Miss Witch Doesn't Want to be a Diva

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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.

Although tempting, it was indeed an illusion. The girl spread her hands and looked at her palms, then lightly pressed them onto the stone beneath her. Like ripples spreading, the stone beneath her gradually became transparent until it was as clear as crystal, and this phenomenon continued to spread down the mountain, transforming the entire peak into a crystalline clarity.

In reality, most substances can be transparent, allowing light to pass through to appear sparkling and translucent, but in nature, truly transparent materials are not common. This is because of the disordered internal molecular structures, where different molecules form different patterns with many gaps in between, causing different scattering and refraction, rendering materials opaque.

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If one could compare human hearts to the rocks in these mountains, in a primitive and uncivilized state, they fight each other for their own interests, and most of their energy is spent on internal strife, with their inner structures chaotic and turbid, hence dull and black.

But if, due to some concept, they gradually come together—first forming families, then tribes, and eventually nations—they can unleash increasingly powerful forces. The whole also becomes progressively more transparent, with even the innermost molecules able to glimpse the light and world outside.

Life inherently seeks benefits and avoids harm, which is the driving force for existence and continuation. How to persuade the majority of life forms to believe in the same collective, to work towards the same direction, is one aspect—having common interests. Yet that is not sufficient. If it were only a union of interests, it would easily break because interests change too unpredictably and don't apply to all situations.

Individuals have limits, even those with strong social skills can only maintain close and familiar relationships with about 150 people, which is nearly the limit, and a tribe or a nation certainly exceeds that number.@@novelbin@@

In order to bind individuals together like grains of sand, the wise of ages past devised many methods, from the simplest blood ties to more easily promoted ones like religion, concepts of ethnicity, as well as the more special culture and ideals, etc. These are like magnets, aligning scattered individuals towards the same direction.

It is good to learn knowledge. However, as enlightenment and understanding broaden, people can no longer be so easily deceived, and they also become harder to immerse in the so-called religions and beliefs. They analyze profits and losses more calmly, weighing their own gains and losses.

Speaking from an individual's perspective, such behavior is conducive to survival. But from a higher dimension, such a group inevitably becomes weaker because they start to distrust each other and find it difficult to fully synchronize. Sometimes, even when the right options arise, a minority, for their own selfish interests, will interfere.

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In the short term, individuals indeed benefited, but in the long term, the weakening of the entire group made individuals no longer safe.

This kind of event has not only happened once in history; nations that were once advanced in civilization were overtaken and replaced by surrounding barbarians.

How to bridge the gaps between groups to achieve a flawless and united crystalline entity has almost inevitably become an issue faced by civilizations upon reaching a certain level of development, especially those populated and expansive civilizations, which must confront this problem head-on.

In the past, the Black Suns had used shortcuts like genetic modification and brainwashing to achieve this goal quickly, sweeping across the Milky Way and expanding their Star Domain, suppressing the original humans within a mere thousand years.

But such shortcuts are not without cost and are inherently flawed; the adverse consequences slowly emerged in the later stages, which also led to the final downfall of the Black Suns.

[If you treat people as tools, they will respond to you as tools.]

This was something Isenisha said to Oxikasha in their final conversation.

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.