"Because civilization is neither innate nor necessary. It is something born only under immense threats, when necessity leaves no choice and chance happens to intervene."
Zero said, "On your Homeworld, Earth, there was a saying: 'Born in hardship, die in comfort.' It profoundly explained this principle—if you were not shown the imminent threat of death, you would never muster all your wisdom, strength, and courage to push your entire civilization toward unimaginable heights.
"On this matter, not only you Earthlings, but also the Turan Orcs, the Holy Light Human Race, the Abyss Demon Race, the undead liches... in short, all humanoid Carbon-Based Intelligent Lifeforms are the same.
"After all, although the depths of your souls contain the Fire Seed of that great civilization from hundreds of millions of years ago.
"The vessels you use to carry that Fire Seed—your ugly, feeble flesh-and-blood bodies—are, in terms of their underlying logic, not essentially different from the Naked Apes of tens of millions of years ago.
"Even after entering the industrial age, or even the information age, after learning countless mysteries of heaven and earth, mastering massive machines weighing tens of thousands of tons, and constructing cities that seemed resplendent and magnificent, your deepest, truest desire remained the same as that of the Naked Apes—to live with your blood-related kin, feel the warm breeze, bask in the sun, and eat your fill every day, so long as no foreign enemy threatened you. Nothing more.
"No, such a desire is not enough. It is far from enough to drive your civilization back onto the road to greatness.
"That was why I showed you the cruelest side of this world through dreams, using this method to spur you and all Flamebearers onward—to strive without rest and advance forever."
"So what I saw in the Doomsday