Chapter 17 Sorrow and Despair(1/2)
Although Joshua has no soul, his extraneous thinking organs are heavy in a mountain range. When he starts to think, there is basically no detail that can be hidden from him.
"Crown, are you in the Far South Kingdom now?"
Joshua, who saw the court style behind the other party, nodded and said, "I'll come over to see you."
As he said this, he hung up the communication device, his body dispersed, and turned into countless starry light particles.
And on the continent of Mycrov, the royal court of the Far South King.
A black-haired man appeared in the palace.
As one of the old forces in the mainland, although the Far South Kingdom is much weaker than its heyday, it still has a powerful mage group to arrange various defensive spells for the palace. Its functions such as anchoring space teleportation and prohibiting portal opening are just the basis. Theoretically, even a cockroach cannot touch the royal palace without permission.
However, for Joshua, this level of spell is just a useless effect of any spell, and it has its limits. The virtual spirit body is said to be immune to all physical attacks. The flame incarnation can ignore high-temperature flames 100%. However, when the attacker's fist can induce nuclear fusion, and the temperature of the high-temperature flame reaches hundreds of millions of degrees that burn everything, even the soul will be smashed and the flame will no longer be flames.
Similarly, when an existence that is equivalent to a celestial body wants to teleport itself, it is impossible for mere mortal spells to have any effect.
When Joshua manifested his incarnation behind the old pope, Eagle had turned his head and asked with a strange look: "Why are you so anxious? Radcliffe, I don't think you are a guy who cares about current affairs."
For Eagle, the warrior's actions were indeed a bit strange.
Although he did complain a few times that the situation in the mainland is not right now, Joshua did blew down to Haikou a few days ago, saying that the entire continent has actually been unified, but even if he was slapped in the face by facts, he shouldn't be so angry that he ran over hurriedly?
So what if I come here? These are all other internal affairs. Strictly speaking, these are all things that should have happened. Many contradictions existed hundreds of years ago, but for some reason, they were ignited on the same day.
"...Do you think I came here just because I couldn't hold on to my face?"
Joshua criticized Eagle's subjective personal discrimination in righteousness, and then told the old pope about the extinction of the strange infighting that he had observed in the abyss.
The frost demons pollute their fertility pool with venom, the acid demons destroy their nests, the flame demon extinguishes the volcano, the flame lizard demon burys the lava lake, and the horn demons seal their mother nests in the mountains in the rock ruins, and the sea abyss demon dragons living in the deep sea and the blood of various sea demons completely dyed the turbid sea abyss world into dirty deep blue.
Twelve demon worlds, twelve civil wars, twelve traces of destruction, where Joshua passed, the demons were spared. This was the first time he did nothing, achieving the achievement of "all wherever he passed was ruins."
On one side, the old pope who listened carefully to Joshua's story nodded slightly while listening.
Although the life forms of the two can transmit information in the form of light waves, and a eye contact can explain most of the things clearly, because of habits and because of "the words said are more powerful", Joshua still chose the original sound wave communication system.
After listening to Joshua's speculation, Eagle, who was originally a little upset about how to sort out the situation, couldn't help but look serious.
"If everything is as you said...then this time things will be much more serious."
As he said this, the old pope raised his head, his eyes as if he could penetrate the wall, and looked at the palace where the royal family lived. He rubbed his forehead and whispered: "Actually, I was very strange, why did conflicts break out? Your guess is actually very convincing, is it a sign of an evil god..."
Since the Holy Mountain of Far Sea itself is also in the Far South, popes have often used incarnations to communicate with the royal family, so in the palace area, there is such a temple-shaped palace specially used for the church. Because of the recent period, the conflict between the nobles and the royal family in the Far South has erupted. In order to reconcile the conflict between the two, Eagle's incarnation has been here, and no one dares to disturb it.
Thinking, the old pope raised his head and looked at Joshua. He whispered: "Since that's the case, Radcliffe, can you guess what kind of evil god is that has the ability to provoke internal struggle?"
"There is no way to guess."
In response, Joshua shook his head: "But it can be speculated."
The evil gods have thousands of strange abilities, and their names are mostly their own abilities.
[Imbalance] The evil god has the inherent balance of all things, causing energy imbalance and uneven heat and heat. Its encouraging means that the sun is sometimes big and sometimes small, sometimes cold and sometimes hot, some low-level extraordinary people lose control of their power, and various extreme weather disasters occur.
Needless to say, [God of God] and [Plague], the evil gods are simple and easy to understand. They were all natural disasters and plagues. Back then, they experienced the signs of the evil god appearing in the world of Ilgena. Although Joshua and others joined the way, they also experienced most of them.
For example, the evil gods like [debilitation] are more subtle, and their signs are probably that they make people become lazy, fragile, obviously lose their minds, and even anti-intellectualism.
But now, the phenomenon of "suspected signs of evil gods" that appear in the surrounding space-time domain is somewhat difficult to describe.
"Evil God [internal fighting]? Evil God [dispute]?"
Joshua said to himself: "It's a bit like it, but I feel that it cannot fully explain the essence of this evil god... After all, we have never seen the essence of this evil god, so naturally we cannot understand the true power of this evil god."
But then again.
Star falls in 840 years... Isn't this a game in the past life, where all the people and horses all over the world are in formation, and after the disaster, the world is blooming everywhere, and they make each other's brains a dog's brain?
The civil strife at that time, but now this kind of small fight is much more terrifying. In the world line without Joshua, the remnants of the dragon disaster are still left behind, and the tribes don’t like each other. The human forces and the fishman tribe in the eastern plains have fought several small-scale battles, and the royal family in the far south have long lost their substantive rights. Now there are nobles who want to overthrow it, which means that the royal family itself has the right to be spyed at. At that time, the royal family did not even have the value of overthrow.
The empire was even more chaotic. Isrell, who was so sad, had basically arranged himself clearly and was waiting to choose a good day to die. Now, the princes and daughters who were friendly and respectful had long divided into God at that time. How many forces and alliances did God know? The secret offensive and defensive agreement between any three people may have more than four completely different manuscripts, and the complexity is as complex as that of the university women's dormitory in Qiao Xiuya's previous life.
The Abyss Demon, I remember that it was also at that time that it began to penetrate. It has to be said that the original world line is really a playhouse in this era.
At least for now, except for the Roman Emperor in Xishan, all the protests are just protests and there is no real fight.
Both the Pope and Joshua made this strange situation by default and pushed the head of an evil god who didn't know whether it still existed or not.
Regardless of whether it is an evil god or not, there is such an existence that creates such a strange phenomenon of civil strife and disputes in the plural space-time realm. Both of them will publicize it in this way, temporarily transferring all contradictions to the evil god.
Today's Mycrov world is in a period of rapid recovery and development. Any civil strife or stagnation is a waste of this hard-won opportunity. It can even be said that this is even related to whether Mycrovming has the power to fight when the evil god arrives decades later.
Even if it was finally proved that all this was just a coincidence, the chaos inside Mycrovmin is really just an ordinary conflict. Then Joshua and Iger wanted to create an "evil god" to create a reason for this conflict that everyone could believe.
"In recent days, my incarnation has been in the Far South, trying to adjust the conflict between the nobles and the royal family."
After reaching a consensus with Joshua, Eagle sat in a chair and took a sip of cold tea: "The institutional reforms of the aristocrats and citizens, and those who want independent domination, have very convincing reasons."
The Far South Kingdom was originally a very loose traditional feudal lord country. It was not so much a modern kingdom as a loose alliance of many great nobles.
Of course, this is also because of a small ancient power of the Far South, which has two major forces, the Seven Divine Holy Mountain and the Elf King Court. Although the Far South Kingdom has an advantage in terms of population and territory, its essentially its strength is far weaker than the former two. In addition, nationalism and nationalism have not yet risen, it is easy to understand that the cohesion of the Far South Kingdom is not strong.
During the Dragon Disaster period, although the Far South Kingdom was prepared in advance due to Joshua's prompt, due to the lack of hard power, the entire country's territory was halfway, a large number of nobles died, and countless civilians were displaced. Although the royal family led the army to barely organize the defense line and save half of the remaining territory, the contradictions lurked as a result.
Half of the land that had originally fallen was destroyed because the nobles who had originally ruled that land were all destroyed. They were used as bait to attract external talents by the royal family. They also gave this baggage to the thirteen heroes who performed outstandingly in the fight against the dragon disaster. This was also the origin of the Thirteen Autonomous Territory, but this action undoubtedly angered the remaining nobles. They believed that the royal family deliberately used this half of the land and the nobles as buffer zones to the Five-Colored Dragon Clan. In addition, because of the warriors, the royal family suffered the least losses in the Far South among the nobles, which also set off a trend of conspiracy theories and turned into calls for the royal family to abdicate.
As the Thirteenth Dominic lords in the occupied areas, basically all residents hated the Far South Royal Family that easily gave up. The lords of the autonomous lords who became new nobles, first to meet the wishes of the leaders, and secondly, they did feel that independence was better for them, so they also joined the camp of denunciating the royal family.
If you analyze it carefully, you will find that the so-called "sudden contradictions and internal struggles" is inherently unrealistic. As early as a few years ago, countless pains began to accumulate. Now, most of the people who are urging the nobles and lords to shout are not the wishes of these senior officials themselves, but the pain and tears of the civilians who have suffered from the disaster of the dragon, have lost their relatives, their hometowns, and all the lives of the people.
Until now, residents in Far South lived in simple temporary villages and towns, farming with rough farm tools. They lived numbly in a muddy area, and even the light of the future could not be seen. Even the nobles were overwhelmed and their territory was close to the brink of collapse.
But even so, the royal family still ignored them, and even became ostrichs, living in the "peaceful illusion" they created, enjoying flowers and wine.
This is not a civil strife caused by the thrust of the nobles, nor is it a dispute initiated by the conspirators for their own interests. It is just that because living is too painful, people can no longer bear it, and the resistance and roar burst out at the last moment.
The protests in the eastern plains also exposed the real conflict between the two strong men, Joshua and Iger, after careful analysis.
As the most powerful mage organization in Mycrov, Guantian White Tower is naturally the overlord of the Eastern Plains, occupying nearly half or even more abundant areas. Its existence itself oppresses the living space of many small mage organizations. Ordinary people naturally cannot understand what these mage masters are going to do. They just passively go with the flow and bear heavy taxes and voluntary labor due to the competition between the mages.
This is the surface of the origin of the contradiction.
In fact, the trend of Guantian Baita unifying most of the eastern plains appeared two hundred years ago. Many small organizations are not willing to join Guantian Baita, but rather they are begging to join without a chance. Although the taxes for civilians are heavy, it is also compared to the eastern plains. In fact, the taxes on the eastern plains can even be said to be very conscientious, far from reaching the point of death.
But the problems still come from civilians who seem to have nothing to do with each other.
In recent years, under the auspices of Guantian Baita, the entire eastern plain has begun to undergo large-scale magic energy technology reforms. A large number of factories and production workshops have appeared in various places. Under the influence of the efficient action ability of the mages, in just half a year, major cities in the eastern plain have successfully carried out preliminary magic energy modifications. Every household has used cheap magic energy heating. The city no longer needs to purchase firewood, but can use magic energy stoves.
However, although the lower-class civilians have received great convenience in terms of quality of life, it is obvious that those mages did not consider the problem called "magic energy pollution".
In fact, this is not true, because in the early stages of the opening of the magic factory, many advanced mages discovered that the energy furnace core of the magic factory would emit a large amount of colorful magic dust. This dust carries special magic crystals that are extremely difficult to absorb by humans, which will cause damage to the bodies of ordinary people. So they closed some factories to try to find a solution.
This solution is not difficult to find. After learning the experience of the Northern Empire and adding anti-pollution arrays for the magic energy factory, Guantian Baita began to open magic energy factories on a large scale within its own sphere of influence, and modernize all towns within its sphere of influence as much as possible. However, many solutions are very good to think of, but they look different when they are done.
Because the anti-pollution array requires silver-level or even gold-level mages to set up, the funds required for both setting up and maintenance are very high. Many magic factory owners who have obtained the right to operate have privately removed this step and directly discharged pollution into the atmosphere and even rivers. Anyway, they themselves do not live near the factory, so the pollution has nothing to do with them, but the villages and towns around the factory cannot avoid being greatly harmed, and even a large number of magic poison deaths occurred.
The mage has a very strong resistance to the pollution of this special magic crystal, and can even digest some magic crystal. The so-called magic energy pollution poses little threat to them, but it can even be said to be a small benefit. In addition, in order to ensure the success rate of modern magic energy reform, the senior mage of Guantian Baita also turned a blind eye to this kind of corner cuts... just like those magic energy factory owners thought.
Anyway, they are not living in polluted areas, so who cares about the ideas of ordinary people?
Ordinary people living in the eastern plains of those polluted areas, as well as small mage forces living around the sphere of influence of Guantian Baita, are forced to endure the poison of this pollution.
What can they say and do?
They can do nothing.
In the Eastern Plain, mages and non-mages are two classes. Even the extraordinary people of other professions will naturally be inferior to those who face mages unless they reach the golden level. Needless to say, the meaning of their existence is to produce new mage seeds. As long as civilians have the talent of spellcasters, they will be immediately pulled into this circle and assimilated by this circle.
In the eyes of the mage, ordinary humans are not even considered by the fourth class.
They are just tools for the eyes of the mage, humanoid equipment used to produce basic resources. They are not respected at all, nor are they allowed to have any doubts or opinions, even because they are not spell casters, even their lives are not placed in the eyes of those mages.
Can the wizard still not think of the problem? Where did you civilians have the wisdom and courage to question the wizard's orders and do it well.
Ridiculous, will the commands on the face change because of your complaints? You are the ones you should adapt to!
Pollution and other things will be solved in the future. As for the fact that you are tolerant now, the sacrifices now are necessary sacrifices for progress and for the truth.
But we won't remember your names, hahahahaha!
The sorrow spreads, countless families cry, men lose their wives and daughters, women lose their husbands and sons, part of the heavily polluted village population even disappears half, and the remaining people have mutated and deformed. No one can tolerate this kind of life unless he does not regard himself as a human, loses the gene of resistance, and forgets the final roar.
The march on the eastern plain, like the revolution in the Far South Kingdom, was essentially not civil strife or dispute.
But it falls into despair because of sorrow, and the roar before dying.
As for the Northern Empire... To be honest, if Joshua hadn't had sweat now, he would have really been glad to wipe out a cold sweat.
Because he knew very clearly that the "sadness" accumulated at the bottom of the northern empire between the far south and the eastern plains was definitely ten or a hundred times that of these two places if it weren't for Isreal's plan some time ago.
The heavy tax pressure brought by the years of war with the orcs, the open and secret struggles between new and old nobles, and the shadow disputes in private. As a traditional aristocratic empire, the nobles had the right to seek civilians. Even from the original imperial law, ordinary people who are not citizens themselves are the property of the lord.
The protection fees of gangsters, the traffickers who privately sell human beings, the oppression and annexation of small households by large families, the arrogance of the nobles' arrogance... Under the surface of the northern empire defeating orcs and being full of flowers, they were actually full of holes and devastations.
As long as a fire is ignited, the foundation of the empire will collapse. This is why, in the previous life, after the death of the emperor who suppressed the situation, the seemingly powerful northern empire split on the spot without any slow decline into a full-scale civil war.
Because they live in darkness and light, ordinary people would rather die in the flames of war.
"So, Isrell's total absolute dictatorship is really a good thing..."
Thinking of this, Joshua couldn't help but sigh: "Justice will not preach itself, only power can... Haha, [Lightless justice needs to be promoted by power.], I didn't expect that the empire is still eased now, and it was really caused by the justice of power."
The current northern empire is much better than before. At least Isrell publicly executed a large number of despicable nobles with extremely bad reputations, and also completely wiped out how many gang forces God knows, so as to clean up the bottom atmosphere of the entire empire.
To be continued...