Ten years ago, although there was no lack of war shadows throughout Ashe, it was fundamentally different from now.
It seems that since I stepped onto the earth, there has never been a day without wars in the whole world. This is not the crow mouth and the broom star that I always laugh at myself, but this damn world has entered the period of holy war again, and there is no peace. land.
It is ridiculous to seek personal peace and stability when the whole world is at war.
There are not no "Saints" and "Saints" who call for peace, and there are also many careerists who take the opportunity to engage in political action. When the entire nation, country and even race are fighting for survival, the individual's future will naturally become unpredictable. .
You can sing the hymn of peace and raise flowers at the invader, which is personal freedom, but when you meet, you don't know if it's a peaceful smile or... a shiny bayonet.
History tells us that no matter how high-sounding they disguised themselves before the aggression, and how friendly and friendly their tactics towards other peoples, others, and opponents were, once they truly grasped the situation, differential treatment and various forms of seizures would follow one after another. to.
"Nonsense, if you don't pay a lot, it's not for nothing. It's really like an intruder who has traveled thousands of miles to do charity. War is also a costly investment, and it must be paid back."
In Ashe, this fact is more bloody and obvious. It is a race war for survival space and world supremacy, which is more cruel and direct.
racial equality? When the victor's race can obtain enough living space, when the victorious king and the strong can be conferred gods and even immortal, when the loser's clan and gods will be swept into the garbage heap of history, the so-called equality is natural. It becomes an unrealistic rhetoric.
If the victor of this holy war is the last victor, human beings, they will probably be able to maintain a certain degree of stability. At least they will follow the historical agreements and precedents for their "allies" elves, orcs, and dwarves. Good, but not too bad either.
Are forced to linger in the corner of the world, how bad is it? In fact, the victors of the previous jihad, when they won the jihad, the first thing they did was to carry out ethnic cleansing and massacres on the original dominant race and the enemy, so in comparison, it was only a little worse, really Can't say how bad it is.
Before, I would stand on the side of humans, or the side of the order camp. In addition to my natural racial stance, I also did not want to see the chain of hatred play out again.
The ancient humans of the Republic of Taly hated the trolls, the trolls also hated them and the undead, the elves hated all other races, the trolls and the humans had blood feuds with them, the orcs and the dwarves, the humans were all mortal enemies, all of this The root of everything is this damn jihad mechanism.
Every victory actually represents the defeat of other races. That resentment and curse will accumulate and may disappear over time, but most of the time, it turns into a deeper and deeper racial hatred.
"Everyone is dead, and the patriarch is also dead. It's all human's fault."
"Our homeland is the Golden Plains, where once our race originated, cunning humans betrayed our covenant and stole them!"
"It's all human's fault that we've been driven to this remote, ghostly place."
"It's all human's fault that grandma froze to death."
"It's all human fault to be so hungry."
Generation after generation, the brilliant ones who failed will cherish the past, and the descendants of the losers will fill all their misfortunes into the pool of hatred that has accumulated.
What this hatred will turn into in the end, just imagine it is already terrible, I am afraid this is also the winner of the war, and the root cause of the massacre will be carried out in the end.
Endless battle to the death.
And even if you win, there will be a next time. This victory will accumulate more hatred and avengers. Can you win next time? It's hard to say, and even if you win, next time, next time
The history of Ashe is a mirror. There is no dominant race forever, and no race can win every holy war. This is a chain of misfortune and hatred.
Just kill all the other races
Don't be stupid, even if you kill all other races, there are still differences in skin color and ethnicity; even if you eliminate people of other color ethnic groups, there are still differences in regional accents, even if you eliminate all differences and differences, and produce exactly the same android, as long as If there are differences of interest, as long as there is something worth fighting for, or even just drink an extra sip of water every day, they can use the tail number of the number to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, and they will fight to the death.
This is the inevitable result of human nature, or the instinct of natural creatures to seek their own development.
What the two goddesses did was just a push on this basis.
Humans are like this, and animals are like this. Everyone wants to live, and there are not many resources. Then, if you find a reason to divide the enemy and kill some of them, you will naturally get more.
I hate this kind of world, it makes me feel like I'm just a raw wild animal living in the jungle.
"No matter what you do, can't change the world? Damn, damn, damn, damn..."
Perhaps it was this logical contradiction and despair that drove me into madness back then.
In the end, I found the power of the law in the underground world, and this is the answer I found for myself.
"People's instincts are unreliable. Since morality cannot be restrained, let the law come. We draw down a rule. If everyone can abide by it, this eternal struggle may be eliminated."
In fact, my behavior is similar to that of the original Legalists in China. It was the turbulent times of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States that led the great sages of the Legalists to seek the way to save the world by "cultivating the ancients unexpectedly, and doing the lawless".
The laws of each era are different, and that is because the laws required by the era are different.
"It's because morality and self-restraint don't work that we need the ropes of self-restraint."
The law is not very sacred, it is just some man-made ropes and chains, which bind people's nature of "loving benefits and avoiding harm" and "taking advantage and avoiding harm". Get a little treat.
This is a possibility, an ethereal possibility, but there is a difficulty that is almost impossible to break.
In this world where gods exist, in order for everyone to be bound by this chain, there must be a fair judge who surpasses gods.
If those gods can give the green light at will, then this bondage will not only become meaningless, but also become a means of tyranny.
Fortunately, Ayer was moved by this possibility, and the success of the sleepless man's ascension made this "possibility" a possibility. In the end, after a lot of experience and a lot of sacrifices, the underworld and the Inquisitor world after death succeeded.
One day, the souls will not enter the kingdom of God, but return to the underworld, and they will no longer be judged by their dedication and sacrifice for the gods, but by their personal conduct and good and evil. Then, the gear of hatred will be stuck.
One day, everyone will fear the judgment after death and truly face up to the consequences of their words and deeds. Perhaps, war will also be eliminated.
Of course, this is only a possibility, but it is my limit.
Now that the underworld has taken shape, the jihadist fanatics on the order side and the chaos side are very annoying. As long as they continue to instigate the war, then the jihad cannot stop, and all sacrifices are meaningless.
Even, in the eyes of me who is eager to change, the gods and gods of the old era are very annoying...
Therefore, we have been looking for opportunities to eradicate the existence of the old era as much as possible and make this holy war the last.
But this time, someone offered another option.
"Open the barrier of this plane and completely eradicate the necessity of jihad. Isn't everything over?"
During this time, Cavens' words and actions have been lingering in my mind.
Can it end? Is Cavens doing the right thing? Perhaps this option works faster and requires less sacrifice than the "possible" I don't know when it will be realized.
"Even if there are terrible plane invaders outside, at least in the face of powerful enemies, in the face of the pressure of survival, all races will stop civil war. Perhaps, with this opportunity, when the two goddesses do not continue to cause trouble, they can A quite effective communication and joint mechanism was formed. After World War II, it was also the Allies who overthrew the Axis powers, and the United Nations was born."
Maybe someone like me would say something nicer and call it cautious, or something ugly would mean overthinking, not sleeping well, and being prone to baldness... Ahem, Roland is very strong, and Roland is not bald at all.
But after repeated identification, analysis, and comparison, I gave up this idea.
reason? It sounds ridiculous, but in the end, what made me make up my mind was the memory of my past life.
"That earth doesn't have any gods and holy wars. Isn't it the same to punch out the intestines every few decades? Can the problem be solved by really opening the closure of this world? I don't think so, although my method is slow to work. However, it can play a real role. At least in that world, after the concept of legality was popularized and the United Nations provided a certain degree of deterrence by force, the situation improved slightly.”
"If the blockade is opened, it will only change the environment of this hatred chain, enter a larger stage, and introduce more competing races, what's the point of everything? There will always be only one winner, and there will be more losers. Bar."
After repeated identification, I still decided to reject Cavens' proposal, and my close understanding of him has instead strengthened my determination to fight to the end.
"Cavins, it's probably just for fun from beginning to end. This stage is too small and I'm panicking. Let's change to a bigger stage to have fun together, 'What should I do if I mess up? It's nothing, the process is happy', like this How can man give the future of the world to him..."