Facing the Technology Revival Faction, not only I but even Sandora felt conflicted. And it wasn't just the Technology Revival Faction—we felt equally conflicted about the Lost Divine Teachings, because for now, both groups seemed to be trying to save the world—and each firmly believed that they were.
The Lost Divine Teachings' act of sealing away technology seemed utterly unreasonable. By my values, it meant defying the course of history and hindering the development of the age. But its founders had been Tree Spirits who had seen and experienced it all. They had witnessed what real high technology looked like, and they weren't the sort to be scared witless just because technology was advanced, yet they had chosen to seal it away. That put a question mark over the whole matter: the church must have had a reason for sealing away technology. Thinking about the Tree Spirits' experiences, it was likely connected to the persecution that followed the collapse of the Old Empire. We couldn't dismiss it rashly.
The Technology Revival Faction's attempt to revive an entire civilization was even harder to criticize. In fact, under more normal worldviews, that line of thinking would make them progressives—we'd set aside those extremists for now. After all, people had to look forward. But I hadn't encountered many normal worldviews over the past two years, so with all sorts of bizarre worlds out there, it was hard to say whether the Technology Revival Faction's approach was good or bad. We didn't know what the Lost Divine Teachings had been trying to do tens of thousands of years ago. What if there were two million Fallen Apostles or an Abyss Gate sealed somewhere in the depths of this universe, or beyond the World Barrier? If the Technology Revival Faction ran outside and howled at