High School of Demon Hunting
Chapter 245 - 169 What is Morality_1

Chapter 245: Chapter 169 What is Morality_1

Without a doubt, the wizarding world possesses a highly developed civilization.

They have walked beyond the bounds of galaxies and peered through the fog of time. The great wizards sit in the void riding through the heavens while the lesser ones brew magic potions extending life.

In comparison, the mundane civilization that shares the same blue star is far less impressive.

They lack the physical strength to shatter the void, the sharp vision to see through illusions. Their lifespan is only a mere hundred years, and their world is not more expansive than this blue star.

Although both emerged from the same source, they have inevitably taken their separate paths.

The voice of Mister Si Ma echoed somewhat coldly in the empty classroom:

"After numerous failed attempts, wizards gradually abandoned the choice to rejoin with the mundanes, starting to conceal their own existence."

"At this time, in regard to their attitude towards the mundanes, the wizarding world has gradually formed three main factions."

"The stubborn wizards, conservative wizards, radical wizards."

"The stubborn faction advocates that wizards should completely isolate themselves from ’mundanes,’ considering them ’untouchables.’"

"Many of the wizards in this faction support blood supremacy; they believe humans and wizards are completely different life forms, and excessive contact would lead to the leakage of wizarding power; of course, some scholars also believe, some stubborn wizards purely dread bargaining with mundanes, hoping to dedicate their limited time to endless exploration of magic."

"The followers in this faction are primarily concentrated in some ancient powers with a long heritage, such as the secret cult within the Blood Race, Penglai in the East Sea, etc. They are not the mainstream in the current wizarding world — in fact, these stubborn wizards have repeatedly proposed in the Grand Wizard Conference of the Alliance to dissolve the First University, completely returning to the closed inheritance system of the Medieval Ages."

It was apparent that Mister Si Ma was not fond of the wizards in this faction; his tone was filled with relentless mockery.

Zheng Qing completely understood this dissatisfaction.

From his perspective, the choices of the stubborn wizards were akin to shutting off their country, blinding their own eyes.

Even in the history textbooks of ordinary people, such backward choices are deemed to be regressive. How could it not be more so in the advanced wizarding world then?

"The conservative faction believes that wizards can maintain limited contact with ’mundanes’."

"They believe that mundanes and wizards both stem from the same source; the wizarding world, as the representatives of a more advanced civilization, has the responsibility and obligation to guide the mundane world towards a higher stage of civilization."

"Of course, different positions lead to different voices within the conservative faction, but no matter what, conserving factions are mainstream in the wizarding world today. Key factions like the First University, Under the Moon Congress, the Wizard Council, all belong to this faction."

"Wizards in the radical faction hope the wizarding world could reopen, attempting to merge with mundane civilization once again."

"This faction believes that mundanes and wizards, as twin civilizations, can naturally promote one another and progress together. Isolation policy is a backward discriminatory policy."

"So ... what do you think?" Mister Si Ma stopped his explanation, looked at his lecture notes, and stared intently at Zheng Qing.

"It sounds like the radical faction is more friendly to ordinary people." Zheng Qing hesitated as he replied.

"Wrong!"

Professor Si Ma smacked his lecture notes onto his hand with a loud thump, startling all the students in the classroom:

"This is what I want you to remember - during the process of exploring history, never be arbitrary, try not to make conclusions!"

"Don’t use the simplistic logic in your little heads to think about the most complex relationships in this world!"

"In reality, many stubborn faction wizards hope to protect the uniqueness of human civilizations. They believe wizard intervention will cause human civilization to lose its enterprising spirit; while many radical faction wizards dream of the glory of the age of gods."

Hence, the so-called conservative wizards are really just mud mixers between stubborn wizard and radical wizard factions.

Zheng Qing mumbled in his heart, feeling quite disdainful - no wonder this faction is the most powerful.

In the end, it’s just a different angle to look at things.

With that thought, he couldn’t help but drift back to the issue of wizard concealment.

From the mundanes’ perspective, the wizards have indeed concealed their existences from this world.

However, to most wizards, they merely tightened the fences of their courtyards, shut the front gates, preventing uninvited visitors from trespassing.

It was like two households in a village.

The wealthy family would naturally build high walls and lock their gates, not wishing to engage with the poor neighbor.

Different perspectives would lead to different interpretations, hence, different conclusions.

Zheng Qing realized this in his heart, his fingers subconsciously brushing over a short passage.

It was a sentence from "Morality of Civilisation", a famous popular book in the wizarding realms quoted in "World Modern History."

"This world belongs to the wizards and the mundanes, but in the end, it still belongs to the wizards."

"Wizards possess a broader vision, more abundant resources. Our world, from breadth and depth, encapsulates this small blue star."

"Each man is suited to his occupation, takes pleasure in his own kind of food and clothing, and is at ease in his own kind of home, and takes satisfaction in his own kind of life."

"Countries are so close that they can hear each other’s cocks crowing and dogs barking. But until they grow old and die, they never have any dealings with each other."

"This is morality."

Finally, he understood why this book was called ’Morality of Civilisation’ — for civilizations with vast differences, maintaining distance is the most beautiful morality.

When Zheng Qing snapped out of it, Mister Si Ma was still engrossed in his lecture. He had no idea how far he had deviated from the original topic:

"Differing ideologies and thoughts naturally lead to multiple divergent factions."

"In today’s wizarding world, such things are quite common."

"Dealing with the differences between the Galactic Council attitudes, there are differences between galactic wizards and local wizards; from differences in wizard education, there are differences between college system and inheritance system factions, and finally bloodline and heritage factions; for the origins of wizards, there are differences between noble wizards and civilian wizards."

"In this simple small society at the school, if you carefully experience it, you will be able to sense the conflicts and compromises between different groups - this is another meaning of university education."

"I hope that my students, each one of them carry their own unique, free stamps, and are not influenced by these numerous and complicated factions."

"I think, therefore I am."

"A life without their own thoughts is not an independent, complete life."

"End of this topic, next student."

The slender, white fingers of Teacher Sima gently tapped the lectern, bringing back all the lost students to reality:

"I hope that the next student’s question will be more relevant to this course."

Zheng Qing sighed softly, rubbed his eyes, and reined in his wandering thoughts.