"Technology..." Roland frowned. He had seen in the devil's memory fragment how these alien races were promoted - by merging with more powerful magic stones, to define their own talents or talents, success or death, failure. In essence, there is not much difference between the abilities of witches and witches, they are all resigned to fate, and even more cruel.
But technology is different... As long as you master its laws, you can quickly scale up and develop according to needs, which is never a good sign for humans.
"Are you sure?" As the person closest to Roland's thinking, Anna obviously realized this.
"Further research is needed on the returned remains, but..." She looked at Celine.
The latter nodded his beard and led everyone to a black boulder full of cracks. "This is part of a giant skeleton. Based on the current rough anatomy results, it is likely to be a living creature."
"Well... it's not surprising for a living creature," Roland said, rubbing his chin. After all, an officer mentioned in the post-war report that when the enemy's giant skeleton was hit by a cannonball, it made a howling sound that resounded throughout the battlefield. . "This thing is equivalent to the armor of the deformed devil."
"No, Your Majesty," Celine said in a strange tone, "I mean... this stone is alive."
"what?"
Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then took a step back in unison.
"Wait, you mean it has life?"
"Is the stone also a kind of devil?"
"I don't quite… understand, can you explain in more detail?"
For a time, there was a lot of inquiries in the hall.
"Simply put, it has an independent system and can perform simple actions on its own." Celine rolled up a hammer and slammed it down at the fracture of the stone. With a "dang" sound, the stone turned out to be Trembling slightly. Through the gap, Roland could see that something similar to the meridians was squirming inside, and the trembling lasted for half a minute before it stopped, obviously not caused by the hammer.
"From what we saw at the scene, we can see that there is a huge tissue hanging from the lower abdomen of the giant skeleton. We have always believed that it is the body of the deformed monster. The autopsy results show that the two are not the same thing. Agatha continued, "After discovering this, Celine and I still couldn't understand, since the skeleton itself can move, why does the monster in its abdomen exist? Until I saw the demon slayer transforming his subordinates. , I suddenly thought that this is really similar to a kind of thing."
Anna was the first to react, "Carrier?"
"That's right," Celine applauded, "whether it's a primordial carrier or a worm-devouring worm, they all have a distinct characteristic, that is, when there is no controller, they are still living creatures." She turned to look at Roland, "Your Majesty, do you remember what Kabradabi said - 'Could it be that you have also grabbed a piece of heritage and your civilization has been upgraded?'"
"There's one more sentence after that," Roland nodded. The first time he heard the word upgrade, he almost didn't say "I am Taldarin", so he was particularly impressed, "Those weapons were also made based on the content of the fragments. Came out?… That’s probably what it means.”
Tilly thought thoughtfully, "It now seems that the reason why Kabradabi thinks this way is because they have had similar experiences and obtained the manufacturing method of the carrier from the fragments? That is to say, no matter the spider demon Or is it a giant skeleton, which is actually a combination of two demons, one of which is the carrier and the other is the manipulator?"
"It's very possible, after all, there are too many similarities between the two. For example, the carrier has an extraordinary vitality and can survive for a very long time in a dormant state; even if it is severely injured, it is not so easy to die, etc."
"It's not impossible to attribute the inheritance fragments in the mouth of the devil to the underground civilization, but isn't the latter manipulating the carrier through the soul instrument? The devil's method seems to be a bit far from this..."
"Perhaps...they didn't get the complete magic core manufacturing method, so they couldn't transform their bodies like the underground civilization," Agatha replied, "or maybe this is a more suitable way for their ethnic group to use - just like the Federation is lacking sufficient resources. In the case of a carrier, it is the same as the invention of the God's Punishment Army Transformation Method. In a sense, the God's Punishment Warrior is a carrier."
"Wait, isn't that right?" Nightingale said with a bewildered face, "Although I don't quite understand your reasoning, one thing is certain, that is, human beings have never received any inheritance. All the weapons used by the First Army are all From His Majesty’s idea, the transformation of the God’s Punishment Army is the research result of the Federation, and as a result, haven’t we still mastered the use of the magic core, and took over the relics of the underground civilization?”
"In fact, this is the crux of the problem," Agatha said seriously. "I guess the way to obtain inheritance is not only a way of relics of the gods, and this is the main reason why I call it technology, not ability."
Roland suddenly felt a chill all over his body, and an indescribable feeling came to his mind, "You mean... study?"
"Yes," the ice witch sighed, "through teaching and learning, even if you don't devour the relics of the gods - or inheritance fragments like Kabradabi said, you can get everything that civilization has accumulated. I think this is the "inheritance" " essence. "
There was a brief silence in the hall.
After a while, Celine's words reverberated in everyone's mind, "Considering that the devil has produced so many new weapons of war within four hundred years, perhaps the role of the relics of the gods is to greatly shorten the long learning process, and even It's done in an instant - and the evolution that civilization gains from it is what they call 'ascension'."
Roland finally knew what the feeling was surrounding his heart at the moment—perhaps Kabradabi was right, human beings did acquire inheritance, but not by the relics of a certain civilization, but by the most ancient word of mouth. As a traveler, he has virtually connected the two worlds.
"If that's the case, doesn't it mean that the relics of the gods are recording everything we have all the time?" Wendy looked worriedly at the secret room on the side of the hall, where the relics were stored.
"No one will know the answer unless we can also get a piece of it." Agatha shook her head, "But if the devil really masters the carrier technology, we are likely to encounter more challenges we haven't seen before. She looked at Roland apologetically, "I'm sorry, Your Majesty... I'm afraid the war experience the Federation has gained over hundreds of years can't help you much."
"It doesn't matter, for the devil, the third battle of divine will will also be a brand new experience." Roland comforted, although the future is uncertain, he must maintain confidence in front of everyone, no matter what, he can't take a step back, " In addition, if the upgrade is limited to technology, it means that we can also learn what we need from each other, even those civilizations that have long lost their inheritance fragments, right?"
"You're right," Celine responded, as if consonantly, "and that's one of the responsibilities of our quest members."