only god

Chapter 61 Morality
The colossus rose from the ground, and as the height increased, the progress became slower and slower. Judging from the current civilization of the Logos, this project is almost impossible to complete.

Therefore, King Jalesto waved his hand and recruited more slaves and craftsmen to build the colossus with all his strength.

In his eyes, the colossal statue of the prophet must be built before his death, and he must see with his own eyes that this glorious symbol of the Kingdom of Logos stands on the ground.

This is my commemoration of God and my condolences to my father.

King Aresto knew better than anyone in the kingdom—God is gone.

Wang didn't know when God would come back.

The king also didn't know whether God would still remember the Logosians after a long period of deep sleep.

That's why he wanted to make an image of his father, who was chosen by God. Even if God forgot every Logosian, he would still remember the prophet Ar.

King Alesto made great efforts to govern and dispatched all kinds of resources to the place where the giant statue stood. At the same time, he tried his best to reconcile the contradictions among the nobles and balance the interests of all parties in the kingdom.

for example,

Back then, the eldest son of King Sappor should have been executed. Just as his father persecuted the priests in the Law Garden, King Arestio should have persecuted the heirs of King Sappor.

However, King Sappor still had popular support and prestige among the Logos people at that time, so King Aresto pardoned him, arranged a marriage for the latter, promoted the female heir of the eldest son of King Sabbo to priesthood, and granted the city-state .

He was not the brutal former king Sabo, who based his authority on being brave and good at fighting. On the contrary, the authority of King Alesto was based on the development of a civilization and the general approval of the powerful nobles.

It can be said that King Jalestos was the first moral monarch in the history of the Logos. He was devout, gentle and tough, and unified the entire kingdom with the wisdom of the monarch. It is the benchmark for countless virtuous monarchs in the future.

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Tertullian was walking in the quarry where the Colossus was built.

Thousands of Logos slaves were carrying stones and wood. Their upper bodies were naked and their clothes were not covered. They were sweating, and their thin bodies erupted with great strength. The craftsmen and supervisors waved their whips like driving cattle. Like a sheep, the slightest negligence hits the slaves.

No one knows how or when slaves arose.

The Logos civilization was but a fledgling civilization, without law or keen insight, and even morally retained innumerable tribal customs.

Slaves naturally came into being in the development of civilization, and these people who were forced to sell their freedom naturally entered the lives of the Logos people.

The giant statue of the prophet Yar stood on the ground like a miracle. The slaves of Logos worked day and night with their excellent physical fitness. The artisans only provided them with barely enough food. Coercion and urging in name.

The elders and wise men often come here to inspect, and the priests also go with them. Under the orders of the former, the priests tirelessly tell the stories of gods and prophets for the Logos slaves, as if this colossus was not what the Logos wanted to build. not, but what God intended to create.

Tertullian raised his face, looking up from below, the colossal statue of his father was so tall and majestic.

boom!
There was a loud bang behind Tertullian.

Tertullian felt something and turned his head with trembling hands.

A Logos slave fell down and smashed a huge stone forcefully, his whole body was smashed to pieces, and the only remains seemed to be embedded in the stone.

Even for the Logosians, who were physically fit enough to hunt mammoths alone, the construction of such a magnificent colossus was still beyond the capacity of civilization.

Working day and night brought unimaginable suffering to the Logos slaves.

In order to build this glorious colossus, countless slaves were exhausted, thrown to death, and whipped to death. Some of their bodies were thrown aside like waste, and some were buried in stone to build a corner of the colossus. .

It is not that the Logos did not see the death of the slaves.

But for this civilization that has just entered the agricultural age, the death of the slaves is worthwhile. In many people's minds, the death of a slave does not mean the departure of a Logosian who has never met before. The death of a slave Yes, just lost a bred argali.

Morality is formed in tribal customs, and people's consensus.Such was the morality of the Logos in this day and age.

It would be absurd and immoral to regard the slave as a complete human being.

Only slaves mourn slaves.

Tertullian watched as the slaves removed the body from the stone and carefully set it aside, trying to groom the dead man.

The heart of the second son of the prophet seemed to be seized by something.

He clearly remembered that in the era of King Sabo and his father, except for the king, the Logos people were equal to each other. They were either hunters or priests, and there would never be slaves.

For hundreds of years, the Logos people have learned to sow seeds, to raise animals, to make pottery, to have writing, and to have etiquette...

However, since when did people learn to domesticate people?
The Logos treats others like livestock.

The Logosians who have shed their fur naturally trample on their rationality, their empathy, and the love that God bestows on the Logosians.

Tertullian watched all this sadly.

When did it start?

Tertullian blames it all on - God is gone.

It is because God is gone that we start to enslave each other, and this pathetic morality emerges.

Because the gods are gone, the days of throwing spears and hunting big beasts will not return.

Tertullian thought...

After God returns,

It will be seen that these Logosians who are supposed to love each other are enslaving each other like livestock, and bloody sacrifices are reappearing on the earth. There are so many crimes that not an inch of the land is clean.

At that time, the morality of the Logosians was sin, and sin was morality, and God was disappointed.

Tertullian raised his foot and walked up to the slave who had not had time to bury him.

In the distance, the colossus of his father was so cold, Tertullian knew that no matter how much that colossus resembled his father's features, that colossus would never have what was most important to him—a soul that walked with the gods.

"We are children of God, and God is gone, and we are left behind."

He stretched out his hands, closed the slave's eyes, knelt down, clasped his hands, and prayed for the lost man.

"We are children of God, and we cannot accept the days when God is not there."

Tertullian took off his own robe and covered the slave.

The next day, among the Logos slaves who built the colossus, there was one more person.

No one will notice these insignificant changes. Every day, slaves die here, and slaves are recruited from various city-states in the kingdom every day. They spend their entire lives on the construction of the prophet's colossal statue.

Tertullian was unkempt and unrecognizable, the second son of the Prophet spent days and nights building a colossal statue of his father, enduring whips and the stench of blood and sweat.

Tertullian became one with these slaves,
Because he wants to lead a group of people, integrate a team, even a city-state, a new kingdom, abandon the original morality, go to the sea, and return to God.

　I don't know if you have noticed a detail. Before the history books appeared, I never used the word "unprecedented".

　　
　
(End of this chapter)