The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5068

Ves did not like deity cultivation.

The examples shown by his mother and the cultivation methods described by the numerous enlightenment fruits dangling from the Tree of Possibilities all emphasized the primary reason for his dislike.

The relationships between the 'deity' and its worshipers were too uneven!

Due to the considerable power imbalance between the two parties, the vastly more superior one held most if not all of the cards.

It was so easy for the deity to exploit its worshipers and demand them to give up much of what they possessed in value for a cultivator in exchange for paltry rewards.

In fact, a deity did not even have to do anything for its worshipers! The supposed god could simply sit back and continue to absorb faith or spiritual feedback while leaving its subjects completely in the dust!

"Even the more benign faiths tend to describe hands off relationships." Ves shook his head.

Gods had better things to do than to act as nannies. If their worshipers couldn't do anything without crying to their revered deities, then what was the benefit of keeping them around?

Besides, once gods started to attract a huge number of worshipers, it became unrealistic to attend to their spiritual needs in real-time!

Only the more benevolent and restricted gods might have reasons to do a decent job and respond to those who were truly in need, but even then they could never fully reciprocate all of the gains they received from their body of worshipers.

"Inequality is baked into the fabric of deity cultivation." Ves concluded. "No god can solve any problem, nor should they. People should ideally live their own lives without the meddling of nefarious or capricious gods."

Deity cultivation became intertwined with all kinds of messy beliefs and assumptions. The ethical problems and propensity for abuse were so enormous that Ves had to resist the urge to torch it from existence in its entirety!

"This is a cancer upon all of humanity and other races for that matter!"

His strong secularist ideology caused him to discount all of the positive benefits that deity cultivation could exert on a society. _{freēwēbnovel.com}

Instead, he fixated on all of the possible abuses and expressed serious contempt towards anyone who used this method of cultivation to get ahead!

Even his mother did not escape his sights!

From what little Ves had seen from the Oblivion Empire, it gathered large amounts of desperate people who sought to break past their limitations. They somehow believed that the Lady of the Night could give them what they wanted.

Though his mother had selectively 'blessed' numerous lucky individuals including a notable quantity of mech pilots, the vast majority of her worshipers obtained little to nothing from their goddess!

Cynthia did not even bother to dress up the fact that she was exploiting her lowly minions. All of those gullible and foolish people who fought against the Abyss Empire and more terrible monsters on her behalf worked hard to gain her recognition and blessing, only to perish while fighting for another individual's cause.

Ves did not want to follow the example set by his mother. He understood that she was a product of her environment and that she had internalized an entirely different set of values that were incompatible to contemporary human society.

His design philosophy centered around the concept of Mutual Growth for good reasons. He had been raised as a modern citizen of a modest civic state. Not only that, but he had also inherited the values and principles of a mech designer.

One of the first lessons that any student of this profession learned in class was that mech designers existed to serve mech pilots.

By extension, mech designers existed to serve human society and humanity as a whole!

This was the essence of what creation cultivators should be. Unlike other types of cultivators, those who attained godhood through production had to set their minds on meeting the needs of their clients from beginning to end.

If there was no way that a creation cultivator could provide a positive benefit to their own society, then there was no basis for his existence!

"Deity cultivation is too vulnerable for abuse, yet... it can provide a positive benefit to society as well."

Deities could provide protection to a group of people.

Deities could provide guidance and teachings to elevate a society.

Deities could also help their subjects grow stronger and ultimately become god-like entities themselves!

"My own work should be good examples of this." Ves considered.

He found it rather ironic as much of his spiritual engineering work relied on this model of spiritual development.

His design spirits and his kinship networks all functioned properly because they received their sustenance from the spiritual feedback provided by lots of humans!

Although they all applied primitive and relatively rudimentary forms of deity cultivation, Ves considered them to be a lot fairer and more transparent than normal.

Whenever a mech pilot interfaced with a living mech, he supplied spiritual feedback to the design spirit.

However, this was not a unidirectional transaction.

In exchange for supplying spiritual feedback, the mech pilot benefited from the glow as well as additional benefits from the design spirit.

This was an equitable and sustainable win-win arrangement!

Both sides had reasons to keep engaging with each other. They both obtained what they needed without making any unreasonable sacrifices.

Ves did not want to break this mutually beneficial relationship structure. He could not allow himself to get indoctrinated by exploitative deity cultivation methods and drastically changed the way he operated!

He glanced at a particularly large and shining enlightenment fruit that exemplified everything he hated about deity cultivation.

[Karnasis Seed Planting Manual]

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