“A new helmet, Chronicler?”
No reply arrived. None needed, the reproaching aura was enough to clue Orwell on Hikma’s disapproval.
“This is combat. You can’t afford to be nice.”
Hikma gestured with his index finger. A tiny sphere of sigil blipped in contact with Orwell’s Adamakles. Hikma’s [Surtr] flared in a conflagration of flames, much to Orwell’s annoyance.
“Really?” Orwell’s outrage hopped over the Alps. “For fuck’s sake! Fire? Again? How can you folks be so insane? You keep repeating a trick which constantly fails against me. Isn’t that the textbook definition of insanity?”
Orwell ignored the fire and retaliated with the classic.
[Tundra Ice Create: Cold Sentence]
Orwell fired his ice-beam, robbing the thermal energy from all surface the ray touched. Under the pale light, frost condensed and air chilled. Temperature dropped to level where breath become visible white mist. The same attack that defeated Shyme repeated its chilling devastation to full effect.
But if Orwell expected the result to repeat, he was in for an awakening.
An ice pillar — erected under cover of flames — stood between Hikma and Orwell’s freeze-ray. Orwell almost facepalmed as he realized Tundra’s energy obvious weakness — no one can freeze frozen water. Behind the transparent screen, Hikma pointed downward.
Orwell’s heart sank. Against his better judgement, he glanced at his foot. A block of rock bound his ankle. The Horizon Dawn’s knight must have immobilized his feet, using his flames as a distraction. Orwell’s Adamakles may be invincible against kinetic attack, but said protection didn’t extend to the ground beneath him.
Hikma index finger flipped, revealing a [Conceptual Seal] for [Earth].
“Aww fuck,” Orwell cursed.
[Earth Shift]
Orwell shot backward — dragged by Hikma’s rock manacle chaining his feet — as the ground beneath slid him away like a supersonic conveyor belt. He sped past the rubbles, a stun Princess Velnia and into his tower of Spiritium stone in a roller-coaster ride funded by hell.
Hikma glanced back at Shyme. Good. His heal was patching her worst injury.
Crash!
Orwell reunited with his headquarter at an exploding speed, slamming into the Spiritium tower with enough force to create a dust cloud.
…
Albert Starlight blinked. He rubbed his eyes. Did Orwell Mehest — the mage who effortlessly manhandled Shyme Enma at her full-power — lost a magical trade. Albright knew about [Divine Beast Raiment]. Who didn’t? With [Divine Core] and [Raiment] at their disposal, the Enma clan dominated Phantasia for centuries. Those Inherited Skills were among the most unrivaled. Those who overcame those gaps and defeated a recognized member of the Enma’s line were all elite of elite — The Holy Church Executioner, Vampire Royalty, The IK Chancellor, Special Asset Unit of Seven Continental Alliance, the Untouchables.
Albert Starlight could accept the 33 Stars as a member of these exclusive elite. What he couldn’t comprehend was a masked nobody from nowhere fisting the elite back to the ring’s corner.
The masked man strolled toward them, carrying the semiconscious Enma in his arm. Starlight blinked. Is the color started returning to Shyme’s face? That was ridiculous. No amount of recovery magic could heal the girl this close to death.
“Take care of her,” the modulated voice from the mask is unrecognizable. “She will survive, but she needs time to recover.”
The masked man placed an object in Shyme’s palm.
“Take care of this, okay? This is a gift to protect you while your friend leave the picture. It will protect you.”
Shyme’s fading eyes watched the forged green necklace traced with Cytortia’s scent and allowed a shed of tear to roll down her cheek.
Hikma left to confront his enemy. Shyme watched her savior slowly stepping to a fight she couldn’t believe he would triumph.
“Wait… Don’t go… you will…”
Hikma turned back to the girl. Shyme sensed a reassuring smile was behind that helmet.
“Wait,” Velnia looked at the enigmatic hero. “Who are you?”
Hikma’s answer reflected the might of his power in proportional to his humility.
“No one important. I am just a weakling.”
Hikma walked, leaving his tormenters to become something more. The two girls watched the legend in the making marched off to his first mythical battle.
Mercia’s silent opinion was universal
If that thing is weak, no one is strong.
…
Orwell wondered why his track records against these folks were so miserable.
He stomp Venistalis, destroyed the nobilities, and squashed Shyme Enma like a bug. Then these unknown bozos appeared from nowhere with numbers and resources far inferior to any above and hurt him. He got arrested before the battle begun. His invasion succeeded except for their stronghold. Unexplainable barrier dropped from the sky, rendering his invasion attempt moot. A surprise ambush prevented despite his overwhelming Mana and bodies. Three of his crystal went to dreamland within half an hour. The day ended with a peace-deal and a textbook’s case steam-rolled, concluding in bruises.
Adding to the list humiliation; the second bout open with his fourth crystal getting blown up at the start-line and Chronicler — arguably the most comprehendible of Hal Jordan’s threat — sent him home feet-first using via sliding-earth deliveries.
Orwell calmed himself. First, he launched a reboot program on the Amalgam. He must update his Hive-mind’s firewall, but with Chronicler approaching him like a particular unstoppable warrior massacring his way through a darkened hallway, sparing time to do magic-coding was an impossibility. Orwell’s only preventative measure was patching the leaking ship and hoping his mental anti-virus would prevent more damage from Rem’s logic bomb.
Orwell grunted and walked inside the tower. Honesty time, he originally believed Chronicler was a mage possessing an unrivaled variety of attribute. Facing the man again made him realized that knowledge existed as an assumption, answering practically nothing Orwell needed to pull a victory.
Orwell Mehest concluded his opponent was an enigma, jumping in blind would risk his death now that Trimegal was his only reassurance. He must muster all advantages under his belt.
The child of the Deathless Clan waited for the Chronicler’s reckoning in his tower — his home-field.
…
Chamomile ran without looking back, but sins weren’t that easy to escape.
Said sins slammed the rock she stood ten seconds ago to ash, and howled, shattering stones and blasting Chamomile to the wall. Chamomile took a full look at the corrupted corpse lumbering to kill her. The image broke her heart.
Hex was a five-meter high, lumbering ogre of a corpse. Orwell must engineer his body in some ways, given his newly earned muscle. Two diamonds replaced his burnt eyes. His once luxurious hair now clean shaven with rows of crystal electrode embedded into his skulls. Implants at his chest were intricate metal pieces surgically designed for durability. Hex’s burnt skin was gone. Instead, smart metal grafted his flesh. A mechanical contraption of Orwell designed replaced crippled hand. Back-extension of twin canon robotically clicked as they mounted into firing position and blasted Chamomile with such fire-power her Cultivation Technique’s automatic safety deployed and failed to keep her in fighting-shape.
Chamomile traveled violently through a brick wall, flipped over a dozen rough piles of brick before hitting one last wall and falling to the earth in bloods and tears. She sobbed — her resistance crumbled — waiting for Hex to finish her.
Hex drooled a black saliva, growled with burning pain as it reached the destroyed Chamomile.
Chamomile clench her eyes shut, waiting for the inevitable to happen.
Crack!
Funny. Chamomile thought at the impasse of utter despair. She believed violent death should be painful.
Crash!
Chamomile pried her eyes open.
Hex was lying at a ruin of a house.
Chamomile found the causes of this miracle Infront of her.
It was a man wearing a black trench-coat emblazoned with a familiar symbol. In that black pit of despair, he stood as an unparallel beacon of hope.
“The worst meeting I hope never occurs went off as expected,” Rem sighed, Uzi submachine gun in his left hand. His right hovered over a hand-canon custom made by Melody. He hesitated for a second and abstained.
“What is—”
“Stuart Hex is pretty much 95% through death door when Wayward carted him to Orwell. Patching him back is impossible, so Orwell avoided wasting valuable resource and prolonged his life by adding some… change.”
Rem loaded his weapon. Orwell’s obsession with robotic modification was downright ridiculous. A skin-graft that rendered Hex immune to magic. A fucking Mana-powered laser cannon. An artifact eye that performed god-know-what function. World Enemy’s DNA graft. Even Rem didn’t understand Hex the Abomination’s full schematic. He was likely up against the biggest threat next to Orwell and Trimegal.
“Get away from here, Chamomile. You don’t want to see this.”
“But Captain is in there! I can…”
“Six explosives throughout his body tie to his brainwave pattern. Intense mental pollution via artificial Amalgam. An intense cerebral re-engineering. A hormonal control so complicate, even Empress admitted defeat. One trace of original Hex spook from that thing, and the programing will commit an override to murder everything in proximity. That appeal-to-your-better-self-trick is so classic a kid can predict it from the 2nd episode. Do you seriously believe Orwell don’t have countermeasure for that?”
“But, but,” Chamomile crumbled in tear spring of emotion. “I DON’T WANT HIM TO DIE!”
“Stop being a drama queen,” Rem lifted his gun. “The person who suffers the most is—”
Then Rem stopped.
Maybe it was an illusion — or stress, or something more. But a familiar man in red-cape and an S-shield stood in front of him. No doubt it was a hallucination. Superman wasn’t real, but the sadness as he gazed at Chamomile sure was. Rem halted mid-sentence. The appearance of his humanity made-flesh put the stopped to every excuse he prepared,
Rem realized what he must do — his moral duty. He hated such an idea, but he believed Superman wanted this. Once again, Rem the protector of Dream triumphed against Rem the callous tactician,
Rem turned toward Chamomile as Clark Kent of Kansas faded into his heart.
“It is your decision.”
Rem tossed his Uzi away.
The Vice-Capian blinked at the terrifying knight’s change of heart.
“My decision?”
“Yes, I am partly responsible for Hex ending up like that,” Rem admitted. “His fate is my failing. So, I will leave the decision to you. To free him from mortal coil or to chain his ghost in this world. It is your choice to make — not mine. My job is to stall him until you decide.”
Chamomile realized the utter absurdity.
“That is impossible!” She uttered, staring at the rising abomination. “You aren’t planning to take him down alone.”
“No, it is a sparring match until you gave me an answer.”
The Man of Steel marched to his next trail. Given Chamomile’s inherent cowardice, Rem would probably die before she asked him to spare Hex.
But that who Superman is, the man who has faith in humanity’s positive quality despite knowing all contrary evidence and risk. The manifestation of hope would never surrender to pessimism. As a follower of such ideal, dying on that rampart in service of hope was preferable to surrendering to laziness disguise as wisdom.
…
Rem wanted to issue some complaint.
Justice shall prevail, they say.
Barack Obama is a good president, they say.
Diversity is our strength, they say.
Well, anyone above grade 5 with half-functioning brain cell would remember ‘they’ say many things, most ending as utter bullshit. Diversity of thought is a strength, assuming people can agree with the ‘wrong evidence’. Diversity of race was downright crippling in an era of purity spiraling. Barack is a good president when you wanted to pay for the monolithic government to manage your healthcare or created domestic disaster as the princes in power constantly committed seppuku to save the emperor’s naked ass as he accomplished nothing of value.
Acknowledgment that something failed spectacularly was the first-step toward improvement. Diversity could cripple if you get radical on board. Obama’s only positive accomplishment was being presidential on camera and staying from the veto button when competent people dealt with Bin Laden and fracking.
Justice shall prevail; well, Rem sure had a tough time proving it.
Crash!
He fell to the floor and rolled from Hex’s gigantic clash-landing, which reduce the ground to crater. Hex’s eyes glowed crimson as he screeched. Rem cursed and side-flipped from an energy beam, detonating the earth behind him. The explosion sent him flying. Thankfully, his three-years’ training kicked in. Rem quickly righted himself mid-air, landed, and dove desperately as Hex’s laser cannon obliterated his previous location.
[Firewhip] + [Territory]
Rem employed his [Territory], gaining full magical authority in 100 m radius from his epicenter. Flaming whip shoot from the ground to bind Hex. The Abomination roared and flexed its magic-resistant flesh, destroying Rem’s binding in soul-rendering cried.
Rem sighed. Well, that was his best suppression EAPS. [Clairvoyance] already suggested 99% failure chance for traditional [Holy Force] to slow him. Only one power in his arsenal could suspend Hex, except Rem barely scratched the foot of mastering that.
The battle was an ongoing devastation. Rem wasn’t an upfront fighter to begin with and his three-years of training borne fruit by showing the stage need to reach the root of [Mentalism]. Among Horizon Dawn, only Rem’s have yet to complete his training. His foot was half-way through that gate. All he needed was a final epiphany that kept eluding him for years.
The current Hex was a ball of rage and swinging kill-program, mentally rewriting those directives took time Rem didn’t have. The implant Orwell employed to put Hex in this state also constantly cycle his brain-activity, ensuring a mind-trick would last a second at most. Hex the Abomination was Remus Breaker’s perfect counter. Rem simply lacked the raw force of Hikma, Melody or Lux to stop him.
More importantly, Rem promised not to play offense until Vice-Captain Burden finally defied his expectation. A promise that he was quickly regretting.
To make a matter worse, his exhaustion was peeking for a return.
It was obvious the next few minutes would suck.
…
“What should I do?” Chamomile whispered to herself.
She was never strong. She was weak, constantly needing pillar and validation. First her father. Then Hex—her brother figure. Chamomile desired a normal girly life in the world where death and misery were commonplace. Her heart couldn’t possibly tolerate another lost. Chamomile Elragorn already lost too much.
The building nearby her trembled before blasting apart to smithereens. Rem’s body flew, landing in a smoking heap beside her. The man climbed back up. Blood trickled down from the cut above his eyes as he slowly staggered to the fight he didn’t plan to win.
“Why!?” Chamomile didn’t know when she devolved to scream. “Why don’t you just end him? Why do you want my permission to do it? Why is an utter loser like me worth risking your life to save?”
Rem sugarcoated nothing.
“Totally agree. You are a worthless weakling, but…”
Hex emerged from the rubbles. His contraption hands opened, revealing a flame-thrower charged with Mana. The beast growled like an injured, lost animal fuel by rage. The contraption spun, focusing the energy and flexing the spell’s formula to generate obscene temperature.
“… a great hero once said only those who know weakness can become truly strong.”
Hex screamed. A pointed his flamethrower at the duo.
“Stop this,” Chamomile finally sensed the pain drifting in the air. “I don’t want this.”
Rem looked at Chamomile, tried his best for a reassuring smile and refused to let the woman behind him ate the incinerator.
Because that is what Superman would do.
…
Chamomile responded with stun, witnessing an embodiment of heroism she could only dream of being. But something else took her attention. It was the animalistic screams of her friend and commander.
Hex wasn’t supposed to scream like that. He was gallant, brave — an exemplar of Grand Empire’s courage. With her adrenalin and feared subsided, Chamomile realized Hex’s screams weren’t the yelling of triumph but a pained animal. The fact she was still alive proved Stuart Hex painfully kept a hint of awareness behind that monster. That living weapon worth double as Hex’s torture.
Hex let out another agonizing screamed as he readied his flames-throwers, putting Chamomile up for an ultimate choice.
Either let her brother’s figure die or let him suffered perpetually — the moment of truth was now. Chamomile reflected on everything Hex meant to her and squeezed out an answer.
“Please…” She sobbed. “Please let him rest.”
The fireball the size of a house sailed toward the two, digging a searing trench where it passed.
But the hero’s eyes responded with undying light.
The second battle of the conclusion has officially begun.
Other the rambling about Barrack Obama (who is for me one of the realy good USA president gifted to this mismached country of the worst and the better) i have realy loved the chapter. So thank you, realy.
(Because yes, i don't want to lunch a political war/fight/debat for once. Maybe i'm in a good day ? Or a realy chill and easy time, who know )
No offense, to each of their own opinion. But I love a shattering illusion. I, like you use, to think Obama is harmless until I doubt the media's very integrity and began a search for truth. I must applaud the mirage they erect around that man. Stranger to 4chan and Alt-tech will never hear any criticism on lord teleprompter but here is an expert who suffers under 8 years of Barrack Hussein Obama—quite a colorful fellow with major in political science and colorful usage of vocabulary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fetZRj0V-MQ
It is essentially what makes me check Obama's tax introduction (you can judge a man by his action during economic downturn) and oh boy... it quite a list. I need to dig quite deep to find a list that does not kiss up to him. And reading this gives me chills.
https://www.atr.org/full-list-ACA-tax-hikes-a6996
There is a good reason Mr. Teleprompter-Chief was being referenced this chapter. It got to do with how Rem dealt with the fallout and the explanation why he is so extreme with his method.
@JWL The only think what the "fallout" and the "economic crash" that it's not from Obama, but mostly from the part he as not be able to implement and was made for suport the thing. No politic work if only the core pass and all the other are bloked or totaly twisted : it's like a castle without wall (but yes, the media where realy biased, it's a real true, i agreed ).
And the "crash" come not from that ... we are now in a world where the idea of "economic croisance" and other Liberalist-economic matter simply don't, and can't work because the world itself change. All economic and system start to fail everywhere, whatever they are, because they are not fit for the world now, the too many people, the natural resource who disapear, and the (realy now and new epidemic who will appear). With or without the Tax system of Obama, the USA economic will have fail.
It's more about good idea and politic, but bad time to implement them i think. Also not the help behind (be petty or spit on Democrat just because you are Republican -or the reverse-, seriously guy ? What about the big picture and the well-being of the country ?) to realy implement it until the end to it to be able to work.
And all of that come from the leader and ruler from before, who as (and still don't) do what is needed to take care of the changes ... thinking themself to try to "recreate the glory of the 30/60's" without understanding than no, this don't work, not anymore.
And when you see so many dumbass who only thing "Democrat/Republican" when they have to vote for PEOPLE and what they said will do. Let China and Russia manipulate them like sheep with internet fake-new and all this sh1t ... well. You know most of the est-coast-citybelt will be under-water in 10/15 years yes ? But no, "everything is fine, and continu to use coal to create electricity for protect the USA economic is the best idea ever" and all other braindead and blind thing like that come to exist. So many think like that, and not only in USa sadly my own country is as blind that your).
@Ombre37 Do you even watch the video I recommend? It is not only the republican that is mad as f*ck about Obama. Obama doesn't have a good idea. He is part of the problem
(watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fetZRj0V-MQ).
The world won't sink beneath the wave. What you are suffering from is fear mongering. Relax... you will be fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7NBPN-yd2U&t=73s
Bodybag your black pills.
@JWL I'm not talking about "Noe apocalipse" and "Waterworld" kind of hight lvl water. I'm talking about 1 or 1,5m of more sea lvl : but this is more than enought to f*ck-up many, many thing. And yes, New-york is included in it if the infrastructure to conter it are not build ... many caraïb island will lose a great part of cultivable and seaside soil and territory, including many great resorte city and other like that ...
So no, it's not something to laugh at, and not "mongering fear" but a reality we already can't stop because the deadline is crossed. At most we can slow it down. And yes, many thing will crash down of us for all the sh1t we have done for to many years without give a f*ck about the world.
As for Obama well ... yes i have see it, but no i don't agreed to it (less than 25%). Even if the fact are true (most of them are after all) the way they are used are (at lost for me) twisted, incomplet, or heavily biased. I'm more of the grey faction => nothing is alway black or white like this video said.
@Ombre37 His recent opinion against Trump and blatant support of Biden in recent election fraud that I track with my own two eyes tell a different story.
Let put in an ultimate test where denial is impossible? Does Barack Obama accomplish deeds that make him a good president? Moreover, bias implies my man razor is against Obama because he is a Democrat... allow me introduce you to the man Rageaholic hate more than Lord Teleprompter…
John f*cking McCain!
:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DhBrTtn2Ho.
Bias now or truly Perma-piss citizen of Arizona who is f*cking madder about the current state of politic than you will ever be.
@Ombre37
Now let me divede my rebuttal in two for ease of digestion.
And as someone who studies Solar Cell Technology for a post grad and does a course on green energy, let me tell you a secret. It a hoax. The carbon level in Dinosaur time is way higher and Dino did just fine. Do you think Cuomo and De Blasio will be buying Covid decimate apartment in Big apple if the world is ending? Even if worse come to worse, read Superfreakonomic... artificial replication of Mt Kileau eruption via Stratoshield project would reverse the past decade of global warming by geoengineering at the press of a button and literally negligible price in federal budget. A private company with federal approval could stop global warming next week.
Do you know who is blocking that? Al Gore. The same man who rang 'the bell' on your global warming. The same who predict we would die by January 2016. The Vice-president climate protector who start of as tobacco farmer and later OIL BARON. Wake up, buddy. The reason you hear people spouting about climate is that they are getting a ton of tax money from doing it. You are worshipping climate prediction from a man who went advertising his bullsh*t in a private jet and connection through Occidental Petroleum. Gore just influence entire voting habit of the generation by teaching false reality in classroom that fell to piece on closer inspection.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Al-Gores-Hipocrisy-The-Climate-Crusader-Profits-from-Fossil-Fuels.html
This is how bastard like Obama and Gore get away with this shit. Convincing you it a grey area of moderation. Guess what non-bias middle ground is essentially a wedge issue driving people into an oppression by homogeneity. So be biased! Admit you are bias. Yell your opinion is correct and smash your opponent's ideas into the ground. Middle of the road non-bias compromise is how Edison v Tesla current war give resulting product that neither safe nor efficient.
@JWL . . .
Yeah, well we are not on the same page about all that. But i know from a long time that "Yell your opinion is correct and smash your opponent's ideas into the ground" don't work most of the time, and even less with people obviously sure of their "truth".
And honnestly, i don't have the most little schred of want or fuel to start this kind of war of idea and words.
@Ombre37 Easily solve. I recommend this video to explain my hatred for middle fencer like Tim Pool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJdQQjDwzgY
Being transparent bias means you know what to expect. You have a choice to believe the bullsh*t or not. True traitor work not from outside but from within. He pretends to be your friend, pretend to agree with you and subvert you. The reason my smash-your-opponent-to-the-ground works is because who ever fail got their ass kick out of the office until they readjusted position to be more sellable to educate public. The loser got to face their failure and cope before growing. The reason it didn't work in the current era is because you now got to pick between middle of the road boomer and middle of the road loser protected by the clown in media (not so much in alt tech). Where is the troll, the grifter, the gladfly? Who wants politics and life to be boring? If you have an opinion, don't appeal to my sense of compromise — convince me your idea work better — answer my scrutiny like a pro and owe up like a man went you are wrong.
That is why the first amendment exists. I don't want suits in a public square. I want a discussion. Body blows of argument. Clash of ideas. Birthplace of innovation. If you don't have the energy, out of the ring you went. Let someone with actual passion accomplish great thing.
Where is the global warming bullshit? Did you finalliy realize Al Gore play us like a fiddle? Truth to be told, I can't blame. They compromise the globe education system and laugh the detractor to nowhere land in the 2000s. The huge buffoonery only reveal itself once you check Gore's history and who benefit if the smaller oil buisness keel over and huge amount of money funnel (and maybe launder) to fight climate change. All of the sudden the corruption is damn obvious.
@JWL Dud, Al Gore is just a little guy in USA ... so yes, he as go in other country. True. But do you realy think all scientific and smart people have loss their brain just because of him nd be brainswashed ? No. But maybe you think all the good and real one are the one who said "ecologic crash is a hoax", and all the brainwashed idiot are the one who think "humankind have realy f*ck-up the ecologic balance".
Maybe you do also thing "covid is a hoax" ? I don't know and i don't care ... this will not change the fact i like 80% of your story and will continu to read it. And this is the only thing i care there.
As for make you understand how narrow-minded it is to take only ONE thing in a retheroric and use it to destroy the whole theory, well ... i have other thing to do in my life than bashing my scull against someone totaly sure he as right and will not realy ear what i said. By the way ... yes in the old, old time of dinosaur the carbon lvl was hight. But do you know ? The water sea was also more hight ? And there where forest like ... everywhere to keep balance (the actual African desert was a forest before) ? The wold world was different (for once, the fongus where not existing to "eat" the tree, reason why we have petroleum now) so the whole argument is totaly moot. The whole ecosystem was different : you can compare them at all.
Just a titbit about what you have used before.
Beside, who said i want to accomplish great thing ? Most of the "great thing" "great people" as accomplish was on the pain, suffering, blood and tear of million, if not billion other. Great = selfish and narrow-minded forcefull way to impose your bias on other. Most of the time. Be free and happy, but don't trample the freedom and happyness of other for it is my moto.
And the indice and people (scientific) talking about climat change come from long before the 2000'. The first to ring the bell come from the 1980' even if almost no-one was listening to them. Do there are corrupted and shaddy people using it to furter their own and disgusting goal ? Yes of course, like alway. Do that mean there is no real problem behind it ? Absolutely not. The problem is real.
Anothere thing ... "innovation" are not alway the good path. Too fast, to much is exactly what is destroying our world now. Because tech, idea and crazy dream and many thing go too fast, but humankind is alway the same and remaind lowly and blinded by the same sin than before. It's like make the ardware alway better, but remaining on the "good" old window 95 to make it work. A day for all the thing to crash. And crash hard.
Sadly, this is the new generation and kids who will suffer the most.
The Covid was only one from many epidemic we will have to fight, for one thing. And with the fact no new family of antibiotic as be discovered lately, we will have to fight without tool or weapon. Even more the fact with all the idiotic people who want meat in all time but don't care how this meat is "produced" (search a little and you will understand the itch with the antibiotic who don't work anymore).
@Ombre37 Firstly, Covid is a hoax. I have track it last year in december when it is inside the lab in Wuhan and while it originally represent a thread. It now gone the way of Ebola in Africa. That have most bug work. Kill your host to fast, you fail at living. The best strain of COVID is the one that keeps the host without symptom as it burn through the education. Biology lesson time, the lethal strain will burn itself out with everybody while the nuetral strain reproduces and replace them in population percentages. Hence the increase in cases compare to lethality. The lockdown is stupid because we are dealing with disease who quietly become variant of common cold. It what happens to Ebola-chan in Africa. That the white pill.
Let check the name on the Stratos shield project by Intellectual Ventures.
http://eureka.intven.com/stories/considering-plan-b-on-climate-change
Read it. These guys invent a way to stop hurricane using car tires (I am not kidding). And have some ambition, believes a bit more in humanity. Do you play Fate Grand Order? Struggle will happen no matter which layer of foams you wrap people in. And it okay. Humanity always walks forward as people give each other shoulder to lean on (on boot in the ass to make them reorganise.) Plus, a mere 30 years ago we are talking about global cooling. How the tune change?
I say we need more innovation. Humanity progress is always about those crazy dreams. Can we burn ourselves out? Probrably. But might of humanity is we are master at digging ourselves out of problems. We are weak but throughout history human race conquer the planet and each other. Some of us accomplishes victory against impossible odds. Some want to chase the moon, then overshoot to Mars in titanic failure that somehow ends in success. Aspire to greatness. Believes in success. Dream big to the stars or go home and let other people do it. Who cares if Anti-biotic doesn't work? I will CRSPR the f*cking disease like what they did to the mosquito! Everyday thousand papers of innovation came out that make anti-biotic basically a moot point. Don't underestimate innovation. Push come to shove, we always triumph.
You are underestimating the species of flightless monkey who had conquered the sky, replicate the power of the sun, invent the f*cking internet, conquered a mountain 8 kilometer high, geoengineer this very planet, find away to store a library in a device the size of my hand and flew to space to plant a flag on a moon. And are now closer to achieve peace in the Korean Peninsula than ever before. Bodybags the f*cking doomers. Face toward the sun and yell we will triumph because that is what seperate the winner from loser. Now end the stupid lockdown and revive the f*cking economy. Do it by gunfire and blazing glory if you have to! I say we go faster, crash to the Earth's Mantel in Europe, went through the earth core and jetted out the other end of the planet in Africa the rock to the f*cking moon!
@Ombre37 And why you might curse me up and down. I should tell you the final battle of this Arc and Orwell climatic defeat is released. I will remind you again directly when I finish the Arc 3 wrap up and start Arc 4.
Adios... happy 2021. May the above save our soul