Super Righteous Player
Chapter 404 - 401: The Dennisiowa of the Past_1

Chapter 404: Chapter 401: The Dennisiowa of the Past_1

Salvatore frowned, clamped the freshly lit cigar between his lips, and flipped through the paper just handed to him with utmost seriousness.

He had never been one to smoke before.

Plagued by the Curse Binding of "Reflection of the Sleepless and Tireless," Salvatore was forced to stay awake every night and could only sleep at three in the morning. He could manage no more than six hours of sleep a day, living on the verge of sudden death.

Whether it was smoking or drinking, he hardly dared to indulge. As for stimulants and other transformative products, he only dared to use those with lesser side effects, ones that had stronger restorative benefits for the body.

After all, he couldn’t catch up on his sleep.

This was Salvatore’s greatest issue.

The difference now was that he had successfully advanced to become an alchemist.

His cigar was a cursed object he had crafted especially for himself. Inside it weren’t tobacco leaves but unknown medicinal compounds he had concocted to heal the body.

The ancient profession of "Alchemist," even in modern times, hadn’t been completely phased out—clearly, there was a reason for that.

The rise of the transforming wizards was largely because, in the era of "Blood Servitude," Transcendents without sufficient self-protection were easily hunted and killed.

In that era, apart from the Winter Duchy, which was successfully founded by the Winter family while the old grandmother was still asleep, and the Holy Nation, which easily upheld a minor barrier due to the congregation of True Gods, the old dominions everywhere else had completely disintegrated.

Back then, the Holy Nation hadn’t established the City in the Sky, and the many churches were all crammed together on the ground. The mutual warfare among the Orthodox Churches and the crusades was enough to throw the Holy Nation into utter chaos.

And as for the Winter Duchy... no one would bother visiting.

The Winter Duchy was so scarce in vegetable resources, and even more so during the winter years. The Winter inhabitants even had to consume large amounts of Frost Beast raw meat to supplement their vitamins, not to mention the blizzards that enveloped the entire territory.

Back then, many people from the Winter Duchy were forced to flee and became mercenaries in other countries. Today, a significant proportion of Winter bloodlines remaining in other countries originated from this historical background.

The Transcendents had no choice but to head to the domains of the Silver Baron and Yawen.

The Silver Baron resided in what is now King Noah’s Royal Capital, while Yawen lived in the capital of what is now the Kingdom of Dennisiowa. Consequently, the remaining Transcendents immediately started butchering each other around these two locations.

But at the time, the Kingdom of Noah hadn’t been established, and Dennisiowa was just a duchy. It was less about nations waging war for territory, and more a brutal "Expulsion War."

Furthermore, there was no Underworld Federation back then, and the wise were acutely aware that after the sinking of massive tracts of land and the collapse of the grand barriers, there would be an instant scarcity of resource types. The limitations of the Mist and barriers would restrict the ability of people within each barrier to share what they had with others.

The resources that followed might not be enough to keep everyone alive at that time.

Therefore, they needed a war.

A war to alleviate the pressure of overpopulation... and to redistribute the rights of inhabitable land.

It was a war that almost didn’t necessitate captives. It was also the first war in this world that wasn’t aimed at plundering resources and population.

Even though the various warlords knew that eventually, everyone might gradually come together, the fewer enemies that remained, the better life might be for the people of their side, and the higher their authority would rise.

"Winter" held indispensable significance because only they could tame the Frost Beasts, which were the sole sustenance during the winter years.

And the first "Noah" possessed extraordinary political Wisdom. Through persuasion, deceit, betrayal, and alliance... he ultimately established dominance with his absolute military superiority through perfect operations.

The Holy Nation eventually established the "Hall of Purity," not appointing a separate King, but having the Pope of the Seven Gods take turns serving as Pope.

The Grand Duke of Dennisiowa, at the time, declared himself King soon after. He voluntarily relinquished most of the powers that belonged to the King and established a privy council instead.

Within the "Dennisiowa Privy Council" system, the council was divided into three tiers: the "Advisory Council," the "Committee," and the "Membership Council."

Among these, the "Chief Advisor" was to be served by the incumbent Pope of Yawen, who each year had the right to select several individuals from the Committee to serve as advisors; "Committee Members" and "Members," generally correspond to upper and lower house legislators, respectively, with the power to propose and amend legislation. Proposals from the Membership Council needed to pass through the Committee before entering the Advisory Council; however, proposals from the Committee could go directly to the Advisory Council.

The power of the advisors was significantly elevated, encompassing core ministers such as foreign affairs, finance, defense, culture and education, and the Chief Justice, all selected only from among the advisors. If the majority of the Advisory Council agreed, they could pass or veto certain laws without going through the King. The King retained only the power to "dismiss advisors," and in other respects was merely on an equal level with the other advisors.

——The initial advisors were directly chosen from among the local nobility. They could also be purchased for what could be called a princely sum.

Without a doubt, the Duke of Dennisiowa directly sold off his existing political power.

His policy was rather than trying to preserve his unstable power as the new King during the war, and to solidify it after the war, it was better to use a part of the power that might be taken away later as bait to end the war as quickly as possible.

Such a seemingly desperate change enabled the Duke of Dennisiowa to quickly obtain the support of many originally opposing or neutral high nobles within the former duchy, and in the short term, he amassed a large sum of money.

He then used this massive sum of money, or the positions and benefits of the "Advisory Council," to bribe nobles from other countries to buy intelligence or ask them to betray at critical moments; he used the positions and benefits of the "Committee" to collect a large number of Transcendents and outstanding technical and military talents from both domestically and abroad, and used the "Membership Council" to gather excellent old soldiers, workers, and businessmen.

The betrayal of a large number of nobles and Transcendents, and the possible betrayals that loomed in the future, left Dennisiowa without a united front of opposition. Those nobles who defected to Dennisiowa also entered the Committee.

Finally, the Kingdom of Dennisiowa was initially formed.

Because of the decisive action of the Duke of Dennisiowa, they were the first to end the bloody servitude war and establish a stable rule. As a result, they also suffered the least damage and even concentrated more talents than The Holy Nation.

As for the allegiance of the Feld Archipelago, that was an affair after the end of the servitude.

And for those Transcendents who refused to join, or even outright became enemies of the Noah and Dennisiowa families, once the Kingdom of Noah and Dennisiowa were established, they only had one last place to go.

That was the Underworld.

At that time, the Underworld was a lawless land without morals or laws.

The current inheritance of Wizards was formed in the early stages of the servitude— to be effective in Legion wars and to be capable of fighting alone. The inheritance of "Alchemy" had already become utterly obsolete by then.

But for Salvatore... it was the "Transmutation Wizards" that were outdated, even deviating somewhat from the original path.

The core concept of the Transmutation School was to create the nonexistent from the existing.

And today’s Transmutation Wizards...

How long has it been since a new invention was born?

Decades have passed, and it has mostly been improvements on old inventions.

The era when many new inventions emerged every year is no more.

Although Salvatore doesn’t know to what extent he can achieve...

——He just doesn’t want to admit defeat before even trying.

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