Chapter 436 Accomplice

"I'm different from everyone else."

If there is anything common to everyone in the world, it is probably either vaguely or straightforwardly thinking that I am different from other people and that I am special.

It is true that no one is the same in talent, education, and acquired experience, but such differences make the world and individuals colorful, but they are not necessarily good things.

When a person is too attached to himself, he will naturally lose sight of others and the truth.

"I am different. I was born to be a superior person. The lives of those untouchables are not worth as much as mine. They should dedicate everything to me."

Nobles, royal families, and religious people more or less have such expectations. A small amount can improve their awareness of performing their duties, but if there are too many, when people no longer regard other compatriots as human beings, no matter how cruel and evil they are Will take it for granted.

"I was favored by the god of luck, next time, next time I will make money!"

In a sense, gamblers and careerists are all the same way. They always feel that they may eventually make money, so that they will never be satisfied with what they are currently getting. They will continue to take risks and gamble, and they will either lose in the end. Lose your own life and chips, or win everything.

Everyone has this "blind self-awareness", which is a part of human nature. There is no right or wrong in itself, and it will even play a positive role in personal growth. "Consciousness" is also often smoothed out by harsh reality.

"It turns out that I... am just a mortal, just a member of the general public, and there is nothing special about it."

Mortals know their limits. So he reluctantly gave up his childhood fantasies. Ability, talent, status, these seemingly vulgar things. But in the end, they decided to push the limit of what that person could go, but some people knew from the beginning where they should be, but they were still unwilling to spend their rare lives like this.

Oros Milan, the boy who was called "Broomstar" Oros by his relatives and friends, knew his position and his destined future - a puppet shortly after he was born.

Oros' birth sequence in the royal family is seventeenth. But it doesn't mean that he doesn't have the right to inherit the throne. On the contrary, because he has a grand duke-level local tycoon as his uncle, his possibility of inheriting the throne is actually ranked among 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 very coldly, like a relative who met for the first time, and the way he looked at an object was like seeing a when available tools,

And then the way he treats mother and child. It is also rough as if dealing with money-losing goods that have been sold.

"Remember, listen to me. Your life will be easier, otherwise, I can get you on the throne and I can get you down."

For a child longing for family affection, he could not see his busy father a few times, but always listened to his mother saying how wonderful his uncle was. This was the case when we met just now. Such a blow is self-evident, but soon , he adjusted.

"...It's nothing more than using me as a tool and a puppet. Is it different from the past? As long as you play this role well and satisfy everyone, Oros is a good boy."

What is ironic is that this uncle was the first to be out of the competition due to his overbearing and domineering behavior, and Oros himself also fell into the fate of his brothers being slaughtered and defeated, and he was about to die on the street.

And when Oros was about to die, a helping hand from another plane allowed him to survive the disaster, but unfortunately, that helping hand came at a price, and from that moment on, he knew that his country had long since passed away. It has been stared at by the undead in the shadows for hundreds of years, and it has even been infiltrated and riddled with holes.

And he...

"What can I do? It's not a puppet, it's just a different master."

In a sense, Oros was so relieved that it made people think he was stupid. In fact, according to his later mentor, it was because he saw clearly, and it was precisely because he saw too much. However, no matter what you do to find out, you can’t change it, so naturally you will appear very indifferent and dull.

"In this world, who among us is not a puppet drifting with the tide, a valuable or worthless pawn in the hands of the big man?"

When he first ascended the throne, he was known as the dullest emperor in history, because he didn't do anything, he did what his ministers said, and he did what his ministers said, as long as the other party had enough power behind him, he would still do as before. It's like a rubber stamp with nothing to do.

But in fact, he just quietly looked at this world and its inhabitants, watching these people who were unknowingly reduced to pawns.

But what he likes most is to go on vacation in his own small private yard, and chat with those neighbors who don't know his identity. He feels that those ordinary people feel more alive than him.

"For farmers, the days of disaster years are better, because the lords and the most demanding tax officials will also give farmers a sigh of relief, and on this day, the pastors and gentlemen of the church will not go back and forth to preach in various towns. And I will not give up my family property in order not to fall into the Styx after death, but to enter the kingdom of the gods."

"For ordinary mercenaries and rangers, although the priest's divine aid is 'free', if you don't make up for the donation in time afterwards, the next time you die on the streets of the temple, no one will help you. On the contrary, for For ordinary people, the medicines of alchemists and herbalists are the most reliable existence. The cost of the most basic healing medicines is not high, but it is enough to treat the trauma of civilians. But for this kind of "business grabbing" The church can easily turn them into 'unpredictable witches and wizards'. Therefore, most pharmacists will not do this kind of unprofitable and extremely offensive voice, which is what adventurers need The buff potions, the fitness and life-saving potions that big shots need are the big moneymakers."

"It turns out that my subjects don't even know which emperor is succeeding now. What they worry about is whether natural disasters will come, whether the tax collector of the noble lord will leave some life-saving money, and whether the gold coins they have saved in private will be safe. Satisfy the pastor. Give yourself a blessing. So that your soul can go to heaven, and you can have a good pregnancy in your next life."

The powerful were also happy to see the puppet emperor wandering around without doing business, but unknowingly let him accumulate enough knowledge and wisdom among the people, and even organized confidants from the slums.

And when he had power in his hand, looking at the hard-working civilians, he felt a little ashamed, and since he had ascended to this position, he should do something.

"Maybe, I can't change all this. But it can make everyone's life better."

Therefore, the puppet emperor chose to trade, but the objects he traded were not only the undead in the shadows, but also the dragons and dragon knights who were high above them. The 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 those anonymous powerhouses, the royal power faction began to rise again, and then won the brutal and bloody struggle with the local lords. Oros, who gradually regained the royal power, became the emperor with real power, and the local lords at least maintained their 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, who is said to be the king's knight. Hmph, he charged twice the tax when he came here. That bastard is trying to change himself the castle."

"Old man, don't be so angry, the noble master has not been the same for thousands of years, who told others to have a good pregnancy."

Furious, Oros returned to his palace, intending to hang the impostor who ruined his reputation on the street, but he didn't expect...

"What, it's Knight Kelso, isn't he my most trusted warrior?"

And his officials told him that the local lord is the only master in his own territory, the actions of Cassel Cavaliers are completely legal, he is still benevolent, and the new knight lords in other places have done even more excessively, after all... …

"In addition to decorating their own homes, they also need to prepare congratulatory gifts for your victory, and the donations to the royal family must not be worse than those of their predecessors...Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?"

"Is it my fault? Did I make it happen?"

At the moment before he fainted, Oros felt that it was better to be a puppet who didn't have to do anything.

"Turning around, it was my fault caused by trying to change the world. Perhaps, the state of doing nothing is the best. No, I can't be so negative, there should be a way."

He tried to use the war to obtain spoils to feed the greedy lords, but it brought a new cycle. Those greedy lords recruited the civilians as free cannon fodder in exchange for the so-called honor and military exploits. At that moment, Oros really felt something was wrong there.

For the first time, he also thought deeply about what went wrong in this world, and why no matter what changes, he finally returned to the original point.

Thinking that a wise mage might have the answer, he used a shadow warrior as a stand-in to study in the Tower of Clouds incognito, and was fortunate enough to meet and become his disciple Thrace, who has the deepest research in this area.

For the first time, he understood that the world does not only have a social system of feudal lords. Foreign races such as elves and dwarves 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 dedicate everything to the strong, and the desire to become the strong to receive preferential treatment has made countless new strong people come out.

Only then did he know that Baier, who was a powerful country, was already doing well. In the remote mountainous area facing a strong threat, the lords went too far, but the civilians who wanted to survive had to endure it.

"It turns out that we did not choose 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 nationalization of the strong for management. At least, it took so many years, He successfully promoted his idea in Bayer.

Regardless of the right or wrong of his approach, after all, this can only be tested by time. As a result, the study in the cloud tower made his old troubles go away, and new troubles came again. Among mages, dragons, and undead, He can get the truth, even if the truth is simply unacceptable.

"Jihad? Reincarnation? Are you kidding me! What are we humans? Wheat in the field? Cows waiting 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 the bottom of my heart, I began to hate the god who is high above but always doing nothing.

"You say you protect the world? Say your pastor is also the servant of the world? But I only see your pastor collecting donations everywhere. Your church is magnificent. But your 'servants' never work, just chant every day Your name speaks for you. Since they are all your servants, why don't you provide for these pigs? You know that Old John has worked hard all his life and donated his last residence, but only to let his son Blessed by your pastor, you can have good luck. If you are free from illness and disaster, you can live for another two years, and you can 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 you 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 scammers who only promise but not pay, or, shameless parasites who even hand over the fraud to the so-called servants!"

In front of the huge gate, dignitaries from all over the capital stood there in a panic. They have just been told that this is the last hole card of the Bayer Kingdom. The portal leading to the dragon world, and now, the old emperor summoned them to say something important.

And after being for a long time, the old emperor finally came late, but he just came here and glanced at the gorgeously dressed people in the audience, but he smiled.

In a sense, the life of the Bayer people has been better, but they are not relying on the high gods, but earned bit by bit by the puppet emperor who is struggling among many forces.

It took him ten years to calm this chaotic country, let the local lords disband most of their private soldiers, and let the lords in the country stop fighting each other.

It took nearly thirty years, and with the joint efforts of the undead and the Dragon Clan, he made the Church of the Holy Church and other churches of the gods withdraw from Bayer.

He secretly allowed the teachings of pure light to ferment, even if it would anger the undead.

Yes, the necromancer can control his own undead creations, even if in order to prevent Oros from showing his flaws, Esso's half-dead curse (blessing) only worked when saving him, making it limited to half-life and half-death, even As long as the magic power is revoked, the opponent's life can still be deprived at any time, but nothing else can be done at all. After all, behind the emperor is a super master-Thrace who thought Esso was not sure.

The undead act in the shadows, and their reputation is too bad to act in the sun, directly affecting the kingdom. The dragons are high above them, so as long as their interests are not touched, they will be lazy to deal with them.

And as a half-dead, in order to get rid of Esso's control, he secretly took on the cursed fetish—the crown of thorns.

The power of the artifact is very strong, and the crown of thorns abruptly turned the half-dead into a living person, but unfortunately, this living person has no sense of taste or pain.

From then on, the unconscious emperor enjoyed the most delicious food without any taste, lived in the most magnificent palace, but could not feel comfortable, and no matter how gorgeous his robes were, he could not feel warm or cold, but he also had Infinite energy can make this country better.

In a sense, Roland helped Oros a lot by getting rid of Esso, but even without his appearance, I am afraid that it is only a matter of time before the break between Oros and Esso, and referring to "history", at least Esso did not win.

As a "mortal" who understands his own bottlenecks, what Oros is best at is probably patience, borrowing strength, and adapting to changes. This is true in history, and it is also true today.

But it is a pity that ideals cannot be eaten, and some things still seem to be unchangeable.

Today, even if the emperor is not dead, the lords are just around the corner, they are eager for new wars, they reject the laws of the removal of free people and the abolition of slavery, they are still emperors in their own territories.

Even though the Church of the Gods is gone, those believers traveled thousands of miles to find pastors and liars who claimed to be pastors, and exchanged the gold coins with blood and sweat for a sentence, "My child, the gods will bless you."

By this time, Oros could not get answers from anyone else either, but a new religion and a pamphlet from the Underworld caught his attention.

"No church? No contribution? Then how do their priests and templars live? They charge intermediary fees as referees? Provide commercial services? They don't even need to recite the name of God. Is this still the Church of the True God?"

If the Law Church attracted his attention, the teachings and the law of God gave him hope.

"Those who willfully take the lives of others with selfish desires will be severely judged by the God of Law. Even after death, they will be punished by swords and fire. ——"The Thirteen Sins of the Law of God""

"Finally met someone who intends to take care of things..."

This is his first opinion. But then, it felt wrong.

"If sinners will be judged after death, isn't that different from the persuasion of the Church of the True God? Obviously, as long as you get the blessing of the pastor and donate enough assets, you can enter the Kingdom of the True God after death."

Apparently, the Sleepless One's teachings were beyond his ability as a lesser god at the time, so either he was just reckless and lunatic, or else. Just don't have a plan.

"Let all sinners go to hell to be punished? Although this can indeed scare the villains, this cross-border doctrine can offend all true gods. What is he doing for it?"

And when he found out that the Church of the Law was related to the legendary Roland, he also got Roland's notes and manuscripts from the Church of Pure Holy Light. After communicating with him, he finally decided to participate in that man's crazy plan.

"The world is not benevolent, fate has no eyes, and the gods only hope to harvest faith and souls, so how can they care about the lives of mortals. Sinners and villains can get things that the poor can't get in exchange for a lifetime by spending a little money and praising the name of the gods. There is no need to believe in the gods. We mortals. The only thing we can rely on is ourselves..."

The old man stood tremblingly on the stage. Behind him was the open gate of the plane. Looking at the dark crowd in front of him, he couldn't help but think of the discussion with Roland at that time.

"Roland, in fact, I have always liked your sentence in the teachings of the southern sect, 'This world belongs to mortals, and those high gods are just hypocritical fanatics. They are believed by the world, but they are ruled by their own concepts Restricted by the rules of order, they 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 so many times that he could already recite it, but what he expected was the follow-up, Roland's choices and thoughts after years of baptism.

At that time, Roland also smiled, vaguely, he saw his own shadow from the old emperor, people of the same kind can always communicate with each other easily.

So, Roland said it straight.

"The only thing we can count on is ourselves. Since there is no benevolence and morality from the heart in this world, we create inferior laws of God and laws of man. Since the wicked and sinners in this world will not be judged and punished, then , let us create a hell that sinners will fear."

"Even if this is hostility to all the gods? Even if we will become the public enemy of the world?"

"Of course, but we are not public enemies in the world, won't you be my companion?"

"No, since it is a conspiracy crime aimed at the final order of the entire world, it should be said to be an accomplice."

From then on, the participants and executors of this plan, Roland, Oros, and Evenli, all referred to each other as accomplices. It seemed that in their eyes, this was a word more trustworthy than an ally.

And while chatting with his aunt, he also understood that person's persistence better.

"Lilith... Sister, you said that if our goal is realized, the new reincarnation will replace the old reincarnation, sinners will be punished in purgatory, and good people will be able to live in a beautiful paradise, and really get a better afterlife , then we can go directly to heaven, right?"

But what was surprising was that Lilith shook her head.

"No, that man said it himself. He has already reserved a place for himself in hell. It is said that he has not even forgotten the place of his cat. According to his actions, considering what you have done, I am afraid that he will definitely have a place with you." He's been a neighbor for a long time."

"Heh, that's really good news."

Oros still remembered that the person he laughed at was turned on his back. It was the first time in many years that he was so happy. Perhaps it was because he heard for the first time that a villain full of crimes would go to hell to be punished, even if the villain It's me.

"Accomplice? You might be a prison friend in the future."

The old man's self-mockery came to an end, and he knew that his time had come to an end.

"Perhaps, from tomorrow onwards, in the eyes of the world, I will become the stupidest person. However, it's not like no one remembers me... Hehe, accomplices, I'm leaving first, waiting for you in hell."

When the old man gently tore off the crown of thorns, the whole world is destined to be changed by him. (To be continued..)

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