Lord Shadow

Chapter 1160: To miss home and the people in it (3)

But in the beginning it is always good. It is on the late stage that one could truly see the dark side of capitalism

When life is simply a number, casualties are merely profit and loss calculations.

Azief had seen souls and how bright they shine and how pure it is. 

Once you sense this intangible thing called souls, you would understand then, that it is the most important thing you could have, yet, people traded it daily for some capital.

Each life has a soul of its own. And it is different. Like a fingerprint only this is much deeper and more profound. 

It is pity to see it destroyed like that, to be just a machine in a large cog. 

But for the people of this world, Azief had chosen the democracy system

At least partial democracy.

Of course, not every human leader agrees because this is basically taking away their power. But unlike Earth, Azief and Katarina is basically gods here. 

And the people of this world treated them as such. 

It was like they were pharaohs, treated like some kind of deity. 

Azief act of slaying gigantic beast has already been told among the people and some even made songs and painting about him slaying beast.

Azief reckon that for the years to come they might even make a scripture about him and Katarina and insert the story of him slaying the beast. 

After all, Azief and Katarina did not yet have the time to informs the whole humans and elves population of what their world really is.

As with any civilization it was easier to convince the leaders of that world first. To most of the people they thought they were brought to a higher realm by deities.

Some even thought that they are in the Heavens. 

After all, since they came to this world, they have seen many miraculous things. 

They saw how Katarina and him could easily moves mountain and split open the seas.

They have no lack of food. Fish in the sea and you would not get hungry as there is many sea creatures for people to eat. 

Plants some wheat on the ground and it quickly grows. 

The trees are tall and strong, with fruits that made one full when eaten.

It is unlike their original world which is harsh and unforgiving. 

And while there is beast and monsters in the world, Katarina and Azief usually kills any beast that show up and as of now, there is never a casualty among the people when such beast is rampaging. 

Most of the monsters and beast was killed during the bombardment by the Orvanians so the only monsters and beast that is left on the Seresian could be counted in one hand. 

Since they have early detection system when these beast appears, it takes no time for Azief to fly toward the area and prevent the monster from killing people.

So, to the normal people of three races, they felt that they are truly in heaven. The air is clear, the sky is high and tall and there is food everywhere

Their status as slave was also removed and their safety and their rights guaranteed. 

There are also cities that built all over the world with the help of the Orvanians robots that works without rest 

There is Hospitals where the sick could get treatment, and there is also improvement in their strength as the energy of this world is slowly recovering

There is the sense of prosperity and abundance. 

For these people who have never had such blessing, how could they not think that they are in Heaven

But Azief also knows that after they left, this world would be taken over by the United Intergalactic Alliance. 

If they prove able to govern themselves, then they would be left to their own devices and the United Intergalactic Alliance would not meddle much in the operation of this world.

They would then be let off to advance on their own.

As for the servants of this palace, they would still be retained after they left. 

Katarina wanted to make sure that after she left, that the people she put in power would not oppress the people.

Democracy could easily turn into wolves deciding which sheep to eat for dinner. 

As such, both he and Katarina had leave some measures if such a day ever come where the democracy that they established become a system where it is simply choosing between the lesser of two evils. 

Monarchy itself is not entirely bad at least for a society at large.

A wise monarch could propel the civilization to great heights. 

And for all the horror stories of incompetent kings and cruel tyrants, most dynasties that could exist for a long time, most of their king is just an administrator and knows not to cross some line and not be overboard with one action. 

It is only because these incompetent kings and tyrants is the outlier that their stories are more sensationalized.

There is stability in long rule. 

But of course it also had its own cons. 

In a monarchy, freedom is sacrificed but the collective civilization itself is united, and in such a united environment, many things could be done.

The struggle had always been about personal freedom and the world around them, the society, the interest of civilizations.

Azief himself does not know the perfect system to rule these people. 

He does not pretend to know the perfect system to rule people, to make sure that the civilization is strong and at the same time does not infringe people will for self-determination.

If everyone only cares about oneself, civilization could not progress. But living in a world where the only thing that matter is the state matters is a world not worth living in

How to strike a balance between these two contradictory concept? 

Because as long as people have desires and having free will, chaos would always exist. Life is chaos. 

That is something Azief has slowly understood.

Without life, everything is orderly.

But once life appears, once life had intelligence, began to move, began to think chaos is borne.

Order requires a certain rigidity, a certain inflexibleness that could not be found in life. Life could be anything

It could be rigid, it could be flexible, choices and decision, feelings and emotions, these intangible thing, these unreasonable things breed chaos. 

To have a perfectly ordered civilization, one had to strip the people desire for free will

But once that is taken, there is something that is missing. 

Desire itself is not bad. 

It is the excessive desire that destroy oneself. 

After all, most of the time, it is desire that make people goes above their limit, to go beyond what they are capable of.

By stripping them of this, you are also stripping them of their imagination and once imagination is stripped way, then progress stopped.

Whether that is beneficial for civilization itself is something that Azief did not have an answer to. Like everyone else, he could only do the best he could do in the situation he is in. 

As Azief was thinking of all of this he finally reached the dining hall. 

He takes a breath first.

There is a lot of dining hall in this palace. But this dining hall is close to the wing where his bedroom was.

It is also near the wing where Katarina is at.

The servants saw Azief and bowed and then they opened up the white door carved with flowers designs. 

And as the door opened, a luxurious dining room could be seen

Azief had to praise the interior designer of this palace. 

There is this classic feeling looking at the dining hall. The art of this world did not yet reach modernist art but the classic feelings is appreciated by Azief.

While he was never a rich man in Earth Prime, when he was at Earth two, he was a CEO and chairman of one of the largest company in the world

As such, even though he did not splurge like some kind of rich heir, he did tastes a few advantages of being rich

He had gone to many luxurious places and not many luxurious places in the world could make him feel impressed. 

But the dining hall in this room had quite the luxurious design and unique considering that while it has a certain bit of flairs like the luxurious dining halls on Earth, it added with this world artistic sense. 

Most dining room tries to replicate that classic feeling of the luxurious royal family of the past. 

Some dining room he had been to on Earth two replicated this feeling of royal dining room with golden accents and its material.

However, this dining room perfectly embodied it. 

It showcases fleur patterned chairs and shining flawless marble dining table. 

There is a glamorous large chandelier that hung from the tray ceiling designed with intricate details with carving and paintings akin of those painting in the Sistine Chapel.

There is even a fireplace on the other side of the dining room that could be seen when one is eating in the dining room.

It looks very beautiful at night.