First Light of a New Age

Chapter 80: Meetings and Blamed

Kingdom High Tarxa, New Tarxa, High Elven Ville, Tarxan Palace, Inside The Throne Room

1st Year of God, Tuesday, 1st Week, Month Of Jacob.

With the discovery of the inferiors spying against them, the Tarxans resorted to extreme measures into inscribing fear into them. They ruthlessly tortured the men and brutally forced women, even went to lengths which included massacring entire villages, with the men publicly executed in front of their families and the women utterly violated before being sold into the common market of Tarxa.

Even though such atrocities were a common thing, this time, however, they did it at a frequency that reached unprecedented levels, something never seen before in the nation's history. They did it all just to set an extreme example to the inferiors, a terrifying message that defiance would be crushed with unparalleled cruelty.

The reason the authorities did all this savagery is that, ironically, they too are in fear. The fear at the thought of an ancient prophecy foretold by the old prophet they had once ridiculed and executed from the olden times from coming true.

At first, they dismissed it as a joke and a senile old man making fictional fairy tales in a cult, but now they felt the ramblings of the old man had begun to feel ominously true.

Even if such things really happen, it would create massive chaos in the world. So as much as possible, the authorities vowed to exterminate and dealt with any slightest bit of sign of it happening to the fullest. Part of why this happened is also because Acheron was recently ascended to power, which drove much of this zeal.

Не fears the ideals of his sister and father, especially when he just got into power. He despised the notion that inferiors might one day be considered his equals. He slanders that idea, or more exactly it disgusts him.

How could they, the magically superior people, be put into the same table as those devoid of magic and strength to even defend themselves?

Such a repulsive idea should be burned into the furnace with its ashes sealed into a pot so that it would never touch the surface with its vile ideology ever again. Now that he's in power, he will do everything in his power to stop it from happening, even if it means annihilating the entire inferior population.

However, eliminating the entire population of the inferiors would cripple their labor-driven economy. The very industry that kept Tarxa and many other kingdoms functioning would collapse without the hard work of the subjugated.

Furthermore, how could they possibly let someone superior do the same hard labor that the inferiors do? It would spell the end of a magician's dignity and honor as a magician into an end. In the end, of all things, an inferior person would always be an inferior, and Acheron believes it to the fullest.

In fact, Acheron was not concerned if the entire population of inferiors in his kingdom were to be massacred. After all, he thinks it would even be beneficial for himself, as they could just buy enough slaves from the Slave Union to maximize the output of the economy.

Furthermore, the slaves would do anything just to serve their master, rather they had to follow their master without question, that is because if they disobeyed, it could mean only one thing, and that is an execution on the spot.

While the inferiors, or soon to be slaves as all the magically superior believes, still possess some freedom, they have to treat all magically superior people as their boss and they have to do anything the superior desires.

It is just basically that the inferiors have some freedom, while the slaves have all aspects of their lives controlled. Furthermore, the superior people really do not give a damn whether they aren't slaves yet or they are, they would take anything that caught their interest.