Chapter 278 Demacia Does Not Need a Goddess
Soon after, the German delegation stayed at the hotel.
"Let me go! Let me go!" Lux struggled desperately in an unladylike manner, baring her teeth and claws like an angry little lion.
But under the distressed and serious gaze of Mrs. Ogersa, she was easily lifted up by the two sword-bearing maids beside her mother, and thrown into the hotel room with a special guard even outside the window, like throwing a disobedient kitten into a cage.
"Damn it!" Lux's legs flapped weakly in the air, and two lines of tear marks stained with mud were running down her gray little face, making her look very pitiful.
But the maids did not dare to show the young lady any warmth at this moment. They just said, "Miss Lux, you are sick and need to rest well. Please do not leave this room for a few days. Sorry to trouble everyone."
"Am I sick?" Lux, who was thrown on the sofa, stood up angrily: "I'm not sick! It's you who are sick, it's Demacia!"
"That's enough!" Mrs. Ogersa frowned.
She frightened her daughter with a cold shout that was completely different from her usual motherly image, then turned around and sent all the maids away.
When the door was closed and only the mother and daughter were left in the room, Ogatha glared at Lux :
"No, you still say you're not sick?"
"Laxana, I haven't seen you for an entire afternoon, look what you did?"
Ogatha waved angrily a copy of "A Brief Account of Janna's Thought" which she had taken from her daughter's arms.
It was just one afternoon. Her rebellious daughter had already taken a fancy to the banned book and even said she wanted to divide the family land!
"How could you have such a horrible idea? Do you know how much sacrifice and blood the Mianwei family has shed to build up your current family business?"
"Laxana, you are betraying the Crown Guard family and the blood of your ancestors, do you know that?!" Lady Ogersa scolded.
"But wasn't the Crownguard family born to protect Demacia?" Lux said confidently, "Mother, I am just practicing our family motto and trying to make Demacia a better place!"
Ogasha: "..."
She somewhat regretted raising her child to be so naive.
The Demacia that the Crownguard family swore to defend is not exactly the same as the Demacia that this silly girl is talking about.
It doesn't matter if Lux still doesn't understand this.
But as a noble, she wanted to revolutionize herself. That was not only naive, but also crazy.
"Lacus, you have been brainwashed by the evil magic of the Wind Leader!"
"Witchcraft? Brainwashing?" Lux said angrily, "Mother, you clearly know what the Wind Leaders believe in, why do you still slander them like this?"
"You taught me kindness and sympathy for the weak. But why are you so afraid of the Leader and the selfless Goddess Janna?"
Lux didn't understand. Goddess Janna could be said to be the kindest and most selfless god in Runeterra.
Why would her kind and charitable mother be so opposed to a good god and her teachings?
"Alas..." Ogatha sighed deeply. She knew she had to make Lux grow up sooner.
So she said, "Lux, you don't understand - the more selfless a god is, the more terrifying he is."
"Huh?" Lux looked confused.
Instead of explaining directly, her mother told her a story without thinking: "Lux, have you heard the story of the 'Fire of Justice'?"
"The Fire of Justice ?" Of course Lux had heard of it.
Many Demacians have heard this story, especially those who have come into contact with the Order of the Illuminators.
Because it is the story of Kayle, the winged patron saint of Demacia, the goddess that the Illuminator Cult used to believe in and follow, and the angel of justice.
The Angel of Justice Kayle is not only the patron saint of Demacia, but also the founder of the Kingdom of Demacia. Without the help of this selfless goddess, the ancestors of Demacia would not have been able to gain a foothold in the chaotic world of endless wars.
Therefore, the status of the angel Kayle in the hearts of the Demacians is not much different from the current status of the goddess Janna in the hearts of the Zaun people.
"Angel Kyle's motto is law and justice. She is a god who will never tolerate any illegal behavior and is absolutely fair and impartial."
Ogatha briefly recounted some of the story:
"Legend has it that long ago, in a land now lost to time and decay, a cruel king led his people into an age of extreme poverty."
"During a great famine, the king gathered every person in the kingdom within the castle walls. In order to put an end to the times of hardship and scarcity, he declared on the spot that he would exercise the king's right to repeal the old laws."
"He threw the golden code on the ground and named himself the law. Any order he issued was an iron law and could not be questioned."
"He issued his first order under the pretense of protecting the people. There were too many mouths to feed, so the king said the elderly had no right to eat. They would be put to death, there was no other way."
"Then……"
And then nothing happened.
Justice Kael descended from the sky, wielding a giant celestial sword burning with sacred fire, and burned the king who trampled on the law into ashes.
In the words of the goddess : "No king is above the law and order."
So the king was gone, killed by God himself.
"Lux." Ogata quickly finished the story she had told her daughter when she was a child, and then asked, "Do you think the Angel of Justice Kyle did a good job?"
"Huh?" Lux was slightly stunned.
Is this a question? Of course!
"Fire of Justice" has always been positioned in Demacia as a beautiful story with positive energy as the main theme. It is an important cultural product used to promote Demacia's noble spirit of rule of law since ancient times.
In this story, the angel of justice Kyle is undoubtedly a positive character. How could it be bad that she killed the king who trampled on the law and slaughtered the people?
"But her doctrine is that no king can be above the law." Ogatha suddenly asked: "Lacus, if you were the king, would you want to have such a selfless goddess watching over you all the time?"
"This..." Lux was speechless.
She seemed to understand a little.
"A selfless goddess is indeed very good-"
"But it's tiring to follow such a selfless goddess."
Ogatha sighed softly.
Are the Demacians, or more precisely, the kings and nobles of Demacia, grateful to the Angel of Justice Kayle? Of course they are.
Without the help of the angel Kayle, Demacia might have been destroyed hundreds of years ago, and the country would not have survived to this day.
But will they want Angel Kyle to come back?
No.
Because Angel Kyle is so selfless.
Her sword has two sides, one facing the enemies of Demacia, and the other facing the Demacians themselves.
Kael believed that the law was a concrete form of justice, a fair ruling written in black and white, and that no one could destroy it—the “anyone” here, of course, included the king and nobles of Demacia.
"When the angel Kayle was still in Demacia, the nobles were grateful for the unparalleled sense of security that the goddess brought them, but on the other hand, they were suffocated by the dogma of this patron saint."
Before becoming a noble, we didn't have the ability to break the law; after becoming a noble, we still can't break the law.
Then wouldn't our status as nobles be in vain?
Even though this law was originally made by the nobles themselves, there are many clauses in it that take into account and favor the interests of the nobles.
But if they are asked to set an example and fully comply with the legal rules and regulations, they still feel uncomfortable.
Just like the laws of Piltover stipulate that murder means death, there is also a complete jury system and protection of the right to defense, but if you really get into trouble, the spies of the Philos family will not give you the opportunity to hire a lawyer.
Even in this civilized and progressive city where the rule of law is done best, the powerful are still only willing to selectively abide by the laws they set themselves.
"Look, this booklet of the Wind Leader says it very directly." Ogata now borrowed Janna's theory:
“Law is the embodiment of the will of the ruling class and is the ruling tool of the state.”
Who are the ruling class of Demacia? Of course, the king and the nobles. Now, your angel Kayle has come, and even the king and the nobles are firmly ruled by this set of ruling tools.
"Then is the king still the king, and the nobles still the nobles?" Ogersa asked solemnly.
When the angel Kayle was around, the nobles were nothing like the nobles that the public knows today. They were just shareholders and senior employees of the "Demacia Colonization Company".
"And the Angel of Justice at that time had another title - the Angel of Judgment Kyle."
Angel of Judgment, this name sounds murderous.
Who is she going to judge? She is going to judge whoever breaks the law.
If a noble lord secretly runs a small maritime trade business, lends money at high interest rates, annexes land, or even just forces an ordinary civilian girl to have a conversation about life, he may be struck down from the sky by a giant god from heaven and burned to ashes with a single sword.
Not only are there gods above your head, but there are also divine swords that can take your life at any time.
Isn’t this scary?
Anyway, the Demacia nobles back then had had enough.
But when Kyle was around, they could only endure it.
Fortunately, Kayle had a serious ideological conflict with his sister Morgana back then. He was driven crazy by a theoretical and physics debate and flew back to Mount Targon in a fit of rage. He hasn't been back for hundreds of years.
It was a rare opportunity to come back, and as mentioned in the story of "The Fire of Justice", he killed the king of a small country who broke the law with one sword.
To be honest, this scared the Demacian nobles who had gradually let themselves go after Kayle left.
"Fortunately, the angel Kyle passed away hundreds of years ago." Ogatha said something that completely overturned Lux's worldview:
"We miss her, but it's best if she never comes back."
