Looking at Fini's conflicted little face, Chen Cheng could not help but smile.
Fini was speechless for a long while. Then, seeing the smile on Chen Cheng's face, her young lady's temper flared up at once. Thinking he was mocking her, she pouted angrily and said:
"What are you laughing at? Magic... magic is... is something that can help us handle daily affairs better?"
In the end, Fini squeezed out those words with little confidence. Yet Chen Cheng revealed a gratified smile and said:
"That's right. Magic is a tool that can help us handle matters better."
Chen Cheng knew this was a breakthrough in understanding for Fini. The reason civilization and technology could advance was because countless pioneers had shattered old perceptions and discovered new worlds.
Most deeply rooted old perceptions came from the self-imprisonment of one's thoughts, and among them, the idea of divine authority was the most unshakable.
The greatest obstacle to understanding on the road of modern scientific and technological development was theological thinking. Under old beliefs, everything in the world had been created by gods. People needed to revere gods, and gods could not be challenged.
Only by breaking their understanding of gods could people learn that this world was made up of basic particles such as atoms and molecules, and that human birth was not some Six Paths of Reincarnation controlled by ghosts and gods.
Once modern science had shattered those perceptions, technology exploded exponentially within just a few centuries. Humanity swiftly transitioned from animal power to thermal power, from being able to travel only across land and sea to flying into the skies and the universe.
Yet all of those had originally been realms only gods could control, beyond the reach of mortals.
But once those perceptions were broken, human wisdom let people