novelraw #240 - Section 240
#240 - Section 240
She shouldn't have her own desires, her own emotions. She only needed to fulfill the mission she was originally created for.
Angels, messengers of the gods, were always just tools, not meant to have a "human" side.
But she did, and it spiraled out of control.
This was destined to be the source of an irreconcilable tragedy.
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Fearless Space, an independent space established by individual user applications, called "Qinggong Education."
It looks like an online school or educational institution, but the density of students entering and exiting is like a subway station in later generations.
Founded in the fourth year of the Eternal Night Calendar, after nearly five years of development, Qinggong Education has become the largest qualification examination training institution in the Empire.
It provides tutoring for various adults to pass professional qualification certificates, skill qualification certificates, research and development qualification certificates, etc.
And the most popular, and Qinggong's most successful tutoring topic, the Imperial Civil Service Examination.
Since the Imperial officialdom opened to civilians, anyone who wants to become an official, regardless of their background, needs to undergo a unified administrative test, and the best are selected for interview qualifications.
The "Imperial Civil Service Exam" has become the second largest way for ordinary people in the Empire to change their destiny.
The first way, of course, is still learning magic.
Spellcasters, even today, are still the elite, and they are still the backbone of promoting the Empire's technological progress with their infinite possibilities.
Although the soul-mimicking wristbands have been upgraded generation by generation, combined with magic crystal machinery, they can also provide combat power equivalent to that of past magicians.
However, now that magicians are the Empire's most important research and development talents, the ability requirements are completely different from the past.
In the past, magicians pursued powerful magic and strived to cast spells with great direct destructive power. Now, the core pursuit of magicians is control precision.
It's a bit like what Roger once told the Eternal Night Empress, weakening a magic by ten thousand times.
But it's more complex and more precise than that, which has fundamentally changed the professional positioning of magicians:
Magic is no longer a means of directly casting spells, but a medium for magicians to transform the world.
Rough work such as opening mountains and filling seas can be done by magic crystal machinery.
As for combat? If mages take action, what do warriors, thieves, and archers do? Eat rice for nothing?
The values of the Red Dragon Lady Che Guevara were disseminated to all magicians through "Arcane Talks" and were widely agreed upon.
The current mages are scientific research talents, engineers, designers, scholars...
They are a new aristocratic class who rely on their knowledge and thinking to gain the Empress's greatest rewards!
The main factor is the rapid advancement of detection and analysis magic in recent years.
These types of magic crystal machinery are expensive, and the higher the precision, the higher the cost, plus various intelligent recording and analysis chips...
But the actual effectiveness is not as good as the feedback from a magic apprentice.
Under the premise of the vigorous development of new arcane arts, the most important task of magicians is to develop ultra-intelligent and ultra-precise testing machines during research and development.
With just a few cantrip-level spells, they can measure the temperature, humidity, hardness, photosensitivity, and other material science data.
This is convenient for production, convenient for research, and convenient for analysis.
Even "Magic Shooting Microscopy," a powerful tool for exploring the microscopic world, is just a level 3 magic, which a level 5 magician can master.
In terms of strength, this is only Tier 1, which can be reached by anyone with magical talent now.
But being able to directly perceive the microscopic world and the parameters of materials during research and development is a great advantage.
Not to mention legendary mages constructing "micro-magic accelerators" to deeply explore the essence of the world...
These are things that ordinary people cannot easily do and require complex instruments to complete.
Therefore, native magical talent has become a major threshold in the field of research and development.
Unless they are geniuses with super strong mathematical or thinking abilities, ordinary people may be able to compete with those magic大佬 in cutting-edge fields.
If you can't be a magician, those with good bodies go to combat jobs, and the best way out is to serve as a civil servant of the Empire.
The Empire has a vast territory, the administrative management system is still being established step by step, and many new positions are created every year, in urgent need of talent to fill them.
The work is stable, the social status is high, the room for promotion is large, and you can personally participate in the construction of the Empire, etc.
Civil servants have quickly become one of the most popular and excellent professions among the opposite sex in the marriage market.
It's just that the administrative assessment was previously monopolized by the original aristocratic class, because they have better educational advantages and the "range-drawing" preferential treatment guaranteed by the Oath of Glory.
But in recent years, the cheap education costs of Fearless Space have enabled the education level of ordinary people to catch up quickly, and they also have the qualifications to participate in the examination.
Institutions like Qinggong Education have sprung up like mushrooms, and even hire young officials who have actually passed the administrative test as part-time lecturers with super high salaries.
The improvement of the level of examinees naturally brings about the change that the passing line for written and interview tests rises every year.
It can be said that the Imperial administrative test has become competitive.
The Eternal Night Empress has proposed suppressing such educational institutions, but was stopped by the cabinet.
Because when everyone becomes competitive, it is easier to find hardworking talents.
The Empire is developing at an extremely rapid pace, and the civil service team does not need geniuses, only hardworking screws.
The more competitive the education is, the more likely it is that the smart, obedient, and self-aware examinees will stand out in the end.
A tutoring session on Imperial current affairs has just ended.
"Hey, want to go to 'Star Bar' for a drink? I'm curious about this year's Empress Award winner!"
"Another award ceremony? We have to go!"
Tom and Jerry, two young people who are preparing for the Eternal Night Calendar Year 9 administrative test, left Qinggong Education with their arms around each other's shoulders and teleported to a futuristic science fiction-style bar.
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Chapter 216 Divine Power Station and Future Route
Star Bar is a Fearless Space virtual bar brand invested and created by Hall, the Dean of the Royal Magic Academy and a traveler of Myriad Worlds.
The most famous thing here is that the decoration style is full of different plane characteristics, and it provides corresponding special food and wine, which is very attractive to young people.
Hall's rich travel experience was originally intended to show off a brand created casually, but he did not expect it to be particularly popular in the end.
Business users prefer the planes of the Order camp, while entertainment parties prefer the planes of the Chaos camp, those who like heavy flavors go to the dirty and messy "Abyss Tavern", and the coming-of-age ceremony recommends the Astral City full of beauties from all races...
After all, at the age of eighteen, Star Bar can provide exciting venues only open to adults.
There are both live services and virtual wives carefully designed by major chambers of commerce, guaranteeing perfect looks, hot bodies, and gentle, virtuous, and considerate personalities, instantly changing into all the clothes you like.
Of course, the latter is not the selling point of Star Bar, but a service that all Fearless Space-like places can provide.
In fact, calculating the price, it is more expensive than offline.
This is to avoid the people of the Empire from being overly addicted to the virtual world. If considered from an economic point of view, the real world is more suitable for "cheap happiness."
But just like some people spend tens of thousands to draw a paper figure, the real three-dimensional and personalized custom beauties in Fearless Space are truly far more attractive to specific groups than real people.
Perhaps this is the charm of the virtual world!
Fantasies that cannot be satisfied in reality, there is always a style suitable for you here.
But tonight, Star Bar is a little different. Almost all theme planes are playing the same content:
The Empress Award Ceremony, live broadcast!
The studio built with a special magic array perfectly solves the difference in internal and external time flow rates. This is a masterpiece of Imperial magic.
The Empress Award is an annual event in the Empire that is bound to be held in December.
It is divided into more than 20 fields such as agriculture, industry, military, administrative, magic theory, literature, and music.
It is probably the soul possession of the Nobel Prize, the Oscar, the Academician Medal, etc., integrated into a comprehensive award, and the glory belongs to the Eternal Night Empress alone.
Also because she is too lazy to name each award separately.
Each award is given to one to five outstanding talents who have made outstanding achievements in their respective fields this year.
Of course, if there are no outstanding works in a certain field this year and cannot be recognized by the jury, then the award would rather be vacant than lower its selection standards.
As the name suggests, the Empress Award is of course personally awarded by the Eternal Night Empress, so many Empress fans will wait for the live broadcast to see Her Majesty's demeanor.
And for the winners, this is also a great opportunity to show their faces and has substantial benefits.
Empress Award winners basically have a stable noble quota, and their contributions will be recorded in the history of the Empire.
Subsequent Imperial aspects will give sufficient resources, which can be said to take off on the spot.
The influence of the Empress Award is very large. Not only can you see the outstanding talents that have emerged in the Empire in recent years, but it also often represents the most outstanding achievements of the Empire in a certain field, and you can know how powerful the motherland has developed.
In the Chaos Desert-themed bar hall, Tom and Jerry have changed several halls and arrived at more than 55% drunkenness.
Drinking in Fearless Space can be non-drunk, or you can choose to specify drunkenness, free drinking, and other personalized modes.
After all, drinking is not only about enjoying the taste, but also the hazy feeling of having the world with you.
It's just that the system will not allow a person to really go crazy or do something out of line under the influence of alcohol.
The two good brothers came to the seat at the bar, which happened to be the Industrial Star Award:
On the huge magic projection, next to two old men, there is also a girl who looks like a student and should not be over twenty years old.
"Wow, this girl is so beautiful!" Tom couldn't help but whistle.
"You haven't fallen in love at first sight again, have you?" Jerry rolled his eyes.
"How is that possible? She won the Empress Award, how could she like me?" Tom drank a big gulp of wine with self-knowledge.
At this moment, in the projection, a girl with long pink hair is taking the medal and certificate from the Eternal Night Empress, looking nervous and excited.
She is actually Xia Na, who made a disguise and went by the alias "Gabriel."
She is both excited about winning the achievement and afraid of being recognized by the Empress and then directly crushed to death.
--In fact, the Eternal Night Empress already knew her identity.
After all, Xia Na publishes articles in "New Arcane," and then makes a series of researches, and finally invents the "Divine Power Station." All of these are layouts guided by Roger and Nicole.
It's just that no one thought at that time that Xia Na, relying on the knowledge she had from the Seven Gods, plus her own intelligence and talent, not only provided intelligence, but also made such outstanding contributions to the Empire.
Oh, Xia Na herself did not expect it either.
It turns out that scientific research is so fun, even more interesting than Fearless Space!
She didn't like new arcane research from the beginning. At first, she really just wanted to complete the undercover work and then find a chance to sell Roger once, leaving him with a deep enough lesson.
The first article was written easily, the tenth was a bit difficult, and corresponding research had to be done to have enough data.
The level of articles in "New Arcane" will also continue to improve, and more platforms for publishing literature have been established subsequently.
Although there are more and more article platforms, "New Arcane" is the ancestor of such platforms, with the largest number of subscribers and the most authoritative standards.
It is also the most dazzling pearl, and the articles published are certainly the most important, and the publication standards are naturally getting higher and higher.
Xia Na wants to attract the attention of Yinbing Manor through continuous publication of articles, so as to join it, and naturally needs to come up with more important discoveries.
Moreover, this discovery cannot be just any conclusion, but must be a professional article with credible process and repeatability...
This led to Xia Na's stock being insufficient!
Nalinael's level is indeed high, but Xia Na is just a projection, and the memory she carries is very limited.
Many high-end magic theories and belief theory knowledge have far exceeded the scope that she can imagine, and certain practices and operations must be carried out to find an experimental process that can be published.
Fortunately, Xia Na already has a small fortune at this time. Ordinary people recharge money in Fearless Space, but she is a powerhouse beyond legend and one of the first players to open the server. She can make money through guild wars and professional competitions.
In addition, the manuscript fees for publishing articles in "New Arcane" make it easy to build a laboratory of sufficient specifications.
In addition, the Dark Night Guard is also staring at her, providing various conveniences overtly and covertly, so Xia Na smoothly joined the wave of research and development and entrepreneurship.
The more articles are published and the more in-depth experiments are done, she seems to have found a path that she is really interested in, and she is going further and further on this path.
With the identity of a specially hired auditor, she joined Yinbing Manor as she wished, and also met Roger in her disguised appearance, and also showed off in the super-dimensional drawing board, waiting for Tassica's action instructions.
I have been lurking next to the target!
In this way, three years and several months have passed, Tassica's action instructions have not been sent, but Gabriel has become a new arcane expert jointly named by the Empire.