Global Game: Developing a Knight Clan-Chapter 237 - 192: A Trip to the Insect Race Imperial Capital, The Essence of Civilization Conflict
At this very moment.
Across many regions of Green Saturn, the Blue Star Players were already beginning to make their move.
But Lince, however, was strolling through the capital of the Taven Insect People.
Lince deliberately used the power of Space Travel to conceal his movements.
Not even Deities could pinpoint his exact location before he made a move.
As for the talks of concession from the Insect Deities?
Lince, naturally, hadn’t responded right away.
’The Insect Race can’t just start a war whenever they please and then call it quits on their own terms. Things aren’t that simple.’
Although prolonging the war might put immense pressure on the real world of Blue Star...
...for now, Lince felt it was time for the Blue Star Human Race to understand that nothing of value is easily gained.
’Without sacrifice, there is no sense of crisis.’
’It’s impossible to galvanize the collective will of the people.’
’And this war with the Insect Race will serve as an early stimulus for the people of Blue Star.’
’It will also teach those born in peacetime what it means to respect the strong.’
’Extraordinary Beings are the strong.’
’Preaching that everyone is equal is, in itself, an injustice to the strong.’
’Blue Star should implement special privileges that favor Transcendents.’
’I’m not saying they should be above the law, but in work and life, Transcendents should rightly be admired and sought after by ordinary people.’
’Otherwise, in a war between civilizations like this one, why should Transcendents help the authorities and the common folk fight?’
’Fortunately, for now, the True Game still offers rewards to guide the Players.’
’But what if, one day, the True Game is gone?’
’If a world only knows how to enjoy the peace and fruits of victory brought by the strong, then that world is undoubtedly distorted.’
’Only a world where everyone admires strength, respects the strong, and strives to catch up to them can conform to the Laws of this world and this Cosmos.’
’Only then can the Blue Star Human Race truly forge its own path toward a powerful Extraordinary civilization.’
As for those humans who had no chance to become Extraordinary, or even those who couldn’t cultivate in a Demon World, Lince felt this was simply the choice of nature and the world.
’Survival of the fittest is an immutable truth.’
And the Blue Star Human Race actually had many opportunities.
They might lack the aptitude to cultivate in reality, but if they managed to secure a spot in the True Game, they naturally had a chance to change everything.
And as the True Game continued to expand, while not everyone from Blue Star would have the chance to become a Transcendent, with the intelligence of the Blue Star Human Race, methods like Gene potions could surely be developed.
Furthermore, as long as Blue Star had enough vassal civilizations, and as long as the Blue Star Human Race could win again and again in civilizational conflicts, then even ordinary Blue Star humans, as members of the dominant civilization’s Race, would surely live better than the beings of many other worlds.
So, what reason did ordinary humans on Blue Star have to complain?
Human desire may be infinite, but people should also have the virtue of self-awareness.
The benefits and treatment one enjoys should correspond to one’s abilities.
This, too, was an eternal truth.
This was why Lince chose not to end the war immediately.
Lince planned to let the war continue for another month.
Only after a month would he negotiate losses and compensation with the Insect Deities.
What he should fight for on behalf of the Blue Star Human Race, Lince would fight for.
And for what he should fight for himself, Lince certainly wouldn’t hold back.
Therefore, regarding the current situation in this world, Lince chose to be a temporary observer.
A month should also be enough time for the Player groups to gain more points and benefits.
Yes. Another reason Lince didn’t end the war immediately was out of consideration for the Player groups.
’As an operations administrator, Lince was now starting to feel a sense of ownership.’
’Whether he was familiar with them or not, the current Players all belonged to the True Game and served as Lince’s reserve forces.’
’Nurturing them is essential.’
’If Lince ends this war sooner than the one in the Karte World, the Players’ rewards definitely won’t be that great.’
Thus, for various reasons, Lince needed to consider the interests of the first and second-wave Players.
He even had to consider the three hundred thousand new independent Players who had just appeared in this world.
As such, during his leisurely stroll, Lince no longer had any reason to destroy other Insect Race cities.
After all, in Lince’s eyes, these well-established Insect Race cities would become the property of the Blue Star Human Race, and by extension, his personal property.
With this attitude, Lince soon arrived at the Imperial Capital of the Taven Insect Race.
He had to admit, the Insect Civilization’s Imperial Capital was truly an eye-opener.
Towers over a thousand meters tall were everywhere.
The entire Imperial Capital covered an area of over one hundred thousand square kilometers.
There were densely packed buildings, all sorts of flying contraptions, and various kinds of Insect People everywhere.
High Tier beings were a dime a dozen here; you could see two or three of them anywhere you looked.
Lince could even see Saint Tier beings with enormous Body Types and Insect Beasts.
After all, different Races had their own designated areas to build their residences.
And here in the Insect Race Imperial Capital, there were naturally architectural styles from over a hundred Races. But no matter how great the differences between individual Insect People or how varied their architectural styles, everything in this area was meticulously planned and orderly.
He had to say, a Technology Side World that also had magic truly had its own commendable aspects.
Lince observed as he went.
He discovered that the Insect Race population in the Imperial Capital of this Insect Race Empire seemed to be in the hundreds of millions.
The bustling traffic, with ordinary Insect People’s vehicles of all different styles, was a dazzling sight for Lince.
’To be honest, judging by the current prosperity of the Insect Race Empire’s capital, Lince felt that this world’s level of civilization might be even higher than Blue Star’s.’
’It was just limited by the fact that it hadn’t entered the information age yet, so it seemed stretched thin in certain aspects.’
At least in areas like communication and technological weaponry, although the Insect People had the advantage of Magic Power, they were also at a relative disadvantage.
After all, the technology here was entirely dependent on Magic Power for its production.
If they entered a world lacking Magic Power, without sufficient reserves, their technological advantage would collapse in an instant.
In contrast, Blue Star’s purely materialistic technology didn’t have these flaws.
’Each has its pros and cons, I suppose.’ Lince could only conclude as much.
Moreover, judging from the current state of the Insect Race Empire, it was clear these guys hadn’t even begun to exert their full strength on the Blue Star battlefield.
Seeing this, Lince was a bit speechless.
’Based on the information I currently have, the Insect Race Empire, a massive civilization that has unified its entire planet for nearly a thousand years, must have unimaginable reserves of Magic Power.’
’Even though Blue Star was previously a Magicless World, their war against it shouldn’t have run into logistical shortages so quickly.’
’So, with High Tiers walking around everywhere and possibly over a thousand Saint Tiers in the Imperial Capital, honestly, I can’t imagine what the previous Blue Star could have used to resist such a powerful civilization.’
’After all, the Power of High Tier and Saint Tier beings is terrifying.’
’Nuclear bombs alone would be far from enough.’
Even the thousand-year reserves displayed by the Insect Civilization were far beyond what the Oakland Continent and the Karte Continent could match.
’The only thing comparable is probably the number of Deities, I guess?’
After looking around and wandering about, Lince had to admit, this civilization’s war Potential was extremely strong.
And all of this was perhaps related to this world being a Low Demon world.
Because it was a Low Demon world, there were only four Deities.
Thus, with fewer Deities, it was easier to achieve cooperation.
And once the Deities reached a cooperative understanding, it was much simpler to unify the power of the mortal world.
Furthermore, because the Deities had no lifespan limits, They could continuously supervise the healthy development of the entire civilization from behind the scenes.
Therefore, it made sense that the Insect Civilization had reached its current powerful state.
However, the Insect Civilization’s current prosperity had clearly peaked.
At least, that was the case for its Transcendents.
Because it was a Low Demon World, it could support fewer Deities.
Similarly, Saint Tier beings couldn’t be born endlessly on the mortal plane.
After all, every move a Saint Tier being made consumed a massive amount of Magic Power.
If there were too many Saint Tiers, the Magic Environment on the ground would definitely be affected.
Moreover, based on Lince’s experience entering the Insect Race Imperial Capital, here, within the capital’s environment, you couldn’t even feel a trace of Magic Power.
That’s right.
In such a massive population center, many magical devices and even Transcendents required Magic Power to function.
Therefore, the Magic Power in this area was completely insufficient for their daily needs.
Thus, the Magic Environment in the entire Insect Race Imperial Capital was nearly nonexistent. The Magic Power reserves that sustained the capital’s operations naturally relied on magical resources siphoned from other regions.
They collected Magic Power from all regions of the globe, liquefying or even solidifying it for transport to the Imperial Capital.
This was naturally not difficult for a magical civilization that possessed technology.
But no matter how you looked at it, this civilization’s strength on the Magic Side had peaked.
The thousand-some Saint Tiers were the limit of what this world’s mortal Magic Environment could bear.
And so, developing materialistic technology naturally became a necessary measure.
But the Insect People’s materialistic technology went astray, ultimately producing equipment and armaments that also consumed Magic Power.
This obviously exacerbated the world’s Magic Power consumption even further.
Therefore, if the Insect People continued to develop like this, the planet’s magical ecosystem would sooner or later collapse.
It wasn’t impossible for the world to be downgraded in rank.
And to change this situation, the solutions were actually no different from those on the Oakland Continent.
One, either cull the excess population through internal conflict, war, or other covert methods.
Two, have the Deities set higher thresholds for advancing to High Tier and Saint Tier, using "illegal" and "legal" promotions to limit the number of major Magic Power consumers.
Of course, besides these two points, there was an even more radical method.
That was, of course, to find other civilizations in the Star Realm and use war to acquire the power of other worlds, thereby alleviating their internal problems.
Thus, from what Lince had seen and heard over the past few days, he felt everything made sense.
The Insect Civilization was eager to expand outward; otherwise, it was highly likely to decline after reaching its peak.
But thinking about it, Lince realized, wasn’t the Giant Demons’ Tobien Empire the same?
If a civilization wanted to escape the fate of peaking and then declining, it must either conquer more worlds to break its shackles, like a boat sailing against the current.
Or, it could just wait for death, mired in endless internal conflict, waiting for another civilization to destroy it.
They had no other choice. It was either erupt in silence or perish in silence.
’It has a bit of a Dark Forest flavor to it.’
At this moment, for the first time, Lince had such a deep insight into the wars between civilizations.
He also felt a greater sense of helplessness and lament.
"What a crazy and helpless world..."
