Above The Sky
Chapter 750 - 750 13 Arcane Pathway and High-End Teammates 7200_3

750: Chapter 13 Arcane Pathway and High-End Teammates (7200)_3 750: Chapter 13 Arcane Pathway and High-End Teammates (7200)_3 Ian and Scott left the Alchemy Workshop that had started its preliminary operations, and from then on, Ian would return daily to inspect the progress.

It wasn’t that he feared the workers would slack off, but rather he was concerned they might erroneously believe they understood the mechanisms they didn’t grasp and produce a sample with an imbalanced structure, necessitating a start from scratch, which would be troublesome indeed.

Before leaving, Ian looked at the expressions of the alchemy artisans who were smiling because they had work once again, and he couldn’t help feeling a bit conflicted.

——Is it only in the most chaotic of times, and the most orderly of occasions, that humans crave work?

In tumultuous times, work represents order and stability.

In orderly times, work symbolizes self-actualization and dreams.

Ian was born in an era of order, yet now he found himself in a chaotic world.

He wanted to push the era towards ultimate order, but before that, he was destined to create endless chaos and carnage.

Unlike Emperor Inaga II, Ian, who was currently just a Lord of a territory, would definitely employ artificial intelligence to compensate for the lack of manpower.

However, with the widespread adoption of AI, he would soon face the same problem Emperor Inaga II had encountered.

That is, the vast majority of the lower-class workers would lose their jobs.

Don’t spout that foolish notion, “Why not just use a part of artificial intelligence, wouldn’t that suffice?” — If AI is not being used to ensure absolutely fair allocation and mobilization of resources, what’s the point of using it?

Doesn’t The Empire rule well enough as it is now?

That would lead to a tremendous upheaval.

The artisans who are overjoyed at having an income again, looking at their workers with passion and gratitude, will have a different countenance then.

They will hate him and feel lost in the era.

And what should he do by that time?

——Should he directly distribute money, let the nation support the ordinary people, let them consume, learn, and live to ensure a smooth transition of the economic system?

——Or should he carve out a completely new field, to transfer the focus of the whole populace to suppress the unrest?

Many ideas were forming, many of which, to ordinary people, were indistinguishable from absurdity.

But.

Ian was a Prophet.

He had to think about these problems in advance.

Just like those technological weapons, these social issues, even for the smartest of great men, can only be addressed one step at a time.

“There will be a way,”

Ian sighed to himself, “If all else fails, I’ll start with the religious route, build up the Supreme Spirit Sect first — at least the religious path has a clear and reliable development process, and I can switch to a better method later when one becomes available.”

It was a move born out of necessity, but Ian also found some inspiration in the ‘Era of the Gods’ foreseen in the future of the Spirit Disaster Path.

Yes, from the perspective of fantasy novels he knew from previous lives, the Terra Continent was a non-typical world of swords and magic.

Spirit Energy and Sublimation Skills are the magic of this world, just expressed in a more rigorous and scientific way, with significant constraints on resources.

The advancement of the Magic Potion System is very strict, with each tier signifying a massive leap in class.

But that doesn’t mean Terra Continent will always remain this way.

In the future Spirit Disaster Path, a brand new Era of the Gods has already revealed another possibility.

The technology of the Deceased Monarch/Spirit Gods could create the might of the real deities from stories and establish a complete system.

Consensus represents faith and deity positions—the more people who recognize it, the stronger the deity becomes.

Monarch’s Hell is the Divine Kingdom.

Bestowing Spirit Energy is like granting Divine Arts—each deity has different powers due to the different consensuses.

The Monarch Core is akin to divine status—only with a divine status can an Ascender become a Spirit God.

The Soul Plunder ability is like an invitation from the Divine Kingdom, and the support of the Monarch’s subjects is the essence of a deity’s power.

This is a brand new system of Spirit Gods and Divine Arts built upon the Ascender System.

The Era of the Gods has been proven viable.

So…

Would it be possible to also try to develop a technology that brings real ‘magic’ to this world?

A system that, relying solely on knowledge and learning, allows all people to live with the powers of Sublimation and Spirit Energy—although it still requires talent, at least it would be more equitable than the current world system…

“If even gods, divine kingdoms, and the Era of the Gods could be constructed by another me following a different Path, then this path may well be feasible, too,”

“Could it be…

the Arcane Path within the realm of possibilities?”

As a technician, Ian could only imagine in this way and do his best to make it happen.

He couldn’t guarantee success—in fact, anyone who thought it was guaranteed was lying.

He could only continue to strive and think.

Attempt to create a…

brand new path, leading to the future.

But that was a concern for later.

For Ian at the moment, his mind was more occupied with the upcoming Rebel Highlander uprising and various other trifles.

“It is to be expected the Prism System can’t be used.

A weapon that requires high-purity lenses and Light Element Elixir indeed can only be equipped on a small scale,”

“The Magnetostorm System is unstable, but it’s easier to manufacture and the raw materials are relatively simple…

It’s also fortunate that the Leyan Territory has a number of skilled technical workers.

Otherwise, starting from scratch would have wasted a lot of time.”