Chapter 1245 - 1244: Alden Baxter, the Great Emperor, Reminisces about the Past
Although the Berger family’s Eastern masters didn’t regard slaves as human beings, there were also many slaves who didn’t consider themselves human either. They had compromised, no longer sought to live with dignity, and for the sake of avoiding toil, they had abandoned the supreme glory they once enjoyed in the Lower Realm and given up their own dignity. They merely wished to scrape by, to satisfy their hunger or male and female desires.
The newcomers didn’t go to register, but many of the veteran slaves eagerly jostled to sign up for male servitude.
In their hearts, being able to enjoy women, not having to go down into the mines to work, and being able to eat was a matter of joy worth fighting for; therefore, the registration caused an uproar. Some who pushed forward and crossed the safety line were beaten to death by several strong men and then hung up on wooden stakes to dry.
As slaves, they had no human rights, no right to life, no freedom, not even the right to eat or drink—at times, the masters here treated them as if they were pigs or dogs. Thus, many newcomers felt a pang of empathy at this scene and felt an even deeper sense of indignation and injustice in their hearts!
However, the old slaves were no longer shocked by such incidents. Time truly is a sharp blade that had cut off the edges and corners of their being. They were no longer sharp or spirited; they had deviated from the essence of being human and had become walking corpses!
This is the Heavenly Realm, the supremely sublime Heavenly Realm.
This is also a graveyard, a graveyard for dreamers.
Yusuf Zuck followed many others back down into the mine, then continued to work. He was silent and uncomplaining, but it felt as if a thorn had grown in his heart, causing him unbearable discomfort.
Fatty had ascended, and so had Ember Vance. Could they be suffering this same torment?