"I'm different from everyone else."

If there is anything that is the same in the world, it is probably either vaguely or straightforwardly, thinking that oneself is different from others, that oneself is special.

It is true that no one is the same in terms of talent, education, and acquired experience, but while this difference makes the world and individuals colorful, it is not necessarily a good thing.

When individuals are too attached to themselves, they will naturally not be able to see others and the truth.

"I'm different, I was born to be a human being, those untouchables just don't have any value in their lives, they should dedicate a qiē to me."

The aristocracy, the royal family, and the religious people all had this expectation to a greater or lesser extent, and a small amount could raise their consciousness to fulfill their duties, but if there were too many, even the most brutal evil deeds would be taken for granted when people no longer regard other people as human beings.

"I'm favored by the god of luck, the next one, the next one, I must turn it over!"

In a sense, gamblers and careerists are all the way, and they always feel that they will eventually turn their backs, which will make them never satisfied with what they have now gained, constantly taking risks and gambling, and finally ending up either losing their lives and chips, or winning a qiē.

Everyone has this kind of "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, but with the growth of age and experience, this "blind self-awareness" is often smoothed out by the harsh reality.

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

Mortals know their limits. So I reluctantly gave up my childhood fantasies. Ability, talent, status, these seemingly vulgar things. But in the end, he decided to pull the limit of what that person could go, but some people knew where they should be from the beginning, but they were never willing to spend a rare life.

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

Oros was born in the royal order of the seventeenth. But it does not mean that he does not have the right to inherit the throne, on the contrary, because there is a local tycoon at the level of a grand duke as an uncle, the possibility of him inheriting the throne is actually in the top three.

But when he was a child, Oros met this uncle under the leadership of his mother, and 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 tool that could be used when it came, and then the way he treated mother and son. It is also rude as if to deal with money-losing goods that have been sold.

"Remember, listen to me. Your life will be better, otherwise, I can put you on the throne and I can bring you down. ”

For a child who longs for family affection, he couldn't see his busy father a few times, but he always listened to his mother say how good his uncle was, but this was the case when they just met, such a blow was self-evident, but soon, he adjusted.

“…… It's nothing more than treating me as a tool and a puppet, is it different from the past? As long as you play this role well and make everyone happy, Oros is a good boy. ”

Ironically, because he acted too arrogantly and domineering, which provoked public anger, this uncle was the first to go out, and Oros himself also fell into the fate of his brother's brutal defeat and was about to die on the street.

And when Oros was about to die, the help from the heterotopic plane allowed him to survive the disaster, but unfortunately, that help had a price, and from that moment on, he knew that his country had been targeted by the undead in the shadows for a hundred years, and had even been infiltrated with holes.

And he ......

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

In a sense, Oros was very sudden, and suddenly made people think that he was stupid, in fact, in the words of his later mentor, it was actually because he saw very thoroughly, and it was precisely because he saw too thoroughly, and no matter what he did, he could not change, so he naturally seemed very indifferent and dull.

"Which of us in this world is not a puppet who goes with the flow, a valuable or worthless pawn in the hands of the big guys?"

When he first ascended the throne, he was called the most wooden emperor in history, because he didn't do anything, what the courtiers said, he did what the ministers said, as long as there was enough power behind the other party, he still did it, as if it was just a rubber seal with nothing to do.

But in reality, he just quietly watched the world and its inhabitants, watching these people who unknowingly became pawns.

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

"For the peasants, it is better to live in a year of calamity, because the lords' harshest tax collectors will also spare a breath for the peasants, and on such days, the priests of the church will not go back and forth to preach from town to town, and they will not give their possessions so that they can enter the kingdom of the gods without falling into the Styx."

"For ordinary mercenaries and rangers, although the priest's divine rescue 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, there will be no one to help you. On the contrary, for ordinary people, the potions of alchemists and herbalists are the most trustworthy deposits, and the cost of the most basic healing potions is not high, but it is enough to treat the trauma of civilians. But for such 'business-grabbing' peers, the church can easily turn them into 'unpredictable witches and wizards'. Therefore, most pharmacists will not do this now, which is not profitable and offends people's voices, and the buff potions that adventurers need, the fitness and life-saving potions that big people need are the main ones to make money. ”

"It turns out that my subjects don't know that the emperor is now succeeded to the throne, all they are worried about is whether a natural disaster will come, whether the tax collector of the noble lord will leave a few life money, and whether the gold coins they have saved privately will satisfy the priest. Give yourself a blessing. so that their souls may ascend to heaven. In the next life, you can still cast a good tire. ”

The powerful were also happy to see the puppet emperor wandering around without doing his job, but unwittingly allowed him to accumulate enough knowledge and wisdom among the people, and even organized a henchman from the slums.

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

"Perhaps, I can't change this qiē. But it can make everyone's life a little better. ”

So, the puppet emperor chose to trade, but the objects he traded with were not only the undead in the shadows, but also the high dragons and dragon knights, and the chips that could be traded were nothing more than more obedient and useful puppets, which were nothing more than some verbal checks.

The covert help of the two great powers was effective, and with the help of the incognito powers, the royal power began to rise again, and then won the brutal and bloody struggle against the local lords. Oros, who gradually regained royal power, became the emperor with real power, and the local lords revered, at least on the surface.

But......

"Days? Hasn't it been the same? It seems that I heard that the lord has changed. The new lord was a handsome young man, and was said to be a knight of the king. Hmph, as soon as he came, he collected twice the tax, and that bastard boy was thinking about changing his castle. ”

"Old man, don't be angry, the aristocratic lord has not been the same for thousands of years, who told others to cast a good tire."

Enraged, Oros returns to his palace and tries to hang the impostor who ruined his reputation in the streets, but he doesn't expect it......

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

And his officials told him that the local lord was the sole master of his own territory, and that what the Knight of Kesso had done was completely legal, and that he was still merciful, and that the new Knight Lord in other places had done even more excessively, after all......

"In addition to the fact that they have to decorate their homes, they have to prepare gifts for your victory, and there are certainly no worse donations to the royal family than their predecessors...... What's wrong with you? ”

"Is it my fault? Did I make a qiē happen? ”

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

"I went around in a circle, but it was my own mistake of trying to change the world, and perhaps, the state of doing nothing is the most intact. No, it can't be so negative, there should be a way. ”

He tried to use the spoils of war to feed the greedy lords, only to bring a new cycle of reincarnation, and those greedy lords conscripted civilians into free cannon fodder in exchange for so-called honor and military exploits, and at that moment, Oros really felt that there was something wrong there.

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

Thinking that the wise mage might have the answer, he used the shadow warrior as a stand-in to study incognito in the Cloud Tower, and was fortunate enough to meet and become a disciple of Thrace, the archmage who studied this field the most.

For the first time, he learned that there is not only a social system in the world, such as 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 dedicate a qiē to the strong, and the desire to become the strong to get preferential treatment has made countless new strong people come out.

Only then did he know that Bayer, who was originally a powerful country, was already very good, and in the remote mountainous areas facing a powerful threat, the lords had gone even further, but the civilians who wanted to survive had to endure it.

"It turns out that it is not we who choose such a social system, but such a world that determines such a social system."

It's not an easy problem to solve, but Oros has found a way...... Yes, that was later the centralization and nationalization of the powerful to administer, at least, it took so many years for him to successfully implement his idea in Bayer.

Ignoring the rights and wrongs of his approach, after all, this can only be tested by time, and as a result, the study in the Cloud Tower, so that his old troubles did not go, and the new troubles came again, in the mage, the dragon, and the undead, he could get the truth, even if the truth was unacceptable at all.

"Jihad? Transmigration? Are you kidding! What are we humans? Wheat in the field? Cattle and sheep to be slaughtered in the corral? ”

From that moment on, he abandoned the so-called faith and the possibility of going to heaven. And in the bottom of his heart, he began to hate the god who was high up but never did anything.

"You say you are sheltering the world? Say that your pastors are servants of the world? But all I see is that your pastors go around collecting donations. Your churches are magnificent. But your 'servants' never work, but only recite your names and speak your good every day. Since they are all your servants, why don't you provide for this group of pigs, you know that old John worked hard all his life and donated his last residence just so that his son could have good luck with the blessing of your priest. Those who are free of illness and disaster will live for two more years, and will be able to go to the so-called heaven after death! ”

"The beautiful kingdom of God in heaven? I didn't see it, I only saw this purgatory in front of me! Since you are not able to protect the world as you promised, then do not put on the role of your parents and meddle in this world and mortals that have nothing to do with you. Or maybe you are a bunch of swindlers who only promise not to give, or you are shameless parasites who even hand over fraud to so-called servants! ”

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

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

In a sense, the life of the Baier people has been better, but they have earned it bit by bit not by relying on the gods from above, but by their own puppet emperors who are struggling among many forces.

It took him ten years to calm the chaotic country, get the local lords to disband most of their private armies, and let the lords at home stop fighting each other.

It took nearly thirty years, with the cooperation of the undead and the dragons, to get the Templar Church and other Church of the Gods to withdraw from Baier.

He secretly allowed the doctrine of pure light to begin to ferment, even if it angered the undead.

Yes, the necromancer can control his own undead creation, even if in order to keep Oros from revealing flaws, Esso's half-dead curse (blessing) only worked when saving him, so that he was limited to half life and half death, even if he could revoke the magic power, he could still deprive the other party of his life at any time, but he couldn't do anything else at all, after all, behind the emperor, there were more super archmages who thought that Esso was not sure - Thrace.

The undead act in the shadows, their reputation is too bad to act in the sun, and they have a direct impact on the kingdom, and the dragons are high, as long as their interests are not touched, they are too lazy to deal with it.

And as a half-dead man, in order to get rid of Esso's control, he secretly brought the cursed artifact - the Crown of Thorns.

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

From then on, the unconscious emperor enjoyed the most delicious food without any taste, lived in the most gorgeous palace, but did not feel comfortable, and no matter how gorgeous his clothes were, he could not feel the warmth and cold, but he also had infinite energy to make the country better.

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

As a "mortal" who understands his own bottlenecks, Oros is probably best at patience, strength, and improvisation, as it has been in the past, and it is still today.

But unfortunately, ideals cannot be eaten, and some things still seem to be unchangeable.

Now, even if the Emperor is not dead, the lords are on the move, they are hungry for new wars, they reject the laws of freeman migration and the abolition of slavery, and they are still emperors in their own territory.

Even though the Church of the Gods is gone, the believers have traveled far and wide to find pastors and self-proclaimed pastors, exchanging their sweat-soaked gold coins for the phrase "Child, the gods will bless you." ”

By this time, Oros couldn't get answers from anyone else, but a new religion and a pamphlet from the underworld caught his attention.

"No church? Don't charge contributions? So how did their priests and Templars live? Charge an intermediary fee as a referee? Providing business services? Even the name of God doesn't need to be recited, is this still the Church of the True God? ”

If the Church of the Law caught his attention, its doctrine and the law of God gave him hope.

"He who wantonly takes the life of another person with his own desires. will be severely judged by the God of the Law. Even after death, he will be punished by swords and fire. -- The Thirteen Sins of God's Law"

"Finally met a ...... who was going to take care of things"

This was his first observation. But then, I felt that something was wrong.

Isn't it different from the persuasion of the Church of God that sinners will be judged after death? Obviously, as long as you receive the blessing of the pastor and donate enough assets, you will be able to enter the kingdom of God after death. ”

Obviously, the teachings of the Sleepless were beyond his ability as a weak god at the time, so either he was just reckless madness, or. It's just something else.

"Let all sinners go to hell to be punished? While it is true that this can frighten the wicked, what is this doctrine that can offend all true gods? ”

And when he found out that this Law Church had something to do with the legendary Roland, he also got Roland's notes and original manuscripts from the Pure Light Church, and after communicating with him, he finally decided to participate in the man's crazy plan.

"Heaven and earth are unkind, fate has no eyes, and the gods only expect to harvest faith and souls, so how can they care about how mortals live. What is the need to believe in a god that sinners and wicked people can get for what the poor can't get in exchange for a lifetime for a little money and praise the name of God. We mortals. The only thing you can rely on is your own ......"

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

"Roland, actually, I've always liked your words in the teachings of the Southern Sect: 'This world belongs to mortals, and the gods who are high are just hypocritical fanatics, who are believed in by the world, but bound by their own concepts, and restricted by the rules of order to become 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 had already been able to recite it, but what he expected was the follow-up, the choices and thoughts of Roland after the baptism of the years.

And at that time, Roland also smiled, faintly, he saw his shadow in this old emperor, and people of the same kind can always communicate with each other easily.

So, Roland said it bluntly.

"The only thing we can count on is ourselves. Since there is no righteousness and morality in this world, we will create a subordinate law of God and the law of man, and since the wicked and sinners in this world will not be judged and punished, then we will create a hell that sinners will fear. ”

"Even if it's hostile to all the gods? Even if we will become the public enemies of the world? ”

"Of course, but we are not enemies of the world, and you will not be my companion?"

"No, since it is a conspiracy crime aimed at the ultimate order of the whole world, it should be said that it is an accomplice."

From then on, the participants and executors of this plan, Roland, Oros, and Evanley, all referred to each other as accomplices, as if in their eyes, this was a more trustworthy word than allies.

And in the small talk with his aunt, he also understood the person's persistence better.

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

But to the surprise, Lilith shook her head.

"No, the man himself said that he had already reserved a place for himself in hell, and it is said that he had not even forgotten the location of his cat, and according to his approach, considering what you have done, I am afraid that he will be a neighbor for a long time."

"Oh, that's good news."

Oros remembered that it had been years since he had been so happy for the first time in years, perhaps because he had heard for the first time that a criminal thug was going to hell to be punished, even if that scoundrel was himself.

"Accomplices? Maybe I'll still be a cellmate in the future. ”

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

"Perhaps, from tomorrow onwards, I will be the stupidest person in the eyes of the world. It's not like no one remembers me, though...... Hehe, accomplices, the old man will go first, waiting for you in hell. ”

When the old man gently tears open the crown of thorns, the whole world is destined to be changed by it. (To be continued......)