Hate me, Miss Witch

Chapter 48 Char’s Utopia
  Weaving dreams is the specialty of the succubus clan.

This race is not good at weaving nightmares to kill enemies, but it is particularly good at weaving sweet dreams.

Especially the succubi royal family who have been favored by the Dragon of Dreams, the dreams they weave can almost be fake and real, making people sink into them forever.

And this is also the reason why Isadella activated Diris, a secret that had been hidden for many years.

The silver-haired princess was indeed attracted by Char Egut's identity and the potential and abilities he showed, but Char's origins were always shrouded in mystery.

Coupled with the possibility that it might be the resurrection of an ancient character, Isadella must investigate Char's character.

Otherwise, it would be great fun if an enemy of the past empire became a "sword bearer".

You can lie when you ask questions about language. When training covert agents in various countries, they will focus on strengthening their ability to resist interrogation. As for various past backgrounds and resumes, they can also be forged.

Only the mental landscape cannot lie. This is an illusory world determined by a person's subconscious mind. What it reflects is the most real scene deep in one's soul after peeling off the layers of disguise and outerwear.

The dream weaved by Diris, the succubus royal family, shows the most perfect world imagined in a person's subconscious.

That is to say——

"A Utopia of Independence"

The greatest beauty that ordinary people in the Western Continent can imagine is sleeping in the most luxurious palace in the world, holding the most beautiful woman in the world, and sitting on countless wealth.

And even if it is the fantasy of a strong person, it is probably nothing more than making the content of the dream clearer and richer in details based on the above-mentioned basis——

For example, replace the most beautiful village beauty in the village with a queen riding a dragon, and replace mountains of gold coins with countless high-level extraordinary materials.

After all, no matter strong or weak, human beings' essential desires are the same.

However, in Char's ideal land, Isadella saw a completely different scenery.

Her eyes were fixed on the surface of the blue planet.

The "space elevator", which is like a tower reaching the sky, sends countless platforms filled with passengers into deep space.

And at the end of the space elevator, in the dark and deep starry sky, there are magnificent cities one after another.

The entire body is made of silver-white metal. Some are built on satellites orbiting the surface of the planet, while others exist completely independently.

In the dark and deep star sea, metal cities are connected into a piece, slowly rotating around the planet——

It's just like the floating city in myths and legends that floats in the distant sky and never falls.

Isadella saw countless people either passing through the "space elevator" or passing through some kind of aerostat similar to the one built by the empire through magic technology, but its performance was far superior to that of the magic aerostat. The spaceship travels between the surface of the planet and the space city.

From these people, Isadella clearly did not feel any powerful fluctuations... They were just the most ordinary ordinary people, or civilians.

But they have long been accustomed to what they see in front of them.

Obviously in the Western Continent, setting foot in the starry sky is a privilege that only belongs to legends. Even a title-level beast master needs a specific type of pet beast to have a chance to do so, and the risk is extremely high.

But in the world before us, what was once a legendary privilege has become a daily routine for every ordinary person.

……

"What are you thinking about in your mind at ordinary times..."

Diris's pair of dark demon wings flapped abnormally, and her heart-shaped tail paused dully in mid-air.

The succubus princess looked at the brilliant ocean of stars outside the door, and was so shocked that she was speechless for a moment.

As a dependent of the Dragon of Dreams, the spiritual energy she consumes when weaving dreams can be provided by the ancient dragon in the star realm that holds the power of dreams.

Therefore, she was able to embody such a complex, real dream with intricate details.

But despite this, Diris was still shocked and had no idea how Xia Ya's brain grew.

Others just dream and dream, so why are you so fancy in your daydreams?
  Xia Ya ignored Diris's complaints.

He just looked at the world outside the door silently and calmly, with a little nostalgia in his eyes.

"A civilization and magic technology are highly developed, and there is no difference in rank."

"Everyone can learn knowledge equally, and there is no need to worry about food, clothing and poverty."

"Even ordinary people who don't have the power to bind a chicken can follow their own desires to travel among the stars and travel in the world of the sea of ​​stars..."

"Don't you think it's wonderful?"

Diris also recovered from the shock.

The succubus girl looked at the distant sea of ​​stars. After a long time, he nodded gently.

"It's really beautiful."

"However, it is so beautiful that it is a little too unreal..."

There was a hint of regret in her pink demon eyes.

"If possible, why don't we want to open more colleges, lower the threshold for admission, and even distribute books on a large scale."

"Then the privilege of becoming a beast master, stepping into the extraordinary world, and learning knowledge will be taken back from the hands of a very small number of nobles and spread to more people."

"But, this is just a fantasy after all."

"Every time a beast master is trained and the soul contract is opened, a huge amount of money is needed..."

"And spreading knowledge to every civilian in the empire... this requires the investment of countless resources."

"As for what you dream about...a tower that allows mortals to ascend to the sky, a floating city floating in the sea of ​​stars."

"Pulling just one of them alone may be enough to exhaust the empire and even the entire treasury accumulation of the major forces in the Western Continent... It may not even be enough."

Diris's pitch-black wings flapped slightly, and a few of them touched Char's arm, causing a slightly itchy feeling.

lack of resources.

This is original sin.

Therefore, the long-running war on the Western Continent will never end, because resources are limited, but ambitions are unlimited.

Every country and every force desires development, but there are only so many resources needed for development, and then there are disputes.

And this so-called ideal hometown in Xia Ya’s heart——

In the end, it is just an illusion, like a rootless dream.

But before the succubus princess could finish her slightly regretful words, she heard a chuckle from beside her.

"So, the root cause and crux of all disputes——"

"It's nothing more than a lack of resources."

Xia Ya's voice sounded in Diris's ears.

At the same time, it also echoed in the ears of Isadella and Fioren in real time through the communication channel of the star realm.

"But--"

"Many countries and major forces have launched protracted wars and sacrificed countless blood and lives to fight for energy..."

"In the sea of ​​stars, it is clearly not even a drop in the ocean."

……

The light screen flickered slightly, and the perspective zoomed out.

The original azure sphere suddenly became extremely small and unusually small.

Instead, there was a crimson sphere emitting flames, occupying most of the space of the light screen.

Outside the two spheres, there are areas that are almost completely dark. Occasionally, a little bit of starlight flickers, illuminating the deep darkness.

Everyone watching the dream recognized this dazzling celestial body——

sun.

It's just different from the Lieyang that Diris and others know.

Outside this scorching celestial body, there are spheres made of countless dark metal rings, one after another, enveloping it.

Around the crimson sphere, circles of dazzling flames fell together like breathing.

And with every ups and downs, the dark circles will expand and contract.

Then, all the overflowing light and heat from the sun's surface are swallowed into it.

In the light curtain in front of Isadella and Fioren, the words that embodied the concept slowly emerged again——

"Dyson Sphere"

(End of this chapter)