Krumen listened for a while and felt that the old man made quite a bit of sense.
"Absurd. You're placing all your hopes on a god whose actions upon arrival are completely unknown?" Caroso said disdainfully. "Human affairs should be solved by humans!"
"Even two children fighting know better than to tell the teacher. And the god you speak of might not necessarily play the role of a teacher."
"When It arrives, will It bring a new form of rule and oppression, or destruction? You have no idea. You're nothing more than a coward running from reality."
"If you truly want to change all this, you should rely on your own hands instead of placing your hopes in an unknown god!"
"How dare you question the Lord!" The mage's gaze sharpened. He lunged wildly at the cell door and roared, "The Lord is kind and wise! It will bring knowledge to everyone, grant all people lofty morals and equal abilities, and let everyone live happily together! People will have no desires and no sins. This is salvation for the entire world!"
"Then everyone will lose themselves." Caroso spoke softly. "Like... robots with preprogrammed instructions."
"Besides, if your Lord truly descends and discovers there are no other gods in this world, what will It do? That's hard to say. Perhaps everything It told you was a lie."
"In the Lord's eyes, we are all lowly ants, mere insects." The mage stared fixedly at Caroso. "How could It possibly deceive an ant?"
"If you insist on making that comparison." Caroso pointed at the floor. "If there were a strong ant here right now, arranging itself into the word 'help,' I'd find it interesting and play with them for a while. But once I got bored, I might kick them away, crush them