No One Did Not Want to Become a God

Grindelwald stopped before he could finish his sentence.

But Jon knew what he wanted to say next.

Things that offered direct gratification often brought relatively powerful stimulation. Take reading novels and studying, for example. Studying was beneficial—everyone knew that—but it could not provide an immediate, reasonable burst of pleasure. Its benefits were relatively hidden, buried in time, requiring constant digging and accumulation before they could bear fruit. Reading novels was different. While reading, people could receive immediate feedback in the form of enjoyment, and that feedback made it hard to stop.

Most people in this world were ordinary people. Ordinary people rarely refused that kind of pleasurable feedback. They preferred living in those happy moments, even when they clearly knew they were wasting time.

It was the same for every age group.

This mechanism depended on the characteristics of the human body itself, not on any other reason.

Likewise, when faced with the two choices of power and race, more people would naturally choose power.

Even if the traits of their race might provide them with greater help later on, power itself already explained everything.

Besides, in the environment they currently lived in, what a race could provide might not necessarily sustain them into the later stages.

From Jon's perspective, every wizard living in the Western magical world had, more or less, obtained a trace of the power of the animals that had transformed themselves into humans countless years ago. Even in China, there were families like Zhu Sha's, whose lineage had been passed down through demon bloodlines. This was an unavoidable situation. Even within Jon's own body, the dominant bloodlines were not human, but those of the Mysterious Bird and the World Tree.

Jon considered himself one of the more self-controlled people, yet even he could not resist the