"… Children who don't know how to speak should read more books before they speak."
Li Ke stroked Nico's blue hair, speechless. He felt that it was necessary for the children of this world to be educated for nine years. At the very least, they wouldn't talk about such things so easily. The ignorance in her words was indeed heart-wrenching and helpless. Just like Nadri, it was a problem caused by a lack of education.
But when he thought about the complicated situation of this world, and the fact that child labor was used all over the world, and the fact that children were forced to work in their own shops or other people's shops, they had to support themselves. Li Ke felt as if a mountain was pressing down on him. Fortunately, this problem could be solved by developing productivity. For a player like him who had activated the map modifier, it wasn't a particularly difficult problem.
The difficult thing was, what would be left of this world after he left?
The more he grew, the more he felt his ignorance. Every time he reached a new level, he felt a sense of respect for those who had worked hard for thousands of years, and a sense of admiration for the wisdom that they had accumulated over thousands of years. And the stronger he became, the more he felt the reality of this world, and the more he hated the gods in the sky. This was because he wasn't the only one in this world who could use all kinds of magic to make the world a better place, and who was willing to do so. But until now, the world was still so cruel and ignorant.
Freldrod was barbaric and uncivilized. Less than one in ten children survived. Demacia was stubborn. Commoners would always be commoners, and nobles would always be nobles. Gold and jade were on the outside, but corruption had long been hidden within. Noxus bloodily suppressed its own people. Slaves were used in the arena, slaves were used, and there were massacres. Countless weak old people and children died in the sewers, as well as veterans who had lost their right to fight. There were also wars that were waged as if drinking poison to quench thirst, vainly trying to make the world pay for the waste and consumption of its own people. Shurima had been lost for thousands of years. The warlords fought endlessly, and Noxus kept sucking their blood. Not only did the warlords not feel ashamed, they even felt honored to be part of Noxus.
Piltwalf had a clear hierarchy, but the lambs waved flags and shouted for the wolves that ate them, and gave sympathy and worship. Ionia was like the end of the Qing Dynasty. The landlords were ambitious and did not allow the commoners to have a bright future.
These were all things that he wanted to change. These were also things that those who had once fought for this world wanted to change. They had all succeeded in the past. Demacia's glory came from them. Noxus' progress was also because of them. Shurima's prosperity was also because of the sacrifices of countless people like them. Ionia's path of balance and peace was also a beautiful path developed by these people. Pi City and Zu An could even claim that they were the most equal and most progressive countries in the world at the very beginning. Countless countries that had disappeared, like them, had once forged countless brilliant and beautiful worlds.
But in the end, the world was still the same. The greed and selfishness of mortals naturally had to bear the greatest responsibility for such matters, but …
"Gods in heaven, are you really innocent?"
The sudden outbreak of the Void Calamity was not at all normal. Li Ke did not dare to say that he was 100% sure, but there was definitely a mastermind behind all of this that exceeded the power of mortals. Li Ke clearly remembered that when the timeline was the players' familiar timeline, the Void Calamity was only limited to Freldrod and Aikasia. There was no large-scale outbreak at all.
That was why he couldn't help but think that if the gods' power surpassed the speed at which he grew stronger, then when the gods attacked him and he died, how much of what he left behind would be left, and how much of the world would he be able to push in a better direction? As for the giant gods who had obtained power from the Dragon King, would they be enemies that he could only fight with his life on the line?
He was not afraid of death, nor was he afraid of sacrificing his life to protect his career and family. He just wanted to know how far he could go, and what direction his career would take if he really died.
After all, although he could not rule out the possibility of eating books, he had seen Freldrod's Void Calamity erupt, and then Shurima's Void Calamity erupt as well. If he still could not see that there was something fishy going on, then he would have been a commander for nothing. Ryz had also told him about the dangers of the World Rune. He was talking about their enemy, Zooey, because Zooey had once smashed a meteorite into the capital of a country in order to reveal the hidden World Rune below, so that mortals could obtain the power of the World Rune.
Did this mean that they would not use the Void Calamity's power to do something?
Li Ke did not believe it.
"So you two better behave yourselves."
After realizing that this was no longer a matter that the two children could intervene in, Li Ke stretched out his hand and wrapped all the nearby lives with branches and vines. Nicho and Nidri were especially taken care of and were tightly bound by the branches and vines. Li Ke, who had once again connected to the earth, also discovered how bad the situation was through the network of roots at this moment.
Countless holes were rapidly appearing under the ground. Huge worm-like monsters were constantly devouring the soil and sand, as well as everything they could come into contact with. Because of this, their bodies were constantly growing longer, and more worm-like creatures like them were gushing out from their bodies. However, they did not become very large because of this, because behind them were countless Void Worms of different shapes and sizes gnawing on their bodies and young. If the speed of their gnawing slowed down and their bodies did not grow faster than the speed at which the Void Worms gnawed on them, they would be completely devoured by the greedy worms.
Li Ke also saw the bodies of several dead worms turning into pieces of sludge and flesh. Then, a large number of monsters that looked similar to Reksy suddenly emerged from the sludge and flesh. While gnawing on the sludge and flesh, they opened the barrier of this world, allowing more monsters to appear in this world.
Some of the monsters that had just appeared in this world had complete and symmetrical forms of worms and other creatures. Some were whips, or to be exact, soft fiber-like substances that reached into the world on the other side of the door, then twisted and curled together, barely becoming a creature. Their pale bodies also turned black and hardened in an extremely short period of time, turning into strange weapons of war.
Even the edge of the world had become like this. Li Ke could already imagine what Akashic, the land that had long been corroded by the Void, would become!
"Damn it … This can't be called an outbreak at all!"
This was war! A war between two worlds!
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