Honkai: Man(Sludge) From Future

Unlike Kevin, who was still contemplating whether to continue with his fifty-thousand-year-old plan.

After all, in these fifty thousand years, Kevin, without MEI, had made no progress in his personal thinking.

This might be hard for some to understand. If a group, over fifty thousand years, could observe parallel worlds, defeat Herrschers, and conduct scientific research...

Then theoretically, this group of people, even if they only spent three hours a day learning and improving, would become theoretical all-around, multi-talented wisdom warriors.

What does this mean? It means that if Kevin really wanted to learn, he had the foundation and ability to become an independent researcher, separate from MEI. He could have become the next MEI or Mobius within fifty thousand years.

But alas...

In Noldrei's eyes, Kevin's efforts over the years showed no progress whatsoever.

And the idea of worrying about civilization's development attracting the Honkai was even more laughable. Because you could simply create a Bubble Universe in the Sea of Quanta to serve as your research base.

There was no need to develop civilization in the eigenspace. Even if the Honkai came knocking, it would only penetrate the Bubble Universe, destroying nothing more than a temporary substitute for human civilization.

All that would be sacrificed was a dying Bubble Universe, which couldn't compare to the worlds on the Imaginary Tree that could grow and sprout.

In his conversation with Noldrei, Kevin also felt this "wisdom of the later generations."

Noldrei, in other aspects, especially in terms of morals and ethics, could be said to have completely broken through the bottom line. This could be seen from his behavior towards the young girls around him.

But on the other hand, especially in his ability to find usable substitutes, his mind was so flexible it was terrifying. And the key point was that he had the confidence to succeed.

This was extraordinary. Kevin could only sigh internally that he was indeed not suited for this kind of mental work. If he were to be evaluated based on Noldrei's assessment of his behavior, he would probably be categorized as a primitive.

This was actually quite absurd. The residents of the Bubble Universe probably never imagined that they had already been deemed non-human by Noldrei. Simply because their world was about to perish, they were relegated to the category of a research base.

This was the first time since MEI that Kevin had felt the impact of such a liberation of thought.

Unlike the mental shock from Mobius, Noldrei's impact was more about his immense contempt for human social ethics. In Kevin's eyes, the social ethics Noldrei spoke of were as cheap as a prostitute, to be trampled on by anyone.

If Kevin still held the idea of "I want to protect human civilization," then Noldrei's mind was filled with "I do whatever I want, I am human civilization."

'This descendant is truly worthy of having MEI's genes. This wisdom must be influenced by his ancestors.'

Kevin comforted himself with this thought, and even his image of Noldrei became much more pleasing to the eye.

Look at this kid, he just came up and handed him the greatsword, and even placed the Herrscher Core in his hand.

What did this mean? This must be the legendary... generation-skipping affection!

But now, Kevin wasn't worried about the execution of the plan. Especially since Noldrei himself had no accurate, intuitive impression of the strength of a being like the Finality. He needed to help this descendant of his grow up as soon as possible.

This was different from the situation where he should have returned to the eigenspace and witnessed the fragile state of the Current Era.

What Kevin saw now was the humans of the Current Era, finding that Herrschers were not enough, and instead marching out to conquer the Herrschers of parallel worlds. This was much more ferocious. A normal human civilization couldn't achieve this.

The two impressions were one of pathetic weakness and the other of pleasant surprise and pride.

This made Kevin wonder if his disappearance for over a thousand years was to pave the way for his descendants. He never thought Su's plan would be so successful, even cultivating such an outstanding Kaslana descendant.

Unfortunately, Kevin didn't know that at this very moment, Su was currently suspecting that the eigenspace had been invaded by some parallel world. Why else would a monster like Noldrei suddenly appear?

"Unfortunately, in our era, the Honkai erupted too quickly. We didn't even have the ability to form a unified organization and manage our own departments. If it weren't for some people constantly holding us back, I don't think so many warriors would have been sacrificed in vain."

This was Kevin's only regret, and one of the reasons why the World Serpent emphasized loyalty and obedience so much. If they had realized earlier that the social organizations of the Previous Era were a hindrance, the first thing the Thirteen Flame-Chasers should have done was to clean up the human interior.

For a hero not to become a tragedy, they must become a ruler who wields power and taints themselves.

No one ever said that Zhu Yuanzhang, after becoming emperor, was no longer the hero who drove out the Tartars and restored China.

"Aren't you worried? You've brought your combat power to the Sea of Quanta. What will you do if the rear guard against the Honkai is not enough? And you can't contact your comrades in the eigenspace now."

Kevin's worry was not without reason. This kind of two-front situation would definitely lead to great trouble.

"I'm charging ahead precisely so that others can develop the ability to charge forward with me. If they can't manage without me, then haven't I been fighting Herrschers for them for nothing? If they are such easily replaceable characters, then I'd advise them to be wiped out by the Honkai sooner rather than later."

"Did the warriors of the Previous Era fight just so that humanity could cower behind them? Certainly not. They acted so that others could fight alongside them."

Noldrei's answer was also very matter-of-fact. He didn't think there was any value or lack thereof in human sacrifice. He only cared about the strength that human civilization could produce.

Humanity always struggles in a vortex of replaceability, moving forward and developing in the direction of irreplaceability.

What Noldrei needed was a human civilization that could walk its own path. Otherwise, he alone could not defeat an ideology like "reproductivism."

You never hear of a single human shouting about some -ism or ideology.

The moment Kevin heard Noldrei's reasoning, he understood what was going on. This was a person who didn't care about the overall sacrifice of humanity.

In his eyes, it was only natural for humans to fight for their own interests. As for how many would die in the end, that was not something Noldrei himself should be concerned about.

He could help people gain the ability to fight to, in turn, serve his own interests, but he would not sacrifice himself to help more humans for his own interests.

In Noldrei's eyes, there were of course no heroes. He himself was someone who would only deal with the Honkai for his own interests, and he naturally believed that others must also fight the Honkai for their own interests.

As for those who were not on the same path as him, they were either ruled by his language and thought, or they were pulled into the new order and forcibly ruled.

If you wanted to cause trouble for Noldrei, you had to first pass through his important checkpoint identity of a ruler.

To this, Kevin only sighed, "The Current Era truly has no ship to carry the old humans..."