Chapter 443: I Became a Substitute
At 6 AM this morning, just as the sky was beginning to brighten and Ashe followed Igor into the bath, everyone’s Gospel Book popped out on its own.
In just four days, the Gospel Book had already updated the fifth ranking list: the Evil Arts Ranking.
As the name implies, “Evil Arts” refers to spellcasting sects considered malevolent.
This definition is actually quite absurd. Even an ogre spellcaster with two brain cells to rub together knows that spells have no inherent moral value; it’s the spellcaster who determines good or evil. For example, the legendary necromancer of the Six Heraldry, who established the Beauty Houttuynia Farm for their family. Regardless of Ashe’s personal views, the Beauty Houttuynia Farm indeed turned Vamora into a happy and prosperous city, greatly increasing the productivity of its citizens. In this context, the Necromancy Sect is unquestionably advanced, just, and good.
Though spells have no moral alignment, the environment in which they are practiced can be good or bad.
Take the Necromancy Sect, for instance. In a heavenly place where everyone is granted immortality and there are no sources of corpses, how can the necromancy be practiced? In such a paradise of immortality, the Necromancy Sect would be classified as evil because practicing necromancy implies murder.
In the Kingdom of the Gospel, evil arts are defined as those spellcasting sects that cannot be practiced within a normal society: plague, famine, war, death, chaos, despair… for a spellcaster to practice these arts, they must deliberately induce societal collapse. Thus, every evil spellcaster can be considered gravely sinful, and Lala Fatty’s fate is their ultimate destination.
More importantly, these evil sects offer no benefit to productivity. At least necromancy increases corpse recycling efficiency, but plague, famine, war, and chaos? They all reduce productivity!
Even other battle sects, while they might not increase productivity, at least they don’t decrease it!