Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1329 The Dust-covered Moon

"Wait." Victoria realized now, "So your actions could potentially blow up the moon?"

"For the future of mankind, it is not bad to bend a moon. Moreover, the moon waxes and wanes. In ancient times, there was a tree called Dachun, which regarded eight thousand years as spring and eight thousand years as autumn. The full moon has been with mankind for too long, so blowing out a crescent moon is also a special flavor!"

"Hey, hey, Shangluo! Have you realized one thing: landscapes and the like may indeed be landscapes to you. But everything in Constantinople and Rome is based on the moon! The symbol of Constantinople is the moon. If you blow up the full moon into a crescent, Rome will be finished!"

[Well, in theory, it shouldn't collapse immediately. Because the symbol of Constantinople is the crescent moon. But.] Apollonia thought of another possibility, [In fact, it's not a problem with the crescent moon, but a problem with the bright moon.]

"Why is it the bright moon?" Shangluo asked.

[Do you remember the incident in which the shepherd Stephen released the Archangel Gabriel's dove after 1000 years with the words "I'll be back soon"? This incident protected Constantinople in the following way: as long as the bright moon shines on Constantinople, the city is invincible. If we blow a hole in the moon and turn the full moon into a new moon, the problem of making the bright moon disappear is huge. The weakening of the moonlight will reduce the magic strength of the entire world.]

Shangluo blinked: "What consequences will it lead to?"

[The worst result is that the Holy Lie collapses, and all the barbarians realize the weakness of the Roman Empire, and take advantage of the weakening of magic to devour half of the world. This may have a significant impact on your process of inheriting the Roman legacy. And it's not just that.]

Apollonia thought for a moment and continued:
[The stone heart that sustains Victoria's life may also fail when the moonlight is covered with dust, and then she will be beyond cure. Even the lighthouse of Alexandria may go out for the same reason.]

"Oh." Shang Luo pressed his forehead, "This is troublesome."

This was the first time that the goals of the Ming Dynasty and Rome overlapped. Of course, the Ming Dynasty's goal was the sea of ​​stars in the sky, and Rome's goal was the infinite universe in a nutshell. However, Rome's magic relied on the symbolic moon, while the only way for the Ming Dynasty to conduct space travel was the physical moon.

When there is a conflict between the two sides, which is more important, the symbolic moon or the physical moon?
"I choose to keep both. I want to complete both plans." Shangluo stood up. "I want to strike down the Moon Rabbit while not letting the moonlight be tarnished. You can rest assured."

"I believe you." Victoria nodded, "but I always feel that this matter is a little strange."

"What's wrong?" Shangluo asked.

"Among those involved in this matter, there are researchers from Syracuse, who are also Romans. Why didn't they take the initiative to mention the need to protect the moon during their participation?"

[It seems that there is only one reason, and the answer is self-evident: Syracuse, as a physics party, has nothing to do with the moon. It is better to say that if they blow up the moon, they can get rid of the remaining half of Rome, let the Oracle, the Palace of Muses and the Senate all explode, and finally they will inherit the ruins of Rome. ]

"How blasphemous!" Victoria exclaimed. "Is this really possible?"

"Don't tell me yet," Shangluo touched his chin.

Things have been going really well for a long time—which is a good thing. But the problem is, they have been going too well.

Almost all the members of the Syracuse Academy of Sciences were mobilized for this matter. They provided support at all costs and reached in-depth cooperation with the Lanfang Company, just to advance the space program as soon as possible. It seems that this is the most important thing in the world for them. If Apollonia's guess is true, then this will be a new height of Roman infighting. Because no matter how much they fought before, the original New Antioch just wanted to split the New World. As the successor of the New Antioch Governorate, the Columbian Automaton Kingdom is just to replace the bread of the empire and the bread of the circus.

But Syracuse was really powerful. They wanted to blow up the entire Eastern Empire—the Senate, the Oracle, and especially the Palace of Muses, which they hated the most.

The six Romes in this world are distributed according to the combinations of people, worlds and symbols.

The Senate in Constantinople studied the relationship between the world and symbols - that is, the theurgy.

The Muses of Alexandria studied signs and symbols, the purely symbolic realm - that is, alchemy.

The Greek oracles studied the relationship between symbols and people - this is astrology.

Correspondingly, the city of Rome on the Western Empire side symbolizes the sociology between people; the new Antioch symbolizes the relationship between people and the world, and summarizes all practices.

Syracuse's research direction is the relationship between the world and the world, which is physics in a broad sense (the truth of things), or natural science.

This is almost the category farthest from symbol magic, especially the farthest from the Palace of Muses that studies pure symbols. Because physics is a natural principle that has nothing to do with humans.

Although Victoria didn't mention it, there were actually some mirror-image confrontations on both sides of Rome.

The mirror image of Syracuse is the Palace of Muses in Alexandria. One studies the rules of the pure world, and the other studies the field of pure symbols, and both are ruled by a group of intellectual supermen.

In other words, they are fighting for the right to define the world.

In the past, in the era of magic, Syracuse was more like the least important of the six Romes. Because all progress came from magic, and all practice was born in New Antioch. The Syracuse Academy was not the only research institution, but was subject to ethical review by the Palace of Muses.

In this way, researchers of Syracuse would naturally think: if the Palace of the Muses is moved away, then the entire Roman funds will have to be injected into Syracuse.

This is a battle between scholars, and their fighting style is often quite simple: to blow each other up.

"Ah," Shangluo shook his head, "Now that you mention it, Syracuse is becoming more and more suspicious."

[The fact that they are so diligent is actually very suspicious. I have never seen them so diligent before. Shangluo, what should we do? ]

"What should I do? Of course I have to continue. I can't stop here. I will take care of Syracuse and keep all plans as usual. However, I have to keep a trick up my sleeve. At least I have to make sure I can remedy the situation if the worst happens."

(End of this chapter)