The Admiral of Hogwarts

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am very pleased to be able to give a speech at this time. Of course, I will ensure that this speech is as short as possible, after all, everyone will be eating later."

After everyone was seated, Hugo came to the podium in the auditorium to begin his speech. When he finished the first sentence, the people in attendance laughed and relaxed.

"Today, our space program has taken its first step. In this era where ignorance and knowledge coexist, we can say that we have taken a crucial step towards knowledge and civilization."

"No one knows how far we can go on this road of civilization, but from the existing history, we have been moving forward along this road! And the speed of progress is getting faster and faster."

"A successful launch like today is indeed a very important step. But this step, while dispelling old evils, will also spawn new evils, new ignorance, new problems, and new dangers."

"The vision that space presents will certainly yield huge rewards, but it will also be accompanied by huge difficulties and high costs, so sometimes, people will be confused or even hesitate to move forward."

"But what I want to say is that all great and glorious actions are accompanied by great difficulties, and completing these actions requires a spirit of continuous progress and corresponding courage."

"Maintaining the status quo may be more comfortable, but this comfort may completely destroy us. And 'us' here does not only refer to those of you present, but all of humanity—"

Hugo's speech, accompanied by the unique spiritual infection of the Ancient God Admiral, quickly permeated the souls of everyone present, and everyone listened attentively to his speech.

"Progress is not only necessary, but also urgent. If our progress slows down, then we will fall into internal friction, and then destroy all of humanity."

"—For example, more than half a century ago, a wizard named Grindelwald tried to rule all of humanity. And the theory he relied on was that wizards are superior to non-magical ordinary people."

Upon hearing this, everyone present, including the wizards, shook their heads. The wizards recruited by the ship girls were either Muggle-born or half-bloods, so naturally they hated this theory.

"Of course, this theory is insidious, because through this theory, the other party can propose that pure-blood wizards who have mastered more powerful magic and deeper knowledge are even more superior, and Grindelwald is the most superior of them all."

"And as this is promoted step by step, the entire world will become a pyramid structure. Grindelwald rules those pure-blood wizards, and the pure-blood wizards rule the half-bloods and Muggle-born. At the very bottom are ordinary people who have no magic at all."

"At least I think that such a structure is very unfavorable to everyone present, because those pure-blood wizards in high positions will obviously monopolize all the resources and knowledge in order to protect their own interests, and all of us present are just slaves."

"That's right, that's how it is."

"We will never be slaves."

At this point, the emotions of everyone present were stirred up, because everyone knew that if Grindelwald had really won and realized his plan, everyone present would be slaves.

"Why was Grindelwald able to incite so many people? As far as I know, among the people he incited, there were many people similar to us in status." After everyone's emotions eased a little, Hugo continued his speech.

"It's very simple, this is because the development speed of the wizarding world is lower than that of the ordinary people's world. At the same time, the resources on Earth are limited. Therefore, everyone fell into the Thucydides Trap."

"Grindelwald regarded wizards and ordinary people as two competing entities. He believed that the development of the ordinary people's world would eventually threaten the wizarding world, and then completely destroy the wizarding world."

"From a certain point of view, his view has a certain rationality. Because at that time, people's vision was limited to the earth, and the boundary between wizards and ordinary people could not be broken."

"Under such a premise, when two beings with obvious differences need to compete for a limited resource, war is naturally unavoidable."

"But the solution given by Grindelwald is either harboring ambitions or having water in his brain. Because what he claims to be fighting against is the arrogance of ordinary people, the * * of power, and barbarism and unreasonableness."

"Just think about it with your brain and you will know that these things that he claims to be fighting against are not unique to ordinary people, but are universally present in human beings. If you look at it proportionally, the proportion of fools among wizards is similar to that of ordinary people."

"And from such a stupid judgment, the solution proposed by the other party is to suppress the development of the entire human society, and stabilize the entire human society by fixing the pace of human beings."

"For example, the reason why a large amount of resources are not enough now is purely because of the development of technology. For example, in the era without industry, oil must be enough, because the demand for oil is very small just for lighting and heating."

"What Grindelwald wants to do is to keep human beings in that low-consumption era forever, and allow human beings to survive at a low cost by destroying the future of human beings."

"But now, we can take some more positive measures to deal with the problems that the entire human race will face." Speaking of this, Hugo raised his voice and said.

"Now, we have mastered the method to break through the boundary between wizards and humans, so that the two originally seemingly uncompromising beings no longer have the previous estrangement."

"More importantly, compared to the resource-limited Earth, we now have a universe with almost unlimited resources to develop, opening up a path that was never imagined in that era."

"The reason why we made the decision to explore the universe is not because this matter is simple, but precisely because it is difficult to achieve this matter."

"In this process, we will pay a lot of manpower, material resources, and even sacrifice. But all this is worth it, because this goal will promote us to achieve the best organization and test our top technology and strength."

"These jobs will not only generate a large number of emerging jobs and technological improvements to promote the development of the entire human society, but more importantly, they will enable us to open up a brand new era of space exploration for the entire human race."

"Many years ago, the great British explorer George Mallory died while climbing Mount Everest. Someone once asked him why he wanted to climb Mount Everest, and he replied, 'Because it's there.'"

"Okay, space is there, and we will invest in exploration. The moon and other planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there."

"—I believe that now we will have an unprecedented bright future. And as pioneers, we will surely leave our most important page in human history."

Speaking of this, because the atmosphere at the scene was a bit hot-blooded, Hugo suddenly gave a military salute, and then shouted the slogan that he thought was a bit chuunibyou before: "For all mankind."

When Hugo's last words fell, everyone present stood up, including the military personnel, including the ship girls, raised their hands to the side of their foreheads and gave a military salute, while the remaining civilian personnel raised their right arms flat and placed their right hands on the heart.

Then, they shouted another slogan at the same time.

"May human glory last forever—"