To Four Thousand Years Later

May roses bloom on your cross?

Leonardo frowned.

This line was very familiar to him—the two words in it instantly reminded him of the Rosicrucian Society founded by Rosenkreuz.

However, according to his understanding of the world situation over the years, the Rosicrucian Society is still a secret association hidden in the spiritual energy world. In this day and age. Associations with spiritual power inheritance like the Rosicrucian Society are no longer rare. Among them, the more well-known ones include Golden Dawn, Ash Tree, Thirteen Capitalists and so on. If you don't count the more secretive Anglicans and Fraternities. The Rosicrucians can be said to be the most powerful and best-developed group. However, compared with other associations, they actually have no other advantages other than a long history and a relatively large number of people. And...does the Rosicrucian Society want to take the initiative to interfere in the political situation? Leonardo frowned, lost in thought.

- For this world, this may not be a good thing.

Although with the increasing enlightenment of the people's wisdom, and the increasingly activated sea of ​​psionic energy due to some mysterious fluctuations, more and more people have spontaneously awakened psionic energy. Now it is close to the high ratio of one-tenth of a thousand.

Although most of these awakened people are impossible to use their psychic power to interfere with the outside world, strike or heal others.

But it is only twice the work and study efficiency provided to them when awakening psionic power. and that great energy. Enough to make them even better. However, the awakening of psionic energy is uncontrollable after all. It pays attention to personal will and knowledge, not blood and natural nobility-although the latter can bring more and better learning opportunities.

But this does not mean that the successor of the noble will also become noble. The seeds of psionic energy are the memes that flow in the cultural inheritance, not the genes in the bloodline inheritance.

This will lead to the fact that if the existence of "spiritual energy" is put on the surface, the biggest possibility for ordinary people is not to worship and respect, but to resist and envy.

They will say that the reason why someone is successful is not because he works or studies hard, but because he is lucky enough to awaken psionic power; People also suspect that they are Awakened. It seems that if you attribute all success to such people, you can forgive your own failures and slack. And once success is artificially attributed to a certain place, the possibility of other people taking the initiative to move forward to catch it is far less than if they stop at the same place, but blame and laugh at others for marching towards the "elements of success". Yes... After all, the latter is much easier and simpler. This is an indelible characteristic of human groups. When they lose the ability to manage themselves, they become impulsive, impatient, paranoid, irrational, purely emotional, and prone to extremes. Leonardo believes that this is the animal wildness that "enables people to easily integrate into the group" deep in human genes. After forming a group, people are more willing to obey domineering and decisive leaders, and they prefer the image of brutal, unrestrained and vengeful heroes to observe order and restrain—at least superficially restrain those immoral behaviors. This leads to the possibility of a social catastrophe for civilization, whether ordinary people accept psykers or not. Because psykers do not become good only because they decide to have psychic powers, but because they are good people can become psykers. But unless pushed to the limit, no one is willing to admit the fact that "one is worse than another in all aspects". It's out of a protective mindset about self-worth. So if people refuse to accept this, then psykers will be the knowledge seeking attitude of the "evil ones". This will turn into an epidemic of anti-intellectualism. And if people accept this matter again after the confrontation, psykers will instead become oligarchic elites oppressing ordinary people. Then, in order for psykers to maintain their status, the most likely situation that will happen is knowledge control, just like what happened in the Augustus era thousands of years ago. No matter where it is, it is conducive to the development of civilization.

Leonardo foresaw what is happening hundreds of years ago. Therefore, before the last reincarnation, Leonardo specially told Asmodeus to make an appointment with the possible psionic organizations, let the Anglican Church be the highest coordinator and supervisor, and the Brotherhood would be the organization in the hands of the Anglican Church. a sharp knife. Today the line of knowledge is scarcely interrupted by barbarism. Therefore, the main task of the holy union becomes, before the spiritual power can be popularized on a large scale, to hide this kind of thing as much as possible. To seek power and status through righteousness, but absolutely not to occupy a certain place or a certain country in the name of a certain organization. To put it simply, the objects of supervision of the Anglican Church are not "psychics", but "mysterious associations". All mysterious associations must only serve the role of guidance and teaching, and are not allowed to use the power of the organization to influence politics or the business world. As for beheading those psykers with bad conduct, that's just a personal business belonging to the Brotherhood.

The Rosicrucian Society is of course also one of the organizations under the jurisdiction and supervision. As the oldest mysterious association, they would naturally know what kind of social turmoil would be induced once the secrets of psionic power were made public. Also know the ban of the Anglican Church, and the fraternity, but they still do it, and they don't even hide their organization anymore.

- Don't they fear the Inquisitors and the Assassins?

The Rosicrucians seem to have gained some kind of power independent of the Demon God. This power swelled their ambitions, trying to break free from the control of the Anglican Church, and use psychic power to openly usurp the ruling power of the Principality of Sardinia. It's just that Leonardo still doesn't quite know what the purpose of the Rosicrucian Society is?

Is it Florence? Tuscany? Or the Principality of Sardinia? Or more?

What is the power they get?

Is it prophecy, foreknowledge, or something else?

"Thank you very much.

While Francis is still interrogating Arrow. Master Verrocchio had already finished his bath, wiped his body and put on his robe. Come among them. The old man said to Leonardo in a grateful tone: "I really thank you before... I almost thought I was going to die here.

"It's all right, master. They should be after me.

Leonardo said gently: "Your heart is kind... You even tried to persuade me to leave even in spite of your own safety.

"Don't say that. I'm your father's friend, and it's impossible to see you young people getting involved in the fights of our elders."

Master Verrocchio sighed: "If Lorenzo was here, this kind of thing would never have happened in Florence...Damn it, I should have been prepared earlier.

…and what happened to Lorenzo? Leonardo was stunned for a moment, and asked in surprise, "Master, do you know anything?"