"Drawbacks?" Anger frowned.
"Everything in this world has two sides. That is an unchanging law..." The Headmaster smiled faintly. "Traditional civilizations are built on the foundation of innate deficiencies. Although they are highly efficient at creating shared platforms and the foundations of civilization, this also causes their people to become overly dependent on those platforms. Many advanced lifeforms from traditional mechanical civilizations may improve their Mental Strength through life sciences, but they still rely on artificial intelligence to calculate modules. Over time, much of their knowledge becomes dependent on the platform. Without it, they find it very difficult to accomplish anything..."
"By contrast, advanced lifeforms who follow the Arcane path do not depend on platforms, because they are accustomed to calculating everything themselves from the most basic principles. Although the accumulation process is extremely long, the upper limit of their individual abilities is very high, and their inheritance is not easily severed. After all, as long as an Arcane Master's inheritance remains intact, that one person represents their entire civilization."
Anger: "..."
Although she had no idea whether this was true, the Headmaster's words were truly cutting.
If he had come to speak with her in private, she would definitely have encouraged the citizens to follow the traditional path wholeheartedly. After all, weakening individual roles by separating them from the platform and emphasizing the collective was an excellent thing for a ruler.
But that was not the case for individuals... For individuals, heroism and individualism were what many people pursued.
"Then, Headmaster, does our school focus on the Arcane path or the traditional path?" one of the citizens hurriedly asked.
Nie Xiaoying, who had been watching the excitement from the side, rolled her eyes. *Since when did this become our school? Who said these Germanic People were rigid in their