Chapter 69 - Level 46 - Orders beginning (1/2)

Let me start the story with a bit of background first.

The 'Order', that hunts me at the moment, didn't always work like this. In the past, that organization worked to bring order to any World they visited, rather than fixing their timelines. Hence the name. And the first leader of the 'Order' was a legendary man, whose enemies called him Death, due to how bloody murderous he was. Later generations gave him the title 'Thanatos'. God of Death in Greek's mythology.

You might ask, 'How's killing helps with bringing the order?'. Well, Thanatos was never a man of words. He was a person of action and his understanding of order was closer to that of the famous 'Emperor of Mankind'. If there is a person bringing chaos, he won't talk with him or negotiate. He will simply kill him. Then kill those who followed the guy. Then his supporters. Then those who were connected to supporters.

By the time the first leader finished 'bringing order', there weren't many left to disturb said order any more.

And obviously, as an exceptionally powerful being with little life experience, this guy was super idealistic. He believed in the greater good, helping innocents, murder bad guys, save good guys. All that type of crap.

Another thing he really liked was time travel. And let me tell you. This guy didn't think about the consequences of his actions. And one such consequence was rewriting the history, where Gaius Julius Caesar survives the attack in Senat.

The effect of this change was huge on its own, but Thanatos went even further, which he later regretted. He granted Caesar immortality. Now imagine a genius general, that miraculously survived an ȧssassination attempt and became immortal afterward, in the country where people seriously believe in Gods and other mythological crap?

In short, he became sanctified by the people of the Empire. Not just a demigod, but a literal God. Unfortunately, his low fertility remained to be his curse. Moreover, the impossibility to pass immortality to kids became a problem later down the road.

However, in the first few centuries, Caesar has started the Golden Age of the Roman Empire.

The year I(1) of the new Calendar, marks the beginning of the new Age, later named 'Golden Age of Roman Empire'.

In a span of 40 years, Africa, Europe, and Asia were conquered. It might sound impossible, but just imagine it, a smart and experienced general that needs no rest plus cannot be killed by no mortal means. He became an unstoppable machine.

Armies fell under his own and his battalions' might. No ruler could go against him. Plus only 20 out of those 40 years were full of wars. Later 20 years, the majority of the Old World's population knew about his immortality and might. So they surrendered. What choice they had, when defeat was only a matter of time?

Then began a time of invention. All the resources 'collected' so far were invested in science, art, music, infrastructure, and medicine. The most brilliant minds of the conquered lands were flocking to the capital, Rome, under promises of wealth and fortune.

The technological rise was unprecedented. The industrial revolution hit the Empire by the 80ties of the new calendar. First, two things that were revolutionized were transportation and medicine. After all, ruling an Empire spanning 3 continents, which at that time was considered a whole world, can be problematic without any system for communication. And, of course, a better numerical system was created, although, it took some time for a few stubborn mathematicians to accept the fact that the previous system had quite some flaws.

Strangely, most of the progress didn't directly affect the military. But from another perspective, it made sense, because the whole world already belonged to the Empire. There was no enemy to compare with. They were apriori the strongest.

'There might be other lands beyond the endless spans of water!'

This event created waves in the scientific community because prior to this date, water transportation and specifically, ships were never a focus of the Empire's research.

From then on, Fleet of the Empire was remodeled and remade. And soon after, hundreds of ships were sent around the world to find these unknown lands.

Soon both America and Australia, as well as close-by islands have been discovered, but in that Universe, they were collectively called ”Terra Nova” or ”Newly found land”.