Chapter 42 (1/2)
Translator: La0o9 Editor: La0o9
“The Royas King…” Chris stayed silent. When countries were considered, it had never been easy to determine things with simple concepts like justice or evil.
If the Royas Kingdoms were to wage war on the Interkam Kingdom, then for the Interkam people, the Royas Kingdom would be considered undoubtedly ‘evil’, but was the entire Royas Kingdom evil?
Defining a large group of people as simply good or evil was biased. The so-called concepts of good and evil were nothing but conforming to the public’s generally accepted sense of morality. Those who conform are considered ‘good’, while those who don’t are considered ‘evil’.
1
This was why there were many things that couldn’t be generalized, and why sometimes it was just better not to think too much about it, as long as you still act following your own sense of morals.
“I won’t comment on King Eldridge” Chris slowly replied.
Although good and evil couldn’t be used to judge a country as a whole, personally speaking, Chris was more on the side of the Interkam Kingdom. For one, Interkam had always been a multi-racial country, while the Royas Kingdom was mostly made up of Royas people and had kept up a deep sense of racial discrimination.
Especially after the ‘Great Robber Ika Elissa’ incident, the majority of the Royas people considered those of different racial ethnicity to be inferior.
The other reason was because the current Royas Kingdom, under the lead of King Eldridge, hailed as the greatest Royas ruler in the last millennium, was incredibly aggressive. Invasions for the sake of expanding the country border could be praised as expanding their territory, but for civilians, wars have always been nothing but suffering.
Because of this, against the side that instigated a war, Chris wouldn’t necessarily call them ‘evil’ and want to smite them down, but he would naturally feel wary and apprehensive towards them.
In the end though, all that Chris could do was not actively help the Royas Kingdom, at the same time, help pull the Interkam Kingdom up a bit to prevent the war. Yet all of this was meaningless to King Eldridge.
Among those that Chris knew about, the only one who could possibly rival Negary directly in power would be King Eldridge.
He had absolute confidence that preceded all else, enough that he felt even the God worshipped by the Church of Divine Grace to be below him.
13 years ago, when Eldridge had only just claimed his throne, a Cardinal of the Church of Divine Grace travelled to the Royas Kingdom to seek an audience with this King and requested him to allow missionaries of the Church of Divine Grace to spread their worship.
At the time, there were already quite a few within the Royas Kingdom who felt interested in the Church of Divine Grace. There were even aristocrats who expressed support of welcoming the Church of Divine Grace into their country. Of course, it would be hard to tell exactly how much of this was actual belief in the Church and how much was part of the country’s power struggle to have the Church of Divine Grace restrain the overbearing Andrea royal family.
But the King immediately suppressed all this dissatisfaction with iron and blood. He declared that even God was nothing but one of his subjects and that it was enough for the Royas people to worship him alone. He chased the Cardinal away and foiled the plan for the Church of Divine Grace to enter the Royas Kingdom. He then cleaned up the burdensome nobles who held the Royas Kingdom back and united all the aristocrats for the sake of building a greater Royas Kingdom.
Currently, the forces of the Royas Kingdom far surpassed that of itself when King Eldridge had just been crowned. While on the contrary, the Interkam Kingdom’s overall forces had grown weaker due to the internal strife Seth the First instigated to ascend to the throne.