ca-book Chapter 2532 Emerging Fault Lines
Chapter 2532 Emerging Fault Lines
Chapter 2532 Emerging Fault Lines
The words of the Esoterist weighed heavily on the Human Summit.
He was right.
The Martial Artists had momentarily got caught up in their dislike, aversion, and even fear towards MECHAs, causing them to lose sight of the big picture.
The Beast Incursion was the absolute highest priority without even the tiniest shadow of a doubt. Nothing else mattered in comparison to it. These same Martial Artists had personally fought against the horrifying and endless wave of beasts and monsters that threatened to wipe out every corner of human civilization. They knew exactly how much of a crisis they were in.
It didn't matter if they didn't like MECHAs on an instinctual and emotional level.
It didn't matter if they didn't think sMECHA Martial Artists were 'real' Martial Artists because they were cheating with technology.
It didn't matter if they couldn't help but look at the cold, lifeless, and eerie humanoid form of the MECHAs as abominations of a Martial Path.
It didn't matter if they were afraid of being rendered obsolete before the might of these extraordinary weapons.
They were pragmatic and rational enough to recognize the sheer utility of these machines in the Era of Darkness against the beast tides that washed over human civilization, eroding human civilization bit by bit.
In time as MECHA Martial Artists began emerging, Rui knew that eventually this fault line would grow deeper and deeper into the higher Realms. He knew that this problem would not be easy to solve, especially given how much the aggressive pursuit of MECHA would exacerbate the situation. If it had more time to gently integrate into society the way Martial Art did, it would lead to less friction and fractures, but alas, the Beast Incursion was not kind enough to wait five hundred years for this to happen.
Rui could easily foresee and even model many sociocultural and economic problems that this inorganic and aggressive pursuit of MECHAs would produce, but he wasn't too concerned.
If he could foresee them, then his father had most certainly foreseen them as well. There was no doubt that he would act accordingly to manifest the very best outcome possible. Compared to the politics of MECHAs, Rui was more interested in them as a Martial Artist. He had already realized that they could serve as a powerful wheatstone for him if they managed to catch up to the Realm he was in.
Unfortunately, he was already at the peak of the Master Realm.
There was too much of a gulf between them for MECHA Martial Artists to catch up to him and pose a threat to him under ordinary circumstances.
'The Kandrian Empire might be different.'
The Kandrian Empire had the manifold that allowed time to pass fourteen times faster within it. Perhaps in a decade, he would run into a MECHA Martial Master from the Kandrian Empire itself.
That was why he predicted that most of the pressure against MECHAs would come from Apprentices and Squires who were most immediately threatened by it. It was a shame that not everybody could look at MECHAs as an opportunity of challenge and use them to grow stronger, but alas, not everybody could regard the possibility of being rendered weak in a positive light.
Regardless, he knew that MECHA Martial Art would begin growing to become a part of human civilization from this day forth, and he was perhaps the one and only Martial Artist who looked forward to it.
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