Genshin Impact: Towards Godhood

Finding Faruzan turned out to have no significant impact on Ramo's daily routine.

Ramo focused his core efforts on expanding the laboratory.

Khaenri'ah had already developed technologies such as autonomous mechanisms, semi-permanent energy sources, and automated industries. Ramo couldn't extract all their technologies from a single factory, and even if he could analyze them, he wouldn't be able to apply them immediately.

The short-term goal was to integrate the manufacturing of autonomous mechanisms and weapons into a fully automated industry. As long as there were raw materials, production could be limitless.

There were not many people in the tribe Ramo could trust, but there were some.

"What are these things?" 

Falcon Tadlah, who had grown up in the desert, looked astonished.

"Weapons and the future," Ramo replied. "Tadlah, you've seen those constructs wandering the desert. Who do you think is more useful, them or the tribe's warriors?"

"Elemental Constructs," Tadlah answered without hesitation.

Compared to the tribe's warriors, these mechanical constructs were made of durable materials and could launch various strange attacks. Their only drawback was their rigid logic, which is why the Eremites saw them as prey.

  Hunting is for survival, and hunters wouldn't engage in a pursuit that yields little value at great cost.

Ramo wasn't surprised by this answer. He continued to ask, "If I could mass-produce weapons similar to Elemental Constructs, do you think I would still need the tribe's warriors?"

Tadlah hesitated, then answered, "No."

Ramo chuckled, his expression inscrutable. "The duty of a warrior is solely combat. Being single-purpose, they are often seen as a kind of tool."

"And as tools, they can naturally be compared."

Compared to a pure mechanical army, the tribe's warriors fell short in many aspects.

A military force's value is judged by its cost and combat effectiveness.

Regarding cost, within the factory's capacity, resources can be immediately converted into combat power. 

But human soldiers aren't the same; it takes at least ten years of normal growth to cultivate them.

Ignoring other resources, the time cost alone is too great.

As for combat effectiveness, the outcome between Constructs and the Eremites has long been decided.

The Constructs' only issue is their crude targeting mechanism, but for their creators, absolute obedience and rigidity are often not problems.

"Sumeru scholars have one point I don't understand," Ramo said. "They already have the opportunity to give machines intelligence, and that's completely sufficient."

"But they insist on pursuing so-called emotions, proving that machines can have emotional systems like humans."

He wasn't mocking, just perplexed.

"But why must machines have the same emotional systems as humans? What does that prove? Are they trying to prove that emotions are a higher-order thing?"

"So, Ramo, you want to replace humans with machines?" Tadlah asked a question she probably shouldn't have.

"Ah, I can answer that later, but I have a question for you." Ramo smiled. "Would you accept the people of the desert as your subjects?"

Nahida's authority was the strangest among the five deities.

The abilities of the other four gods were straightforward, almost purely powerful and destructive.

But with Nahida, her authority took on an increasingly mysterious development.

In the story of Aaru Village, she could radiate from Sumeru City to the village and manipulate a mad scholar to release her divine power.

Her strength in the realms of consciousness and dreams allowed her to accomplish many things.

Of course, she likely needed the Akasha as a medium.

After all, when the sages in Sumeru City removed their Akasha Terminals, Nahida could no longer spy on or attach to their bodies.

"Did you know I would come?" Nahida's voice was ethereal and calm.

"I brought Faruzan back," Ramo smiled. "She had the Akasha Terminal and was missing for a hundred years."

During that century, Faruzan's teachers and friends spent great efforts searching for this genius scholar.

Her parents were tireless, her teacher upgraded the Tamimi mechanism—a "self-governing mechanism with emotions"—which roamed for a long time until its core could no longer sustain its actions.

Her classmates organized Faruzan's academic materials and published them in her name.

Honestly, sorting through those materials and writing papers was no easy task, but they didn't claim the work as their own. Instead, they left the note: "Much of the content in this book comes from Faruzan's discussions and manuscripts. We hope that when the senior returns to the Akademiya, future students will still remember the name of Faruzan."

To this day, some records in the Haravatat faction still meticulously document Faruzan's history.

This incident caused quite a stir in the Akademiya a hundred years ago. Given Nahida's benevolence, she must have been aware.

  She was too kind, always feeling an inexplicable sense of responsibility for others' suffering.

But Faruzan endured a hundred years in the ruins, eventually escaping by solving the mechanism herself.

Ramo could only guess that the ruins isolated Faruzan's activities, making it impossible for Nahida to pinpoint her location.

However, once Faruzan emerged, Nahida likely took notice.

Otherwise, how could this confused girl, who couldn't speak, stumble from the ruins in the desert to a merchant caravan that kindly escorted her back to the Akademiya?

Believing in coincidences, Ramo was more inclined to think this was Nahida's hidden manipulation.

"But this doesn't explain why you know me," Nahida was curious.

Besides a title, she had nothing in Sumeru—no faith, which she could only rely on the likes of Dunyarzad and Nilou to maintain, even though she didn't need the people's faith.

"That's my secret. Surely you wouldn't deny someone a little privacy?" Ramo smiled.

Using Faruzan as a bridge, Nahida temporarily controlled Tadlah's body.

It didn't have to be human; perhaps she could even manipulate a mechanical shell.

"Is that so..." Nahida indeed didn't press. "Then, to answer your question, the children of the desert are also my people."

  (End of Chapter)