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CHAPTER 22
Lu Chen walked out from the trees; As he walked toward the building site, the rain seemed to move away from him, barely touching his dark cloak.The three new Ministers Lin, Zhao, and Kael froze. They felt a deep, sudden fear taking over the environment. Lu Chen stopped in front of Zhao, who was still lying in the mud. He looked down at him with dark eyes and said. "You look at these people and you still call them peasants, You look at this dirt and you see a prison."Lin tried to stand to keep some of his old pride. He said coldly. "We are high officials, Lu Chen! You use fear to control us, but the heavens will bear witness to this thing you are doing! True power belongs to the royal throne, not to a rebel hiding in a valley!" Lu Chen simply took one step forward.In that exact moment, the world went completely silent for them. The sound of the rain disappeared. The wind stopped blowing.The three Ministers gasped as a massive weight suddenly crashed onto their shoulders. It f
CHAPTER 21
Their arrogance began to wither, replaced by the crushing realization that their old life was truly gone, and they were now drawn to a new one.Lu Chen watched Vane turn back to his workbench to clean his tools for the next day. An invisible nod of approval passed over the Emperor's face. The damage in the Akuru kingdom was serious, but here, in this small valley, the soil was finally turning into good.The next morning, before the sunlight could even come out, Vane stood in front of the small wooden shed where the three new Ministers had spent their night.He pushed the door open. Lin, Zhao, and Kael were huddled together on a bed of dry straw, shivering. Their expensive silk robes were ruined, stained with grease and mud.Vane said softly. "Wake up brothers, The sun is coming out. We have work to do."Lin opened his eyes and groaned. "My back… ooo…w it feels like it is broken from sleeping on this floor. Vane, please. You must have some hidden gold. Help us to escape from here.
CHAPTER 20
Lu Chen turned his gaze toward the distant towers of the Akuru kingdom’s palace. The golden roofs gleamed in the sunlight, looking beautiful from afar, but he knew the rot inside was growing.Lu Chen said, "They think Vane is still one of them. They also believe their secrets are safe, Tomorrow, we will return to the city. But tonight, we make sure these people are safe. The weeds in the garden are many, Mei. We have only pulled the first one."Down in the valley, the sound of Vane’s shovel hitting the dirt continued. It was slow and clumsy. For the first time in the history of the Akuru kingdom, a High Minister was finally serving his people.As weeks passed into months, the temporary tents of the camp were gone, and the valley was transforming into a permanent village. Lu Chen had decreed that these people would not return to the crowded slums of the city; they would have their own land, their own farms, and real homes built for them.And Lord Vane was the one carrying the logs.
CHAPTER 19
There was a young woman with a hollow face who was looking through the door when they were moving out, and then at the crying politician on his knees trembling. She held her chest tightly and walked out slowly, with her trembling child. As they passed Vane, she didn't look angry but was deeply sad that a human being like him could cause so much pain to his fellow human beings.One by one, Vane unlocked the cages. His hands bled from the rough metal, and his knees scraped against the dirt. With every keylock he opened, the weight of his cries seemed to crush him a little more. He had to face the hollow he had caused the children he had sold, and to hear the soft, heartbreaking sobs of fathers who had lost everything.By the time the last cage was opened, hundreds of freed people stood in the valley. They were weak, hungry, and tired, but for the first time in months, their eyes held a glimmer of hope.Lu Chen stepped out of the darkness. He had followed them from a distance, makin
CHAPTER 18
Mei held out a stack of scrolls she had snatched from a desk in the royal study. "It wasn't just the King, Master. It was the Ministers. The 'Great Council.' They were signing orders to kidnap people from the streets to enrich their pockets. They were not only killing the weak—they were selling them to the mines in the South as slaves." Lu Chen took a scroll. His grip turned the edges of the paper black. The names on the list were the "respected" politicians of the Akuru kingdom. These were the men who gave speeches about "order" and "prosperity" while their guards were snatching children in the night. They were making money out of it.Lu Chen said, "They think that because the King is dead, they can hide in their villas, and the law is a shield they can hide behind." He walked to the palace balcony, looking out over the city. Below, the wealthy districts were dark. The politicians were likely burning their own records, packing their gold, and preparing to flee before the "peas
CHAPTER 17
They are hunting those who cannot cultivate—the 'weak'—and using them as human shields to test new formations. They are erasing people to make their maps look cleaner." Xiao gripped his sword hilt so hard his knuckles turned white. "He treats humans like weeds.""No," Lu Chen corrected him, with a terrifying smile appearing on his face. "He treats them like trash. And trash is meant to be burned not to live." Lu Chen raised his hand toward the sky. The clouds above the valley began to swirl into a massive, dark vortex. The wind picked up, howling through the trees like a dying beast."The King thinks gold buys silence. He thinks land buys loyalty," Lu Chen growled. "Tonight, we stop being gardeners. We will become the storm that uproots the throne." The ground began to vibrate. A low, sound thumping came from deep beneath the earth—the heartbeat of the Second Heaven responding to Lu Chen’s rage. He looked at his disciples. They were no longer the frightened children he had foun
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