Chapter 2426 High Magic and Low Magic

The Adventurer's Guild in Novice Village is always lively, with different adventurers coming in and out. They always say hello politely when they see Aqua, a member of the party atmosphere group.

Aqua posted a notice on the adventure notice board to recruit teammates: Our goal is to defeat the Demon King, so we only recruit high-level professions.

A very demanding notice, but no one came. Sato Kazuma was a little anxious. He felt that the requirements were too high. After all, he himself was a low-level businessman with no skills and could not attract high-quality teammates. .

However, the goddess said: "I am the high priest, a super priest who can't even deal with resurrection. My teammates must match my abilities." It was really a mockery of Kazuma.

"Oh, are you recruiting teammates? This is a very good idea." Duran gave Aqua a business card: "But with the goal of conquering the Demon King, I think you'd better not write it like this."

"Hey, isn't the slot supposed to only recruit high-level professions? How many high-level professions can there be in this place? This is the adventurer base farthest from the Demon King's City. It has the same concept as the Novice Village." Kazuma Obviously, he thought that Duran's slot was wrong. It was every adventurer's responsibility to defeat the Demon King, and there were not enough high-level professions in the Novice Village, so Duran was putting the cart before the horse.

But the goddess asked: "Don't you think the devil should be eliminated?"

"Of course I am not saying that the Demon King should not be eliminated, I am saying that the existence of the Demon King is in line with the objective laws of this world." Duran said: "Look, there are adventurers, adventurer unions, monsters and experience points in this world. , these contents seem to be game settings, but in fact, when these things appear in a real world, there is a problem, and that is who will bear the cost of fighting monsters and exploring the world. Or let me put it another way, Sato-kun. Do you think this world is a low-demon world or a high-demon world?”

Sato was stunned. It's really hard to say, but he has played many games and is very interested in this kind of discussion: "High magic and low magic should be considered based on the destructive power of martial arts and magic. I think this world should be high." The demon world, because I heard that powerful magic can destroy a city, and there is such a thing as resurrection magic. It can't be a low demon world." "But does this have anything to do with conquering the demon king?" The young man didn't understand. What did Duran want to say.

"Of course it does matter. Do you think the destructive power should be considered for high or low demons? I don't think so. I think it depends on who pays the cost of exploring the world and studying the truth. If it is a sword and If the cost is paid by magical adventurers, then this is a high-demon world. If the cost is paid by ordinary humans, then it is a low-demon world. Now let’s think about who pays the research costs of this world?" Duran asked. .

Sato Kazuma was stunned. He really didn't know this, but he thought it was an adventurer: "It should be an adventurer. After all, only adventurers can run around, dig ruins and the like."

But Dulan just shook his head: "The ones who really pay for the research costs are the superior gods and the destroyed ancient magic empire, while the adventurers are just resting on their laurels. Since the adventurers do not bear the research costs, they must naturally rely on gods and If the ruins cannot be independent, then it is impossible to defeat the devil. This is the objective law of this world. Even if you defeat the current devil, other devils will appear, because these devils want to pay the cost of researching the truth. It is necessary to break the dependence on gods and relics, and because of paying the cost, the Demon King represents the evil that breaks the rules." Dulan's analysis told them that the appearance of the Demon King is in line with objective laws and is the instinct of this other world to pay for the research costs. To cause trouble, in order not to rely on gods and ruins, someone must stand up and pay the cost on behalf of the other world in order to gain independence in the future.

If the research costs are not paid, then the world will never be independent, and if it is not independent, there will inevitably be a new demon king.

From thought to development, from independence to rejuvenation, everything has to pay a cost, and the reason why future generations can enjoy happiness and receive dividends is because the predecessors have paid the cost, and if future generations only want to receive dividends and are unwilling to pay If the cost belongs to your own generation, then your descendants will have to bear the cost in the future.

Costs will not disappear but will be passed on.

So Duran believes that the first of the two points on the notice is the problem. The devil is the representative of paying the cost, and the adventurer is the representative of receiving the bonus, so their contradiction cannot disappear.

"You will definitely be popular if you participate in a TV show." Sato Kazuma had to admit that Duran's theory was very attractive, but he was not the kind of person who would change just because he heard the truth. If he could change so easily, he would no longer be a stay-at-home guy.

Stay-at-home, otaku, and NEET are not good words. They all represent a group of guys who cannot integrate into society. It is only when children who watch the second dimension grow up that these words become more and more neutral, and they are no longer considered to be derogatory terms, and many people are even willing to elevate the second dimension to a very high level.

This is easy to understand. After all, all entertainment projects that have appeared since ancient times require a process of improvement.

For example, ci, poetry is used to express one's aspirations, and poetry has naturally been of high quality since ancient times, but ci is the entertainment of literati after dinner, so at the beginning, ci were all erotic and almost caught up with the 18+, but later more and more people wrote ci, so some ci writers proposed that ci can also express one's aspirations, just like poetry, and then the status of ci gradually rose.

For example, movies, when they first appeared, they could not be compared with other art forms, so the rhetoric of eight major arts appeared, forcibly tying movies with traditional arts such as painting and sculpture. Later, there was a saying of nine major arts, and games were also included.

In fact, it is just a promotion, ci is like this, movies are like this, games are like this, of course, the second dimension also needs to be promoted, maybe we can come up with the top ten arts, and add the second dimension.

And if the second dimension is to be promoted, more works that promote truth, goodness and beauty are needed, rather than dark and cruel. If anyone mentions dark and cruel when mentioning the second dimension, then it is a historical reversal. History has proven that if words, movies, and games want to enter the mainstream, they must cater to the mainstream ideology, and the mainstream ideology is positive energy, so they must spread true energy. Of course, in the eyes of some people, this behavior of catering to the mainstream ideology is flattery and servility. They just want to make different fireworks and be dark and cruel, so they are destined to never become mainstream, and don't expect outsiders to understand them.

Sato Kazuma is obviously an otaku who is incompatible with the mainstream ideology. After coming to the other world, his behavior is also different from that of normal people. He is actually confused. Now he has a goal to defeat the demon king, but he still has no motivation. In other words, he doesn't really take defeating the demon king seriously, so he won't take Duran's theory seriously. Aqua is determined to defeat the demon king and return to heaven, so she doesn't care whether the demon king is an objective law: "As long as the current demon king is defeated, other demon kings have nothing to do with me."

Goddess, is this okay? Duran thought to himself, you are a goddess, don't you consider setting up a high-end heroic persona like yourself? Do you have to be so real?

But Aqua is so real, because she, the goddess herself, is also marginal and her teachings are also unconventional.