Only God
Chapter 111 - 100 King Dovlo’s Proclamation

Chapter 111: Chapter 100 King Dovlo’s Proclamation

Bandi and Orenmo, two royal lineages tainted by scandal, eventually became each other’s closest allies.

The illegitimate child Bandi thus encountered many nobles who remained loyal to the Sapo King.

Those nobles’ forefathers were originally Elders within the Kingdom, spending their past days gathered in stone palaces, deliberating on state affairs with the Sapo King. However, since King Yarlessto ascended to the throne, these nobles’ ancestors had been continuously marginalized over the centuries.

King Yarlessto acted shrewdly; for a long time, he gradually pruned those nobles loyal to the Sapo King, distancing them from the Palace, and even sending them away from the Royal Capital to the various city-states of the Kingdom, thus erasing the crisis without a trace.

However...

After hundreds of years, these marginalized Logos nobles had come together and formed a significant undercurrent.

They were, more or less, supporting Orenmo, the bloodline of the Sapo King, to reclaim the throne.

Through association with these nobles, Bandi, as an illegitimate child, found himself accorded significant importance, with their servile flattery flowing toward him like a river, relentlessly washing over him.

The illegitimate son knew he was valued not because of his talents but because of the blood of King Dovlo running through his veins.

King Dovlo and his Queen had three offspring, two of whom had already died young, leaving only Rui Ying, the eldest son, to come of age.

Apart from this, there was only Bandi, the illegitimate son.

Therefore, Bandi did not lose his bearings amidst all the flattery. On the contrary, he maintained the vigilance proper to an illegitimate child, carefully choosing whom to befriend, slowly amassing his influence within the nobles’ city-states.

As time went on, Bandi used his talents to make significant advances within those city-states belonging to the nobles, and his influence consequently grew.

Gradually, Bandi began to entertain the idea of the throne.

Bandi realized that the throne was not as far out of reach as he had once thought.

In the past, he had been so self-defeated by the stigma of being an illegitimate child, but now, with his growing personal strength, Bandi clearly saw that this status was not a disadvantage but rather his greatest strength.

All it would take was the removal of one obstacle—the heir to the Kingdom, Rui Ying.

Should Rui Ying unfortunately depart from this world at the right time, he could become the new heir to the Kingdom as the only surviving son of King Dovlo.

...

Rui Ying’s plan eventually came to fruition.

King Dovlo gathered all the Kingdom’s ministers and nobles, along with most of the priests from the Pattern Garden, within the Palace.

The aging sovereign announced something unprecedented.

"King Yarlessto returned the freedom of the children of God, and the Three-eyed Ape People are not the children of God!"

The King’s solemn voice echoed throughout the Palace, and below the throne, the crowd instantly erupted into uproar.

Countless people debated fiercely, and those who opposed stepped forward, hoping to overturn the King’s decree.

However, King Dovlo, who had once been retreating step by step, now resolutely rejected any opposition.

King Dovlo’s gaze was authoritative and contemptuous, as if he had returned to his younger days, displaying a firm stance and immediately expelling all dissenters from the Palace.

Then, Rui Ying ordered the guards to bring several Three-eyed Ape People into the Palace.

Before everyone’s eyes, King Dovlo personally purchased the freedom of the Three-eyed Ape People with rare treasures.

The Three-eyed Ape People, having been arranged beforehand, jubilantly accepted King Dovlo’s wealth and bowed low to kiss the floor of the Palace.

This scene delivered a powerful shock to the ministers and nobles.

The King’s action undoubtedly set a moral benchmark for the entire Kingdom.

The days of the Three-eyed Ape People becoming slaves.

It had just begun.

...

...

Basel paced inside his home, obviously troubled by something.

Lam, holding the "Twin Kings Book," looked up, puzzled at his teacher, and asked,

"Basel... why do you keep pacing back and forth."

Basel turned his head to look at Lam, then said:

"I’m, I’m thinking..."

Lam instinctively asked:

"Thinking about what? Another law?"

Because Basel put such great emphasis on the law, Lam instinctively thought he was contemplating the law.

In front of Lam, Basel always tried his best to teach the greatest wisdom he believed the Logosean people possessed—poetry, history, law.

Confronted with Lam’s questioning, Basel shook his head and then stared at Lam, gazing at his third eye for a long time.

Under such a gaze, Lam’s eyes began to itch a bit, his face full of confusion.

"What are you really thinking about?"

Lam pressed.

"You, you, you, you Three-eyed Ape People, are going to become, become slaves!"

Basel’s lips trembled, the very thing he had feared had eventually come to pass.

Lam froze, still too young, having only seen the word "slave" in the Twin Kings Book, not yet able to comprehend the suffering behind it.

"What, what does that mean?"

Lam asked, bewildered.

Basel let out a long sigh; sitting down because the Logoseans had not yet invented chairs, everyone had to sit on the ground.

"My, mo-mo-mother was, a slave."

Basel stuttered as he spoke, having few inhibitions in front of Lam.

"She, she died early. Once you, you become, be-become slaves, you’re no longer... human."

The intelligent Lam quickly grasped the implications of Basel’s words.

A slave was different from a person.

A slave was a piece of smart livestock, an obedient beast; once someone became a slave, they were not placed in a position equal to others.

Lam sprang to his feet, asking anxiously:

"Then what should we do?! What can we do?!"

Basel turned his head back, glanced at Lam, then his eyes fell on the Twin Kings Book in Lam’s hands.

Suddenly, an incredibly bold idea flashed through the poet’s mind, not without a pang of anxiety.

Perhaps...

He could... could head into the desert.

Seek out the Elder of the Three-eyed Ape People, use the Twin Kings Book to persuade the Elder, to rally enough Three-eyed Ape People, to advocate and fight for the freedom of the Three-eyed Ape People.

And...

The significance of the Twin Kings Book wasn’t merely as a historical text.

In the eyes of many Logoseans, this history compiled by the second son of the Prophet was held in nearly equal esteem as the Book of Kings and Prophets.

Which means...

Just as the Book of Kings and Prophets originated law,

The Twin Kings Book could also be the law!

Basel suddenly stood up; he snatched the Twin Kings Book from Lam’s hands.

Lam watched, surprised at the excited Basel, who flipped through the stone tablets in his hands.

Basel was poring over each word, hoping that by means of the law, he could refute the decree of King Dovlo.