The lush forest was blown by a gentle breeze, and the fallen leaves fell gently and went away along the river.
The elves were playing under the greenery, laughter and laughter echoed from the woods, enjoying happiness on the land full of life.
But the next second, the elves suddenly froze on the spot.
Each elf had an extremely shocked look on his face, and his mind went blank.
An extremely strong natural energy seemed to come from not far away in the forest, quickly engulfing them all.
The thick trees were bent and swaying without knowing when, but the elf standing on them did not notice at all that the branches where they were were broken.
Under absolutely terrifying pressure, hundreds of elves looked in the direction of Victor.
The entrance to [Forest Paradise] was surrounded by an extremely violent sea of fire, burning with crackling fire.
But those flames that appeared out of thin air seemed extremely fantastic.
It seems to be attached to the forest with consciousness, but it does not spread outwards.
Aurelion looked left and right between Cassana and Victor, looking a little panicked.
The two people in front of her were her teacher and her aunt.
At this time, Kasana was surrounded by a sea of fire, her eyes dull.
Aurelion still remembered that Teacher Victor just said one sentence.
In the blink of an eye her aunt was in this terrible predicament.
Aurelion hurriedly explained to Victor:
"Teacher! This must be a misunderstanding!"
"Aunt, they didn't harm the elves..."
Victor just stood there, doing nothing. The one eye of the dark crow on his shoulder flashed azure light.
It's like he's preparing something.
And he turned to look at Aurelion and said lightly:
"I taught you how to use your own power, but I didn't teach you the ability to judge things."
"It was my dereliction of duty."
Aurelion was slightly startled.
She couldn't understand what the teacher meant by her words.
"Let me ask you, why does the Reiser family need elves?"
Aurelion answered quickly, because this was what Aunt Cassana had just told her.
"For energy, to facilitate ordinary people's lives."
"Then what? Have they made it easier for ordinary people to live their lives?"
Aurelion listened to Victor's questions, paused on the spot, and opened her mouth.
"But... my aunt said that there is just insufficient energy."
"Lack of energy is just an excuse, a fact that Kasana doesn't want to admit."
Victor looked down at Aurelion and asked her.
"What will happen if these technologies spread to the entire empire, even to the remote villages in the empire?"
"That way..."
Pictures flashed through Aurelion's mind.
Those tedious and dangerous jobs will be replaced by puppets that can move on their own, and there will be no carriages on the streets, replaced by magic cars that can float in the air.
"Isn't this... better?"
Victor said calmly.
“That will only make the poor poorer, the rich richer, and polarize the empire.”
When machinery replaces labor, it means that landowners no longer need to pay the wages of those workers.
They just need to spend money to buy this kind of puppet that can help them work.
Because the nobles no longer need labor, they only need to pay some mechanical repair costs to the Reiser family every year.
The workers' jobs were replaced, and the wages that originally only needed to be paid to them became a stream of water leading to the Reiser family.
But eventually the landowners will find that they too are getting poorer.
No one can buy the food produced, and garment factories have piles of empty clothes.
Because no common people can afford it.
Civilians have no jobs and it is difficult to even eat.
Eighty percent of the world's funds will flow to the Reiser family and the nobles who have cooperated with the Reiser family early on.
And this change is almost subtle.
In Victor's words, Aurelion imagined that extremely depressed scene.
She couldn't accept it for a moment, a fearful expression appeared on her face, and she looked at Cassana.
"how come……"
Large swaths of civilians will have no food or income, and even their last residences will be mortgaged and displaced in order to survive.
After the last sum of money was used up, they could only slowly welcome death.
"Of course, you don't have to worry about that."
"That's not going to be the case for a long time."
Because the Reiser family does not have enough energy, they are only in the trial stage and working hard in that direction.
"You should also have met the 'people' living in Tieppo."
Victor's voice sounded faintly.
"This place is called the 'Advanced City'. Likewise, it has advanced medical treatments."
"And most of the residents you see wearing various prosthetics are wealthy people from other countries or other cities."
"Physical disabilities caused by various reasons make them want to live a normal life, so they must live in Tieppo, undergo annual physical examinations, and constantly replace functional prostheses."
"Then do you know the minimum daily expenses for each of them?"
That was a number that Aurelion could not imagine.
"Ten thousand Geo."
In the capital, 10,000 geos can buy 10,000 pieces of bread.
In this mechanical city of Tieppo, it is only the minimum expense for everyone in this city.
"So none of the people you see here are civilians, because civilians don't deserve to enter this city."
"Now, do you still think that everything here is for ordinary people?"
During Victor's brief words, Aurelion felt a chill running down her spine.
She only saw the superficial beauty in Aunt Cassana's words and the prosperity of this city.
But completely ignored the cruel reality hidden behind the beauty.
Tieppo is not a happy-go-lucky tech town at all.
It's just a gold-swallowing behemoth packaged in exquisite looks.
"I never deny that your aunt Cassana may have thought about ordinary people in the empire, because she was also a princess of the empire."
"But the Reiser family is destined not to be her family alone."
Victor put his hands in his pockets and cast his indifferent eyes to the depths of the forest in the distance.
There were many elves inside who poked their heads through the traces of natural energy and looked at Victor from a distance.
The moment they saw Victor, each of them would be startled and huddled among the lush trees again.
"So you have to understand why they try their best to please the elves."
"The elves can bring them unparalleled wealth, so they use the power of the elves to gain more value for themselves."
The elves have lost their natural energy, just like a tiger whose fangs and claws have been completely pulled out.
Their wildness has been completely eliminated, and they no longer have the ability to protect themselves. They are self-anasthetized in this "paradise" built for them, and live a carefree life.
Continue to deliver fresh energy to the Reiser family, and also feel that humans are really good to them.
"Of course, I won't criticize this behavior, because these elves are voluntary. Although they were coaxed to come here, they did not object to the actions of the Reiser family."
Victor's words reached Aurelion's ears word by word.
Her body trembled slightly and she lowered her head, feeling a little confused.
At this point, she could no longer tell who was right and who was wrong.
Aunt Cassana indeed painted a bright future for Aurelion.
When viewed in conjunction with this advanced city, it really made her full of fantasies about the future.
But this beautiful fantasy was torn to pieces by Teacher Victor.
The reality hidden behind was laid naked in front of Aurelion.
"But...Why does the Reiser family need so much money?"
Victor looked at the confused Aurelion and was about to say something.
Suddenly, Weijia's voice sounded in his ears.
"Victor, we can go."
Its one eye no longer glowed, but Kasana knelt on the ground as if her power had been drained.
Victor just glanced at Cassana briefly and saw her lost look.
Finally, he cast his eyes towards the door.
"Although I really want to tell you something more, but..."
The door of the scientific research institute suddenly opened, and Elsa rushed in with many soldiers.
As soon as the guards came in, they saw Cassana kneeling on the ground. Elsa was shocked.
She looked up again and happened to see Victor again.
Elsa's face became extremely gloomy, she put her hand on the handle of the knife at her waist and shouted sharply:
"Inform the family of all high-level combat capabilities."
"Determine the intruder Victor as the highest crisis."
"Attack them immediately, no need to capture them alive."
The soldiers immediately took out their weapons, with extremely serious faces, and surrounded Victor in a circle.
But Victor just stood there quietly and didn't take any action.
When Aurelion saw this, she held up her skirt and stood in front of Victor menacingly.
Confront all the warriors in front of you.
"I am Aurelion Sol, you should know who I am."
"Now, I want you to tell me, what do you want to do to my teacher?"
Elsa looked at Aurelion, narrowed her eyes, but did not let go of her hand on her waist.
"Your Highness, please don't make things difficult for us."
"Why, do you want to attack me too!"
Aurelion's words sounded sharply, and she looked at Elsa with a look of maturity and majesty that was different from her age.
The soldiers couldn't help but feel a little afraid and took a few steps back.
No one present could bear the extremely serious crime of attacking an imperial princess.
Suddenly, green fluorescence gradually emerged, and countless vines came from all directions, entangling all the warriors.
The vines were hanging in the air, and no matter how hard they struggled, it was to no avail.
Aurelion on the side was shocked when she saw this scene.
Just as she was about to turn around, she felt a big warm hand on the top of her head, moving her body slightly to the other side.
A slow and confident voice sounded faintly behind her.
"Aurelion."
"I'm not weak enough to let students protect teachers."
