Miss Witch Doesn't Want to be a Diva

Chapter 179 The First Charter

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Yuanting Academy, the back mountain.

The continuous and towering mountains are part of the mountain range in the Northern First District. When Hexia first came to the Northern First District, she was shocked by the grandeur of these mountains, and even after spending a long time at Yuanting Academy, this feeling had never faded away.

The mountains were very tall and vast, making many pale descriptions and comparisons lose their color. The mountain slopes extending for more than ten kilometers were like giant steps leading to the sky, dizzying to those who beheld them. If one looked up to the extreme, one would feel an illusion of the earth tilting, losing one's balance.

The higher one climbed, the stronger the wind became. Here, the rocks were ragged with no trees, only a few clumps of grass stubbornly surviving in the crevices.

Stepping on the peeling ridge rocks, the girl spread her arms wide, simply maintaining her balance. Her long, slender legs moved as if walking on a tightrope, crossing over the bluish-white rocks. The wind blew her rough blue skirt tight against her body, outlining one side of her figure. Her hair danced in the wind, her eyelashes soaked with sunlight, revealing shades of brown and transparency.

Maintaining balance in the wind, the girl traversed the long ridge, step by step ascending the peak that the morning sun had gilded in gold. Then, with a light leap, her feet landed on the highest stone of the mountain summit.

This stone was not as smooth as the ones on the ridge. Upon closer inspection, there were many tiny pits filled with a bit of moss and sandy soil, feeling somewhat icy and also slightly black.

Although climbing a peak in real life doesn't reward you with various awards and achievements like in a game, the rolling sea of clouds, the smallness of the mountains and rivers below, etched in one's mind, brought about a kind of satisfaction. It felt as though one was collecting stamps or, similarly, as if one's vision of life were expanding.

Contrary to what some people may imagine, the rocks on the mountain, even if unattended, were very clean, with no need to worry about soiling one's clothing.

Gathering her skirt, Hexia sat on the somewhat cool stone, overlooking the huge canyon below, as well as the winding valleys and rivers in the distance. Occasionally, she would gently shake her legs in the breeze, enjoying the sensation of the light wind brushing past her calves.

After savoring and enjoying this novel experience for a while, she closed her eyes. Then, with her hands lightly resting on the stones beside her, her consciousness began to spread through the stone beneath her.

Soon, the internal structure of the entire mountain emerged in her mind. The continuous peaks were actually covered with only a thin layer of soil on the surface, with the insides almost being a single, gapless mass of rock, undulating like waves upon the earth.@@@@

This sensing of the mountains like incessant waves gave her a brand new awareness, allowing her consciousness to swim through them like a fish navigating through the sprawling mountains.

It was like entering an entirely new world.

Thus, until the sun gradually reached the middle of the sky, Hexia emerged from this immersion.

When she opened her eyes again and looked down at the undulating mountain range, there was an illusion that she could make these 'waves' move.

If the foundation of the new species is made up of lives that are absolutely obedient, simple, and devoid of any other thought, then they are akin to tools. Essentially, these new species are no different from the electronic AIs that assist humans.

The only thing that makes them more powerful than electronic AIs is their ability to provide their consciousness and resonate with the Transcendent Core, powering the Black Sun.

Intelligence has its limits, or to say, the excellence of an individual has diminishing returns; in other words, a smart person with a score of 90 might not necessarily be able to defeat three ordinary people with scores of 70 each.

After their ascension, the new species had a massive advantage in the short term, crushing the nations of the original humans, but their technological and social evolution progressed extremely slowly, only one-tenth or even one-hundredth of that of normal human societies.

It's not hard to understand why; a uniform and regulated life, a spiritual world without variation, and an unchanging environment are hardly conducive to generating inspiration or material.

Reading the same book 100 times cannot compare to the knowledge, inspiration, and broadened horizons gained from reading 100 different books.

The lives of the new species are too repetitive and monotonous. In such a dull society, the majority of the bottom-tier population are merely tools, having no needs and requiring no change, as everything just proceeds according to plan.

Few people know that even the advancement of science and technology requires a vast amount of inspiration and material.

Like a person cannot conceive of things beyond their cognition, when the entire civilization's scope of vision and material is narrow and monotonous, researchers also cannot imagine things they have never seen, because they don't exist conceptually.

If a person from birth only ever saw one color, even if she were incredibly intelligent, she couldn't imagine a world with other colors.

This is the fatal flaw that the new species can never overcome. If they did overcome it, they would become just like the other humans and no longer the kind of life the Black Sun needed.

When the horizon of the new species opened up and the genetic flaws were repaired, they no longer followed blindly and obediently, nor could they maintain that pure worship, and naturally, they could no longer serve the Black Suns.

In the late Fifth Epoch, the newly established Federation gathered many scattered organizations and powers across the Milky Way and gained a vast array of different technologies. Countless talents and thoughts collided at this moment, and science leaped forward, bursting with a vitality that frightened the Black Suns.

More powerful starships, more formidable weapons, and more ways to resolve the new species kept emerging in the hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, breaking the Black Suns' blockade. Fleets that roamed the sea of stars were shot down and destroyed, until the very foundations of the Throne were shattered, and that eternal Sun had to extinguish.

The First Charter: [Treat people as people, and they will respond with equal intelligence and strength.]

"We will build an equal and just nation, to cast our own paradise in this cold, silent cosmos. Today, in the name of Rose, I declare the establishment of the Federation; no matter what the future holds, we will advance and retreat together, without distinction."

That scene when Isenisha took her oath at the founding ceremony a thousand years ago still resonates powerfully and moves the heart.