Chapter 519: Chapter 519

519: Chapter 499: The First Wave 519: Chapter 499: The First Wave The small Schlei Domain became a microcosm of the entire world.

Rebellion broke out uncontrollably.

The “kind-hearted commoners” who were still hanging on yesterday had always harbored hopes, expecting the dawn to come eventually.

Noble lords and scholar lords all said that the long night would eventually pass, just after the longest “six months”…

but now they’ve found that they were deceived!

“It’s over, all lies, all lies!”

“I mean, how did those landlords and nobles manage to run off to the Holy City, even selling their ancestral properties cheaply?

They had inside information, and they were looking for their own way out.”

“We’ve been left behind, and we’ll be destroyed along with this world.”

“Why hasn’t the sky brightened yet?

Am I not devout enough?

I’ve sacrificed my children and wife to you, please grant us the dawn again!”

It’s too unfair, too unfair, we have the right to survive too.

At least, tell us what happened.”

“Weren’t there Shepherd Silver people before?

They said the Doomsday was coming and the sun would not rise again, and everyone treated them as liars and the lord chased them away…

I regret it, I even threw stones at them.”

When the long night reappeared, most people could still patiently wait at first, but when the night refused to recede, everyone gradually transformed their hopes into despair once more.

Murder, arson, and plunder?

Mad sacrifices and hysterical suicide?

They didn’t miss the party.

This time despair spread too quickly, leaving all the informed people dumbfounded.

Were there Doomsday theorists and cultists involved?

Definitely, and many of them.

Doomsday theorists and cultists have always been active, with one doomsday preacher after another.

Evil Gods need panic and despair to spread their doctrines and expand their congregations, and ultimately profit…

among the most ferocious of them are those who are just one step away from becoming Quasi-Gods.

At this point, they even had a huge advantage that even the True Gods didn’t have.

By taking advantage of the opportunity to establish an Earthly Divine Kingdom, they directly dug away large tracts of land on the surface of the Silent Mountain Range…

just like that newborn Sun God, who took away their homeland and their people.

In places beyond the reach of Lu Ping’an and others, war and strife had long reached a boiling point.

At the center of it all, the Holy City, there were at least three divine battles per day, with groups of rule-level powerful individuals entering the battlefield, competing for the chance and resources to become deified.

The Holy City had long since turned into a large-scale deathmatch arena, with countless fleeing refugees every day…

but at the same time, even more refugees were pouring in.

Chaos, along with the sun’s second escape, had irrepressibly spread throughout the entire world.

In some cases, local lords hadn’t even had a chance to react before they were strung up and hanged by the enraged mob in their own castles.

What about their knights and guards?

Oh, the ones leading them were those very protectors.

Who could guarantee their sanity was still intact, or that they remained loyal in the face of doom?

The reality was the complete opposite of what the majority of the lords had imagined.

The knights closest to them knew a bit more about the “secrets,” and when the secrets turned into reality, they were the first to crumble.

In just two days, Schlei Domain received countless calls for help and requests for rescue from knights…

Just at the beginning of it all, four out of the seven neighboring lords had been hanged.

When the commoners, knights, and those with power below them fell into despair, their first instinct was to find someone responsible.

“…How is the Knight Corps doing?”

“The mood is very stable.

Bringing the family members of all knights here earlier was the right move.”

Hearing this, Lu Ping’an breathed a sigh of relief.

In the midst of chaos, Schlei Domain stood out.

The reason was none other than the presence of Lu Ping’an and his party here…

Don’t get the wrong idea; they didn’t do anything.

There were equally cunning lords and nobles in other territories.

Some of them had even leaked information or communicated with their knights…

but mere words could not solve any problems.

When the anticipated desperate situation arrives, and some lords still hold one or two boat tickets to leave, will the informed knights obediently help them suppress the desperate people first, and then obediently wait for their deaths?

Maybe, they’ll try to snatch the boat tickets first.

If they can’t get them, at least let everyone die together!

“…The end times came much faster than expected.”

The seven disasters prophesied haven’t even reached the Third Disaster yet.

The mere reignition and subsequent extinction of the sun plunged many regions into utter chaos and destruction.

“Hehe, four families have survived.

More than I expected.”

The old lord was eating fruit and was in a jovial mood.

Indeed, he had the right to be proud: Schlei Domain was a standout in this borderland region.

On the square, there were more than twenty bloody fresh human heads, most of which were instigators and ambitious backstage plotters…

At least several hundred were hung on the walls of the other estates, some were rioters, and some were former lords and merchants.

In Schlei Domain, the knights stood guard in the square while the Holy Fire Clergy distributed porridge at the church.

The markets were still operating, as if nothing had happened except for the initial chaos.

The reason was quite simple: Lu Ping’an…

the lord successfully bought the loyalty of the Knight Corps.

Schlei Domain is relatively small, with just a Knight Corps of over a hundred people as the core military force, but their strength far surpasses that of ordinary mortals, as they are almost all extraordinary or extraordinary apprentices.

In border regions, security depends on local militias, mercenaries and a few border knights…

Generally, a village with three to five extraordinary combat powers would be considered well-off, with the main force being mortal farmers and militiamen.

They have no chance of professional training and can be disregarded when they face professionals or extraordinary people.

How many ordinary mortals can a sworn knight defeat?

Given enough time, he could probably kill thousands on his own.

In this era, as long as a lord holds onto his own knight corps, his position is very stable.

And if the king gains the support of the lords, he indirectly controls most of the extraordinary powers, ensuring the stability of his realm.

When the riots broke out, Lu Ping’an and his party not only didn’t do anything, they ordered their teams to stay away from the crowds…

In the midst of the riots among the locals, outsiders, foreigners, and people of different ethnicities were the best targets for venting anger.

He didn’t even act to suppress the desperate, leaving that task to the local armed forces of the domain and the already-purchased knight corps.

The knights simply carried out the lord’s orders, found the infiltrators and instigators, eliminated them, and then hung a few of the ringleaders of the looting high up, and everything stabilized.

Then, the lord and the local Holy Fire Church opened the already diminishing grain stores and began to distribute food, and everything naturally settled down.

“In an age of chaos, those who control the military possess everything…”

This is the logic, simple, brutal, yet extremely effective.

Lu Ping’an did nothing.

He even asked the other newcomers not to intervene in suppressing the riots.

But thanks to their presence, the lord had the means to bribe the knights, so until the last moment, the knights remained emotionally stable and loyal…

at least, they appeared to be stable.

“The outsider, Lu Ping’an, has many boat tickets.”

This news had spread within the knight corps, and along with the two captains and participants in the Battle of the Forest who had personally visited the courtyard, the persuasion was more than enough.

“…Don’t pay attention to the actions of the knights.

If you don’t want to have nightmares, don’t even watch”

Even though Lu Ping’an said that, the returned explorers were still deeply traumatized.

The Schlei Domain’s urban areas, which weren’t too large, were maintained stable by the knights.

However, the border villagers and small towns had completely fallen into corruption and chaos…

A pyre for offering live human sacrifices, with at least a dozen different forms, had been spotted.

The knight corps dispatched patrols, making declarations even they didn’t believe, which improved the situation slightly.

“Is this the…omen of the collapse of social order?”

Even at this moment, Lu Ping’an didn’t think the social order in Schlei Domain had entirely collapsed.

But no one had the confidence to say how long this order could last.

We need to think about our next move.”