Chapter 700 History
At 4 o'clock in the morning, in the huge library in the basement of the ancient city of Bastis, there were figures busying around. There were men and women, most of them wearing Beiwu robes with only slight differences in style. They were dusting off the thick dust on the scrolls. Some figures gathered around the large stone table, carefully flipping through the various scrolls that had been sent over, checking the many ancient texts inside.
These figures are all Dorothy's corpses. After Dorothy decided to ignore the plague of the Immortal Cult for the time being, she focused her main attention on finding out the secret of Heopiris. Since the clues she had about Heopiris were very limited, she could only follow the clues given by Sadie and start from the so-called history.
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"Heopels exists only in history..."
Because of this unclear clue, Dorothy could only find Bastis's underground library, which is the place where the most secular history materials of the entire Bucerrit are stored, and use her corpse to enter it to search for useful information among the numerous materials.
Dorothy sat in the tent in the camp outside the city, closed her eyes and absorbed the various information recorded in the library in a meditative posture.
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"My fellow countrymen, I was able to settle in Bastis and conquer the entire Buserite today, thanks to your hard work and help for dozens of days. My Santo tribe started from humble beginnings, often struggling to survive among bandits and reckless warriors. One day, we were able to defeat all kinds of powerful enemies and unify Buserite. First, it was the help of the savior, the second was the help of the people, and the third was the help of you. I would like to toast you all.
"Although the war is over and we have won, please do not take it lightly. The history of Buserit is a chaotic one. No dynasty can rule here for long. I think we can overcome this law because I have found the root of this fate.
"Listen to me, fellow countrymen, the tragedy of Buserit comes from its people! From its history!
"The tribes on this land have been divided since ancient times, fighting each other, and have never had a unified consciousness. We have never considered ourselves to be one nation or one kind of people. We have always fought in the name of our tribes, not in the name of Buserit. This is the root of our chaos. And now, I want to change this!
"We need the same name, the same consciousness, the same culture, and this needs to start from the same history. History can shape our culture, and culture can shape our nation. We clearly have the same language, but we are not the same nation. The main reason is that we do not have the same history!
"Busayrit had no history before! No one paid attention to such fleeting things other than swords and knives, but now it is different. I will change this. I will complete the history of Busayrit. All children born in Busayrit in the future will remember this history.
Those tribes always say that they are the continuation of this ancient dynasty and the last descendants of that ancient dynasty. They all think that they are the masters of Buserit and that those dynasties have not perished. Now I want to sort out the history and show it to them, so that they can see that the dynasties they recognized have long been dead! It's over! There is no place for them in Buserit now! A new dynasty is about to be born!
"By the sword and history, Buserit will unite!"
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A corpse puppet was sitting on a stone bench beside a stone table, carefully reading the contents written on a piece of parchment. These contents were transmitted to Dorothy's eyes through the corpse puppet's senses. After Dorothy finished reading, she couldn't help but sigh slightly in her heart.
'This is... the words of Santis, the founder of the Santo Dynasty, the last unified dynasty of Buserit, at a celebration banquet. He wanted to make Buserit achieve cultural unity and wanted to compile a history for Buserit, but unfortunately, before the history was completed, his son died from some minor injuries caused by "hunting accidents" by a "trained doctor". His dynasty collapsed again, and the history was not completed before the dynasty collapsed again. Fortunately, the historical materials collected for compiling the history are all here...'
Looking at the manuscript of Santis's quotations in front of her, Dorothy thought to herself that before this, she had read a lot of historical materials of Buserit and knew some of the events leading to the demise of the Santo Dynasty.
Although there is a lot of information stored in this library, with her super information processing ability, Dorothy has almost read most of the books in the underground library and learned about Buserit's chaotic past.
'Due to long-term unrest, almost all forces in Buserit have no tradition of recording history. Most of the historical materials collected by Santis are various stories passed down orally in various tribes. Not only are they chaotic and scattered, but there are also many contradictions in them. It is very difficult to compile them into a complete history book.
"But fortunately, among these large amounts of scattered and chaotic historical materials, there are still a lot of commonalities. By sorting out these commonalities, we can still roughly sort out the historical outline of Buserite thousands of years ago..."
Dorothy thought so in her heart, and then she began to sort out the trajectories in these historical events, trying to sort out the route of the times.
'About 500 years ago... the Kida dynasty was established, and its king was named Zabibe...About 450 years ago, the Saba tribe established the Saba dynasty, and the queen was Basna...380 years ago, Dibu, the leader of the Hamyat tribe, defeated the Hut tribe in the Battle of Black Sandstone and established the Hamyat dynasty. The Hut tribe claimed that they were the last descendants of the Kida dynasty. ...310 years ago, Kando, the leader of the Nagid tribe, led 3,000 cavalry to raid Bastis, defeated the sand bandit king entrenched there, and established the Nagid dynasty. Its king claimed that he was a descendant of the Saba dynasty and the orthodoxy of Buserit. Kando ruled the dynasty for 12 years, died in the process of suppressing the rebellion, and the dynasty was inherited by his son Todd...'
Dorothy collected information from countless historical documents and sorted out the chaotic history of Buserit. Soon, she found something unusual in it.
"The history of the dynasties summarized from these historical materials... seems to have only a beginning and a process, but no end..."
Sitting on the floor of her tent, Dorothy pondered in her mind that in just a few hours, she had already unearthed several short-lived dynasties from the dust of Buserit's past. However, all she could unearth was the process of the establishment of the dynasty and a short period of history after the establishment of the dynasty. However, the history of the end of the dynasty was completely unrecorded because of the lack of corresponding historical materials.
The historical materials here come from stories passed down among the various tribes of Buserit. These stories often only record the rise of a dynasty, but never the demise of the dynasty. Dorothy searched through various historical materials in the library, but could not find how the dynasty in the stories perished.
A dynasty must have three stages: founding, development, and destruction. However, in all the historical materials of Buserit, various dynasties only have records of the process of establishment, and only a few dynasties have records of a certain process of development. No dynasty has records of the process of destruction.
After an ancient dynasty of Buserit was established, it soon perished for unknown reasons, after which the entire Buserit fell into a long period of chaos and division until it was unified by the next dynasty.
"There are so many short-lived dynasties, and the reasons for their establishment are relatively clear, but the reasons for their demise are unknown. Do the tribes of Buserit only like stories about the rise of dynasties and dislike stories about the fall of dynasties? Do they have any taboos about spreading and recording the content of the fall of dynasties?"
Looking at the history summarized in her mind, Dorothy thought curiously in her heart. At first, she thought that the tribal historical materials of Buserit did not record the story of the demise of the dynasty because it was some special tradition. However, after she read the remains of the historians who also compiled this batch of historical materials during the Santo Dynasty, she found that this was not the case.
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