics. However, all this is too slow and too difficult. After all, this world is different from your world, and there are still extraordinary powers."
"You mean fighting spirit?"
"Yes. For the Western Continent, which was full of wild beasts and often invaded by natives, the only heritage that had not been lost was probably fighting spirit. With fighting spirit, one could quickly become a hero and protector of a village or a town. No one was willing to really study writing and mathematics."