Chapter 14: Technological Progress and Cultural Progress

"Due to a powerful infusion of a magical ritual, your body has undergone a transformation!"

"Under the scouring of the magical torrent, your body has been nourished and mutated, and you have gained some special abilities!"

"You have gained personal traits: Arcane Body, Ritual Eye, Intimidating Will."

"Arcane Body: An unimaginable torrent of magic has scoured through your body; even just by scouring, it has forged your body into a powerful vessel compatible with all Winds of Magic."

Constitution +3, can master all Winds of Magic simultaneously."

"Ritual Eye: You once presided over a massive spell that affected the entire world. The power and results of this spell were incomparably terrifying, leaving a deep Brand in your eyes. Anyone who meets your gaze will see a glimpse of that horrific ritual."

Intimidation +20."

"Intimidating Will: You use your own will to make the world bow, whether it be people or Magic. Therefore, in conversation, even without such intent, your will is filled with majesty."

Charisma +10 in conversation."

"World Record: Because of Stonehenge, you held a rare magical ritual, transforming the Chaos Magic Wasteland for a hundred miles around into land filled with elements, suitable for habitation and life. This is a world-class change."

"World Feedback: Due to your clumsy and eccentric methods, all intelligent races in the world believe this is a natural phenomenon, not something induced by someone in secret. You have not received any legendary bonuses."

"Bullshit, this is what I call returning to simplicity! What do you mean by clumsy and eccentric!"

Looking at the messages on his system, Li Ang cursed indignantly, then looked at the man in front of him, who was somewhat muddled, and shouted: "Hey! Oliver! What do you think of my spell? I clearly accomplished such a great feat; I gave this world hope and dreams. No one else could perform this kind of operation, so how can anyone think this is a natural phenomenon?!"

"That must be because everyone believes that no intelligent creature could guide such a terrifying celestial phenomenon."

"That's nonsense. Am I not a person? Aside from my special aspects, I am also an ordinary person."

"……"

Oliver, a former Monastery Knight and now a Kingdom Knight who had been struck with awe after being called by the Holy Grail, opened his mouth as he faced the man whose eyes were literally glowing.

He really wanted to say, why don't you look in a mirror and see where you look like a person anymore. But as a qualified Kingdom Knight, he wisely kept his mouth shut. He let his great master, whose eyes were not only glowing but whose body was also glowing, rant and rave.

The power of a Wonder is terrifying; after Li Ang guided that massive ritual, he also underwent his own changes.

The changes brought by Arcane Body and Ritual Eye were that his skin began to turn somewhat pale, and his gaze began to emit a brilliant white light. No intelligent life could undergo such a massive ritual without changes.

Therefore, regarding Li Ang's existence, Oliver truly felt that power which was vast to the point of infinity.

But he was also puzzled.

The main point of confusion was not that Li Ang had magnanimously spared him, but rather that the orders and status Li Ang gave him after sparing him were truly baffling.

"My Lord, may I ask why I am the Culture Director, while Mr. Wufuruike is the Research Director?"

"……Because there is no one else."

Watching the Stonehenge outside the window absorb the massive amount of magic from the Chaos Wasteland and continuously pour it into the Ancient Sage Testing Ground, Li Ang looked at the Knight before him with a calm expression and gave the answer.

"Because there is truly no one else capable of the task, my Knight. Among the two hundred or so people at the Landing Site, you have the highest cultural attainment because you once had a career in the monastery responsible for etiquette and missionary work. The best of the rest is just a female choir leader, and because of your church, she doesn't know anything." "I am ashamed, my Lord... but even so, Mr. Wufuruike should not be the Research Director; I believe I am better qualified for that."

"You are not qualified. I took a look, and your intelligence is not as high as Wufuruike's. Letting him handle research is more reliable."

Li Ang sighed with a look of worry, waved his hand at Oliver, and tossed the Holy Grail, which was emitting a verdant aura, to him.

"Take the Holy Grail and use this thing to conceive more specialized cultural sections for this city; I believe you can do it with your ability. But whether Wufuruike can actually squeeze out a wheel, I really don't know..."

"……?"

Letting a Norscan savage handle research and such—was he really still dreaming?

Oliver left, looking bewildered, his head full of questions. Li Ang sat in his chair, staring blankly at the slowly increasing research progress and cultural progress.

Regarding the issues of science and culture, Li Ang had thought quite beautifully at the beginning.

Aren't they just research points and culture points? Just add them.

With an invincible Planet Wonder, what can't be added? In a few days, the first stage of the Wonder will be unlocked, and just brute-forcing the values will make everything fine.

Then he realized he was wrong.

Or rather, he was wrong about a small part.

Scientific progress and cultural progress can certainly be rapid, but people are not a system. People themselves require time for learning and transformation.

For existing knowledge and related items, the research points and culture points required to reinvent them are simple. But for things that are unknown, inventing them is incomparably difficult.

For example, using Norscan-exclusive entertainment as a reason, wanting to start the compilation of Norscan entertainment from scratch without involving the Southerners is, to be honest, a very difficult thing. In plain language, there is a penalty mechanism.

If there were normal literary masters and research directors, with the help of the Planet Wonder, there would surely be no problem.

But here was the second problem.

Among all of Li Ang's teams, the one with the highest research index was Wufuruike.

Yes, that savage, the savage who only knew how to hack with a blade, Wufuruike, was now his Research Director.

Heaven knows how desperate Wufuruike's expression was when he looked at the papers full of text and the heavy responsibility of being a Research Director, but Li Ang was even more desperate than him.

But fortunately, if the values aren't enough, points can make up for it. With the Wonder bonus, although they were standard illiterates, Wufuruike and Oliver should theoretically receive the nourishment of knowledge within half a week and become standard Research and Culture Directors.

Theoretically, by tomorrow, they could even take the first step in writing in the fields of research and culture, gradually moving onto the fast track.

However... civilization is never something that can be satisfied just by theory.

Sitting in the central room, Li Ang squinted his eyes as he watched a group of strange-looking creatures walking from the depths of the Chaos Wasteland, and he narrowed his eyes in disgust.

"Demons……"

(End of chapter)