"A genius knight developed the Guardian Chain, which is a plug-in-like ability. The Guardian Chain allows the knight to have the ability to fight beyond his level. More importantly, it can extract the limit power of ordinary cavalry, which greatly increases the knight's total energy, breaking the balance between apostles and standing out in the city-state era.
The knights believe that ordinary people are very valuable. They select cavalry from ordinary people, knights-knight squires-cavalry-hired farmers. This huge system accommodates a lot of ordinary people and allows ordinary people to have a stable life for the first time.
Ordinary people are no longer slaves to knights, but tools that can increase the knights' combat effectiveness, and all knights benefit from it.
With the addition of the limit power of ordinary people, the total energy of the knights is much greater than that of other apostles, and other apostles are no match for the knights at all.
Under the leadership of high-level knights, the cavalry corps broke through city-states one by one. At the end of the city-state era, no one was the opponent of the knights. The knights carried the lords of the city-states on their spears. They killed the apostles in the city-states and rescued the ordinary slaves there.
Ordinary people They were driven to the knights' territory, farmed for the knights, trained for the knights, and became the knights' cavalry, making the knights stronger.
For knights, whoever has more ordinary people is stronger. As knight empires were established, they attracted ordinary people with better conditions, and population became the key to whether the empire was strong or not.
The lives of ordinary people have been greatly improved, and the knights have formulated a series of rules so that farmers can continuously provide them with extreme power. These rules eventually became the moral code of the knights, such as kindness, forgiveness, respect for women, etc. The knights themselves called these "knightly virtues".
When the knights were fighting at the most critical moment, they would sometimes beat ordinary cavalry into mummies. This was certainly a criminal act, but compared to the city-state era, the combination of knights and cavalry was so advanced that it completely changed the production structure of the continent.
The knights ended the situation of the apostles fighting in the city-state era and brought order to the continent for the first time. "
Blanca and Aruman looked surprised. They also knew the legends of the ancient city-state era, but they never thought that the lives of ordinary people in the city-state era were miserable.
The knights' fighting style is actually very cruel, but in the teacher's narration, the knights seem to be better than the apostles in the city-state era?
Rudolf continued:
"The most glorious period of the knights was the God-Slaying War more than 2,000 years ago. With the support of the entire continent, Emperor Alec actually defeated the evil god, killed three evil gods, and drove the evil god to the southern continent.
Of course, there are some secrets of immortality involved here, and the wizard played an ignominious role in it. I will tell you later.
No matter what the final result is, the fighting power of the knights has forced the evil gods to avoid it.
From then on, for a long time, the lives of ordinary people were very simple, farming for the knights. , find a way to eat a strong body, and then become a cavalryman of the knight master.
It was not the knights who ruled the continent, but the knights who found a way to extract energy from ordinary people. It was the knights and ordinary people who ruled the continent.
This state lasted for a long time, until the alchemist made a breakthrough in technology after a long period of theoretical accumulation, which brought the second major change to the continent. "
Aruman and Blanca kept thinking about the situation of ordinary people in the past as Rudolf told them, and they really wanted to know what changes the alchemist had made in the relationship between the apostles and ordinary people.
"Alchemists have found another way for ordinary people to survive: leave the land and enter the alchemist's factory.
On a mature production line, dozens of ordinary workers can produce a large number of powerful weapons in a short period of time, and can also produce a large number of living materials.
In the hands of knights, ordinary people are farmers who grow crops and consumables that are sucked dry on the battlefield. This method of utilization is too inefficient. In the alchemist's factory, the value of ordinary people is further increased. The powerful mass production capacity makes the total energy of the alchemist far higher than that of other apostles.
A salvo of multiple rocket launchers can easily defeat the knight's charge. The knight may not die, but the ordinary cavalry behind the knight will definitely die.
The gap between the strength of the knights and the alchemists became increasingly wide, until the Constitution Movement more than 200 years ago, when the alchemists relied on saturation artillery fire to defeat the knights on the front battlefield.
The knights were defeated and the alchemists gained the right to rule. The underlying reason was that ordinary people were more willing to work in factories and live in cities with complete municipal facilities. For example, the simplest need of going to the toilet is much more comfortable than using a dry toilet on the farm.
Compared to lying on the ground and turning the soil, working in the city is much more comfortable and the income is higher. The assembly line factory makes materials abundant, and life is better with the alchemists. So ordinary people turned against the Alchemists and Knights, and the strength of the Alchemists and Knights reversed. The Alchemists became stronger and stronger, while the Knights became weaker and weaker.
Except for the northern Megwen Empire, which was still the Knight Empire, other kingdoms either became constitutional monarchies or became the United States after the Knight monarch was killed.
In the Alchemist's factory, ordinary people went to work at nine in the morning and got off work at nine in the evening, working six days a week. It was miserable, but it was much better than the life in the Knight Empire.
The farmers in the Knight's territory fled to the Alchemist's territory, which greatly reduced the number of the Knight's cavalry, and they were even more defeated on the battlefield.
Didn't the Alchemist defeat the Knight and become the ruler? The rulers were not the alchemists, but the alchemists found a more efficient mechanism to utilize ordinary people, so that the overall energy of the alchemists was far greater than that of the knights. Therefore, the alchemists and ordinary people defeated the knights together.
The essence of these two major changes is that whoever can utilize ordinary people more efficiently will become the most powerful apostle on the continent.
The difference in the strength of the twelve apostles themselves is not that great. The addition of ordinary people has widened the gap between the knights and alchemists and other apostles.
I can now easily defeat the Alchemy Council of Fabro City, and even the County Council may not be my opponent, but I can never become the king of Fabro City, the master of Fabro City , because I can't provide better job opportunities and better food sources for the people here.
Apart from fear, I can't think of an effective way to rule.
After avenging Claude, I no longer have obsessions in my heart, so I can look at the Alchemy Council more rationally.
If I really want to make life better for the people in the Dordo District, I found that I only have one choice, that is, to turn around and protect the Alchemy Council, instead of continuing to attack the Council. "
Blanca and Aruman finally understood why the teacher compromised with the City Council. After avenging the teacher's friend, the teacher acted more like a police officer than the police chief and more like a witch hunter than the chief of the trial department.
Rudolf thought of another thing and frowned:
"I once took in a beggar named Zach in Leman Town. Unfortunately, he became a priest of pain.
If knights and alchemists have merits in treating ordinary people, then the evil priests are at the other extreme. They rule believers and ordinary people with fear."