"I'm different from everyone else."
If there is anything the world is alike, it is probably that, vaguely or directly, that oneself is different from others, that oneself is special.
It is true that no one is the same in talent, education, and acquired experience, but while this difference makes the world and individuals colorful, it is not necessarily a good thing.
When an individual is too attached to himself, he will naturally lose sight of others and the truth.
"I'm different. I was born to be a superior person. The lives of those untouchables are worthless without me. They should dedicate everything to me."
Nobles, royal families, and religious people have more or less such expectations. A small amount can improve their self-consciousness in performing their duties, but if there are too many, when people stop treating other compatriots as human beings, no matter how cruel and evil they are will be taken for granted.
"I am favored by the god of luck, the next one, the next one I must turn over!"
In a sense, gamblers and careerists are all the same, and they always feel that they have the possibility of turning over the book, which will make them never satisfied with what they have obtained. They continue to take risks and gamble. Lose your own life and chips, or win everything.
Everyone has this kind of "blind self-consciousness", which is part of human nature. There is no right or wrong in itself, and it can even play a positive role in personal growth. However, with the increase of age and experience, this "blindness" Self-consciousness is often smoothed out by harsh reality.
"It turns out that I... just a mortal, just a member of the general public, and there is nothing special about it."
Ordinary people know their own limits, so they reluctantly give up their childhood fantasies, such as ability, talent, status and other seemingly vulgar things, but finally decide to pull the limit that person can go, but some people, but from From the beginning, I knew where I should be staying, but I was always reluctant to live a rare life there.
Oros Milan, the boy who was called "Broom Star" Oros by his relatives and friends, but soon after he was born, he knew his position and his destined future - a puppet.
Oros' birth sequence in the royal family is seventeenth, but it does not mean that he has no right to inherit the throne. On the contrary, since there is a local boss at the grand duke level as his uncle, his possibility of inheriting the throne actually ranks in the top three.
But when he was a child, Oros met this uncle under the leadership of his mother. The other party looked at him with an unusually cold look, like a relative who met for the first time, and looked at an object, like when he saw a The tools that can be used, and the way he treats mother and son next, is also rough as if dealing with lost money that has been sold.
"Remember, listen to me, and your life will be better, otherwise, I can put you on the throne and let you down."
This is for a child who yearns for family affection, who has never been able to see his busy father several times, but always listens to his mother saying how good his uncle is. This is the case when we just met. Such a blow is self-evident, but soon , he adjusted.
"... It's nothing more than using me as a tool and a puppet. Is there any difference from the past? As long as you play this role well and satisfy everyone, Oros will be a good boy."
Ironically, because of his arrogance and anger, this uncle was the first to get out of the game, while Oros himself was killed by his brother and was about to die on the street.
And when Oros was about to die, the help from another plane made him survive the disaster, but unfortunately, the help came at a price, and from that moment, he knew that his country had already It has been stared at by the undead in the shadows for hundreds of years, and it has even been infiltrated full of holes.
And he...
"What can I do? It's not a puppet, it's just a change of master."
In a sense, Oros is very clear, and suddenly people think he is stupid. In fact, in the words of his later mentor, it is actually because he sees very well, and it is because he sees too much. However, no matter what the excavation does, it cannot be changed, so naturally it appears very indifferent and dull.
"In this world, who of us are not puppets who follow the crowd, valuable or worthless pawns in the hands of big men?"
When he first ascended the throne, he was called the dumbest emperor in history, because he did nothing, he did what the minister said, and what the foreign minister said, as long as there was enough power behind the other party, he still did it, Like a rubber stamp doing nothing.
But in fact, he just quietly looked at this world and the inhabitants of this world, and looked at these people who unknowingly became chess pieces.
But what he likes most is to go on vacation in his private courtyard, and then chat with neighbors who don't know his identity. He feels that ordinary people feel more alive than him.
"For the peasants, the days of disaster are better, because the lords and the most demanding tax officials will also give the peasants a sigh of relief, and on such days, the church priests and gentlemen will not go back and forth to preach in various towns. They Nor will he give up his fortune in order not to fall into the Styx after death, but to enter the kingdom of gods."
"For ordinary mercenaries and rangers, although the priest's magical rescue is 'free', if you don't make up for the donation in time, the next time you die on the streets of the temple, no one will help. On the contrary, for For ordinary people, the potions of alchemists and herbalists are the most reliable existences. The cost of the most basic therapeutic potions is not high, but they are enough to treat the trauma of civilians. But for this kind of 'grabbing business' It is easy for the church to turn it into a 'witch and wizard with unpredictable intentions'. Therefore, most pharmacists will not do this, which can not make money, and is unusually offensive to people, a gain that adventurers need. Medicines, fitness and life-saving medicines that big people need are the most profitable ones."
"It turns out that my subjects don't even know that the emperor is succeeding now. What they worry about is whether natural disasters will come, and the tax officials of the nobles will leave some money to save their lives. Can the gold coins they save in private be possible? Let the pastor be satisfied, and give yourself a blessing, so that your soul can go to the kingdom of heaven and give birth to a good child in the next life."
The powerful are also happy to see the puppet emperor wandering around when he is not doing his job, but unknowingly, he has accumulated enough knowledge and wisdom among the people, and even organized henchmen from the slums.
And when he had the power in his hand and looked at the hard-working civilians, he felt a little ashamed, and since he was in this position, he should do something.
"Maybe, I can't change all of this, but I can make everyone's life a little better."
Therefore, the puppet emperor chose to trade, but the objects he traded were not only the undead in the shadows, but also the aloof dragons and dragon knights, and the bargaining chips that could be traded were nothing more than more obedient and useful puppets. Some verbal checks.
The secret help of the two great powers was very effective. With the help of the anonymous powerhouses, the royalist faction began to rise again, and then won the brutal and bloody struggle with the local lords, and gradually regained the kingship of Oros. As the emperor with real power, the local lords at least maintained respect on the surface.
but…
"Life? Isn't it the same? It seems that I heard that the lord has changed. The new lord is a handsome young man. It is said that he is still the king's knight. Hmph, the tax was doubled when he came here. That bastard is thinking of changing himself. the castle."
"Old man, don't get mad. Noble masters are not the same for thousands of years. Who told others to cast a good baby."
Angrily, Oros returned to his palace and wanted to hang the impostor who ruined his reputation on the street, but he didn't expect...
"What, it's the Kaiser Knight, isn't he my most trusted warrior?"
And his officials told him that the local lord was the only master in his own territory, and what the knights did was completely legal, he was still kind, and the new knight lords in other places were even more excessive, after all...
"In addition to setting up their own homes, they have to prepare congratulatory gifts for your victory, and the donation to the royal family must not be worse than their predecessors... Your Majesty, what's the matter with you?"
"Is it my fault? Did I make it happen?"
In the moment before he fainted, Oros felt that it would be better to be a puppet that didn't have to do anything.
"I turned around, but it was my fault that I tried to change the world. Perhaps, the state of doing nothing is the best. No, you can't be so negative, there should be a way."
He tried to feed those greedy lords with war trophies, but it brought about a new cycle. Those greedy lords conscripted civilians into free cannon fodder in exchange for the so-called honor and military exploits. At that moment, Oros really felt there was something wrong there.
For the first time, he also thought deeply about what went wrong in the world, and why no matter what changes, it finally returned to the original point.
Thinking that a wise mage might have the answer, he used Shadow Warrior as a stand-in to study in the Tower of Clouds incognito.
For the first time, he learned that there is not only one social system in the world, the feudal lords, elves, dwarves and other foreign races have their own more suitable survival mechanisms, but in this bastard world, it is the most suitable for human survival.
The strong protect the weak, the weak give everything to the strong, and the desire to become the strong to receive preferential treatment has made countless new strong men come out.
Only then did he know that Baier, who was a strong country, was already very good. In the remote mountainous areas facing a strong threat, the lords have done more excessively, but the civilians who want to survive have to endure.
"It turns out that it is not that we chose such a social system, but such a world determines such a social system."
This is not a problem that can be easily solved, but Oros has found a way... Yes, that is the later centralization and the nationalization of the powerful for management. At least, after so many years, he Successfully implemented his ideas at Bayer.
Let's not consider the right or wrong of his approach. After all, this can only be tested by time. As a result, the study of the tower in the cloud has made his old troubles go away, and new troubles have come again. He can get the truth, even if the truth is simply unacceptable.
"Holy war? Reincarnation? What a joke! What are we humans? The wheat in the fields? The cattle and sheep to be slaughtered in the corral?"
From that moment on, he abandoned the so-called belief, and the possibility of going to heaven, and in his heart began to hate the gods who were high but never did anything.
"You say that you protect the world? You say that your pastor is also a servant of the world? But all I see is that your pastor is collecting donations everywhere, your church is magnificent, but your 'servants' never work, just chanting every day Your name speaks for your well-being. Since they are all your servants, why didn't you support this herd of pigs? You know that Old John worked hard all his life and donated his last residence, but only for the sake of his son Blessed by your pastor, you can have good luck, live two more years without disease and disaster, and be able to go to the so-called heaven after death!"
"The beautiful kingdom of God in the sky? I didn't see it, I only saw the purgatory in front of me! Since you can't protect the world as promised, then don't act like your parents and meddle in this world that has nothing to do with you. And mortals. Or, you are a group of fraudsters who only promise not to pay, or, shameless parasites who even commit fraud to the so-called servants!"
In front of the huge gate, the powerful and powerful people all over the capital stood there in a panic. They had just been told that this was the last card of the Bayer Kingdom, the portal to the dragon world, and now, the old man. The emperor called them to say something important.
And after being in office for a long time, the old emperor finally came late, but he just came here and glanced at the gorgeously dressed people under the stage, but he smiled.
In a sense, the Baier people have had a better life, but they did not rely on the gods above them, but earned it bit by bit as a puppet emperor who was struggling with many forces.
It took him ten years to bring this chaotic country to peace, let the local lords disband most of their private troops, and let the domestic lords stop fighting each other.
It took nearly 30 years, with the help of the undead and the dragon race, to withdraw the forces of the Church of the Gods, including the Church of the Holy Church, from Baier.
He secretly allowed the pure Holy Light doctrine to begin to ferment, even if it angered the undead.
Yes, necromancers can control their undead creations, even in order to keep Oros from revealing flaws, Esso's half-dead curse (blessing) only took effect when saving him, making it limited to half-life and half-death, even if As long as the magic power is revoked, the opponent's life can still be deprived at any time, but he can't do anything else at all. After all, behind the emperor, there are many super mages, Thrace, who thought that Esso was not sure.
The undead act in the shadows, and their reputation is too bad to act in the sun, which directly affects the kingdom. The dragons are high above, and as long as their interests are not affected, they are lazy to deal with them.
As a half-dead, in order to get rid of Esso's control, he secretly brought the cursed fetish - the crown of thorns.
The power of the artifact is very strong, and the crown of thorns forcibly turns the half-dead into a living person, but unfortunately, this living person has no sense of taste or pain.
Since then, the unconscious emperor has enjoyed the most delicious delicacies, but has no taste. He lives in the most gorgeous palace, but he does not feel comfortable. No matter how gorgeous his robes are, he cannot feel the warmth or warmth, but he also has Endless energy can make this country better.
In a sense, Roland helped Oros by getting rid of Esso, but even without his presence, I am afraid that the break between Oros and Esso is only a matter of time, and with reference to "history", at least Esso did not win.
As a "mortal" who understands his own bottleneck, Oros is probably best at patience, leverage, and adaptability. This has been the case in history, and it is also present today.
But unfortunately, ideals cannot be eaten as meals, and some things seem to be unchangeable.
Today, even if the emperor is not dead, the lords are just about to move, they are eager for new wars, they reject the laws of the migration of free people and the abolition of slavery, they are still the emperors in their own territory.
Even though the Church of the Gods is gone, those believers have traveled thousands of miles to find pastors and liars who claim to be pastors, and exchanged the gold coins with blood and sweat for the sentence "Child, the gods will bless you."
By this time, Oros couldn't get an answer from anyone else either, but a new religion and a pamphlet from the underworld caught his attention.
"No church? No contribution? So how do their pastors and Templars live? They charge intermediary fees as judges? Provide commercial services? They don't even need to recite the names of gods. Is this still the Church of the True God?"
If the Church of the Law caught his attention, the teachings and the law of God gave him hope.
"Those who wantonly take the lives of others with selfish desires will be severely judged by the God of the Law, and even after death, they will be punished by swords and fires. -"The Thirteen Sins of the Law of God""
"Finally met someone who was going to be in charge..."
This was his first opinion, but then, it felt wrong there.
"If a sinner is to be judged after death, isn't that different from the persuasion of the Church of True God? It is clear that as long as you get the pastor's blessing and donate enough assets, you can enter the Kingdom of True God after death."
Obviously, the teachings of the Sleepless Man were beyond his ability as a weaker god at the time, so either he was just reckless ranting, or he had ulterior motives.
"Let all sinners go to hell to be punished? Although this can indeed make the villains fear, but this teaching can offend all true gods. What is he doing?"
And when he found out that the Law Church was related to the legendary Roland, he also obtained Roland's notes and manuscripts from the Pure Holy Light Church. After communicating with him, he finally decided to participate in the man's crazy plan.
"Heaven and earth are inhumane, fate has no eyes, the gods only hope to harvest faith and soul, how can they care how mortals live. Sinners and villains can spend a little money and praise God's name to get things that the poor can't get in their lives, so There is no need to believe in the gods of the gods. We mortals can only rely on ourselves... "
The old man stood tremblingly on the stage, with the open plane door behind him. Looking at the dark crowd in front of him, he couldn't help but think of the negotiation with Roland at that time.
"Roland, actually, I've always liked what you said in the teachings of the southern sects 'The world belongs to mortals, and those high gods are just some hypocritical madmen, who are believed by the world, but are swayed by their own concepts Bondage, restricted by the rules of order, became slaves in another sense, so I didn't count on them from the beginning.'"
The old emperor paused. He had read the scribbled manuscript too many times, and he could already memorize it, but what he expected was the follow-up, which was Roland's choices and thoughts after the baptism of the years.
At that time, Roland also laughed, vaguely, he saw his own shadow in this old emperor, and people of the same kind could always communicate with each other easily.
So Roland said it straight.
"The only thing we can count on is ourselves. Since this world does not have benevolence, righteousness and morality from the heart, we create the second-class laws of God and human beings. Since the wicked and sinners in this world will not be judged and punished, then , let's create a hell that sinners fear."
"Afraid that this is hostile to all the gods? Or that we will become the public enemy of the world?"
"Of course, but we are not the enemies of the world, won't you be my companion?"
"No, since it is a conspiracy and crime aiming at the final order of the entire world, it should be said to be an accomplice."
Since then, the participants and executors of this plan, Roland, Oros, and Evanley, have all called each other accomplices. It seems that in their eyes, this is a more trustworthy word than allies.
And in the small talk with his aunt, he also understands that person's persistence better.
"Lilith... Sister, you said that if our goal is achieved, the new reincarnation replaces the old one, sinners are punished in purgatory, good people can live in a beautiful paradise, and really get a better afterlife, Then we can go directly to heaven, right?"
But surprisingly, Lilith shook her head.
"No, that person said it himself, he has already reserved a place for himself in hell, and it is said that he has not even forgotten the position of his cat. According to his practice, considering what you have done, I am afraid that you will definitely have to agree with him. He's been a neighbor for a long time."
"Oh, it's really good news that makes me happy."
Oros still remembered that the person who laughed at that time turned his back on his back. It was the first time in many years that he was so happy. Perhaps, this was the first time he heard that a villain full of crimes would go to hell to be punished, even if the villain was is himself.
"Accomplice? I'm not sure I'll be a cellmate in the future."
The old man's self-deprecation came to an end, and he knew that his time had come to an end.
"Perhaps, from tomorrow, in the eyes of the world, I will become the most stupid person. However, it is not that no one remembers me... Hehe, accomplices, the old man will go first and wait for you in hell."
When the old man gently tore open the crown of thorns, the whole world was destined to be changed by it.