Chapter 271 Can the policy against magic be changed?

Why did Demacia ban magic?

This title really hits Miss Lux's heart.

Demacia's policy of banning magic brought her endless pain and made her a born sinner, as if her very existence was a mistake.

She also wanted to know why.

My mother said that was because magic was dangerous. Possessing magic was like carrying a time bomb that could explode at any time.

Lux was willing to believe this, but there was always a seed of doubt in her heart.

Especially after this voyage, when she saw that humans could use their wisdom to control magical energy so perfectly and make it into a daily means of transportation that was essentially no different from a carriage or a ship... her doubts deepened.

Is magic really that dangerous?

Is it really that it cannot be used by humans and must be eradicated?

"That's not the case." Levi asked and answered himself at the beginning of the article, partially denying the official reasons of Demacia for banning magic.

"I knew it!" Lux clenched her fists excitedly.

She instinctively moved her head to a more frontal angle to read, almost pushing Sona's head away.

"Abba..." Sona was surprisingly as devoted as she was. She seemed to be very interested in the article, or rather, very concerned about it.

So the two girls huddled in their little corner of the room, heads pressed together, faces touching, ears rubbing against each other, and read the article with great concentration.

Then……

"What Demacia hates is not mages, but uncontrolled folk mages. What they ban is not magic, but the unstable factors that threaten the rule of the old nobility..."

Halfway through reading, Miss Lacus's face turned pale.

The nature of Demacia's anti-magic policy revealed in Levi's article was completely different from what she had imagined.

His writing is so sharp and impolite, which fully reveals the selfishness and hypocrisy of the Demacia nobles.

"No..." Lux instinctively didn't want to believe it.

Is the policy of banning magic just a ruling tool imposed on folk wizards by the nobles in order to maintain their own status?

No, that's not possible.

Am I not a noble, Laxana Crownguard? This policy of banning magic does not apply to her just because she is from the Crownguard family!

Lux was about to retort, but Levi seemed to have anticipated her thoughts and wrote in the second half of the article:

"Demacia's cultural tradition of aversion to magic has led to the birth of a policy of banning magic. The stable policy environment that has lasted for hundreds of years has also formed a huge interest group within the Kingdom of Demacia."

"The expansion of power of interest groups has in turn reshaped Demacia's civilizational traditions, causing the trend of prohibiting magic to continue to expand and become extreme, becoming the absolute political correctness of Demacia..."

“…”

Levi's logically rigorous analysis left the young Lux unable to refute.

After the analysis, Levi commented with a sense of humor: "In today's Demacia Kingdom, the Demon Hunters have become a faction of their own and are too powerful to be eliminated. I'm afraid the only one who can check and balance this behemoth is the Demacia Kingdom's military."

"And surprisingly..."

"As the representative of the military, the Mianwei family actually achieved a direct marriage with the leader of the faction of the Demon Hunter Corps."

"The younger sister of General Peter, the current head of the Crown Guard family, the Fearless Vanguard Sword Captain, who is likely to be the next Grand Marshal, Tiana Crown Guard, and the head of the Demon Seeker Corps, Eldred, are said to have made an engagement."

"The fact that the military representative openly formed an alliance with the police and special forces leader is probably intriguing ."

If this happened in reality, when the situation developed to this point, the king would usually have been completely sidelined.

The better ones will ask you to sign the Magna Carta, while the more ruthless ones will directly send you to the Demacia guillotine...

But the future direction of Demacia doesn’t seem so realistic.

After the prince ascended the throne, his good brother Galen did not grant him the Nine Gifts, or confer him the title of Duke of the Protectorate. The Mianwei family seemed to be quite loyal.

Of course, even if the future is not like this, Levi would not write it so bluntly in the article.

Those who understand this kind of thing will understand it, and those who don’t understand it are not convenient for him to say more...

"As an outsider, I won't speculate too much about this, but the marriage between the Demon Seekers and the Crownguard family is clearly a signal - it reveals that the anti-magic forces have already taken a dominant position in the upper echelons of Demacia."

"It is foreseeable that the power of the Demon Hunter Corps will be further expanded, and the policy of banning demons will become more extreme."

"Extreme oppression will inevitably lead to extreme resistance. Perhaps in the near future, we will see a mage uprising within the Kingdom of Demacia."

Lux: “…”

"Appa..." Sona also had a subtle expression.

She secretly glanced at Lux beside her, and saw that the little girl was so frightened by the article that her face turned pale and her eyes were blank. Cold sweat kept oozing out, even soaking her drooping golden hair, making them stick to both sides of her cheeks.

"How, how could this happen..." Lux muttered to herself.

Why did Levi write it like this, as if even their Mianwei family, her father, mother, and aunt, became bad guys who were secretly planning some shocking conspiracy?

This is slander!

Lux wanted to say that, but Levi didn't make any subjective speculations, he just stated the facts.

This is the current political situation in Demacia, no wonder others are overthinking it.

Lux was a little dazed, and she continued to read.

But Levi did not continue to comment on the political situation in Demacia because it was not the subject of his article.

In other words, the theme he wanted to express was far more profound than court politics and power struggles confined to the aristocracy:

"Since we have predicted the possibility of a mage uprising, as leaders, we must think about another question - can the mage uprising change the unreasonable policy of banning magic and make Demacia a better place?"

Levi captured Lux's fearful and conflicted mind with just one sentence.

Having suffered from the ban on magic, sympathizing with mages, and deeply in love with Demacia, she really wants to know the answer to this question.

Levi's answer was also very direct:

"The mage uprising has the potential to change the unreasonable policy of banning magic—"

"But it will never make Demacia better. In fact, it will most likely make Demacia worse."

"Huh?" Lux was slightly stunned.

She didn't expect that the leader who always spoke up for the weak would comment on the mage's resistance in this way.

"Because mages have never been weak, they are born property owners and nobility who do not need surnames," Levi wrote.

"The wizard's uprising was not a revolution, but a struggle for interests between the new and old nobles—"

"To revolutionize others without revolutionizing one's own life is not called revolution, but rebellion."

If we stop banning demons and allow mages to take power, can these new nobles really do better than the old nobles?

This question is not even worth an answer. Just look through the history books.

Of course, the new rich are not necessarily better, but they are not necessarily worse either. They can replace the old rich, which is always progressive.

Then... "Why should I say that after the mages take over, Demacia will most likely become worse than before?"

"Because they didn't solve the main contradiction at all. Instead, they completely destroyed the method Demacia originally used to alleviate the main contradiction, that is, the policy of banning magic."

The mages have the ability to overthrow the old order through riots, but they are completely incapable of establishing a new, more reasonable order.

Think about what would happen to Demacia if it didn’t have the policy of banning magic?

Without a policy to ban demons, wouldn't there be more grassroots extraordinary people who crave power and status emerging among the people?

If Demacia doesn't use the anti-magic policy to expel these mages, how should it accommodate them?

Share the cake with them? Do you have such a big cake to share with them in Demacia?

"There are only two possible outcomes:"

"First, Demacia was forced to follow the path of Noxus and began to expand outward crazily."

This possibility is actually not very high. Because once Demacia leaves the Forbidden Stone Forest, it will have to face the big boss Noxus , and it simply does not have the ability to expand outward.

So the second one is most likely:

"Second, there are constant struggles between the new and old nobles within Demacia, and it is caught in an endless civil war."

No matter which one it is, the end result is war, endless war.

Because only war can consume so many "unstable factors ".

It is better to be a dog in peace than a man in chaos. This is no joke.

Just like the serfs in Demacia were miserable, but if they saw how the serfs in Noxus lived, they would probably laugh out loud with happiness.

If they were to see how desperate the Shurimans and Ionians have been in recent years, they would definitely puff out their chests with pride for Demacia.

In today's Runeterra, apart from Zaun and Piltover, Demacia is truly the most livable country.

"Demacia's policy of banning magic actually sacrifices the interests of the mage community and creates a relatively peaceful and stable environment for the vast majority of Demacians."

"It is an oppressive tool of rule, but at the same time, it is the best option Demacia can currently offer."

Levi wrote this comment.

Lux looked stunned...

How come I'm back to the same place again? It turns out that Demacia's policy of banning magic is really for the good of the Demacians?

Is there really no better way to change it?

"No, there is," Levi wrote.

Lux couldn't wait to flip through the pages, and Sona also held her breath and read carefully.

Turning to the last page, I saw the following words:

"Considering the friendly and cooperative relationship between us and the Kingdom of Demacia, I will not elaborate on it here."

"Non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries is a diplomatic principle of peaceful coexistence that we have always adhered to..."

Then comes a long paragraph of empty words and clichés.

Lux, Sona: "..."