＜ Episode 144 ＞
“…You mean Oracle?”
A suppressed voice flowed from the chairman’s mouth, and the complexion of the middle-aged man who was confronting the chairman hardened terribly.
The pressure radiating from the two is so strong that it can push Veyron’s momentum for an instant.
The complexion of some of the senior lawmakers also hardened terribly, but most of them had a puzzled look on their faces.
“… Oracle?”
“Did you have such authority?”
Byron laughed at the confused look of the lawmakers.
“Looks like you didn’t tell me about the Oracle.”
“······That’s right. Oracles are too tempting. I decided that if I didn’t know, I wouldn’t think about it.”
At the words that came out of the mouth of the middle-aged man, the lawmakers turned their eyes at once.
“What do you mean? Was there something we shouldn’t know about Luna?”
“・・・・・This will have to be clarified!”
As if they had forgotten that they had been suppressed by Byron’s momentum, the members of the council rose up in unison.
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Members of Parliament are those who enjoy absolute power in Luna.
The fact that they had something to hide from them stimulated their pride.
Anger at being ignored and, on the other hand, greed for being able to hide it even from themselves boiled at the same time, and the moment when the eyes of the lawmakers were stained with madness.
“stop.”
ridge!
“Keugh!”
“100 million!”
With a word from Byron, formidable pressure pressed the members of the council, and the members of the council all bowed down in unison.
“… such nonsense!”
Individuals had no choice but to be astonished at the power of Byron, who overwhelms dozens of lawmakers with formidable abilities at once, and only then did he know why the chairman and middle-aged people were struggling with Byron.
It’s not simply because of the position of mayor and elders.
strength.
It’s because she has more power than anyone else in this place, and isn’t that the truth that penetrates Luna?
It felt like my back, which had been forcibly bent down, would break, and I desperately tried to resist by raising my abilities, but the pressure didn’t change.
Seeing the congressmen sweating with their white faces distorted, Veyron shook his hand lightly.
“Ugh!”
“Huh!”
The pressure disappeared like a lie, and only then did the eyes of the members of the assembly line gather at Byron.
“You seem to have calmed down a bit.”
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Members of Congress gritted their teeth while watching Byron speak with a casual expression, but the situation was already overshadowed by superiority and inferiority.
He hardened his face and sat down in his seat, and Byron nodded with a satisfied expression and looked at the chairman.
“Let’s start by explaining the Oracle.”
The chairman made a trembling expression, but the momentum had already passed to Byron.
He opened his mouth with an expression of disapproval.
“······The Oracle is a legacy of the Great War. It’s a battlefield prediction system to be exact. Just predicting the direction of the battlefield can directly affect victory or defeat.”
“It feels like a staff member.”
Lawmakers nodded at someone’s words, but soon questions arose.
“At that level, there’s no such thing as confidential, right? It’s not that there aren’t people with limited foresight, and if it’s for systematic foreknowledge, isn’t there a commercialized technology?”
Luna’s conglomerates are those who do anything for profit.
It was natural to want to secure future market conditions and information, and although it was a limited foreknowledge, he did everything in his power to secure foresight.
However, those with foresight are rare.
Its existence is already rare, but there are many who want to get it, so the competition has become fierce and countless blood has been shed.
In this way, wars of attrition between companies were repeated, and companies that had to think about risks changed their thinking.
Wouldn’t it be possible to create one if it doesn’t exist?
When a system using big data began to be built, and the system that continued to develop began to predict the future with a fairly high probability, the companies stopped fighting.
And the city council also secured related technology and was running its own system, so even though it was a legacy from the Great War, a system that was only predicting the battlefield didn’t look that great.
“If it’s simply that much, it’s not classified.”
Everyone turned their heads at the weight of the middle-aged man’s words.
The middle-aged man with his arms crossed with a serious expression continued.
“The future that a person with foresight or a system unravels will match with a fairly high probability. But even that has its limits.”
“······superman.”
A suppressed moan escaped someone’s mouth, and the man nodded.
“Yes, Superman. Wisdom does not work against a superman who establishes his own ideology and imposes his image on the world. Twisting parts of the world to impose your own laws, how do you predict that?”
He rises to the rank of superhuman and imposes his image on the world.
At that point, it has already become an existence that has deviated from the common sense of the world, so it is meaningless to make predictions by collecting only common sense and data from the world.
Not only superhumans, but also those with high abilities who have reached a high level often escape from foreknowledge, and that is why no one force has been able to fully control Luna.
“······no way!”
A cry came out as if he had realized something.
“yes.”
A middle-aged man with a heavy expression buried himself in a chair.
“The Oracle’s foresight includes both superhuman and powerful people. Even the actions of the gods.”
Consternation appeared on everyone’s faces.
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It was only for a moment that the soundless astonishment became silence and oppressed the space.
There was no one who was not special one by one in this place, and the heads of those who quickly came to their senses began to spin intricately.
“…Yes, there was a reason it was classified. It makes me want to run over and ask right now.”
Everyone put on a frightened expression at the voice overflowing with greed.
Full future predictions.
Because there was no one who didn’t know the value of this.
In a situation where greed began to rage like that, someone opened their mouth.
“But why not use it? If the Oracle had literal power, depending on its use, it would be able to completely overwhelm the National Guard and corporations?”
An implausible question.
Luna returns to greed and blood, strength and violence.
It is impossible to share power in Luna like that, and the city councilors can be said to be the pinnacle of that power.
I don’t like the situation in which power is shared because it consists of dozens of people, but there are two people with equal power outside.
So shouldn’t we just crush them?
It would have been possible with Oracle, but the question arose as to why it hadn’t been done.
“First of all, the price is not too high. It’s called a battlefield prediction system, but it’s from the Great War era. It’s not just science.”
There is a gap between the skills of the Great War and the skills of Luna now, to the point where it would be a pity to compare them.
Apart from berserkers and chimeras, it is the current Luna that Adamantium is unable to transform.
Besides, giving the machine the ability.
The golem casts spells, casts auras, and casts spells.
I couldn’t imitate all organs, but I made similar organs and spread even universal abilities, so I wonder if this is really possible at this point.
If mutants were to emerge during the Great War, they would have been subjugated immediately and turned into experimental subjects.
An era in which all human possibilities and technologies reached their pinnacle.
The Great War was such a time.
“The structure is unpredictable, and it has its own ego. If you don’t like it, reject the prediction itself. It is not something that can be commanded.”
“… I’m guessing that’s an intelligent body.”
At someone’s murmur, the chairman nodded and continued.
“Currently, it is in a sleep state, but once activated, it requires a lot of energy. Two or three zones are enough to operate.”
“······A decent power plant can’t afford it. I need to bring in all my reserve forces.”
“That’s not the real problem.”
At the words of Byron, everyone’s eyes gathered.
“The price is important. Oracles never tell you for free. The cost varies depending on the target of foresight, but the greater the wavelength of the foreknowledge, the greater the cost.”
Byron had a look full of remorse, and the chairman shook his head knowingly.
“Simply put, it’s a system that peeks at causality. Peeking at the law of cause and effect means that you have to pay the price. Cause and effect must always be fair.”
Byron raised his right hand.
“The last time Oracle was running was 70 years ago. Then the Oracle wanted my arm in return.”
Although the voice was calm, there were no people who did not know the weight contained in it, so they made an expression that it was worth a try.
“…as long as it’s about an arm.”
“It’s not difficult to play, it’s surprisingly good, isn’t it?”
Seeing the lawmakers raising their greed again, Beyron sighed and opened his mouth.
“It’s not that simple. The oracle wanted an arm, and I offered my right hand. Do you know what happened?”
Everyone’s ears perked up at the serious voice.
“All memory of my right arm is gone. As if I wasn’t born with arms in the first place. The perception that it was natural to live with only one arm stuck in me. He took all the causal effects my right hand had created in return.”
“······does not make sense!”
Someone jumped out of their seat with a loud voice.
It is natural for him to have risen to the rank of superman, and the mayor may have stepped beyond that.
The market arm is not a simple one.
He raised Luna in his arms, supported her, and dragged her here.
Then, how many achievements and causalities does the mayor’s arm have?
However, when the mayor, who is such a mighty superhuman, did not recognize his arm, he was surprised by the Oracle’s uncanny ability.
“It took 60 years to regenerate the arm. It’s the time it took to change my perception that it was an organ that didn’t exist in the first place, and to make my body accept my right arm. I bet no one else will.”
“……That’s right, it’s a dangerous thing. I understand why it was classified.”
It peeks into cause and effect and informs the exact future.
The price for that changes depending on the size of the cause and effect.
If so, what causation will you ask for?
The legislators couldn’t think of anything with the same value as the mayor’s arm.
Knowing and predicting the future is good, but in return, everything about yourself and even parts of Luna might collapse.
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Members of Congress could clearly see the Oracle’s dangers and understand why it was kept secret even to themselves.
“It was an absurd era. Wasn’t it simply used as a means of predicting the battlefield? That always.”
Someone who realized the gap between the era of the great war and now muttered dejectedly, and lawmakers who felt the same way buried themselves in their chairs.
Weakness and lethargy, greed and anguish shook their minds, and that’s why they missed important facts.
“······But saying that you want to use Oracle means that you have an important agenda.”
At the chairman’s muttering, everyone jumped up and turned their attention to Veyron in unison.
Emotions of horror boiled over, and some shuddered.
“yes.”
Being hit with all sorts of negative emotions all over his body, Vayron smiled bitterly.
“I think Luna right now is in crisis. There is nothing strange when it perishes. In that case, you should at least struggle.”
Luna was raised and developed from the ruins, and the great superhuman who was protecting her rose up.
＜ Episode 144 ＞ End