The Future Is Promising

Akumali had come to understand one principle during this period through reading books and speaking with scholars: the rise of a people could not be accomplished in a short time.

He understood even more clearly that money alone could not transform a people. What mattered was an attitude of self-reliance and a love of life—a spirit.

Material wealth would not change people's spiritual world. Instead, spiritual impoverishment could drive them into an endless abyss of desire, where they would sink and be unable to escape.

Only when people were spiritually wealthy would they change from the inside out. Only then would they begin to understand and comprehend the world, and have something to strive for.

Yet this also raised a new question. After he, or more Nagaril People, had worked hard for many years to realize this ideal, and the Nagaril People had truly awakened, what meaning would their awakening have if the Federation people refused to leave? This was the last doubt in his heart. If the Federation people did not leave, awakening and everything else seemed more like a boring game.

Everything was firmly in the hands of the Federation people. It was this way now, and it would remain this way in the future. So why struggle so desperately?

This was actually the greatest problem the Nagaril People had to face during their awakening. In the past, they had been like this.

Whether they worked hard or not, they would ultimately remain ruled by the Ruling Class and be exploited by them without limits. They lived without the slightest shred of dignity, regardless of whether they worked hard or strove to improve themselves.

It would be the same in the future. Some people even felt that being ruled by the Federation people was not a bad choice.