Sem's Words
Watching the Yuentar's enthusiasm for exploring axioms, Yuan Chen was briefly at a loss for words.
He had not expected the Yuentar masters to be so passionate about Ionia's philosophy...
To be honest, in his original plan, Yuan Chen had already prepared to perform a dance to establish his identity and standing.
But now, seeing their state, Yuan Chen was certain that whether or not he was a master no longer even mattered. What mattered was the philosophical ideas from Ionia that he possessed, as well as his methods of seeking truth.
Though it was a feudal, autocratic, closed-off nation, Yuan Chen discovered that Ixialia's ruling class, the Yuentar, were completely different from the predators people imagined them to be.
What were predators like in people's minds? Four simple words summed it up: the powerful were shortsighted.
But looking at the Yuentar debating before him, Yuan Chen truly could not sense any narrow-mindedness from them as those in power... On the contrary, they clearly possessed immense enthusiasm for unknown knowledge and did not even reject knowledge outside the Yuan Chu Axiom system.
Was it because of Vidalion?
Yuan Chen thought—Vidalion's trials were absolutely fair and impartial to everyone except the Royal Family. They comprehensively tested every candidate's personal achievements, abilities, and character.
Yuan Chen had read the short story about Ixialia in the League of Legends universe, Yuan Chu Axiom. Its protagonist had come from a border city of Ixialia, and her father had been a gardener who knew nothing of the outside world.
Yet despite such a background, the protagonist had still become a Yuentar through her own abilities and achievements.
And among those taking the examination alongside her in that story were farmers, merchants, and many others from what people traditionally considered the lower classes.
Perhaps