"And if that happens, I'll just make another method." Hikaru snapped. She truly was surprised by the fact that they were already looking for methods against Spirit Energy. This fast? But she didn't let her shock show. "Your AM Fields are only a nuisance, they aren't impossible. And as many times as you block our methods, we'll create more. You wish to claim that technology can do things magic can? Well Magic can and always will overpower technology!"
"Actually..." Asura interrupted, looking away from K2323 for a moment, to add into the conversation at hand. "I believe there was a wise saying, once said that 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Hikaru spun around, facing Asura, shock in her eyes, at the embodiments words. "You can't be serious! You? Time its self, an embodiment! You're saying they're our equals? But you're a force of magic its self!" She stared the embodiment in the eyes, noticing the different tone Asura now took. Gone from a child of trickery, and playfulness, Asura now seemed different, serious, and in ways, somewhat mysterious. Was this Time's true form?
"I am." Asura agreed. "But if you have failed to notice, The Embodiments have taken no side in the wars, your kind have fought. We have stayed neutral, and away from it all. If, technology was a big a threat, as your kind claim it, then even we would have had to step up. And if magic had become a threat, it would be the same. As long as one grows, the other will grow, and when that one has surpassed it, the first will grow once again. You cannot defeat technology, and they cannot defeat magic, because the two need each other to prosper."
"Then... the war.. Everything we've been fighting for... You want to suggest that it's all been for nothing?! I won't believe it." Hikaru pointed a finger at Gaserlake and Leserlake. "If... If we don't eradicate them, they'll eradicate magic. They already try!"
"They cannot." Asura replied. "Magic is existence, even to those that don't require its use. If they were to destroy magic, they would quite literally destroy themselves. That is the reason they cannot make a complete and absolute version of what you refer to as an AM Field. If they tried, they would cut themselves off from the very life they live."
Hikaru was shocked, Asura had a point, and she didn't like it. An embodiment?! Siding with technology?! Had everyone become suddenly brainwashed? Hikaru still refused to accept it. She wouldn't! No- She couldn't! Not with everything that had happened between the First, Second, and Third Sage Wars. "We did fine without technology for years! And now, you! And Embodiment of all people, say we need it?! Have the forces themselves betrayed us as well?!"
Asura laughed, and smiled. Placing her staff in an upright position, she let it float there, the still spinning tornado of sand and light, casting a glow on the room, the lights causing the shadows to dance almost gracefully. She looked over to K2323, once again. "We will deal with your locking of time, afterwards, first, a lesson."
She turned back to Hikaru. "No young sage." Asura responded, dropping all formalities she had used before with Hikaru's name, and addressing her like that of someone younger and inexperienced. All of her child antics from before, seemed to be gone. "You misunderstand. Your kind does not need technology like these people do. But they need it for another reason. To grow."
Placing her hands out in front of her, the clock pendant around Asura's floated out in front of her, and the hands of the clock began to spin, rather rapidly. Images, translucent, and illusion-like, began to be cast from it, flowing towards the staff, which cast them out to the light. Holograms of the past began to play through them, images of the times when the Sage Three were in charge, and up to the current times.
Hikaru dropped offense, long enough to stare into the images. Almost longingly craving the old times.
"Without technology around, Magic would not have had the need to grow its self. And without magic, technology wouldn't have needed to improve its self. Magic needs technology, and technology needs magic, because they are the perfect rivals of one another, as well as the perfect partner. As long as technology lingers, growing ever stronger and seemingly a threat to your kind. Magic will keep on growing, the mages seeking to grow in power and prove themselves." Asura grinned, and then glanced to the Aralangs.
"And as long as magic is around, the technology users have the one rival needed for them to succeed, in order that they may do the things we do. To match the feats we perform. You said it yourself, Miss Hikaru," Asura added, reverting back to using the formality. "If they cut off your method, you'll simply make another one. If you make another one, they'll seek to block it. It is this rivalry, that lets you both grow in power. You may never succeed each other, but the advancement both will make, will forever be limitless. And in time, you may at least come to respect each other."
"I'll never respect them. Rival or not!" Hikaru shouted. "When they push their laws on us, expecting us to obey them without resisting, and do things like this?!" She held up her right wrist, showing the beaconed bracelet. Which she then smacked against the wall, and used all of her force possible to attempt to rip it off her wrist.
Asura simply shook her head. "You know. There is no embodiment of change, because time is change, in a way. As years pass, times change. You may think tradition falls, but it does not. It only improves its self, and adapts. But if you refuse to adapt with it, and see change as an attack, then you will only bring grieve upon yourself and those around you."
"As if I care."
"Think." Asura added. "Your brother started the first war, and he learned. But what really was the goal of the second and third. To defeat technology, and take your given rights back? Or was it simply revenge? A way to show the technology users that their rival was still there? Answer that, when you have the answer."
"..." Hikaru stayled silent.
