Anvis nodded knowingly. It was a perfectly standard conservative noble's viewpoint.
It was not that they truly failed to see the advantages of Magic Constructs. They simply worried that the emergence of constructs would cause overly drastic changes to the underlying rules of the game, harming the current stable order.
Constructs originated from the Continental Magic Council, from Sky City. Though the conservative high-level figures could do nothing about that, they could strictly limit the use and spread of civilian constructs.
From a purely theoretical perspective, Prince Veller's view was not actually wrong.
The development of Magic Constructs did indeed have an upper limit, with the greatest restriction being the properties of their materials. This made them especially fragile before high-ranking powerhouses.
If Anvis had not witnessed the drastic changes of the future, he would probably have shared the conservatives' view. The scenes of those peak experts taking action were simply too shocking.
Once, several tourist Players on an overseas expedition had happened upon a battle between Orvanni, the Mystic Seeker and one of the Speakers of the Magic Council, and a gigantic oceanic Magical Beast.
At the beginning of the recording, all they could see was a faint humanoid speck in the sky raising a hand.
The next instant, with that motion, an entire stretch of sea extending nearly beyond the eye's reach was flipped upside down! The dried seabed was briefly exposed to the air, revealing strange coral clusters and seabed shellfish.
Seaweed as tall as giant trees, enormous unidentified skeletons, and other debris lay scattered through the sediment. Some fallen deep-sea fish still struggled and flopped futilely in the mud.
The Players recording the footage had not escaped the range of that attack either, but a transparent bubble of water protected the ship they were aboard.
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