Chapter 452: Magic and Technology

"Magic guidance technology? Little Yaojing, are you talking about those toy-like technologies that the moon rabbits made?"

As an alchemy expert, Senior Miya wasn't unfamiliar with the term magic guidance technology. It's just that in her impression, this technology had always been just a toy.

Among the many worlds in the Western Universe, there are not only magic civilizations, but naturally also technology civilizations. Just like the moon rabbit clan, which is actually a technology civilization.

It's just that the four major disasters standing at the peak of the universe are all magic civilizations, which shows how awkward the situation of those technology civilizations is at present.

The peak of those technology civilizations is at the level of top Silver species like the moon rabbits. They are still considered powerful in the entire universe, but in the eyes of disaster species like witches, so-called technology is just a small path, a toy.

"Little Yaojing, although walking the path of developing technology is indeed a way when we cannot obtain witch power, the path of technology essentially belongs to the path of omniscience. The knowledge reserve required to develop technology is really too much. In a short time, we simply cannot build a complete technology system from scratch."

Senior Miya was obviously knowledgeable, and she pointed out the shortcomings of the path of technology with one needle.

Generally speaking, magic and technology are opposed to each other. This opposition stems from the difference in the ideological consciousness of both sides.

The source of magic power is the heart. Mages are almost all idealists. They emphasize that all great power eventually returns to oneself. In essence, the end of this path is the Realm of Omnipotence.

The origin of technology is knowledge. Scientists are mostly materialists. They pay more attention to logic and laws, and are good at borrowing external objects. In essence, the end of this path is the Realm of Omniscience.

These are the normal development routes of magic and technology civilizations, one omnipotent, one omniscient, but eventually they will reach the same goal by different routes.

Highly developed magic civilizations look like a sci-fi world, while many things in highly evolved technology civilizations look no different from magic in the eyes of mortals.

It's just that witches are really weird. They choose to have both.

Both hands must be grasped, and both hands must be hard.

Both the paths of omniscience and omnipotence exist in the Witch World. Seriously speaking, witches on the path of omnipotence are real witches, while witches on the path of omniscience are more like scientists wearing mage robes.

It's just that witches are from a highly developed magic civilization and switched halfway. This led to the fact that even though witches on the path of omniscience are essentially scientists, they never ponder how to develop technology, but invest all their research results into improving the efficiency and power of magic.

Hmm, the proud works of great scientists in normal technology civilizations are all kinds of inventions and creations, but the proud works of omniscient witches are all kinds of precise spell models they improved.

The reason for this distinction is actually that omniscient witches have been secretly envying the talent of omnipotent witches. Who wanted to walk the path of omniscience from the beginning? It's all because their talent wasn't enough, they couldn't walk the path of omnipotence, so they ran to the path of omniscience with a lower threshold, wanting to make up for the lack of talent with knowledge.

Those technology civilizations are the same. The starting point of such civilizations is generally a mortal civilization. They have no magic talent and cannot be mages. Unable to control the transcendent power of magic, they have to rely on their brains to create some inventions to improve their lives.

After all, if everyone could fly naturally, what is the need for airplanes to be invented?

Precisely because scientists in technology civilizations cannot fly naturally, they used their wisdom to invent tools like airplanes.

But witches can really fly.

Even if witches on the path of omniscience are "average aptitude" poor students, they are still supermen compared to mortals. Then the "technology" they research later is technology suitable for supermen, not technology for mortals.

In another perspective, the spell models improved by omniscient witches are actually "Witch Technology".

Or rather, the "Witch Technology" mastered by omniscient witches is too high-end, leading by several versions. This is actually the late-stage technology of technology civilizations.

After all, with the progress of technology, special technologies such as biological transformation and genetic evolution can allow mortals to evolve and also obtain transcendent power.

Although technology civilizations generally arrogantly call these evolutionaries "super-powered people", in essence, these evolutionaries are just obtaining the ability to control magic power.

It's just that different people control different magic power, so there will be differences in ability.

For example, those who control life magic power have strong physical fitness and are combat-type super-powered people, and those who control elemental magic power can manipulate water and fire and are elemental-type super-powered people.

And the ability of "super-powered people" needs to be developed to become powerful, and developing abilities generally requires something called a super-power program. And what mages generally call similar things is spell models.

Look, isn't it the same goal by different routes?

Of course, super-power programs and spell models only look similar. In essence, they are still not completely the same. After all, the core of one is still idealism, and the core of the other is still materialism. The two cannot be completely compatible, at

Probably only when one truly reaches the realm of omniscience and omnipotence can these two be completely unified.

It's just that for now, there are no other technological civilizations in the Western Universe that can refer to or learn from these 'Witch Technologies'. After all, the controllers of primordial mana are really only the witches; other technological civilizations are mostly still using third-level or even fourth-level degraded mana. Even technological races like the Moon Rabbits that can use second-level degraded mana are not many.

But even the Moon Rabbits find it difficult to refer to witch magic; after all, the energy matching of both sides is different. You are a steam-powered difference engine, and I am a computer operating on electrical energy. The operating principles of both sides are different; it's hard to copy each other's homework.

In short, for now, the witches hold a contemptuous attitude towards most so-called technologies. After all, those things are like toys in the eyes of witches; the things those technological creations can do, they can only do better with magic.

Who let witch magic itself carry ultra-cutting-edge technological components.

Senior Sister Miya is also like this; she feels that taking the technological route is a dead end. Abandoning the magic path that the witches already have a foundation in to take that technological path with a low ceiling—this really doesn't count as a good method in her view.

"I also have the same thought as Senior Sister. My lady, this 'people-oriented' approach of yours—you wouldn't be thinking of relying on this group of mortals, right? No matter how many mortals there are, they are just ants in front of the angels. No matter how many ants there are, they can't bite a dragon to death."

Not only does Senior Sister Miya oppose it, but Madeline doesn't agree with this plan either. The succubus girl also questions it at this moment.

It's just that Alice and Audrey, these two little cuties, look at each other and say nothing.

Alice is a poor student; she really doesn't understand much. Anyway, mindlessly following her sister is enough.

And Audrey actually also feels that her senior sister's method is a bit flawed, but considering the various miracles her senior sister created before, she feels she should not question her senior sister's decision with her own mortal wisdom, lest she get slapped in the face later.

Before, when her senior sister went to the Nine Gates Joint Examination, she also questioned her senior sister like this. In the end, facts proved that it was indeed she who was too weak, to the point that her imagination was not enough.

Sure enough, facing the questioning of Senior Sister Miya and Madeline, Dorothy is also prepared and speaks.

"Two senior sisters, you wouldn't have forgotten that witch warships are also a kind of magic-guided technology, right?"

Just one sentence from her directly leaves Senior Sister Miya and Madeline speechless.

Although the witches indeed rely on their own power to fight most of the time, all giant war weapons are sometimes truly useful, and the pinnacle of giant war weapons is the witch warship.

Although they can still stubbornly insist that if facing big shots at the Sage level, most witch warships are still toys, but this is being a bit too unreasonable.

"My lady, although witch warships are strong, you can't possibly build warships with your bare hands; that's not realistic."

Madeline seems to want to persuade her a bit more.

However, just as her voice falls, she sees the lady opposite her suddenly put her hands on her hips, her face looking triumphant, while Senior Sister Miya, who was on the same front as her just now, says nothing.

Ah, this...

The succubus girl is not a fool either. Seeing this strange situation, she immediately realizes an outrageous possibility.

But this is a bit too un-magical. My lady, even if you can take the nine-system joint examination, single-handedly building a warship is still too over-the-top. Even the Demon King didn't cheat like you back then.

Madeline still doesn't believe it; after all, she is not a member of the Witch's Home club and hasn't participated in the previous warship building process.

But her own sister participated.

"Sister, it's true. Senior sister just hand-built a warship not long ago. Now it's our club's vehicle. It was built with a pile of building materials; it can jump through the spirit world, and the main cannon's power is at the level of a ninth-ring spell."

Audrey looks at her sister's disbelief and hurriedly whispers.

Madeline: "....."

This Disciplinary Committee Chair can't close her mouth now. Her sister is a good child and really never lies, so this is actually true?

Damn...

The succubus girl directly curses in her heart. She really takes armed witches as her career goal, so she naturally knows the gold content of witch warships very well. If they can really produce a few witch warships in this Witch's Night, they don't need very advanced warships, just ordinary ones would do, and they could all eat hot pot and sing songs, then directly destroy the angels' lair and flatten that Church Holy City with one cannon shot.

"Little Yaojing, but do you still retain your memory? Shouldn't those pieces of knowledge be sealed?"

Senior Sister Miya is also a bit excited at this moment, but she calms down and asks again.

"Hmm, they are indeed all sealed, but Senior Sister, you have to know that knowledge cannot be completely taken away, especially the knowledge you have thoroughly mastered. Lord God King's power only temporarily blocked our memories, but it's like a dried-up riverbed; as long as it rains, the river will still regenerate quickly."

Dorothy nods, first admitting it, but her face is still confident.

"As long as you give me a little time, I can quickly find those pieces of knowledge back."

And regarding this explanation, Senior Sister Miya nods; she believes it.

After all, recently in the God King's little classroom, she herself also discovered that learning alchemy is much easier than other magic, and often as she learns, she can draw inferences about other cases, far faster than when she first learned it as a child.

This naturally cannot be because she became a genius; it's simply because the residual memories in her brain have revived. As the chief of the contemporary alchemy school of the Witch Academy, she was originally an alchemy master. Even if the memory is gone, the instinct, vision, hand feel, and other invisible things still exist.

If she is already like this, then the Little Yaojing who is smarter than her must be even more so.

If the Little Yaojing can really produce a witch warship in the end, then even if Lord God King doesn't awaken and they cannot obtain the power of the witches, they still have the possibility of resistance, at least not to the point of being beaten without any power to fight back.

"If that's the case, then I have no opinion. I will fully support you."

Senior Sister Miya nods and says so.

She now understands why the Little Yaojing wants to take the technological path; this is to prepare for building warships later. After all, after everyone loses the power of the witches, it will be a bit difficult to build ships with bare hands again. Then having a certain level of industrial technology will be much more convenient.

And if individuals can't do it, it's only natural to rely on the power of the collective; after all, only by concentrating power can big things be done.

The Golden Princess finally understands the intention of the second 'people-oriented' point.

Although that group of mortals has poor combat power, they can still come in handy if they just assist in doing work.

And since Senior Sister Miya nods, Madeline doesn't say much either; she doesn't have too much opposition.

Although as a pure martial artist, she actually doesn't like sitting in a warship and manipulating the turret to shoot, but prefers to go to the battlefield and fight people head-on, she also understands that before obtaining the power of the witches, such an idea is unreliable. After all, she can't ask my lady to give her a mecha or something to take care of her.

My lady is already a shipbuilder; how could she also know how to build construct mechas.

It's just that, on the other side, Dorothy is planning more things in her heart.

War, this thing, actually, as long as the frontal combat power is not far apart, then what is fought in the end is often logistics capability.

Isn't this a coincidence? She, the civil engineering witch, is best at logistics; after all, her Spider teacher is best at the construction work of war facilities on this battlefield.

Hmm, I have to find a way to get a few Giant God Soldiers taught by the Spider teacher to prepare for construction, and open a few arsenals first.

Damn, clearly it was agreed to be a real estate tycoon, how come it became professionally aligned inexplicably in the end? I shouldn't have learned any war puppet techniques from the Spider teacher back then; it's really unlucky.

And besides warship building techniques and war construction techniques, the Forest Witch series of magic cannot be wasted either. The magic system of normal witches has idealism as its core and is incompatible with technological civilization, but the witch system is created by me with the materialism of my previous life as its core; this seems to be compatible with technological civilization.

"Alright, then since everyone agrees with this tone, then next we should discuss the specific plan."

Dorothy doesn't continue to think too much; she quickly continues the meeting and says so.

"If we want to climb the technology tree, we need a complete industrial system, a whole set of relevant research institutes for researching technology. Secondly, we need enough materials, enough resources, and in order to coordinate everything, we need a strong leadership organization."

"And everything comes down to the fact that what we need now is actually enough wealth and talent."

"Everyone, next we will personally create a prosperous world, a great civilization."

.... Dorothy is talking eloquently...