Genshin Impact: Towards Godhood

There's no need to make a group of people suffer over one issue.

Even without this statement, Asarig would have still asked Tadhla.

Moreover, as the one spending the money, he indeed should know where the money was going.

This matter wasn't worth wasting much effort on, so they decided to address it directly.

That night.

Rama stopped his work, with the half-disassembled alchemical devices laid out on the table. They looked like a scattered mess, likely impossible for their owner to reassemble.

The items provided by Alice weren't high-level alchemical creations.

She couldn't possibly make these things every day herself; what she gave to Dori were just blueprints, and they were for tools that even ordinary alchemists could make.

The materials were relatively common and didn't require the level of alchemical skill that someone like Albedo had. Any slightly skilled alchemist could create them.

For Alice, such works were probably just toys for children and didn't require anything special.

But being able to refine common materials into relatively excellent products demonstrated the hidden talents of a master.

By analyzing these alchemical devices and reverse-engineering their blueprints, Rama could understand their crafting methods and gain a decent amount of skill proficiency points.

[You have completely analyzed the alchemical device, gaining 428 proficiency points.]

[Alchemy: LV3, 765/10000 (You don't need to force a breakthrough through repeated practice; you should find a teacher or at least obtain sufficient academic materials.)]

"Indeed, at the early stages of proficiency, money can completely solve this problem."

Skill proficiency can usually be improved through learning and innovation.

Disassembling someone else's alchemical creations naturally also grants proficiency points.

And innovation is even simpler: by piecing together known knowledge and producing qualified finished products, one can also gain proficiency points to increase skill levels.

But undoubtedly, all these require money.

"When significant benefits can be obtained, the high cost isn't an issue with the item; it's an issue with me."

Rama shook his head.

The high cost of an item isn't just due to its value but also fluctuates based on the means of acquiring it.

Obviously, for a desert dweller to obtain these items, the cost is naturally higher.

Just like Asarig and their business dealings, even with just two sentences, Rama could guess their goods were undervalued, and the prices of what they wanted to buy were marked up.

Customers don't have much sentiment towards merchants, and merchants, in turn, are just doing business, without empathizing with the customers.

This is straightforward.

I know you're a desert dweller, I can exploit you, so I do.

That's all there is to it.

Business profits work this way: you either reduce costs or raise prices.

Costs are the merchant's concern, and prices are the customer's problem.

Asarig's anger without action is simple—it's useless.

This is Caravan Ribat.

If you're dissatisfied with a merchant's price, you can find another merchant.

But facing the disdain of the entire rainforest, the whole environment is like this, and there's nothing you can do.

If Asarig were to protest the price and cause a scene, the merchants could leisurely call over the Corps of Thirty.

What happens next is even simpler.

The Corps of Thirty, backed by the Akademiya, is an official violent institution.

Although most of them are desert dwellers, they don't fight for the interests of the desert dwellers.

Because hunting dogs only bite for their master's interests.

Facing Sumeru's official violent institutions, Tanit doesn't have the capability or the awareness to resist.

So be it.

When oppression and discrimination come, and everyone remains indifferent, everyone gets oppressed together.

"But the power of the desert isn't entirely unreliable, they're just too scattered."

Rama leaned over the table, his expression calm.

Before him was a map of the entire desert, marking various forces.

The tribe had no such thing; this was compiled using his small devices for investigation and integration.

A vast desert naturally doesn't only have the Tanit tribe.

Within the entire desert, the Tanit tribe was relatively one of the larger forces.

But this was still far from enough.

"If individual hardships are unrelated to the group, then the group's honor and disgrace are also unrelated to the individual."

"Conversely, if individuals are unwilling to bear the group's honor and disgrace, then individual hardships are inevitable."

Because in most cases, individual power is limited.

Of course, in a world with gods, individual power has no upper limit, but desert dwellers must become a cohesive whole.

He murmured, "I knew those old coins couldn't be as foolish as depicted in the plot."

There are many antagonistic factions in Genshin Impact, each with their reasons for being villains, but that's irrelevant; Rama wouldn't pity why villains became villains.

The Fatui, Abyss Order, two of the Tri-Commission, the Akademiya...

Among these, the Akademiya played its cards the worst.

But regarding the desert, the predecessors of the Six Great Sages did well.

They accurately extracted some desert dwellers, leaving the current chaotic situation in the desert and never allowing the desert to reunify under one power.

After the death of King Deshret, the red sands' monarchy completely collapsed.

"Desert dwellers live in tribes, enemies to each other, with no chance of unification."

"The desert's resources are already scarce, and everyone relies on the same methods to obtain survival resources. After prolonged conflict, they view other tribes as mortal enemies."

"Hatred blinds everyone; they forget the desert's scarcity can be mitigated through external expansion, focusing all attention on this land."

But the land's yield is limited, so people can only solve resource issues through slaughter.

The brutal reality is, with enough deaths, there are enough resources.

And slaughter breeds hatred: if you kill a warrior from a rival tribe, his father and brothers will certainly seek revenge.

Similarly, you are someone's son, someone's brother; if you die, they will avenge you.

Hatred interweaves endlessly, trapping everyone in this cycle.

"Just one more step." Rama looked up, "If faith could divide the desert dwellers, the desert would be doomed."

This entire process was very familiar to Rama.

Divide and conquer, support friendly forces, incite hatred, control the flow of resources...

These are the standard methods ancient dynasties used to handle nomadic peoples, with only the final step of a war of faith left.

Unfortunately, at that time, after the death of the Greater Lord Rukkhadevata, the Lesser Lord Kusanali ascended, and the sages refused to acknowledge this deity.

They themselves resisted the new Dendro Archon, making it impossible to use her to divide the desert's faith.

As a result, the divine authority of King Deshret remains solid in today's desert.

This was their arrogance and the reason they would fail.

This world has gods, but those who serve the gods have no understanding of a war of faith.

(End of Chapter)