Chapter 2567

After Schiller's explanation, Sivana finally understood. First, people with magical talent in this world are a tiny minority. Second, fortunately, he didn't have magical talent. If he had really entered the mainstream magical world, he definitely wouldn't have survived the last disaster.

"You should thank that old man for not passing it on." Schiller waved his hand and said, "If he had chosen you as his successor so early and brainwashed you for so many years with his stupid thinking, making you believe that the power you possessed was invincible and that you had the responsibility to match it, then I'm afraid you would have died long ago."

The expression on Sivana's face was colorful. Suddenly, he revealed a faint smile and said, "But he still has a successor now."

Consider him lucky to have perfectly avoided the vampire invasion incident. Not everyone can play the hero in that kind of chaotic battle.

Schiller crossed his fingers and supported them under his chin, saying, "Setting aside the power, do you agree with his philosophy?"

"Actually, I don't know what philosophy he has."

"You know at least one point: he thinks people who can't refuse the temptation of power are bad people." Schiller thought for a moment and said, "This is essentially a theory of bloodline."

Sivana also became interested. He said, "How so?"

"Do you think there are people in this world who are not tempted by power? Let's put it this way: in kindergarten, is being attracted to alphabet cards considered being tempted by power?"

Sivana frowned slightly.

"Look, children in kindergarten are illiterate, so alphabet cards are powerful power to them, because if they learn to read, they can identify a lot of information through text, and the world will be another way in their eyes."

"They can also use text to express their meaning, which counts as mastering a new skill, enabling themselves to climb to a new level. Doesn't this count as mastering new powerful power?"

"And what's more interesting is that children's interest in alphabet cards isn't really interest in the text above, but interest in the shape and color of the alphabet cards, and even the teacher's movements in playing with them. Don't you think this is very similar to the process of you being tempted?"

"When you wanted to reach out and touch the Eye of the Seven Deadly Sins, did you really understand how powerful the Seven Deadly Sins were? Did you really anticipate what new level you could enter and what new skills you could master after obtaining this power?"

"Of course not. I didn't know anything at the time."

"Then what tempted you?"

"They kept chanting in my ears, and I felt a bit annoyed." Sivana curled his lips, but still said his true thoughts, "They always let me touch it. I just wanted them to shut up, so I tried it."

"Exactly. This process isn't called being tempted, but just curiosity. The difference between the two is that the former clearly knows what they will get after obtaining something, while the latter is completely in an unknown situation. It is human's most instinctive curiosity and desire for exploration that drives you to contact something."

"And going deeper, curiosity and the desire for exploration are in the realm of the id, the instinct of the subconscious. Climbing to survive, acquiring skills and vision necessary for survival in the real world belongs to the ego realm. Greed that disregards morality due to the temptation of interests is a product of superego disorder."

"And the theory of bloodline I mentioned is exactly confusing them." Schiller tapped his fingertips on the table and said, "They won't distinguish whether the subordinate is out of the curiosity of the id, the survival maintenance of the ego, or really superego disorder, lack of moral control that produces the desire to contact new power."

"Or rather, they deliberately don't distinguish these, but uniformly denounce them as disregarding morality. The essence is that they don't regard subordinates, especially those in positions below them, as individual life entities with complex mental structures like them, but only regard them as tools."

"Therefore, it is impossible for them to empathize and explore why you entered a new level and obtained new power, because in their view, they are humans and you are not. How could you possibly be like them?"

"And if it were them who obtained new power, they would start to analyze whether this happened out of curiosity, whether it was out of survival necessity, or whether morality required them to do so."

Sivana sneered and said, "That old man said he wanted to find a successor to prevent the powerful power he possessed from being lost, wanting others to take this power to save the world."

"Why does he have moral requirements at this time?" Schiller said, "Why has he never considered whether his brutal means of getting you to that place conforms to morality?"

"Why does his superego respond when talking about the common people, but it doesn't work when talking about you?"

"Whose world is the world he wants to save? Is it your world? I'm afraid not." Schiller shook his head and said, "In his view, you don't exist in this world, because you are not a human."

Sivana's complexion became increasingly gloomy.

"This is the horror of the theory of bloodline. If a person who holds the right to speak thinks that all people below them have no soul, will not feel pain, will not feel joy, and should not have desires, then in their view, all your moves to climb to a new level and master new power are rebellious."

"Then things will eventually develop into no longer allowing teachers and manufacturers of alphabet cards to attract children's attention in any way, because if they are born weak, they should know their place, and anyone who adopts any method to make them contact a new level or new power is despicable."

"And only like them, born as a big shot, can one have a rich and full spiritual world, can one flexibly use the id drive, ego control, and superego requirements to obtain everything they can obtain, bravely climb to the peak, and create brilliance again."

"And when they really stand at a higher position, more people will be classified by them into the category of tools that don't know their place. They will stand on the moral high ground to continue to criticize these people and wantonly suppress and persecute them."

Schiller's tone lowered, and he continued, "The reason they can do this is not because everyone can clearly realize that they are confusing concepts, but because ordinary people don't know enough about their own and others' spirits. They can't even explain it themselves, so how can they expose them?"

Sivana fell into thought. Actually, after Schiller finished the concepts of id, ego, and superego, he began to think.

According to what that old man said, he was bad because of low morality and couldn't control himself. According to the theory of psychoanalysis, this is superego disorder.

But Sivana clearly remembered that when he went to touch the Eye of the Seven Deadly Sins, he didn't consider whether it was right or wrong at all, or rather, he didn't know whether it was right or wrong, because he didn't understand the Eye of the Seven Deadly Sins, so naturally, he didn't know its positioning in a certain rule was good or bad.

This isn't "ignorance is no excuse," but that the concept of morality had never been established in his heart, and conscience had never been defined. Good and bad were naturally relative, not absolute.

He also didn't know what benefits this light ball could bring him—whether it could make him rich overnight or give him great power. Those voices in his head didn't say this either, so this wasn't a move he made out of survival needs.

Then there was only one possibility left: he was purely curious.

But this wasn't strange either. At that time, the light ball was closer to him than that old man, and it looked better than that old man. To take a step back, humans all have phototaxis, especially children. Seeing a shining light ball floating in front of you, it would be strange not to touch it, right?

And just because of this one curiosity, that old man defined him as having no morality. Isn't this the confusion of concepts Schiller mentioned?

And just as Schiller said: even Sivana himself had doubted himself before, because clearly this old man was much more powerful than himself, and he spoke so firmly. How could he not think about whether what he said was true?

Plus the tragedy this accident created for his family, Sivana had reflected countless times in the night whether it was because he was born a bad seed that he had to encounter these things.

Sivana felt cold sweat dripping down, because he suddenly realized that a person who believes in bloodline theory and has the right to speak can not only define, but also educate.

A person of high prestige says you are bad, and most people might feel you are bad. What's more terrifying is that you yourself will also feel you are bad.

This will completely obliterate the instinctive desire for exploration, and even obliterate the desire for survival brought by the ego, making people never dare to bravely enter a new level to master new power.

If one lingers in place for a long time, personality will undergo degenerative lesions, leading to more unstable spirits and more difficult survival.

And under the rule of bloodline theory, these people will only feel that they deserve it, because they are born humble, so it should be so.

They might even treat those who make such judgments as gods, because people said it right, you can't do anything, you are bad, so you suffered retribution.

The most terrifying thing in this world is that the fate you accept is not your fate, but exactly the fate your enemy set for you.

Too many people ignore the harm caused by confusing wrong concepts and don't treat clearly analyzing their own spirit as a necessary skill for survival, so they are too easily manipulated. Sivana thought he was such a person.

So he humbly asked Schiller for advice, "Professor Schiller, do you think if I had clearly analyzed my motivation at the time and seen his essence like you do now, would my fate have changed?"

Schiller thought for a moment and replied, "Judging from your current situation, I think you are a relatively firm person. If you think something is right, or at least beneficial to you, then you can persist in doing it to the end."

"And you are a bit of a perfectionist, not the kind of person who would grasp the big and let go of the small. You also require perfection in the details of a plan, or rather, you can obtain spiritual drive in perfecting these details."

"For example, being the principal of Gotham University is just your disguise for seeking powerful power, but since you did it, you wanted to do it best, so you spent even longer than looking for power to complete your work as principal and felt very happy because of it."

"So if you could have analyzed all this at the time, you should have been relatively firm, rather than doubting whether you analyzed it wrong."

"But at the same time, you are a relatively cautious person. In an environment where the situation is unclear, you will tend to make conservative decisions, so you won't argue with that old man about whether you are born evil, because you will worry that he will hurt you."

"The only change would be when you returned to the real world. You wouldn't take that old man's words 'you are never worthy' seriously, because there are also arrogant factors in your personality. You would never take the judgment of someone stupider than you seriously."

"Since you didn't receive spiritual stimulation, then you shouldn't have had too much reaction, which wouldn't have led to your father's accident."

"However, if you could have analyzed all this so clearly at that time, then even if your father and brother developed as they did later, it wouldn't have had any impact on you."

"Because you would understand that they are essentially no different from that old man. The reason they don't allow you to do certain things and think you are not worthy is exactly the same as that old man."

"Essentially, it's that they occupy the right to speak, so they don't allow you to climb upward to provoke them."

Schiller looked into Sivana's eyes and said, "And the indignant emotions they show toward you and all the extreme actions they take toward you come from one of humanity's most primitive instincts—fear."

"... Are you saying they fear me?"

"Of course. Don't you think it's abnormal for a long-lived person who has experienced all the vicissitudes of life to shout such extreme vocabulary as 'you are never worthy' at you in such an intense tone?"