Chapter 131 Setare: Our History
Harold took the manuscript handed over by Setale and saw a familiar name "Lilfar" in it at a glance.
Oh, so this is a historical novel?
Harold raised his eyebrows unconsciously. Lilufar, this is an old acquaintance. In fact, she is more well-known to the majority of O God players as Lilupal, that is, the magic bottle who started to follow "Master" and called him "Master" when he arrived in the desert. His venomousness can compete with Elhaisen.
O God players who are interested in the desert plot know how explosive her story is. That is the real R20 plot.
In simple terms, in order to punish the king of Gul, who was also her husband, the town spirit Lilufar gave birth to a son and a daughter with him, gave her daughter Shireen to her husband, disguised her son Kisra as an orphan, and arranged for him to be adopted by her husband as his adopted son.
Then she gave three prophecies to her husband and daughter respectively, and forced her own children to marry close relatives, and used her own children to slaughter her husband and his 300 descendants.
Up to now, the plot has been very explosive, but this explosive plot has actually just begun.
Later, Lirufar's son Kisra ascended the throne after the death of the old king, and had a son, Hirui, with his sister Shireen. When Hirui grew up, Kisra expelled his son from the city of Gur because of Lirufar's prophecy.
Then one day, Shirin covered her face and dressed up as a goddess in the temple and invited her biological son Shirui to play adult games together. Then, as a goddess, she gave an oracle and asked her son to kill her husband.
When Xirui was hesitating, Xilin's veil was blown away by the wind. The silly boy was shocked when he saw that the person in front of him was his biological mother. In the end, out of guilt, he chose to obey his mother's instructions to kill his father and seize power.
But after he inherited the throne, he was always in fear and shame. Not long after, he fell into the crack in the ground and disappeared. Then the plague also came out of the crack in the ground and engulfed the city of Gur.
Well...anyway, this history fits the background of the prototype of the Sumeru Desert region, and the whole article after being translated by Setale has the tone of Greek mythology and Shakespeare's drama.
If this is published, Setale will really become "Shakespeare" outside of the game. Harold silently complained in his heart.
There are many terrifying scenes in this period of history. For example, Lilufar was originally a follower of the goddess of flowers. After the death of the goddess of flowers, she voluntarily entered the magic bottle to be driven by the Red King. The Red King sent her to sign a contract with a mortal, and that mortal was her husband, the king of the city of Gul.
Lilufar wanted to take revenge on her husband because she followed the instructions of the Red King and helped him become a king from a shepherd boy, but he betrayed the covenant and became a tyrant because of his vanity...
Xilin is a hybrid of a town spirit and a human. The reason why she hates her husband so much that she later goes crazy and commits incest with her own son and wants to kill her husband is because her husband forces her to keep giving birth to deformed town spirits and use these town spirits as mechanical power.
Harold had read the text in the game in his previous life, but the information found by Setare was obviously more detailed and vividly restored many details. Harold read it with great interest.
Speaking of it, it's impossible to dig into the relationship between the three gods. It turns out that you gods and your followers are the best at playing. This kind of situation would be very explosive in a novel, and the author would be dragged out for moral judgment, but this is actually an adaptation from reality.
That’s why they say reality is sometimes more magical than fiction.
After reading it once, Harold raised his head and glanced at the reactions of the other three. Senor and Elhaisen had blank expressions on their faces. It was unknown whether they had read the relevant history before or were really calm.
Kavi was visibly at a loss, even his ears were red, but his eyes never left the paper.
From time to time, he would reveal a slightly panicked look, turn the page and reread the previous text to make sure he had not read it wrong.
The thrilling plot and the complex ethical entanglements of human nature revealed in the plot made him feel conflicted. He wanted to throw away the things in his hand immediately, but he also wanted to continue watching.
Eventually, the artist's curiosity overcame the eighteen-year-old boy's shyness, and he began to concentrate on reading, so much so that he didn't even notice the expression on his junior's face who was observing him.
When he finally finished reading the entire article and looked up, he discovered that everyone else's eyes were focused on him, either implicitly or explicitly. Only then did he realize that his performance just now might have been a little exaggerated.
He quickly coughed lightly, pretending to be nonchalant and commented:
"I didn't expect that the Wisdom Palace included such a wonderful story, but it is a little inconsistent with the current ethical values. If this story is put on stage, will the prejudice of the rainforest people against the desert people be deepened?"
Setare said "hmm" softly and explained: "I did hesitate before translating this article, but it comes from the history of our desert, so I translated it carefully..."
Kavi: ...Wait?! What is this? History?!
The series of events that just happened emerged in Kavi's mind. He had finally calmed down, but was frightened again.
Setale: "This is not just for the rainforest people to see. We desert people also need to understand all this. Many tribes are obsessed with the Red King and try to reproduce the glory under the Red King's rule, but they don't understand this period of history at all.
I copied many records from the inscriptions on the Red King's Mausoleum, combined them with the ancient desert books of the Wisdom Palace, and translated, supplemented and polished the history of the first part. From this part of the story, we can see that
The Red King once sent the town spirit to sign a contract with the Mortal King. The rise of the city of Gul was not without his influence. It prospered for a time, but it still could not escape the fate of destruction. However, its establishment also represents the attitude of the King of Sand, whom we have always believed in.
After Gur, the desert king Ranshahr ruled the desert, but he built seven towers, divided his subjects and established them as kings..."
Simply put, it was the beginning of the implementation of the feudal system.
Harold was summarizing it in his mind as he listened. He really didn't know this part, as he was not an archaeologist.
Setare: "After the death of King Ranshahr, the traitor usurped the throne. Since the throne was not obtained legitimately, the throne changed frequently. It was during this period that wars broke out frequently in the desert. The voices of the people praying for the return of the Red King became louder and louder.
At this time, the Red King returned as if responding to the prayers of his subjects, and the Great Kind Tree King also created a rainforest. Everything seemed to be moving in a good direction. Unfortunately, not long after, the Red King fell, the Tree King disappeared, and the Demonic Scale Disease began to spread..."
I know this. The Red King used forbidden knowledge in order to shout "Rise again, my love", Harold thought silently.
Setare: "After that, ambitious humans in the desert established themselves as kings and began to fight for hegemony. This period of history is vague, and there are many contradictions in the records of various books, but we can sort out many fragmentary historical stories.
These stories can give some inspiration to the people of the desert. The most important one is the beginning of chaos. After the fall of the Red King, the desert fell into chaos. But the chaos came from the power struggle among the kings.
The same is true for the desert today. Although there are no kings in the desert today, there are tribal leaders. They are still fighting for the limited oasis, just like the kings fighting for the throne a hundred years ago.
To return to the peace during the reign of the Red King, we don't have to revive the Red King. We can build a unified tribe. The city of Gul is a good example. Although it was destroyed, it was because its king betrayed the covenant.
The fact that the people have lived and worked in peace and contentment for more than a hundred years during its existence is enough to prove the importance of unity. If the desert people want to change the status quo, they cannot just expect the rainforest people to change their prejudices. We must first unite ourselves, and then we can accomplish a lot. "
At this point, she became slightly excited.
The first thing she thought of was Harold's sea rice. According to Harold, planting this kind of rice could not only provide enough food for the hungry desert people, but also improve the soil quality of the desert little by little, turning the sand into an oasis, so that other green crops could appear in the desert.
Although sea rice can grow in the desert and requires less water than ordinary rice, it does not mean that it does not need water. To grow rice, you must first invest a lot of money to hire researchers, build a monitoring irrigation system, and use technology to accurately irrigate the crops, so as to effectively save water.
The House of the Decrees will not pay this money, and no one or any tribe in the desert can come up with so much money, but if all the tribes unite, perhaps they can do it.
Unity, we need to unite! Setale said this several times in her mind.
That's too difficult, Harold thought silently.
Having read many historical materials in his previous life, he knew that it was almost impossible to establish a unified country by persuading people with words. This was the situation in the desert now. The tribes were full of resentment and no one was willing to submit to the other. There were also many lone wolf mercenaries who did not belong to any tribe.
Because there is no god's blessing, there is no oasis in the desert that can feed all the desert people. In addition, transportation is underdeveloped, and scattered living can best guarantee the quality of life of local people.
Moreover, due to the special geographical location of the desert, the tribes are far apart, so even after hundreds of years of fighting, no tribe has been able to swallow up the other tribes, and even tribal mergers rarely occur.
The main reason is that these tribes live near oases. If a fight breaks out, the victorious side can only grab water and food and leave. Can they move the oasis and hundreds of old, weak, sick and disabled prisoners back to the tribe?
If the desert could be unified, it would have been unified a few hundred years ago. The current situation is that they cannot be unified because of those troublemakers. Even a short truce and alliance is difficult, unless a god appears. This god is best to be the Red King, because almost all desert people believe in him. But we all know that it is a delusion to revive the Red King.
"Oh, sorry, I didn't expect Senior Setale to think so far..." After listening to Setale's confession, Kavi was the first to blame himself for his previous remarks.
"What you just said is not wrong. The Church of the Lords will never allow such a story to spread in Xumi City," Saino said with certainty after thinking for a while.
"Putting aside the political stance, the ethics in this story alone will be criticized by many scholars. Unlike the love story between the princess and her guards, the Ministry of Religion will not allow it to appear on the stage."