Chapter 2263 Various Regions
The growth of the Glorious Church has a great impact on other forces, just like Shurima is now going to rebuild its country, which is bound to encounter many obstacles. According to Taliyah, Victor, the leader of the Glorious Church, has been assassinated many times, but he survived.
Victor's Glorious Church headquarters is located in Bilgewater, and the Glorious Church has completely occupied the city. Bilgewater, originally located on the edge of the Blue Flame Islands far away from the mainland, is a unique port city where sea serpent hunters, dock gangs and smugglers come from all over the known world to settle down.
Here, it only takes a moment to become rich or to be ruined. For those who escape trial, debt and persecution, this city can give them a new life, because on the winding streets of Bilgewater, no one cares about your past.
Bilgewater is an extremely dangerous place, but it is also full of opportunities and is not restricted by any formal government or trade supervision. Whether it is Hextech that comes from a bad source or the obedience of the local gangs, as long as you can afford it, you can get it.
In short, Bilgewater used to be a place of exile and a gathering place for villains. When Victor came here with the Glorious Church, it has now become the most mechanized city in Runeterra, called the City of Evolution.
Although Bilgewater has become the current City of Evolution, the Glorious Church is not without troubles. At least even if Victor heard the news that Lin Jiu was in Shurima, he couldn't get away to come. Because there is a very difficult enemy in Bilgewater, the sea beast priest Illaoi, or more precisely, the god behind her.
Nagakabouros is the god that Illaoi devoutly yearns for. In the description, it is a huge sea monster with tentacles coiled on its head and neck, cruising back and forth, endlessly. People also call it the snake mother, the sea beast, or the bearded lady. Nagakabouros is not only the god of life in the Serpent Islands, but also the storm of the deep sea and the supreme movement itself.
The name Nagakabouros itself means "the endless monster that drives the sky and the sea". As a god, it naturally has its church. Let's call it the Sea Beast Church. The core of its doctrine lies in three creeds: every soul is born as a servant of the universe; the desires of all life are planted by the universe; the universe surges forward because all things are eager to pursue their own desires.
Originally, there would be no conflicts between the Glorious Church and the Sea Beast Church. After all, Victor only uses Bilgewater as the headquarters, and the development of the church is still facing the Valoran continent. The forces in various regions of the Valoran continent are complicated. Victor does not want to cause a large-scale war, so he uses the island as the headquarters.
The territory of the Sea Beast Church is the Serpent Islands. Although Bilgewater is also a large island in the Serpent Islands, the Sea Beast Church has never cared about this island.
This pirate city is the only place in the Serpentine Islands where outsiders are allowed to land, which makes the people of the Sea Beast Church sick. The truth before Illaoi completely ignored the existence of this city and regarded outsiders as creatures that were only slightly better than the undead.
The conflict between the Glorious Church and the Sea Beast Church is caused by this unique sea beast priest Illaoi. As this time's truth, Illaoi chose to bring the faith of the Sea Beast Church to this city that has been ignored. Although other people in the Sea Beast Church did not understand Illaoi's behavior, as a truth of their church, when Illaoi and the Glorious Church clashed, it naturally evolved into a conflict between the two major churches.
On the way, in addition to Taliyah's chattering, Nasus was also teaching Sivir how to become a king. Of course, he taught the feudal monarchy set, excluding the slavery system of ancient Shurima.
The more primitive the social environment, the more likely it is to breed large-scale slavery. This is the case with ancient Shurima. Although it has an extremely powerful empire, it still has large-scale slavery. This is partly due to the influence of the Ascension Ceremony.
Noxus is like a weakened version of ancient Shurima. Both are expansionist empires, and Noxus does not have an obvious slave system because they do not have an Ascension Ceremony to create a powerful army of Ascendants. They need a sufficient army, so naturally there will not be a large number of slaves. As for the small number of slaves kept by the nobles, that is unavoidable. As long as the nobles exist, this situation exists.
For Lin Jiu, he thinks that the social structure of Runeterra is very strange. Piltover and Zaun started the Industrial Revolution as early as 200 years ago, lighting up the technology tree of steam and electricity. Now they have entered the third industrial revolution detonated by Hextech and alchemy technology.
And what about other places in Runeterra besides the Twin Cities? Don't say that they have developed an industrial revolution like the Twin Cities, realized mechanized production, and had a mature working class and productivity that is ahead of the times. The people in most regions and countries don't even know what mathematics is.
Their system and social structure are at least one era behind the Twin Cities. Demacia and Noxus are fine, one is a feudal monarchy and the other is an expansionist empire. Demacia uses the medieval knight system, where the king divides the land among different lords, letting them manage the land on his behalf, pay taxes for him, and bear the obligation of war. Noxus is a little more advanced, using the next stage of the knight system: absolute monarchy.
The power of the country gradually concentrated in the hands of a monarch, who consolidated his rule by strengthening centralization and weakening the power of local nobles. Although the emperor of Noxus, Darkwill, was a puppet emperor. But this did not affect the centralization of the empire. Power was still concentrated in the center, but not in the hands of the emperor.
And Noxus has a certain industrial base, especially the military industry, which is quite strong. Therefore, Noxus was able to embark on the path of expansionist empire and fight all over Rune Continent without the intervention of high-end combat forces after the fall of the Shurima Empire.
In addition to these two major countries, the development of other regions is even more varied. For example, Shurima, where Lin Jiu is now, was once extremely glorious, but now it is full of warlords and chiefs, and the majority of them are nomadic tribes in the desert. It is not easy to find enough survival supplies in the desert, and fighting and killing are common. In addition, the development of Shurima by Noxus and the Twin Cities also led to the rise of mercenaries.
There is also Ionia, which is well known to Alliance players. Before being opened by Noxus, it was a completely agricultural society, farming at home and being self-sufficient. Having peace isolated from the world is a perfect pastoral idyll. For a long time, not even a decent unified region has been formed, let alone a large unification, not even a small one has appeared.
There are many sects, but they only care about their own little piece of land, like a martial arts world without government. This has a lot to do with the environment of Ionia. The soil where people live will undoubtedly affect the direction of civilization. If there is no Noxus, Ionia will probably remain the same in another thousand years.
Not to mention Freljord, the ice and snow there are not suitable for human survival at all, and it is still in the primitive slave tribe era.
Even if the system of the Twin Cities is ahead of an era, the development of the Twin Cities is also deformed, and their tentacles have not been successfully extended to every corner of the world. Even with Hexgate and Sungate, such transportation fortresses. It is just to make money from Noxus's war and do business with Demacia nobles. However, it cannot be said that it is a problem of leaders, but that the martial virtue is not sufficient, and there is still civil strife between the Twin Cities.