Chapter 251 Let’s cooperate!
The conditions of each channel were presented in front of Kira through the crystal screen.
"Sorry! They just haven't communicated with people from the outside world for a long time, so they want to take advantage of this rare opportunity to learn from your friends."
Seeing Kira's expression gradually becoming serious, Silver chuckled and said, "Don't worry, it won't be too serious!"
Kira was not worried that they would make too much trouble or attack too hard. He still had some confidence in their strength. It was just that the woman on the screen who looked exactly like Urrutia made him feel a little strange.
After a moment of silence, he asked, "I'm curious, since there is no dragon heart and no dragon-killing magic crystal here, why are you five researchers still here, and what are you researching?"
"Ha! I can tell you that!" Silver laughed heartily. "Each of us is researching something different. I'm researching mechanical soldiers. You should have seen them on the way here, right?"
Kira thought of the mechanical soldiers that were destroyed by Dark Night by the lake before, and nodded silently.
"That was just a defective product from 7 years ago. The latest mechanical soldiers will be more powerful!"
When talking about his research products, Silver was obviously excited, like a parent showing off that his child scored 100 points in the exam, "I'm researching this!"
Kira: 7 years ago... No wonder three handshakes are needed for communication...
Silver didn't seem to notice Kira's expression. His eyes were shining as he spoke to himself, "I know your magic props are very famous, and even sold to neighboring countries. If possible, I would like to cooperate with you!"
“Cooperation?!”
"That's right! Cooperation!" Silver stood up excitedly, clenched his fists, and planned his beautiful dream. "I have confidence in my mechanical soldiers. They are stronger than ordinary wizards! With the help of your channels, I can sell them to neighboring countries! There will definitely be a big market for them!"
"Wait...wait..."
Seeing that Silver was so excited that he was about to call him his brother, Kira quickly interrupted him and said, "Is this considered an arms deal? If the neighboring country uses mechanical soldiers in the war, wouldn't it cause great suffering to the people?"
Silver's words reminded Kira of the fourth generation Dragon Slayer in the movie "Dragon's Cry".
They are artificial soldiers created from the magic of the Dragon Slayer's tears, endowed with enormous durability, speed, and strength. They can fight indefinitely until their energy source is destroyed.
"Maybe... yeah, so what?"
Kira's breathing stagnated. This guy actually had the nerve to ask, "So what?"
If the doubt in your eyes hadn't been so real, I would have thought you were a crazy weapons developer.
"It will cause great suffering to people!" Kira rubbed his aching head. "My magic props are all daily utensils. At most, they are just some tricks. The bad effects they cause are just to scare people. But your mechanical soldiers are different! Ordinary people will be displaced and their families will be broken up! Do you understand?!"
"I don't understand!" Silver looked at Kira in confusion. "The countries of Ishgar have never been peaceful. It has only been less than a hundred years since the second trade. If the Magic Guild hadn't made too much trouble, the countries wouldn't have stopped fighting !"
At this point, he clenched one fist on his chest and opened the other hand, and said to Kira in a very imposing manner: "The intervention of mechanical soldiers only accelerated the process of war and reunification! From a historical perspective, the role played by mechanical soldiers is still more beneficial than harmful!"
Kira's sky-blue eyes flashed with helplessness: "Have you ever thought about what kind of turmoil will happen in their kingdom once powerful weapons fall into the hands of evil people or war-loving kingdoms, and then extend their claws to those who were originally kind and innocent? What kind of war will Ishgar face?"
Silver waved his hand nonchalantly: "Then why don't other people buy mechanical soldiers too?"
This actually made Kira laugh, and he looked him straight in the eyes: "Do you want to listen to what you are saying? Others are buying it too? Then you are not accelerating the process of unification, but are simply being selfish and using the lives of those innocent people to prove your own technology!"
"No... still no!" Silver shook his head and said, "If those kingdoms want to start a war, they will start it no matter what! Even without my mechanical soldiers, ordinary people will still be miserable!"
Kira snorted coldly, "What a twisted idea! Haven't you heard that 'with a sharp weapon in hand, the desire to kill will naturally arise'? It is very likely that they originally did not intend to start a war, but because of such soldiers, their desire for power has increased!"
This kind of guy must be beaten up!
“That’s not nonsense!”
However, Silver obviously still couldn't understand Kira, and said, "If what you said is true, isn't magic the same as machinery?! They are also weapons that are deadly enough to ordinary people! But I know that Fairy Tail has always caused a lot of losses to ordinary people, right?!"
"The magic world has the Council of Judges and various magic guilds! At the kingdom level, wizards still need to obey the king's orders! And there are people in this world who can awaken magic on their own. In this respect, magic is different from mechanical soldiers, and its appearance is simply unavoidable!"
After a pause, Kira continued, "Magic is not easy to learn. People without talent cannot learn it at all! But what about mechanical soldiers? Once the kings of various countries get this kind of weapon, who will stop them?"
Silver retorted: "No! The machine is innocent! The guilty one is the one who uses the machine!! A righteous person will never kill someone just because he holds a sharp weapon!!!"
Kira shook his head and said coldly: "But the human heart is the most vulnerable to the test!!!"
“…”
The air felt a little scorching for a moment.
Silver was silent for a long time before he slowly spoke: "The human heart cannot stand the test? Maybe you are right, but I am sorry, I cannot understand this because... I am not a human!"
What did this guy just say? He doesn't do it... No, he's not a human?
Kira's eyes suddenly widened, showing a trace of surprise, but he quickly regained his composure: "So what if you are not a human? Just because you are not a human, does that mean you can't treat others as human beings?"
Silver suddenly laughed: "Normally at this time, shouldn't you be asking me 'what is not a human being'?"
Kira rolled his eyes and sat back in his chair, "I don't care what you are!"
Knowing that they would most likely not be able to convince each other on this point, the two of them tacitly changed the subject.
No matter how you persuade him, he won’t listen; beating him may not be effective either.
For Silver, it was impossible for him to give up his efforts so far just because of Kira's persuasion; Kira himself knew this, that the kind of situation where two people fight and if one wins the other will change his mind is impossible to happen in reality.
On the other hand, no matter how high-sounding his words were, Kira knew that he was not the kind of person who would interfere in things that had not happened. What's more, this was another country's business, and Kira didn't want to interfere.
The Council 's high-level combat power is lacking, but they have a strong foundation! If the matter of the mechanical soldiers really gets out of hand, they will come out to stop it immediately.
Besides, mechanical soldiers... no matter how powerful they are, can they compare to the Holy Ten, the Shield Wall, and the Ceiling?
"I am a mechanical race! I wonder you have heard of this name?"
Mechanical family?
Kira was stunned. He remembered that Val, who guarded the Twelve Shields, seemed to be a mechanical man and an alchemist.
The mechanical magic used by Val can create special-effect soldiers with various combat modes that specifically target the weaknesses of enemy magic. This mechanical creation, similar to Marvel's Sentinel robot, once put Gray and others in trouble in the final Empire chapter.
Originally, Kira thought that Val was just an isolated case, or even might have been created by someone using alchemy. But now it seems that this is not the case, and that there really is such a race.
