Only God-Chapter 585 - 497: The Secret Plot Among the Divine (Two in One)

The rebellion was brutally suppressed; the rebelling masses were blockaded in the square in front of the Palace, the legion besieging the area so tightly, almost making it impregnable. Archers and crossbowmen shot arrows into the crowd, thousands of dwarfs were killed in the square of the Royal City, their blood nearly forming lakes, and nearly ten thousand were captured, while tens of thousands more were either wounded or fled, countless families and clans destined to weep tonight. The uprising had occurred so suddenly and, though it had nearly shaken the entire Kingdom, it was quelled just as easily.

King Kafu the Sixth finally breathed a sigh of relief; the next day, while the blood on the square had not yet dissipated, he rewarded the fearless guards and the legions who had come to the aid, and showed his cruel side towards the ten thousand captured. He condemned three thousand of them to death, and the remaining seven thousand would either be imprisoned for many years or exiled to the frontier.

The entire Royal City settled back into calm amidst a sea of blood, and Kafu the Sixth was especially pleased by this, but the uprising still left a shadow in his heart.

"Since there was one uprising... could there be a second, a third, a fourth?"

After a few days of joy in the aftermath of the ordeal, Kafu the Sixth once again fell into worry, finally realizing just how fierce the conflicts were throughout the Royal City and the entire Kingdom.

And the calm after suppressing the uprising was not a lasting peace, but more like the quiet before a storm.

Whether it was the members of the Gold Silver Clan, the craftsmen using steam technology, or the commoners swept up in the unrest, not one was not immersed in grief or fear, a deep-seated anger buried within, it seemed that aside from the King and the rewarded soldiers, there were no winners in this uprising.

The straightforward dwarfs found it difficult to swallow this grudge, even against the King. In the streets and alleys, people began to plot, discuss, and vilify Kafu the Sixth. The name "tyrant" quickly spread all over the Royal City, even among the servants and maids in the Palace.

Kafu the Sixth had not even had the chance to celebrate the suppression of the uprising before he was surrounded by these insults. Initially, he was extremely angry and ordered the arrest of those who insulted the King, but the voices of the people did not stop; instead, they grew even stronger, eventually forcing Kafu the Sixth to concede and order a special pardon for the imprisoned prisoners.

Even so, it only eased the current situation.

The people still viewed Kafu the Sixth as a "tyrant," ranking his name alongside other tyrants in history, and under such an atmosphere, the Kingdom grew more unstable by the day.

Kafu the Sixth was at his wits’ end, finally realizing just how foolish his decision had been at the time. If he were a wise human monarch, like the Emperor of Danschel, he would have used clever means to appease the people, rather than transferring all their wrath onto himself.

"Tyrant, they call me tyrant. I have diligently served this Kingdom, I have not failed the expectations of my ancestors, I have labored for these ignorant people while also devoutly venerating the Divine, no tyrant has done as I have! Yet they still call me tyrant. Why is this? Because I did not act according to their will, I let their anger turn towards me, they are so foolish, so quick to overlook my prior great deeds.

So... what if one day, I turn their anger towards someone else?"

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In the Celestial Kingdom, various factions of the Divine had already begun their actions, achieving varying degrees of progress on the earth.

Some smoothly, some poorly, some with ease, and some with great difficulty... regardless of the original intention, or what exactly was done, the Gods had put great efforts towards the upcoming changes.

At a banquet on the Star of Wine God Sibos, the celebration gradually moved to its middle stages.

Sibos, a god who loved fine wine, also loved hosting banquets providing fine wine, warmly entertaining Gods from his own faction, such as Dream God Laren, Storm God Utus, God of Victory Laiendos, Wind God, and so on...

Undoubtedly, this faction’s goal was to keep mortals from accessing the divine Path.

And they too made actions unique to them.

"Laren, our strategy is so flawless, no one can find a single fault."

Wine God Sibos, holding a maid in his arms, sipped his wine and exclaimed in admiration.

"It’s everyone’s effort, all the Gods present rejoice in this success."

Laren drained the wine from his glass,

"The King summoned the Priests of the Gods and received a perfect answer; apart from us insiders, no other God knows the intricacies."

At this, the Gods present all shared knowing smiles and raised their glasses in celebration.

Judging the chief criminal without favoring any side is undoubtedly a very reasonable and fair decision, and no one could find any fault.

"What if the other Gods discover it?"

Wine God Sibos asked with a thick smile:

"It’s the humans who make the decisions; we merely provide assistance."

Storm God Utus stood in the corner with a sullen expression, clearly dissatisfied with the atmosphere before him; the conspiracies between the Wine God and Dream God were not to his taste.