That was a world of utter despair!
Within the empire that ruled the entire world,
The powerful called themselves heavenly beings,
Believing themselves born noble, they did not consider themselves the same species as the lowly commoners at the bottom.
They possessed absolute power,
And over the countless commoners below, they had the ability to slaughter people at will for pleasure without suffering any punishment.
It was like the cyberpunk era in Yang Qingyun's distant memories, when corporations stood above everything else.
No,
This was even more despairing than cyberpunk!
At the very least,
During the cyberpunk era, if someone was born with an exceptionally high IQ or extraordinary talent for scientific research, they could at least climb into the middle or upper ranks of a corporation.
But under the rule of this empire, such a thing simply did not exist!
The nobles were nobles from generation to generation.
The commoners were pigs and dogs from generation to generation!
If you came from a commoner background, no matter how brilliant your talents were, no matter how powerful your aptitude was, no matter what great deeds you accomplished, you could never cross the class divide and climb to a higher level.
This was an empire that enforced a brutal caste system!
And as the lowest class in the empire, commoners possessed no human rights whatsoever before the heavenly beings.
The noble heavenly beings might merely want to see blood flow like a river, and then casually order an entire district slaughtered, admiring the ugly spectacle of those lowly commoners struggling between life and death for their own amusement.
That brutally oppressive society made it almost impossible to breathe!
Yet perversely,
The lower classes had no power whatsoever to resist the heavenly beings at the top!
Their extremely advanced technology allowed the