Honkai Archives: Old, Short, but Gold

[The Third Honkai Eruption broke out. Whether it was good luck, or whether the Honkai, which controlled everything, also wanted to see just what abilities this man possessed to dare make such bold claims, or whether it was simply contempt and indifference, it was unknown.]

[In any case, the Herrscher that emerged from the Third Honkai Eruption was the Herrscher of Reason, who you were all extremely familiar with. And this Herrscher, when they were still human, was an illiterate who had only gone to elementary school, completely unable to unleash the power of the Herrscher of Reason, or even the Herrscher itself.]

[For humanity, this should have been a Herrscher that could be easily eliminated. It could have been solved by just relying on the internal strength of the Fire Moth, which had been incorporated into the Human Federation. But Yuhao stopped your actions.]

[He evacuated the people in the area where the Honkai Eruption had broken out, and dispatched ordinary military forces of the Human Federation to implement a strategy of surrounding but not killing the Herrscher of Reason. At the same time, he started a non-stop global broadcast, showing the Herrscher and the Honkai to everyone for the first time.]

[The Fire Moth faction and some factions in the Federation had many complaints about this, but they also understood that Yuhao's intention in doing this was to promote the Honkai to the entire population. Only when everyone recognized the harm of the Honkai could they properly deal with it, so they didn't say anything.]

[However, due to the loose nature of the Federation, there were still many factions that, either because of radical ideologies or driven by their own interests, expressed strong condemnation and protest against Yuhao's actions.]

[They claimed that letting everyone see the Honkai was meaningless. The power of the Honkai was not something that a political leader could understand. Letting everyone see the harm of the Honkai now would only make the whole of human society even more desperate, so every Herrscher had to be eliminated as quickly as possible.]

[Yuhao just laughed at this. After maximizing the exposure of the Herrscher and the Honkai, ensuring that most people in human society had fully absorbed the concept and knowledge of the Honkai, he then dispatched elite troops to eliminate it.]

["Do you know?"]

["When humans first climbed down from the trees, stood upright, and looked at the entire world, it was filled with giant beasts that were hundreds or thousands of times larger than humans in size and strength. Humans faced them like lambs to the slaughter, but they all disappeared in the long river of history, becoming losers who had lost the competition."]

["The golden ages of humanity are often those that are fragmented, and those with order within their balance, like the Warring States Period or the Cold War."]

[Based on your experience, the Herrscher core of the Herrscher of Reason was an extremely perfect and stable treasure. Making it into a Divine Key would greatly enhance humanity's combat power, giving humanity a better chance when facing the Honkai. So you proposed a plan to Yuhao to make the Herrscher of Reason into a Divine Key. Yuhao refused, and said these words to you.]

["You should know why."]

["Because humans can obtain food and fur needed for survival and brain evolution from those giant beasts. And the vast land obtained by killing the giant beasts further expanded human living space."]

["Because in stable struggles, a large amount of benefits would be given up, while also generating more benefits to feed back to the entire human society, so that every aspect of human society would be nourished by benefits, causing it to flourish."]

["They are deadly and dangerous, to the point that the cowardly and conservative don't dare take action, the ignorant and mediocre cannot see their true value, and the radical and ambitious worry that triggering it will cause their own interests to dissipate."]

[Looking at the Herrscher of Reason core that radiated a dazzling blue light, Yuhao spoke as if he was just repeating something he had said countless times before.]

["I will help you open this door, and guide you toward the future."]

[The Herrscher of Reason core was ultimately not made into a Divine Key as you had hoped. Instead, it was placed in a giant scientific research center for scientific research... no, it should be for the continuous creation of technology.]

[The first and second Herrscher cores, which had been made into Divine Keys for combat personnel to use, were also removed from the Honkai steel and used for scientific and technological research. They were mainly used for physics and engineering.]

[Humanity's originally extremely slow scientific research progress made rapid progress under the powerful drive of the three Herrscher cores. A large number of scientific technologies and papers emerged like bamboo shoots after a spring rain. In your eyes, these scientific technologies and papers were useless because, under the premise of humanity's fight against the Honkai, they could not help human civilization increase its combat power and better fight against the Honkai.]

[But under Yuhao's promotion and guidance, these technologies were continuously injected into human society, and finally, through the dual cooperation of quantitative change leading to qualitative change and qualitative change leading to quantitative change, they finally created… The Sixth Industrial Revolution! The Sixth Energy Revolution! The Sixth Information Technology Revolution!]

[The reason it was the sixth was because the technology and energy provided by the Honkai were so advanced that they were enough for humanity to skip the fourth and fifth times.]

[Whether it was the industrial revolution, the energy revolution, or the information revolution, their biggest characteristic was not that humanity had a deeper understanding of something, or how much their vision had been broadened, but that they had liberated productive forces and provided more jobs!]

[The various factions in the Human Federation, some of which were once the world's top powers, while others were poor and backward small countries, some were exploiters, some were exploited, some were suzerain states, and some were subordinate states. There were huge conflicts of national interest between them, conflicts that could not be reconciled in the past.]

[The people of the world, who were nominally ruled by the Federation, were rich, poor, middle class, had jobs, or were unemployed... Class contradictions, racial contradictions, social contradictions, all kinds of contradictions accumulated between them. These were also irreconcilable in the past.]

[But now, with the arrival of the industrial revolution, energy revolution, and technological revolution produced by Yuhao with the help of the Honkai, everything had changed.]

[Unemployed people gained jobs due to the arrival of various technological revolutions, and with the ample wages they received from the large increase in jobs, a large number of people jumped into the middle class, and even impoverished families were lifted out of poverty. The polarization of wealth in the entire society was quickly reduced, reduced, and then reduced again due to the arrival of the new round of industrial revolution.]

[Countless young people who were unemployed after graduation, or were about to graduate and were racking their brains for work, once again became hot commodities that various companies were competing to hire, like in the golden age of human civilization.]

[Entrepreneurs and capitalists also no longer squeezed their employees within the company because of the arrival of the industrial revolution. Compared to plunging their heads into the wave of the industrial revolution to make a fortune, squeezing their employees internally was completely meaningless.]

[The divisions and injustices caused by the interests between countries were also rapidly resolved under the reconciliation of the Human Federation, a large government, due to the arrival of the industrial revolution.]

[The conflicts between people, and between groups, were all based on interests in essence, and the arrival of the industrial revolution could produce a large number of benefits, enough to cover any conflict in a short period of time.]

[And this industrial revolution came from the Honkai, from the Herrscher cores left behind after the death of the Herrschers.]

[Every Herrscher core would be studied by countless researchers, producing countless new technologies and papers, driving the development of human civilization, becoming a powerful stimulant for the continuation of the industrial revolution.]

[When fighting and eliminating the Honkai was no longer a time-consuming, laborious, and thankless task, but instead became a way to obtain a large amount of benefits, promote human and personal development, and quickly realize those benefits, what would it be?]

[How would humans look at it?]

["A 10% profit can make capital bow its head and serve you, a 300% profit will make capital go crazy and do anything for you, even if it means dying, and capital is often what controls the laws of human society."]

[Yuhao gently tapped on the table, his tone gentle as he spoke.]

["The Honkai is a valuable asset for human civilization to move towards the stars. It will make humanity's starting point far exceed other young civilizations that have entered the stars, and will snowball the distance between them."]

["You didn't learn how to use it before, but now I will help you use this valuable asset and maximize its value."]