Chapter 1024: What was Normal
Sure, they were working, but no one was shackled or collared, nor getting whipped and forced to work.
No one was getting treated like an animal or some kind of toy or property, like it was normal.
Arabella had not seen Crux in person when the streets were bustling and slaves were treated like animals or property, but she had seen it through the recording magic tool Alwin invented.
"And this is what Lobelius streets look like. Most territories on the continent look like this. There are no shackled or collared people. This is what is normal to most nations in the continent," Arabella said, and Alwin showed them a record of people freely bustling about in the capital city of Crux.
The people who truly had no clue that other territories looked like this were stupefied. They were at a loss for words since their whole lives; they believed the rest of the world was the same as Crux.
[Crux and the others were indeed taking too long to change. Most territories gradually ended slavery, but Crux and the others closed their borders instead so the people would not become aware of the true situation outside. And they remained the same because no kingdom wanted to waste resources trying to fix them when they were too stubborn to change.] Thought the Pope, who had witnessed kingdoms come and go. He had seen Crux before it was the kingdom it was today.
He knew that in the past, there were times when slavery was tried to be abolished, but it easily came back, especially with the other territories beside it also practicing it.
And at some point, Crux closed its borders to ensure they were unaffected by the changes outside, and they could keep their usual system without the people knowing that the rest of the world had changed.
[Hmm. They sure do not hold back with their inventions. Look at this kind of view. It doesn’t look like it was taken from a high building, but directly above them. Did someone use flight magic and move above the city while taking this? Or they controlled the magic tool to move while they were on the ground?]
The Pope’s interest was also taken by the method in which the records of the capital cities of Valeria and Lobelius were taken.
Ferdinand and Raymond said that the Pope was already a magician before he became the Pope. Thus, it was also in his nature and habit to be curious about magic experiments. Especially since he was a part of the best research magicians back then. Or rather, he was the best in his time.
[He still hasn’t given a sure response to my invitation. It would be nice to conduct experiments with him.]