Until this moment,
when they heard Su Wen slowly speak those words,
and even when no one could truly answer his question anymore, the classroom fell into a deathly silence.
Before listening to Su Wen's lecture, perhaps many of them had never considered what costs others had paid to secure the peaceful world they lived in.
Only,
when he sensed the oppressive silence,
Su Wen finally tapped the enormous blackboard lightly with his fingers, drawing everyone's attention back to him.
Then, he continued:
"Not long ago,
I paid a visit to the International Joint Drilling Platform in the Kuiper Belt. Do you know what I saw there?
It was the most silent light within a stellar system.
Cold and distant,
it could not even grant life the power to evolve.
In other words,
humanity's emergence and flourishing on this Earth may itself have been an irreproducible miracle."
As he spoke, he displayed the slides he had prepared, showing everyone photograph after photograph representing the abilities of extraordinary individuals:
"The extraordinary is not magic,
but dark matter energy reconstruction on the quantum level.
Put more simply, it is the depth of our understanding of this world.
That is why Principal Constance asked me to teach you this class today. After all, if you use this power for the wrong purpose, you will only set out upon a far more difficult path.
Let me give you a simple example:
In the early hours of last night,
a water-type Awakened in a Black neighborhood of Wisconsin froze an entire sewage treatment plant into an ice sculpture just to seize certain water sources containing faint Spiritual Energy Traits.
That included the seventeen workers inside who were on the night shift."
At this point, Su Wen's voice suddenly became exceedingly distant:
"Remember,
the first rule