This might have been the first time Karya had been able to observe a war taking place on the Shuriman Continent without being a participant.
Sometimes, certain things could only be understood more clearly when one stood outside them.
As billowing smoke spread along the Shurima River, radiating upstream and downstream from Shurima City, Karya saw a mighty tide surging forth.
The old order was like a fragile bolt of cloth, torn apart with ease. Countless Shuriman soldiers, carrying their loyalty to the emperor, swept through the cities along the river that refused to submit with a momentum even more torrential than the waters of the Shurima River.
One city after another.
Nasus and Renekton barely needed to take action. The cities that tried to resist to the bitter end and clung to the slave system were completely overthrown.
For these cities, the history of the Shuriman Empire had given them much, whether it was the foundation of their urban development or the many regional specialties passed down to the present day. All of it could be traced back to the ancient glory of the Shuriman Empire.
But besides that, the history of the Shuriman Empire had also been twisted into countless heavy shackles, tightly strangling the slaves' necks. When the rulers used their monopoly on knowledge to bind the glory of the past and the slave system to bloodline theory, the slaves' cries, no matter how furious, were ultimately futile.
Only when Azir appeared and, as the most legitimate heir of Shurima, declared the abolition of slavery and issued the proclamation of "restoring Shurima's true glory" did those shackles finally vanish completely.
Of course, amid this highly favorable situation, Karya could also clearly see New Shurima's hidden concerns. Freeing the slaves was easy, but allowing those freed slaves to