A Hellish Joke from the Tower of Reason

This was undoubtedly a hellish joke from a believer in Truth. It was not funny, but it was truly hellish.

Cheng Shi's head buzzed as he listened. He had thought the Department of Creation Alchemy was already inhuman enough in its treatment of people, but he had never expected the Department of Life Extension Studies to have an even greater expert.

This was genocide... No, a faith-extermination massacre. Had it really not provoked any resistance from the Natural Alliance?

Wang Mou was very clever. He had clearly seen through Cheng Shi's confusion, but his next answer made this not-very-funny hellish joke even more hellish.

"Resistance?

Of course there was resistance, but only the believers of Prosperity resisted in earnest.

Although the believers of Birth were imprisoned, the experimental methods of the Tower of Reason accelerated their reproductive rate far beyond what it had been during their free development. Before long, a new generation of believers of Birth, raised under the oppression of Truth, appeared. They believed this oppression might not actually be a bad thing. At least, they were advancing faster than before on the path toward the Lord of Grace. Thus, these people gradually chose to accept it.

Of course, you could also understand it as their becoming even more devout under 'persecution.'

As for the believers of Death... there was even less to say. With the cooperation of those believers themselves, these groups soon disappeared from the territory of the Tower of Reason.

As for Prosperity, scattered resistance without support from either side was far too insignificant against the entire state apparatus of Truth.

Their only stroke of luck was that after the Tower of Reason chose the believers of Birth as experimental subjects, it spared the other Prosperity believers who had not been captured. These followers of