Kepler_22b

I van understand Leonel's stream of thoughts. "I don't have any particular fetish on torturing people, and one nuisance less, the sooner, the better."

The moment you exit the time machine, expecting to bingeread your favorite works... You walk into a nuclear wasteland, the aftermatho fo the third ww... It is then that your story...

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I feel like you hit the nail there...

*nods* I feel you, fellow dragon

I feel like you've skipped more than a pair of chapters...

It seems to me that these primitive civilizations rely too much on the mysticism of magic. It's all easy when you got 4 elements, light, darkness + combinations. They try to discover how to use the elements, yet no one invented the transistor. Perhaps Menadion was on the path before getting killed, since the book has pointed out multiple times the fact that Menadion's creations contain traces of "software"; yet with all secretiveness, I doubt their information and computer science technologies have advanced past the "and" "or" gates. --- Now, without the power of computers: I challenge you to find a plant that allows you to specifically enchant a "camera", or some other nonsense. Besides, the motion sensor stuff and the like is obviously useless against awakened who can see mana and mess with it. Heck, even non awakened have their ways to hack your arrays. Besides, being so stuck up with exploring mana, like it was pointed out multiple times, the primates of this kingdom didn't even bother to explore the anatomy of the human body, cus light magic fixed it all fast. These people likely have no idea what a photon or an atom is. And not like Lith's an idiot, he's just been too busy improving his mystical part of magic to care and become the first explorer of the more science-oriented branches of magic. You have no idea how much time it takes to program something from scratch, even if awakened ever stumbled on the concept of computers, it was lost in history or left rooting in a lich's notebook in some corner. Unlike magic, science doesn't produce flashy results on the first try.

Well if Aina reciprocates in feelings, I'm all for simp/yandere mode.

Nah, Leonel is realizing and reconstructing important core points that will likely drive a big chunk of his future decisions and his personality itself. "Not being swayed", on the other hand, is stupid. Life is the embodiment of evolution and change: if you cling to something that holds you back, you're just going to stagnate then and there. For me, the shape of righteousness Leonel was using to argue with the emperor is truly a piece of **** that's going to get himself killed. Whatever we humans may invent and believe, our actions will be forever driven by selfishness. Whether it is to protect our ideals, that which we think belongs to us or ourselves. Of course, there may be selfless people, but I bet the ratio of those you've met throughout your life is inferior to 1%

A list of what gravity can achieve: As it has been pointed out, travel by exerting directional gravity. Wormholes could be a thing. Gravity could also be used as a sort of telekinesis, with precise control. Warp drive could also be within reach. With some perhaps extreme, or shrewd ways: control over space isn't impossible, as is control over time. Creating a black hole doesn't seem possible if you limit the gravity to a finite number, yet if he's allowed to concentrate this power into a point, he could achieve some black hole slow charging attacks. Just by creating an initial singularity and feeding it air or rocks, he could destroy a planet, or even a star. Besides, if a low mass black hole has its gravity disturbed, or even without any intervention, all the energy it contains will be released in one burst. For those who don't know the mass energy formula, it means that for every kg of mass it will release the energy of 21.5 million tons of tnt.