Original God, life in red Teyvat from scratch

"There is no way for someone like you to change. You can only die."

Listening to Artik's words that sounded like a judgment, Mishal's anger was replaced by fear.

"Don't worry, I won't do anything to you. You will be handed over to Black Gold City. You will get the trial you deserve."

As the words fell, the sound of metal hitting rock became clearer and clearer.

The Black Gold City guards appeared in the control hall.

The leader was none other than Gerard.

Two guard soldiers wearing powered exoskeletons stepped forward and took control of Mishal.

Faced with the power of the machine, Mishal tried several times but couldn't break free at all.

Facing Mishal's gaze that first seemed to be about to spit fire and then became a little timid, Gerard didn't care and just asked him a question.

"Do you regret it?"

"What are you regretting? Are you regretting not getting serious sooner and crushing your little mercenary group?"

"No, without us there would be others who would have eliminated you. I mean, I regret using such extreme means to control others. If you had used a different approach, perhaps today's result would be different."

"Oh, if I didn't use this method, I wouldn't be standing here today, and I wouldn't have the legacy of the God King."

It seems that he has no regrets at all.

Gerard didn't say much, just waved his hand and signaled Mishal to be taken away.

As Mishal was captured, the guard troops quickly launched an attack and wiped out the remaining God-King's Legacy mercenaries.

In just one night, the once huge mercenary alliance of the God King in the desert was reduced to ashes.

It not only died from external attacks, but also from internal backlash.

Faced with the incriminating evidence, Gerard did the same thing as Kucera - he burned them all with fire.

"These data are useless. They are all designed or forced. The truly useful information about the crimes of the mercenaries of the Legacy of the God King headquarters, the truly evil ones, are not here at all. There is no need to keep them."

What they need is to try each case from the beginning one by one and find out the real villains, not these carefully designed things.

These things don't explain anything at all.

After leaving the headquarters of the God-King's Legacy, several mercenaries from the former Achmar's Beard who had joined the guard force looked at the raging fire inside and felt a sense of relief in their hearts.

By the way, should I write a letter to Dixia and explain the situation to her?

Anyway, the relics of the God-King no longer exist, so they can rest easy and don't have to worry about implicating Dishia.

Coincidentally, in the archives of the God King's Legacy, they also found the relics of the old leader Kusela. Perhaps, they need to talk about it...

Chapter 239 Desert Independence

A mercenary alliance in the Xumi Desert area was destroyed.

Although it is a bit large in scale, it is very common in the desert. It's either you destroy me or I annex you.

This matter is unremarkable.

Even if it weren't for Inazuma's recent series of actions, people would not pay attention to it. For the people of Teyvat, this should be a trivial matter not worthy of being reported in the newspapers for discussion.

Especially for Fontaine, which is a newspaper company with serious internal competition, it would be more attractive to report what kind of cake the Water God ate for afternoon tea today.

That is to say, the news that the Ministry of Education had launched multiple rounds of attacks but failed attracted some people's attention and briefly made the headlines.

Some commentators believed that the new weapon used in the desert might change the way most future battles were fought and confirmed the correctness of the musket system currently being developed at Fontaine.

But that time was also because of the existence of the House of Ordinances.

However, this time, under the front-page headline of Inazuma, a small section was left to report on the changes in the desert.

Not only because the one destroyed was a mercenary alliance with a long history of evil and misdeeds, but also because it was the last force in the Xumi Desert that remained independent - at least relatively independent.

With the destruction of the God-King's Legacy, the former Gerard Group, which had fought with the Order of the Church several times and had in fact been in an armed separatist regime, now the Black Gold City, has unified the entire Xumi Desert.

What they would do next attracted the curiosity of many people, and some newspapers reported it as a topic of discussion.

While people were rushing to report and discuss words like "Inazuma" and "Trial", a small number of cameras were also focused on Heijincheng.

Under such attention, after a period of preparation, Gerrard prepared for the whole big thing.

Transport convoys began to deliver supplies to Aru Village, taking over the role played by the Church of God and ordinary caravans. At the same time, the oil mines in Black Gold City opened more jobs to Aru Village.

The chief of Aru Village and the local guardian, Candice, acquiesced to all this and did not pay much attention to it.

They don't care whose prefix the name is attached to, but they care more about the actual interests of Aru Village.

A small troop quietly arrived at Kawanyi and temporarily camped there, preparing for action.

With everything ready, Gerrard officially held a press conference.

From now on, Black Gold City declares independence and will no longer obey the orders of the Xumi Church.

Next, the three forces of Black Gold City, Tanit Tribe, and Aru Village, followed the example of the new Inazuma system, and subsequently established the Sumeru Desert Republic and formed the Sumeru Desert United Government, no longer obeying the orders of the Council of Ordinances.

It is called a coalition government, but in reality, it is more like a one-man show in Black Gold City.

The other two companies are in a dependent relationship.

After all, the economic base determines the superstructure.

These three forces are spread all over the desert and are also the three forces with the largest population in the desert. Together, they control more than 90% of the population in the desert.

At the same time, according to history, it also represents the inheritance of the former Red King and the Flower Goddess.

From all aspects, it has an undoubted claim to sovereignty over the Sumeru Desert area.

The "sand-proof wall" is the boundary line that divides the Sumeru Desert controlled by the new Sumeru Desert United Government and the Sumeru Rainforest area controlled by the Sumeru Ordinance House.

The Xumi Desert has officially declared independence.

Gerrard was speaking on the stage, and the reporters below were dumbfounded.

Inazuma just changed its regime a few days ago, and it seems that the ruler of the old regime was also tried?

People's attention is focused on the gods of Inazuma, and their impression of these is a bit vague.

However, the people of Shin Inazuma were also separatist at the beginning, and in the later stages of the war each controlled about half of the territory, and were actually independent.

Then he took sudden action, overthrew the shogunate in one fell swoop, and took control of Inazuma.

These general processes have been published.

Are you guys planning to remake it?

The reporters exchanged glances with each other in the audience.

Will the seven countries of Teyvat become eight countries in the future?

Can a new regime formed by a group of mercenaries without gods be recognized by other countries?

Where does this place the House of Edicts?

How will the House of Religious Orders respond?

If we talk about armed separatism before, although the substance is gone, at least the Council of Religious Affairs can still keep up the appearance.

The desert is still yours.

Now, it's completely gone, both the face and the substance are gone.

All of a sudden, half of the territory was separated from Xumi and completely out of the control of the Council of Religious Affairs, and the Council of Religious Affairs was slapped in the face.

The reporters in the audience were already brainstorming about the series of impacts that would be caused by the change from seven countries to eight countries when it is announced tomorrow.

Their thoughts did not affect Gerrard's subsequent speech.

"In the earliest times, the Red King, the Flower God, and the Tree God were once the wise and intelligent leaders of the land of Xumi. At that time, the people of both the desert and the rainforest were close to each other."

"Later, as time passed, the tree god created the current Xumi rainforest. At that time, whether in the desert or the rainforest, the people of Xumi still lived happily and blissfully until the disaster came. Forbidden knowledge and dark mud engulfed the land, the three kings fell, and the once glorious civilization of the desert was also destroyed by forbidden knowledge."

"In the past few hundred years, the people of Xumi have accused each other. To this day, we still don't have conclusive evidence to judge what was right or wrong back then, but we can judge the present."

"During the past few hundred years, the Order of the Lords has ruled Xumi and should have led the people of Xumi to glory. However, generation after generation has exploited the desert people layer by layer. To this day, the desert people are even deprived of the right to education and cannot even understand the history of their ancestors. They are forced to become the lowest class in Xumi, the lowest class of people."

"That's not fair."

The camera faithfully recorded Gerrard's words and actions, and reporters wrote down his remarks.

It sounds like... this is a document to punish thieves?

There was something similar at that time before Umijima launched the final attack on the shogunate.

I just don't know what their reasons are.

Judging from the current words, it should be... revenge?

After all, it has been said that it was the House of the Decrees that exploited the desert people.

However, what they didn't expect was that Gerrard then turned to the offensive.

“We also understand that it is not just the people of the desert who suffer from this kind of exploitation and injustice. We are just the most severely affected group among them. That’s all. Under the governance of the Fatwa Council, it is nothing more than a drama of big fish eating small fish, and small fish eating shrimp. It is full of injustice.”

"Students should be cheap academic tools for tutors to rate their teachers, businessmen should be wallets for the Fatwa Institute's research, and art should be a 'heterodox path' that will hinder the so-called academic progress. The voices of not only the desert people, but also the entire Xumi people have been ignored by the Fatwa Institute. Under the promotion of the Fatwa Institute, people are divided into countless identities, opposing, discriminating and even hostile to each other."

"There are always people who say that it has always been this way, but no one questions it. Does it mean that it is right if it has always been this way? No one even questions whether it is true or false."

"I hope that one day, the people of Xumi can unite and sit together hand in hand. Children can sit in spacious and bright classrooms to study, instead of going into battle to make a living early because of their origins and skin color."

“I hope that one day, the people of the desert can appreciate beautiful dances together with the people of the rainforest on the stage of the Grand Bazaar, instead of spitting on and being hostile to each other.”

"..."

The reporters gradually came to their senses and realized the problem.

How... isn't it a revenge narrative?

No, why did you recruit the people from the rain forest under your command?

What you are implying is that all people from the Rain Forest should join you in overthrowing the House of Edicts?

With a few words, Gerard directly pulled the historical origins of the several parties to their current situation.

To sum up, all the mistakes are the fault of the Ministry of Education.

People probably understood Gerrard's idea.

He was trying to emulate Inazuma's war against Umijima, whose claim for the war against the Diocese was not revenge, but liberation.

They do not know how to liberate the desert people themselves, but also liberate those who are exploited under the rule of the House of the Fatwa.

Especially the students of the Ordinance House.

Nowadays, it is a common problem for students studying in the academy to be exploited by their tutors and to work for them for free.

If they go with a revenge narrative, they may not gain the support of the people in the rain forest. Many people in the rain forest can see how miserable the desert people have been living over the past few hundred years.

If this is a revenge, won't the rainforest be flooded with blood?

The fear of this scene, especially when combined with the stereotype that "desert people are brutal mercenaries", may lead the rainforest people to unite in fighting the desert.

But now we are engaged in an egalitarian narrative, which is difficult to say.

Equality, unity, harmony and friendship, these things are completely in line with normal human values.

With what Gerard did, as long as the Desert Army doesn't do anything outrageous, there might be many people in the Rainforest who will support the Desert.

After all, the Church of the Holy Orders really has nothing to do with human affairs, and even the rainforest people themselves have some complaints about it.

There was no explicit mention of declaring war on the Council of the Faith at this press conference.

But given its claims of liberation, it is assumed that the two are already at war.

Under such circumstances, the news of the desert's independence and the transformation of Teyvat's seven countries into eight countries quickly spread throughout Teyvat, replacing the news and popularity related to Inazuma and becoming the front-page headlines.

Gerard's speech is also well-known. The theme of pursuing equality and advocating unity has attracted the favor of a large number of people.

Of course, this does not include the rainforests under the jurisdiction of the House of Commons.

Under the order of the Great Sage Azar, these contents were directly blocked and prohibited from being circulated in the void, and related newspapers and periodicals were also prohibited from being published.

At the same time, he ordered the closure of Kawan Post and the desert area, prohibiting anyone from entering, and stopped the research and archaeological activities of scholars from the Fatma'ah in the desert area.

This seems to be the last resort for the House of Lords to save its face.

Even so, the truth will eventually come out.