T0 Gaming Guild Saves the World.

Chapter 316, Section 315: The Lowly

As an Easter egg hidden in the game's hidden levels, the obvious rewards and the hidden story run parallel.

Driven by the generous rewards, most people will follow the clues in the game to piece together the hidden truth behind the fragmented story and uncover the secrets of the Wanderer's Paradise.

The candlelight shouldn't disrupt this part of the game experience that blurs the line between reality and illusion.

However, given that Jiang Heyi and the other six will most likely become the solution to another world in the future, they will more or less come into contact with the will of the ruler.

She believes it is essential to ensure that everyone fully understands the Lord's motivations and actions, in order to avoid cognitive biases caused by fragmented storylines and misunderstandings of the great Lord.

The candlelight flickered, causing the pages of the books on the bookshelf to dance and merge into a curtain of light.

On the light screen, a description of "themselves" from the documents of the wandering tribe was played.

They call themselves the chosen people, blessed by the gods from birth, possessing innate charisma and admirable virtues.

By relying on their intelligence and wisdom, they can always overcome adversity, rebuild their ethnic lineage, accumulate wealth, and create a paradise for their community.

"During the period when they were hiding under assumed names to avoid being pursued, they dared not mention the names of their own ethnic group."

The candlelight spoke.

"They are known by two names: Twilight Vampires, and... the Scoundrels."

"The former is the result of the analysis of many groups that came into contact with it over a long period of time."

“The lowly are very good at lending and borrowing, and they especially like to collect debts at dusk, making a family restless and an individual breathless.”

"Because he always manages to manipulate contracts and documents in a cunning way, causing countless families to be ruined, wives and children to be separated, and him to amass wealth, he is known as the 'vampire.' At the same time, this nickname also has another deeper meaning, but please allow me to talk about it later."

Jiang Heyi suddenly realized.

The "vampire" in the "Twilight Vampire" dungeon refers to this.

“No wonder I haven’t seen any similar monsters along the way; they’ve all been ugly, stitched-together monsters of flesh and blood,” Zhong Zemo clicked his tongue.

Candlelight smiled: "Once upon a time, there was a vampire clan living on the same continent as them. Because of their infamous nickname, they announced that the entire clan would not eat blood when not in combat, and would instead use magic supplements instead."

"what?"

The boundary between reality and illusion left everyone dumbfounded.

The woman in bed asked, "Is it the vampire race that can choose a profession in the Proof of the Stars?"

Candlelight nodded: "They didn't just talk the talk; they walked the walk. After witnessing the atrocities of the lowly, they took the lead in declaring war to protect the imperial bloodline that had been humiliated to the point of near extinction by the lowly."

"Incidentally, they haven't been particularly friendly to non-vampire groups throughout history. Judging by your values, they would probably be considered chaotic neutral?"

To force vampires who hold the belief that "those who are not of our kind must have different intentions" to take action and think, "You are going too far," what kind of incredible feat did they have to do?
The light projection was telling the story of how they were bullied, their amusement park was destroyed, and they began to flee.

The lowly described it as "a bloody and terrifying atrocity committed by mediocre people who are not favored by the gods and who fear those who are guided by the light, suppressing the rise of the superior race."

The credibility of the documents left by named scholars, supported by detailed historical information including the year, makes every line of text flow with the weeping voice of the lowly.

They seem to have truly suffered immense oppression, experiencing unprecedented genocide and horrific systemic persecution.

If players simply browse the game information left on the bookshelf and don't find any hidden details in the game, many players might simply accept the characterization that "they are good people who have been persecuted."

However, their style changed when they heard the candlelight.

In the original paradise, the lowly ones seized the golden opportunity of being reshuffled and rising to power after the destruction of the magical tide, thanks to the devastating natural disasters brought about by the magical tide. They became a super empire that ruled the entire continent.

However, within just one hundred years, popular uprisings broke out across this vast empire.

There's no other reason than that, apart from the majority of the lowly race, all other living beings on the continent are regarded as inferior species by them.

"Inferior races are not derogatory terms used by the lowly; they genuinely believe that this is an objective and fair statement, an indisputable fact."

"Because they are the chosen ones, and everyone else is an inferior race."

Under the dominance of an extremely radical ruling ideology, it is less accurate to say that the lowly people established a continent-wide super empire, and more accurate to say that they regarded all living beings on the entire continent as slaves, taking whatever they wanted from them, and enslaving and oppressing them.

This exploitation applies to everyone equally.

They won't go easy on you just because you're a woman, a child, or an elderly person.

From clothing, food, housing, and transportation to funerals and weddings, taxes and contracts weigh heavily on the heads of every lowly citizen of the empire.

The periodic magical tides bring natural disasters, causing constant reshuffling of power on each continent and making it impossible to form a stable political structure. As a result, everyone's governance system is in a mess.

Except for a few continents that can rely on powerful leaders to suppress their territories, they almost inevitably fall into a spiral of chaos.

Throughout history, no other ethnic group has ever been able to achieve this in that era; the ruling ideology of the entire empire was "enslavement and plunder of other races."

Moreover, it is written into articles without any concealment and is strictly enforced.

They snatched the beautiful elves from their parents, packaged them up, and sold them to another continent in exchange for a huge fortune.

The long-lived forest eel species was once squeezed to the point of extinction.

Orcs are physically strong.

They manipulated contracts, forcing the orcs to constantly sell their physical strength and cheap labor.

They were only allowed to receive medical treatment after they died from exhaustion during the relocation of the workshop.

But this was not out of kindness; rather, it was so that while they were still alive, they could find suitable organs to harvest and sell to puppeteers and alchemists on another continent.

If any exceptional talent is discovered during the examination, without exception, they will become the experimental subjects of the lowly potion masters, used to test the upper limit of the threshold of new potions.

To satisfy the enormous demands of the nobles on the alien continent, they tacitly approved the unwarranted trials and hunting of alien races.

The wings of the butterfly race are coveted and are also an important ingredient in potion-making.

Thus, on the continent ruled by the lowly, the Butterfly Clan and the Hybrid Butterfly Clan could only ever see prisons from birth to death.

Throughout their lives, their only form of entertainment was mating.

They give birth to offspring, harvest their wings, take their organs, squeeze out all profits, and then burn them at will.

Excellent potions can heal lost wings and grow new ones, but in order to control their quantity and create scarcity, they chose the most vicious method.

In oppressing and abusing other races, the lowly are treated equally.

Therefore, the entire continent was more united than ever in resisting him.

Continent, sky, ocean.

From humans to orcs, from dragons to winged people, from sirens to sea monsters, without exception, they all deeply despise the lowly.

Finally, after an unknown peasant raised a pitchfork and killed a lowly merchant, the sparks of rebellion quickly spread throughout the continent.

Ordinary people without magic used sticks and pitchforks, relying on their flesh and blood, to pounce on the ruling centers of various regions, layer by layer.

Mages wielding magic emerged from their towers and ventured into the crowds they had once distanced themselves from, unleashing secret spells to shake the rule of the lowly empire. Children, carrying supplies, rushed into battle amidst the magic, determined to deliver blood-stained food, weapons, and potions to the warriors on the front lines.

Upon hearing that they were about to collapse, the greedy merchants refused their requests to board the ship and escape.

Even if the lowly offered a hundred or a thousand times the reward, the merchants remained unmoved.

Everyone was stunned.

Candlelight said, "Magic is like a key. Those who possess the key are born with more possibilities. It can be said that at the moment of awakening, a magician cannot be considered a human being in the strict sense, but rather a life form that has completed its evolution."

"The collapse of the Lowly Empire was truly, historically recorded, the first case of a mortal defeating many times more magicians, built entirely of flesh and blood."

"The overwhelming dominance of higher-ranking mages over lower-ranking mages is an indisputable fact."

"After that, scholars added a new sentence for the sake of rigor: Rank does not represent combat power, but numbers can change the course of a battle."

"Before that, magicians thought it was a joke."

"These are the words left behind by countless heroes of that continent, who used their own blood and flesh, as ordinary people, to prove their existence."

“Since then, the rule of neighboring countries over ordinary people has become much more lenient.”

The lowly people, who had struggled to escape paradise, finally found a place to settle after many twists and turns.

Taking advantage of the communication difficulties, they used their wealth to create a narrative, portraying themselves as victims of war, thus gaining the sympathy of the local community and acquiring a new habitat.

Over a century, they have gradually infiltrated and eroded the country that allows them to live.

They launched a coup without delay, whipping the remaining bloodline of the empire to death in the streets, disemboweling their bodies and hanging them high as lamps.

"Damn, even Sima Yi would be shocked if he saw this..." The jailer was speechless.

Candlelight continued, "After taking control of the new territory, they officially declared that this was the new paradise that the gods had guided them to obtain."

"Then, they replicated everything that had been done in the original empire."

"what?"

Although we were mentally prepared, we still couldn't help but react the same way when we heard that they were going to recreate the event.

It takes skill to remain inhumane and completely refrain from learning any lessons from the history of wandering, and to remain unchanged for a century.

As systemic extinctions descended upon the New World, the lowly still longed for their homeland.

They sent spies disguised as businessmen back to their homeland, employing various methods such as assassination and propaganda to sow discord among major powers.

Under their instigation and interference, the parties that had originally formed a harmonious relationship through the uprising and oaths began to drift apart and become increasingly estranged in less than a century.

The repressed past made French Fries look pale.

In their culture, they can't stand such scenes.

Good people should be rewarded, and evil people should have their whole family die.

Yet the lowly race always manages to escape, destroying everything others have painstakingly built, taking their place, and bringing bloodshed and carnage. It's infuriating to hear, making one wish they could travel back in time and stab them on the spot.

The candlelight flickered the light projected from the history books of the lowly.

This page is prominently titled, "The Demon God Descends."

This continent is plagued by constant internal strife and severe racial divisions. It should have been utterly crushed and overrun by the lowly.

But a nightmare has descended upon the lowly.

A mysterious sorcerer appeared out of nowhere and single-handedly reversed the course of the battle, devouring tens of thousands of elites and leading the alien races across the continent who were willing to fight against the lowly to an unprecedented victory.

The defeat in local wars was not enough to cause the collapse of the lowly people's national strength. What really bothered them was the [Demon God] himself.

With his powerful personal charisma, he united several major factions on the mainland.

From then on, the major factions joined forces and formed an alliance against the lowly.

This battle forced the lowly to shift their strategic focus to defending and consolidating their existing territory, making it impossible for them to launch proactive attacks.

Needless to say, everyone has already guessed the true form of the demon god.

The candlelight was not concealed.

"The ruler was too weak at the time to destroy the country, so he could only do this much for the time being."

“From that time on, the term ‘lowly’ was fixed in the mind of the ruler, though it was never formally uttered.”

The lowly are essentially a bloodsucking nation. They do not produce anything themselves, but seize the vast wealth of surrounding countries through contracts and trade for their own use.

Once their expansion is curbed, internal contradictions will immediately become apparent.

More than ten years after the Lord of Candlelight left, they fell apart, but each branch maintained the same old ways.

Two consecutive lessons failed to instill in them any remorse; instead, due to limited resources, they became even more brazen.

Unable to expand, they resorted to banditry, plundering, and killing.

Instead of waging a full-scale war, using localized skirmishes to drain the energy of neighboring countries is extremely troublesome.

This reckless behavior ultimately led to the return of the Demon God and the rise of the continent's native gods.

Perhaps the lowly are merely chanting slogans, never truly believing in the gods of mythology; they have never truly formed a belief in a god.

The moment the two gods descended, the lowly lost their home once again and were commanded by the Lord of the Candlelight to "wander forever."

"Why not kill them all?"

The jailer had already guessed that the lowly one would act recklessly a third time, and this time it would inevitably lead to even greater casualties.

If the master of the candle is wise enough, he should take precautions and eliminate them completely!
"The ruler is also a human being, not a lowly one."

"Years later, the Sovereign repented... If he could go back to the past, he would not hesitate to exterminate the lowly race without leaving a single bloodline."

Regarding the third rebellion, Candlelight did not elaborate, only mentioning it briefly.

Half the continent's inhabitants perished because of the lowly.

"Both the physical body and the spiritual body were annihilated into nothingness, and even the already incredibly powerful ruler could not save them."

"After a day and a night of silence, the Sovereign issued the only extermination order."

“Exterminate the lowly race, regardless of gender or age.”

Candlelight said, “My Lord, who has followed the Sovereign for many years, once said that it was the day he saw the Sovereign most like the devil.”

"It was the lowly who made him completely lose control."

　The copied text was duplicated; refreshing the page will fix it.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)