Chapter 683: Dark End
Parviz, who is very careful about his reputation, thinks Lilupal is right.
But if we treat slaves well, how can we build so many temples?
Without enough temples, how can he prove his piety and glory to the world?
Lilupal asked Parviz to take a bath, burn incense, take off his crown, wear only a linen robe and walk barefoot to pray, kneeling down with every step.
After three days and three nights, Lilupal went into the temple and saw that Parviz, who had been praying devoutly without food or water or sleep, was still awake. So he told him that his piety was not enough and he should work harder.
After five days and five nights, Lilupal went into the temple and saw that Parviz, who had been praying devoutly without food or water and without sleep, had not collapsed yet, so he told him that the time had not come yet and he should continue.
After seven days and seven nights, Lilupal went into the temple and saw that Parviz, who had been praying devoutly without food or water and without sleep, had finally fainted. Lilupal finally entered his dream.
In the dream, Lilupal showed him the Red King's technique for encapsulating town spirits into constructs.
These machines that can replace labor are extremely efficient. One day of work is equivalent to a thousand days of slaves working with their hands, and they don’t even need to eat or rest.
After receiving the "revelation", Parviz woke up in ecstasy, but then fell into new sorrow.
We have the technology but no materials.
The most important ingredient is the spirit-suppressing agent, but Lilupal would never dare to do it.
Finally, Parviz turned his attention to his sister Shireen, who was locked away deep in the palace.
Parviz extracted Shireen's mind, splitting it into more broken and incomplete spirits, and sealed them into cold and sharp machines and weapons to create energy constructs and evil spirit weapons.
After a long period of torture, Shireen eventually went completely crazy, and countless broken spirits were encapsulated into energy constructs and weapons.
The town spirits worked endlessly under the control of the metal shackles of the construct and the beatings of special whips. Huge temples and palaces reaching the sky blossomed all over the desert.
The golden age of the desert rose gloriously amid the suffering of an innocent woman and the blood and tears of countless mutilated souls.
Because the technology of the town spirit fragment constructs developed by leaps and bounds, the income from industry and mining was enough to support the country's operating expenses. In the end, Parviz ordered the abolition of slavery and head tax, and announced that everyone could work equally and freely and earn rewards.
This move is an act of benevolence and a liberation for the people.
But what Parviz did not expect was that the aristocratic slave owners had already dismissed their slaves in large numbers before the policy was implemented.
It's not out of kindness, but because there are better-useful spirit-suppressing slaves who don't need to eat, so raising human slaves who need to eat has become redundant and a waste.
The slaves who had gained their precious freedom were driven out by their slave owners, and were simply unable to find gainful jobs due to the lack of self-suppression spirit constructs. As time passed, almost all of them became desperate refugees.
At the same time, the oasis' water supply system also had problems due to excessive mining and construction of wonders, and silt blocked the pipes.
The priestess in charge of water conservancy calculated and determined that the pipeline network needed a major overhaul, otherwise the system would be completely paralyzed in three hundred years, and the canals and oases would shrink and disappear.
The Grand Governor Feligis, who was in charge of the oasis' water supply system, prohibited humans from disturbing the Flower Goddess's mausoleum and rejected the proposal for major repairs, allowing only minor repairs.
But in the end, the minor repairs could not be carried out because Parviz and the Council of Notables simply did not contribute any money and even cut the original maintenance fee.
Eventually the oasis shrank significantly, food production continued to decrease, and many people starved to death.
The nobles and wealthy slave owners had moved to Gur before the disaster, and those who relied on the oasis for their livelihood were civilians or soldiers guarding the border.
Su: "I remember that there was a general who also discovered the situation and applied to the parliament for money many times to repair water conservancy projects and comfort the victims."
The general asked the parliament for money, but the parliament said that there was no money, but there were enough weapons. The problem would be solved by killing all the refugees, as the desert did not need so many people to consume resources.
Lilupal knew that person. "Hoperuz, a general born in the common people. He has strength and wisdom, but unfortunately, he is not one of the "own" members of the Council of Nobles."
The hungry refugees did not disappear after several armed suppressions, but secretly gathered into a more dangerous organization - the Brass Mask.
The brass mask has two leaders, one light and one dark.
The apparent leader is Prince Hirui, who was forced by his biological father to wear a mask, driven out of the royal city, and ordered never to return.
In the dark is Lilupal, who appears as the messenger of the goddess of flowers when slaves and disaster victims need help and wins the hearts of the people.
When the power of pain and anger accumulated to a certain extent, Lilupal disguised herself as a goddess in the Moon Temple and met the wandering prince.
After a night of lovemaking, she revealed her ability to calm spirits and gave a false and illusory oracle:
【Isn't the tyranny of one's own father the greatest misfortune for a wandering child? My beloved child of the Moon Goddess, wherever the moonlight shines is your kingdom, and wherever you sow the seeds, they will surely thrive.】
[Since the moonlight has given you a good bow and a sharp sword, why do you have to endure the coward who lives on the throne? Why not muster up the courage to face hatred and your own face? ]
Su translated Lilupal's words as follows -
Your father is tyrannical and incompetent. You have done nothing wrong and you should have inherited the throne.
You are very strong, and the country is in danger now. For the sake of those poor people and yourself, you should become a hero and the new king.
Go get your revenge, kid.
After Lilupal's advice, the veil fell off, revealing the face of the prince's biological mother, Shireen.
Although Hirui fled the temple because of his inner terror and shame, Lilupal's "oracle" successfully planted the seeds of patricide in his heart.
Finally, Hirui took over the angry refugees and assembled them into an army, all wearing brass masks.
The Brass Mask toppled all the statues of Parvezrawan, burned down the palace, and even kidnapped the high priest.
Su remembered that the historical materials she had researched recorded the process of the riot in great detail.
On the thirteenth day, the nobles and priests who had been full of confidence finally panicked.
They had resisted four attacks in one day, and even the high priest was kidnapped.
A guard team ventured out of the city to rescue the high priest, but in the end they only collected some fragments.
Those refugees were really hungry.
Anger and madness accumulated, turning into a raging fire that burned down the gates of Gul City. Broken town spirits poured out from the defenders' weapons, making human blood bloom like lotus flowers.
Bleeding and drifting.
Slaves and nobles lay equally in a sea of blood, and the glorious spirit of victory was stabbed to death by his own son on his gorgeous bed.
Hirui took off the brass mask and cried and confessed to his mother Shilin. Shilin was speechless and just held her beloved son in her arms.
Hirui, who overthrew his tyrannical father and ascended the throne, was not happy. He was tormented by an inescapable nightmare for a long time.
Before Lilupal could exact his final revenge, the forbidden knowledge bred by the Scarlet King spread to the desert, and a dark plague emerged from the cracks.
The last king of Gul City fell into the depths of a dark rift with his mother, where Kisla, who had transformed into a demon beast, was.
This is the three generations of excommunication of Lilupal and the dark end of the city of Gul.