Mythology: Ragnarok

Chapter 303 Conversation with Press

Xuanyuan Muze finally came to his senses. Looking at the scene before him, which resembled a disaster, the cleaners had already collected the corpses and wiped away the bloodstains. Xuanyuan Muze turned to Pres and accused, "Is this the system of the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races?! Relying on exploiting others' lives and wantonly trampling on their lives to maintain the stability of this country?!"

Press opened a portal to his home and said, "Let's go back and discuss this first. It's not a good place to talk. After all... the stench here might make you a little uneasy."

Xuanyuan Muze stood up angrily and shouted, "I don't want to go anywhere else, right here! Give me an answer: why do you, as the leader of a planet, raise the sword against your own colleagues!"

Press said helplessly, "Your thinking is really too immature. If you were rational, you would understand that our behavior is actually reasonable without me having to say more."

"What a convenient excuse! Since when can killing someone be labeled as righteous and noble?"

“I did not say that killing is just, but that such a system is conceivable from a self-interest perspective.”

"Profit? What's good about a system that makes people happy by killing?!"

Pres shook his head in disappointment and patiently explained, "It's a very simple relationship of interests. Soldiers, magicians, and scholars are all high-level beings independent of society. They originate from the common people but transcend society, so they have no conflicts of interest with the common people and no complicated interactions. Naturally, they won't waste their precious time helping His Majesty the Emperor govern the Kingdom of Myriad Races."

Therefore, officials and merchants are selected from among the common people who are unwilling to be ordinary but lack ability. It is a kind of waste utilization, which allows the common people to live better. To be honest, I am very grateful for this system. If it weren't for the official system, I might just be a commoner living in a five-story house, working six hours a day, earning a meager salary of only four hundred gold coins a month, and living a mundane life. Instead, I am now the leader of the planet with the best living environment and countless privileges on this planet.

The most crucial reason why our officials and merchants exist is to serve the common people. What His Majesty the Emperor, or rather the Kingdom of Myriad Races, truly needs is for the common people to cultivate as many soldiers, magicians, and scholars as possible. Soldiers will expand the territory of the Kingdom of Myriad Races, magicians will not only be advanced combat forces but also make our lives more convenient, and scholars will bring technology into our lives, making the whole country more prosperous and bringing new evolution and lifestyles.

I have to admit that compared to them, my existence is insignificant, because they are the future of the race, the hope of a civilization!

Although officials and merchants both originated from the common people, their interests are ultimately at odds because they are in the same social environment. If we want to gain more benefits, exploiting the common people is the simplest option. Thus, a simple yet cruel question had to be placed before His Majesty the Emperor: which class should he protect, the common people or the officials and merchants, or rather, which should he sacrifice to make the other class live better?

It's obvious that anyone with a brain would choose the commoner class, because it's a very simple matter. After all, as the saying goes, what the Kingdom of Myriad Races needs is for the commoner class to produce as many soldiers, magicians, and scholars as possible.

Only when we lower-class people suffer can we, the common people, live well. And to be honest, we officials live better than most people. Our welfare system and salary level far exceed the average level of the common people. His Majesty's requirements for us are so simple: as long as you are obedient, sensible, and law-abiding, you will have a stable life.

Unfortunately, the greed of life is boundless. His Majesty is well aware of this, so the punishments for officials are extremely cruel. Basically, only a small number of officials can retire peacefully in their later years. After all, power and wealth are indeed very tempting. Even if a dog is well-fed, its appetite will unconsciously grow bigger day by day until it loses control of its desires and turns into a wolf.

A wolf is a threat to the common people, and even if it is weak, we cannot gamble on it. Just like you can't wait until you are seriously ill to treat a disease. In order to protect the sheep, the sheepdog that has turned into a wolf must be eliminated.

The death of old officials also gives new officials the opportunity to be promoted. Your term "involution" is the most appropriate way to explain us. The selection system is so cruel that it is like a natural law, which allows only people like me who have never crossed the line in their lives to survive and eventually climb to the position of captain.

The interests of the race come first. The system of officials and merchants is merely the utilization of waste—no, the utilization of waste. If it weren't for that, how could someone like me, without magical talent, who doesn't love studying or research, and who certainly doesn't work hard, possibly be thriving like this? When you have no other choices, you'll find that being a dog isn't so bad, because at least you still have a final option.

Xuanyuan Muze still disagreed, shouting, "There's no need to execute them! Just remove them from their posts; their crimes don't warrant death!!"

At this moment, Press's eyes turned cold. He looked at Xuan Yuan Muze and said indifferently, "We don't really care about their crimes. What we really need is to select truly honest officials who can take responsibility. But what about those who are eliminated?"

They dedicated their lives to this place. They can no longer integrate into the social hierarchy. Manual labor is not suitable for them, and there is no opportunity for these middle-aged people to relearn in technical work. They are even less capable of engaging in art and culture. Letting them go will only create many unstable factors in society. Their only value is to give their lives a warning to those who come after them.

Moreover, according to the laws of the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Races, their crimes are indeed punishable by death. We explained the relevant laws to them long ago, His Majesty the Emperor warned them, and we have emphasized it again and again, yet they still made mistakes. How can we blame them? Knowing they would die, they still dared to reach into forbidden territory. Since they have such audacity, they must pay the price!

And to make their deaths meaningful, this is the only mercy we can give them. I can understand if you can't understand this, after all, our perceptions are fundamentally different. If you still think this is wrong, then I can only say that you can actually go and see for yourself whether it is right or wrong. I think you will make your own judgment. However, as a beneficiary, I still want to prove to you that this country is so peaceful and prosperous precisely because of its cruel laws and systems.

Because the best thing to restrain behavior is not law, not morality, but... fear!!