Chapter 52: Cards of Blasphemy

Chapter Fifty-TwoCards of Blasphemy

“Florent said the Sauron family has more than two thousand years of history, far longer than the Church of the God of Craftsmanship. They witnessed all the cooperation and disputes, light and darkness of the Fourth Epoch, and have persisted until today. Apart from Loen’s Augustus family, Feysac’s Einhorn family, and Feynapotter’s Castiya family, the other powerful families once ranked alongside them—such as the Antigonus family and the Zaratul family—have either become dust in history or rats in the sewers, hiding and scurrying, unable to see the light.

“He said that letting me become his subordinate, become a subordinate of the ancient and glorious Sauron family, was grace bestowed upon me.

“At the time, I wanted to f— his ancestors eight generations back.

“Still, it is very surprising that the Sauron family has more than two thousand years of history. The Fourth Epoch is also known as the Epoch of the Gods. Whether the current orthodox seven deities, or Death, the Primordial Demoness, the Dark Side of the Universe, and the True Creator, all of them were still active in the real world. It is said that They often displayed miracles. For the Sauron family to survive to the present and occupy a high position is absolutely not an easy thing.

“Their long history has surely given them more than arrogance. They must be hiding many secrets, and perhaps extremely terrifying Sealed Artifacts as well.

“They truly are a colossal thing standing upon the earth, something one dares not look at directly.”

Reading this, Klein instantly had many thoughts.

For Roselle to overthrow the Sauron family’s rule in the end and appoint himself Consul and Protector, he must have gone through a bitter, terrifying, and earth-shaking struggle. Even if the Sauron family possessed no Grade 0 Sealed Artifacts, they definitely would not lack Grade 1 ones. Add to that the possible existence of high-Sequence powerhouses, and even if the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery had fully supported Roselle, the result might not have been good.

Could it be that before then, the Sauron family had already declined and weakened, and Intis’s turmoil was the outward manifestation of that state?

What happened during that period?

Did they lose Sealed Artifacts? Did high-Sequence powerhouses die, thereby attracting the attention of ambitious figures one after another?

Mm… From this diary entry, Loen’s Augustus family should not be unfamiliar with Antigonus and Zaratul. They ought to have corresponding records internally.

The Sun once mentioned that the City of Silver has persisted in the Deep Dark Age for over two thousand five hundred years. According to my preliminary judgment, that is precisely the number of years between the Cataclysm and the present. Nearly two hundred years ago, the Sauron family already claimed to have more than two thousand years of history. I wonder whether they can trace back to before the Cataclysm… I will find a chance later to deliberately mention the Sauron family and watch The Sun’s reaction. If The Sun still looks completely confused, that indirectly shows that the Sauron family rose after the Cataclysm. Perhaps they seized enormous benefits from the Cataclysm, allowing them to become Fourth Epoch nobles and Fifth Epoch royalty…

Uh, even if The Sun does not know, that cannot prove everything. Perhaps he simply did not study history well.

Klein turned to the third page and discovered that its contents should have been written during the early period when Roselle served as Consul of the Intis Republic.

From several diary entries on this page, it could be seen that Roselle’s formulation and promulgation of the new Civil Code, his encouragement of invention, protection of trade, and incubation of the Industrial Revolution had not merely been to satisfy his own wicked pleasure in role-playing Napoleon or his ambition to change the world. Through these methods, he had been reconciling with the…