Supreme Magus novel Chapter 1050

Chapter 1050 Gods and Guardians Part 2

"This doesn’t make sense." Quylla said. "If Guardians really are this powerful, why do they let so many bad things happen? Like the slave collar system that plagued the Gorgon Empire for decades or Balkor’s annual culling. How can they just sit there without doing anything?"

"That’s a very common misconception. No matter their race, whenever people learn about Guardians, they consider them some kind of benevolent god, tasked with taking care of them. Guardians are not gods and couldn’t care less about single individuals.

"They are forces of nature, incarnations of Mogar’s will and agenda, whatever that is. Would you call a tornado cruel? Or the rain heartless because after irrigating the fields it makes rivers flood? Or the summer heat unfair? No, and the same applies to Guardians." Faluel said.

"What about the slave collars? Thousands lived and died as cattle for decades, yet Leegaain could have put an end to it with a snap of his fingers, just like Tyris could have killed Balkor!" Phloria said.

"To what end, exactly? You are talking in hindsight. Back then, people believed otherwise." Faluel’s spoke with a calm and sweet voice, like a mother explaining to her children why they shouldn’t touch embers.

At a wave of her hand, pages of ancient chronicles of the Gorgon Empire appeared on each desk for them to read. According to history books, the slave collar period was considered by those who lived it as a golden age.

Everyone would live longer and prosper thanks to mages providing the people of the Gorgon Empire, not only the nobles, with everything they might need. Dimensional Magic allowed anyone to travel freely without Gates, weather magic made every harvest bountiful, and healing magic would keep everyone healthy.

In those books, the enslaved mages were praised for their sacrifice and the action of putting a collar at their necks was justified by the greater good. Unlike nobles, free mages were hard to kill and their talent was considered an unfair advantage by those incapables of using magic. _{ƒгeewёbnovel.com}

One of them could kill hundreds of innocents, so the people from the Gorgon Empire considered it right to sacrifice the freedom of the few for the needs of the many.

"This is outrageous bullshit!" Lith said.

"That’s what history taught us." Faluel said.

"Today, Leegaain is considered a heartless monster for abandoning his people, but thank to that, mages learned how to fend for themselves, nobility has been eradicated in the Empire which is now the most magically advanced country.

"What if he intervened back then? The people that wrote the books you are reading would have called him a heartless monster and a tyrant for taking away their free will.

"They would’ve also demanded from him to provide them with an alternative means to prosper since, in their eyes, he was standing in the path of their progress. Moreover, the mages would have become conceited and feel entitled to his protection.

"The same can be said for Balkor. He indeed killed many, but he was born out of a corrupt system that created countless victims. Lith didn’t become one of them only thanks to Balkor setting an example.

"Now the academy system is being reformed, mages are allowed to reach nobility based on their merits without their humble origins being used as an excuse to undermine their achievements.

"Had Tyris killed him, people like Quylla and Lith would have had a hard time to enrol in an academy, let alone graduate. They would have become the new Balkors, if not worse."

Lith and Quylla remembered all too well the daily hazing and badmouthing they had suffered during their academy years. And that was with Linjos doing his best to protect them and with the law by their side.

Lith thought back at Nana and at how her life had been destroyed by envious nobles despite her great talent.