"Welcome, Miss Roxelle, or Lord Sage Loranhill." The priestess stood up to greet her with a natural smile on her face. There were no outsiders here, so there was no need to hide anything like before.

"Hello, Archbishop Bines." Loran Hill nodded, then sat down at Bines's invitation.

"After our last conversation, we are now familiar with each other. I believe that Loran Hill must have something important to talk to me about this time." Bines said straight to the point.

"Yes." Loran Hill nodded, then talked about some of his recent experiences, and then asked Bines what she thought of Clancy.

"Actually, I don't have any bad feelings towards Clancy. On the contrary, I like her quite a bit." Bines said this. She took out two cups and poured clear amber tea for the two of them. The tea was not hot, but very cool, like a clear spring in a mountain stream.

"However, my personal preference doesn't make me stand on your side. I also have to consider the overall will of the church and the future situation."

"Let me first ask the wise master a few questions."

"Please go ahead."

"First of all, do you think there can be absolute equality between people?"

"No." Loran Hill did not evade, but gave the answer directly.

"Very good, it seems that the wise man is not that simple and naive."

"Since it is impossible for people to be equal, why do we still promote this concept?"

"Although absolute equality cannot be achieved, we can have equal rights, free from oppression and bullying. For a country or organization to reach a new level and enter the next era, equal rights are essential. It can greatly maintain social stability and enhance the power of mutual division of labor and cooperation."

"Why is it necessary?"

Bines looked at the young girl with great interest. She had thought that Loran Hill would talk about love and beautiful ideals, but she did not expect that she was a pragmatist.

"Because dominance through personal strength will gradually be eliminated by the times." The girl sorted out her thoughts.

"As industries and fields continue to deepen, the original production model based on individual entities will inevitably become increasingly difficult to adapt to complex and in-depth actual needs."

Loran Hill knew that what he said was a little difficult to understand, so he began to explain.

“It’s like making a knife and building a boat.”

"In ancient times, a hero might dominate the battlefield with just a sharp sword and armor, but as time progressed, even his best efforts would make it impossible for him to defeat a fully armed ironclad warship. Artillery bombardments and crossbow fire could easily defeat this outdated knight."

"What if this hero is a Sequence 9?" Viness pointed out that in this world, extraordinary people can greatly narrow the technological gap.

"Then with the same population base, we can cultivate more Sequence 9s." Loran Hill proposed another idea.

Binés fell into a brief moment of thought.

"Other organizations and countries can also produce Sequence 9s. Why do you think your country can produce more talents?"

"Because we have more trust and respect." Loran Hill spoke of the most basic human nature.

"I believe no one likes to be bullied and oppressed. They take away your things at will, bully your family, and take away most of your gains."

“Once social power is unequal, the upper echelons will plunder and suppress the lower echelons.”

"While this is a good and comfortable situation for a few individuals at the top, it is a huge internal friction for the country as a whole and will lead to its slow decay."

"If my own children aren't good enough, if they aren't strong enough, then I'll kill those who compete with them. Perhaps this sounds extreme, but the cost to the nobles of killing commoners is very small, allowing them to do many similar things, such as depriving poor children of their educational opportunities and denying them resources."

"They continue to stupefy the people, simply because the lower classes have neither the ability nor the awareness to resist, and are therefore conveniently manipulated."

"As long as there is inequality in rights, the upper class will fear resistance from the lower class and will suppress it, thus creating a dilemma. This way, society's productivity will not be liberated and will remain locked up."

"No one can sleep peacefully, work wholeheartedly, or contribute their wisdom and ideas under the threat of a long knife. Such an oppressive environment will only breed a fierce desire for aggression and destruction. In serious cases, they may even choose to perish together."

"But the current world doesn't seem to be as extreme as you said. The Green Empire has such an obvious theory of bloodline, and the aristocratic-ruled society has not seen the situations you described." Bines said.

"Because it's still a very primitive stage, many people just farm, and not many people participate in handicrafts. But as society progresses, a large number of dense workshops or factories will be established, and the population density will be unprecedentedly concentrated. And as the industry becomes more and more advanced, the demand for workers' education will increase."

"And at that time, a large number of educated people with certain thinking abilities gathered together. How could you convince them to accept without complaint the fact that they were just slaves?"

"They watched with their own eyes as intricate and exquisite items were produced by their own hands, yet you told them that only one-tenth or even one-hundredth of that was their reward."

"How can he accept such obvious bullying and not harbor resentment?"

"Even if the opponent is a transcendent being whose strength far exceeds theirs, resentment will still arise and accumulate. They are just lying dormant for the time being."

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