Mage Veigar

Chapter 878 The Battle of Dignity
Old Kingdom, Gasili City.

This city has experienced the attacks of the Empire, was captured by the Holy Dynasty several times, and was enslaved by the sub-dragons of the Holy Dragon Kingdom. It was finally taken over by the Galan Empire. War is almost the theme of this city.

The people of this city cherish the hard-earned peace.

Therefore, the city of Gasili is the city that hates war the most, has the highest voice against war, and is also regarded as a holy place by speculators. In this city, there are more than a thousand anti-war organizations of all sizes, with the largest number exceeding 10,000 people and the smallest number having more than 1,000 people.

Maurice Vasey was one of many opportunists and the leader of an anti-war organization of thousands of people.

His predecessor was a member of the slums in the city of Gasili.

However, when the Jialan Empire announced its intention to launch a war against the Principality of Baya, it keenly sensed the "business opportunity" therein.

If he handles it properly, he might be able to escape from such a life and truly become a superior person.

But at first, he was a little timid.

Because the king of this country is so terrible, butcher and executioner are not enough to describe the horror of that king. To say that he is a devil is an overreaction. After much thought, only the cold and cruel god of death can describe that king.

What he has to do now is to stand on the opposite side of death.

Just thinking about this kind of thing was enough to terrify him.

But when he was afraid, he found that there was already someone who was the first to try something new. The first person to try something new always gets the biggest benefit. He deceived tens of thousands of people and formed such an organization, which made him a lot of money.

At this time, Morris began to get anxious.

He no longer cared about fighting the god of death, fearing that he would be too late to even have a bowl of soup. So he got a decent set of clothes from somewhere, pretended to be a "righteous man", established an anti-war organization, and continued to recruit members to protest the war together.

up to now.

He found all kinds of excuses and extorted more than 50,000 gold coins from members of the organization. At the same time, he used this power to threaten wealthy businessmen to collect protection fees, bully men and women, and commit murder and arson. It can be said that he did all kinds of evil.

"Everyone, are you ready?"

Standing on the platform, Morris looked at the excited crowd below.

Today is the fifteenth rally.

The purpose of this rally is to boycott those unscrupulous wealthy businessmen who support the war!

Those rich, heartless, and stupid businessmen were simply unforgivable. How dare they support the king's war? This matter was certainly intolerable to him, a person who firmly supported "peace", so he must resist it!
As for ways to resist.

Killing is against the law, so just burn and rob everything.

This was the general content of his passionate speech to the organization members a few days ago, which caused a strong response at the time. He also collected more than a thousand gold coins to use as "preparation fees" to bribe people, and then only today did he call the members together again to prepare for the action.

Of course, this is just superficial talk.

As for the truth of the matter?
The truth of the matter is of course not so high-sounding. Screw the fight for peace! Screw the fight for justice! Whether the war breaks out or not, and the life and death of others, what does it have to do with him. The truth is that this rich businessman dared not to pay protection money to him, a "peace man", so of course he had to eradicate this supporter of "war".

"I know you can't wait."

Without waiting for the people below to answer, Morris pointed in the direction of the rich businessman's mansion and said, "Go, to defend the hard-earned peace!"

If placed in the usual.

At this time, the angry pigs below had already rushed out howling.

But today was different. To Morris's surprise, the people below were motionless and had lost their former energy.

Morris' heart skipped a beat for no reason.

At this time, the first civilian stood up and said, "Lord Morris, I'm sorry that we no longer want to oppose the war. We came here today to thank you for your care over the past few days and to say goodbye to you."

"You, you guys?"

Morris looked a little unhappy: "Haven't you tasted enough pain from the war? As long as we collectively oppose the war, even the king won't dare to stand against us."

"Please believe me."

"Peace will prevail! Justice will prevail!" At the end, Morris did not forget to shout a few slogans that had excited them before. Unfortunately, it didn't work this time. One of the older civilians stood up and said, "Morris, stop it. Aren't you a citizen of the Jialan Empire?!"

He pointed at Morris and cursed: "We are civilians of the Jialan Empire. Now that our dignity has been trampled upon, we must defend it with war. This is our only way. Facts have proved to us that peace cannot protect our dignity!"

"War! We must have war!"

"That's right, let the Baya people know what the Jialan Empire means to this continent!"

"We are the strongest country in the continent. Why should a small Western country trample on our sovereignty and occupy our territory?"

"..."

There was an incomparable fanaticism flashing in everyone's eyes.

This scene seemed too familiar to Morris. Just as these people could kill and burn for the sake of peace and fight against the powerful, they have now completely become believers of war.

Morris felt cold all over.

The king of this country... is actually the leader of a cult!

Escape, must escape!
He wants to escape from this country, and that devil will never let them go.

Morris tried to escape overnight, but he found that the city of Gaxili had been blocked. Now he was not allowed to leave. As an ordinary person, he could not escape. The minions of the devil would find him one day...

In just less than two days.

Morris was arrested and executed two days later.

His former supporters are now calling him a traitor to the country and a disgrace to Jialan. He still cannot understand why things have turned out to be like this in just a few days.

What Morris didn't know was.

Born as a human being.

The most important things are life, money and dignity.

Most people regard life as the most important thing, and some people prefer money to life and dignity, but this is not a multiple-choice question. If conditions permit, most people are willing to earn money with dignity and live comfortably.

And now.

With neither life nor money threatened, the Principality of Baya insulted their faction, the 'Jialan Empire'.

That's right.

The beliefs of the past have been wiped out. Although they are no longer willing to recognize the government of the Jialan Empire, deep in their hearts they have already labeled themselves as members of the Jialan Empire.

When the Principality of Baya ignored the warnings of the Jialan Empire, even verbally insulted their king, trampled on the territorial sovereignty of the Jialan Empire, and arbitrarily took away the land that belonged to the Jialan Empire, the civilians of the entire East were completely on the same front.

They can fight each other to the death.

But this definitely does not mean that outsiders can bully them.

Vega understood one thing very well: the way to unite a group of people was never a wise king, but a common enemy.

Only with a common enemy can everyone stand on the same front. Even if he is unpopular as a king, he can unite the whole country in a short period of time. This is why in history, even if the king of a country is incompetent, when foreign enemies invade, once the king wants to start a war, they will support him.

Therefore, Vega found such an enemy for the whole country.

Besides, the Principality of Baya was at fault first, and he had a legitimate reason to do so. Who would oppose this matter?

When Vega announced the incident between him and the Principality of Baya, the national atmosphere naturally changed drastically from top to bottom within just five days.

This is a battle of dignity.

Anyone who tries to stop the war is trampling on their dignity, so those who stir up trouble become public enemies.

(End of this chapter)