Chapter 246 The Truth of History

The sixth picture surprised Roddy.

The five murals in front show Roddy a vibrant Shaka Empire!

In that legendary ancient kingdom, the people could have the right to freedom and equality. They could sit together with the noble knights to decide their own destiny. Without the spiritual shackles of the Divine Church, there were no blind worship and worship of the gods...

But the scene of the sixth picture surprised Roddy!

The empire that Roddy had originally thought was infinitely fascinated by the end of the day changed its appearance!

In the corner above the picture, it seems to be an illusory background phantom, which seems to depict some shadows of the lives of the people in the Shaka Empire - but it is not as calm, rich and equal as Roddy imagined...

On the picture, the farmers were wearing the most ragged clothes, and the nobles' luxurious carriages ran through the barren land. There were still gallows in the picture! But the hanged people were no longer charlatans of the Divine Cult, but were dressed in simple civilians. The angry expressions of the onlookers and the painful expressions of the hanged people were portrayed vividly.

And below the picture is still the "Political Council"!

However, this "Political Council" does not seem to be equal and united as Roddy saw in the previous picture. Everyone in the scene seemed to be quarreling loudly, anger, greed, evil, etc., and various expressions filled people's faces. A man standing on the high platform in the middle should obviously be the emperor of the Shaka Empire. The emperor's face seemed helpless and sad.

The king sighed: "Do you remember what I said just now when you said you admired my ancestor who created the Shaka Empire?"

Roddy nodded, and his expression seemed to be a little depressed and depressed: "I do admire your ancestor! He dares to hand over the rights to others and allow all classes to have equal freedom! I cannot help but admire such a courage!"

The king shook his head and sighed: "It's a pity that he did something wrong!"

Before Roddy could speak, the king said lightly: "The existence of the Council of the Shaka Empire was only maintained for less than a hundred years. In the later period of the Council of the Council, such a political system not only failed to bring benefits to the Empire, but became the root of the empire's corruption!"

"Why?!" Roddy said in surprise.

The king smiled, and he seemed to mock him: "Rody, don't you understand? Rights can always exist in the hands of a few people! And it is absolutely impossible to be distributed evenly!!"

After sighing, the king continued: "At the beginning, the Council of the Council did give people equal freedom and rights. But later, the Council of the Council became a place for all classes to fight for power and profit! In the early days of the Shaka Empire, the emperor did not successfully establish his absolute authority! Although the existence of the Council of the Council brought people the superficial freedom, it also seriously undermined the majesty of the imperial power! Look at this picture!" The king pointed to the mural on the wall: "The Council of the Council became a noisy place. At that time, in order to pass a small decree, the Council of the Council could make arguing three times.

Days and three nights!! Every decree of the empire may touch the interests of all classes! For their own interests, they quarreled and fought with each other!! There was a famous joke about the decree in the Shaka Empire: In the spring of a certain year, in order to pass a farmer to refuse any labor during the spring plowing period, farmers can refuse any labor to ensure the normal development of the empire's agriculture... But just such a decree, for the passage of it, quarreled in the decree for a year! After the decree was passed, winter was already coming! The spring plowing period had passed long ago... hahahahaha..."

Roddy thought for a while and suddenly said, "But, shouldn't there be representatives of civilians in the Council?"

"What's the use?" the king said lightly: "Many things are not as simple as imagined to govern a country! For example, during the spring plowing period, farmers hope to stay at home to work, but the nobles need manpower to build their manors! The army needs to replenish new forces to fight against the threats of other races! The king needs labor to build city walls! Build roads! Can you say who is right and who is wrong?"

Before Roddy could speak, the king said lightly: "Even the civilian representatives in the Council... Humph, when they have the power, they are no longer civilians in the true sense!"

Roddy was silent.

Such things are too complicated, and in the heart of the young Roddy, he really cannot fully understand these things.

After a while, he suddenly thought of something and said, "Where is the God Cult? How was the God Cult at that time?"

The king nodded and said lightly: "When an empire begins to become unstable, it is inevitable that external forces enter!" He pointed to the quarrelsome political meeting in the picture and said lightly: "Did you see those people? When rule begins to become unstable, at this time, spiritual shackles become a need!"

Roddy's eyes were filled with sadness: "Yes! Although religion is a spiritual shackle, in a sense, it is also a mental anesthesia! Especially those in pain, they need this anesthesia even more!"

The king sighed: "It's a pity that my ancestors didn't see this! In my opinion, what the Shaka Empire needed most at that time was a powerful centralization! What we needed was a powerful imperial power that made all forces surrender! This method of equal distribution of rights in the Council made the empire itself a mess!! You fight for each other, but the emperor could only stand aside and watch helplessly!!"

"What?" Roddy frowned.

The king sighed: "Then the Emperor of the Shaka Empire formally ordered the dissolution of the 'Political Council'! The 'Political Council', which once used to be a symbol of freedom and equality in the Shaka Empire, finally disappeared!"

Roddy's face changed: "Really? This is not a good thing!"

If it is simply understood that the emperor abolished the political meeting in order to eliminate endless struggles, then this understanding is wrong!

Sure enough, the king looked at Roddy with a little admiration: "His Excellency Roddy, can you understand the key?"

Roddy sighed: "If you follow His Majesty's introduction just now, then this abnormal 'Political Council' should indeed be cancelled, and there is no need to be taken back at all! But you must know that it is easy to hand over the power, but if you want to take it back... Humph, it may not be so easy! According to His Majesty, you just said, the imperial power did not establish its own authority at that time. Can the Political Council be cancelled at this time, can the imperial power suppress the representatives of all classes? If it is not done well, it may cause trouble!"

The king nodded: "You really understand..."

"What does this mean?" Roddy pointed to the seventh mural on the wall, wondering.

The seventh mural seems to be a busy scene.

Countless people used various methods to carry wood and stones, and these people gathered together, as if they were building a huge building reasonably.

From the background of the picture, there are layers of circling mountain roads above a very high mountain peak from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain. Countless people worked hard to transport the materials of the building to the top of the mountain.

The mountain peak itself was almost like a sky, with mist surrounding it, making the whole picture looming. On the top of the mountain, some people dressed in craftsmen were busy holding various tools. What surprised Roddy was that a tall tower was actually being built on the top of the mountain!

The tower showed an extremely unique cone shape. Judging from the progress it has been completed, the height of the tower is already amazing!

The king sighed: "Did you see the line of words below? The line of words means: build the Tower of Heaven! The beginning of blasphemy!"

Looking at Roddy's puzzled gaze, the king sighed: "In the history of the Shaka Empire, the Divine Cult was ordered to ban it. But in fact, after many years of development, the Divine Cult has become very influential!"

Roddy nodded: "But does this have anything to do with this 'Tower of Heaven'?"

"It's a big deal!" The king sighed: "The power of the Divine Cult in the Shaka Empire is getting bigger and bigger. The debate about whether the gods exist or not has been quarrels all the time. There are even calls for the empire to cancel the ban on the Divine Cult! And at that time, the Emperor of the Shaka Empire suddenly ordered that a "Tower of Heaven" would be built, which would lead directly to heaven! To prove that there are no gods in heaven! Those Divine Cult statements are completely lies!!!"

"What?" Roddy was stunned, and an incredible absurd expression appeared on his face: "It is for this reason that it takes countless manpower and material resources to build a tower?"

The king smiled faintly: "We will never fully know the truth of history. Now all we can find out is just some remaining things."

Roddy looked at the mural on the wall in a daze and sighed: "No matter what, if the gods really exist... then this tall tower will definitely not be built successfully!" He thought to himself: At least on the Roland Continent, he has never heard of any 'Tower of Heaven' existed.

"Not bad!" The king sighed: "Since the construction of the Tower of Heaven, the power of the Divine Cult has strongly opposed it. Many people in all classes have already believed in the Divine Cult. They fiercely opposed the emperor's practice and believed that it was a blasphemy of the gods! They declared that the sky is the territory of the gods, and anyone who attempts to step through the tower and step on the heavens is a blasphemy of the gods and will be punished by the gods."

"So, has the punishment from the gods been realized?" The expression on Roddy's face was a little complicated.

The king seemed to be laughing, but there was a bit of bitterness in his smile: "At least the Shaka Empire is destroyed!"

Roddy shook her head, stopped talking, and continued to look down.

The picture on the next mural is relatively simple, and it is also the scene that Roddy is most familiar with - war!

Swords are like forests, wolf smoke is rolling, golden swords and iron horses... And it is not just humans who fight together!

There are the legendary dragon clans. The shapes of those dragon clans are somewhat similar to those of the demon dragons that Roddy had seen in the deep caves in the southern part of the Light Continent. There are also the legendary elves. The people of those elves are somewhat similar to humans in terms of appearance, except that their faces are pointed and have long ears.

The picture does not indicate who is fighting with whom, but it seems that several forces are fighting each other endlessly.

The king sighed: "This is the first large-scale war in the recorded Shaka Empire! Civil strife broke out in the empire, and several races began to fight. The war lasted for nearly a hundred years!"

"Who won?" Roddy asked very simply.

"It's human!" The king answered faster, but he smiled as if he had a deep meaning: "Humans have always been the leaders of all races. Although humans do not have the powerful bodies of the dragon race and the natural magic power of the elves! But humans have wisdom that other races do not have!"

Roddy seemed to be sneering: "Didn't the Divine Book of God say: God created humans in his own way, and then created other races in the world, and then humans became the master of the earth!" After a pause, Roddy asked again: "How did that war break out?"

"God knows!" The king's tone was a little unkind.

Roddy did not frown, nor did he feel any dissatisfied with the king's vague answer, but said lightly: "I'm afraid, only 'god' knows it."

The two looked at each other and smiled knowingly.

Roddy continued to look at the mural behind and suddenly said, "What does this mean?"

On the next mural, there is a ruin. The buildings were burned in the fire, and the smoke was rolling, and there was a bloody setting sun in the distance. Although the picture was simple, it made people feel sad when they saw it.

"The setting sun of the empire!" the king said lightly: "The line of words below means: the setting sun of the empire!"

Looking at Roddy's puzzled expression, the king continued: "After that war, the elite clan was completely extinct! The dragon clan was forever entrenched in the northernmost corner of the Roland Continent!"

"I understand..." Roddy's tone was a little puzzled: "Although the victory of the war belongs to humans, the Shaka Empire completely collapsed in this war... An empire that originally owned the entire continent is almost dead."

The king smiled, his tone was a bit sad: "The Tower of Heaven was destroyed before it was built. At the same time, the brilliant culture and former civilization of the Shaka Empire were destroyed!"

"Where is the empire? Does it still exist?"

"It can be said that it does not exist." The king smiled bitterly: "After the war, the empire almost collapsed! At this time, if the Divine Cult, the only force that the emperor could rely on! No other reason, because religion can numb people's psychology and make people willing to endure pain and poverty! Willing to put on the shackles of enslavement! In that era, the Divine Cult began to become a religious belief openly!"

Roddy suddenly burst into laughter, his smile with infinite mockery. He laughed louder and louder, and finally, tears flowed out of his eyes!

Then he couldn't help but shout, "What a bullshit theory! Freedom and equality bring about poverty, hunger and war! And when those who wear soul shackles get peace and tranquility! Why are those people willing to be enslaved by bullshit gods? Why should those gods accept the worship of human beings high above them!!"

The king said lightly: "Because the gods are 'merciful'! Because the gods are 'great'! God said that people are born with sin, so it is inevitable that you will suffer in this world. If you want to get peace, you must worship me and exchange your piety for the rest of your soul. And at that time, it seemed that it was not very expensive to exchange for the so-called 'sanity of the soul'... Humph, as long as you pay a little 'arrogance tax' to the Church of God, you can get the blessing of the priest and the peace after death!"

"But why? Why can such lies be blinded?"

"Because of despair!" the king said lightly: "When the world is already dark and suffering has become a habit, anyone will believe any lie!"

Roddy closed his eyes, he seemed to frown and ponder for a while, then suddenly opened his eyes and said, "Let's go out!"

The king smiled and said, "What's wrong? You won't look at the murals behind you?"

Roddy shook his head: "I won't read it anymore! There is no need to continue reading it. The murals behind it are nothing more than telling how the Shaka Empire perished and how the Divine Cult emerged. Then how to tamper with history and create a lie to obliterate history... It's better not to read such things!"

The king whispered, "Rody, do you know what I brought you here to see these, for?"

Roddy's eyes flashed, and suddenly he narrowed his eyes and looked at the king in front of him.

He knew very well that the things he saw today would never be exposed. The history of the existence of the Shaka Empire has been covered up by the God Cult, and this place has become a "non-existent" ruin. If the God Cult is allowed to know this secret, the Kingdom of Sauron may have suffered a catastrophe.

The king whispered: "Rody, if it was just to deal with the dwarves, I don't need to bring you here today... But if it was to deal with the God Cult... Hum... or the high-ranking people behind the God Cult..."

The king lowered his voice and whispered: "I never believed in any gods, and I don't even believe in the nonsense of the divine religion! Although I do not agree with the other thoughts of my ancestors, at least one of them is certain: the fate of mankind should be decided by mankind! Fighting against a temple, the Kingdom of Sauron and other kingdoms of the Roland Continent, even if I can't win, I'm at least not afraid of them. My only worry is..."

Speaking of this, the king's eyes floated over the murals on the wall again.

"A powerful empire as the Shaka Empire has been subverted. What is a small Sauron Kingdom?" The king's face actually showed a bit of fear: "Do you know how the Shaka Empire ended up extinct?"

Roddy shook her head.

The king sighed: "If you don't want to see the mural behind, why not just jump to the last one to see!"

"The last one?"

The king nodded and suddenly pointed his finger at his feet: "You can watch slowly when you concentrate and the picture will appear in a while!"

Roddy's heart moved and looked down at the king's instructions.

The mercury under your feet seemed to be flowing...

Gradually, a slight rippling rippled in the calm water surface, and then a picture rippled in the waves...
To be continued...