"good question Lady Maha, Your infamous genius brain isn't widespreadly known for nothing. now, is there anyone who wants to show off their historical knowledges that is related to Lady Maha's question and help me to answer it ?"She was trying to get her students riled up in the current topic.
after becoming a teacher and retiring from her long journey, She had so much spare time. This class was the only "school" in 100 kilometers radius, the other being in the Northern Arua confederacy, it was not that She would be teaching in other places, so She decided to take her time teaching these children.
the education institution within Terraria City state
wasn't sophisticated in any sense, there was only one class through out the country, just a mere twenty students enrolled so far.
the classroom was Located in a corner of a white pavilion. to put it in a perspective, there were tens of pavilions and buildings within the grand palace, where high government official from five aristocratic clans made their policy and run the tiny nation.
the educational class itself was only exclusively provided for the upper echelon of society. one needed not only being born form a "noble" womb, their parent also had to hold high enough office within the government.
and still, They had to pay three hundreds kilograms worth of staple foods, such as rice or wheat, or other things with similar value. such meat, weaponry, residences, or artifacts, to the tax agency. this was not seen as being too exaggerated nor rotten practices, at least in this current world.
weapon and artifacts, these two things were regarded as currency with the highest price, They could save someone from the cruelty of this vicious era. where the one with the biggest martial or military power reign supreme.
as for Warhead core, it was not tradeable. it was as important as the nation itself. to maintain what was left of the order and justice, a nation in the age of AJ (after judgement) or post-apocalypse, They had to at least have a division, exactly a hundred Evolver in their ranks. without a Warhead core, it was impossible to nurture an Evolver, let alone creating a division full of them.
The commoners, well, They just had to barter some staple food to get What They needed, it was always received everywhere They went, even in the City States outside of Niso great plain.
rice was valued higher than wheat, because it was harder to cultivate. a plant that was heavily dependent on water in the World having no other weather than a polar climate, could never grow without the assistance of the nation weather controlling artifact.
rice was seen as a delicacy for the rich and wealthy, like great merchants, nobles, adventurers or Evolvers along with pigs and goat meat. do not mention mammals bigger than those two animals, The were all extinct.
What the common folks ate in their daily life were some plain breads, with steamed, roasted or baked insects and rodents or other small mammals. If They had spare wheat They could get some frozen or pickled vegetables to complete their dining menu.
believe it or not, if the Ancient Humans were to know their decendants would live a miserable life because of their stupidity, They would rather drain Their excess energy towards the celestial realm and tried to focus and combine their efforts to conquer the unreachable stars. rather than tried to find or construct the most effective and fastest methods or weapons, to take the innocent souls of their own kind.
They were also too late to realize their main sources of energy, the sources of power that sustain their highly advanced civilization.
the underworld liquid and underworld black stone They named as Oil or gasoline and Charcoal, were slowly but surely reshaped the best environment that allowed them roamed the every earth's corner in the first place. the environment and climate that enabled them to make a journey towards the high heaven that bridged the mortal world and the celestial realm .
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"They were just like us, something that never changed from the age of Ancient Humans to the current Era We are living in, is the fact that We make an imaginary border between ourself.
We were too attached to many things that are worthless than Life. dividing our society in factions that are meaningless and be proud of it......
We are too greedy to hoard things that We can not even enjoy for a lifetime. We put value too heavily on one's appearance and skin color, too hot headed to accept differences and diversity, that were stemmed from differences in environment We are born in....
those all in turn, made us went to an all out war against Northern Arua confederacy.
what the Ancient Humans did in the past, We have done it recently, We inherit their traits of stubborness and arrogance, and how I wish to changed that, starting from the younger generation, from You all. my honorable and clever students." with fiery passion that She had never showed since the first day the children had her lecture.
Gita gripped her right hand palm, put it in front of her grown up chest, and finished today's lecture with that ever inspiring and marvellous remark.
"so much for today, the next class will be fighting lesson with colonel Aditya, I hope You will still take notes of my lecture which contains the varied category of artifacts in shapes and abilities, and please bear in mind, about What I have talked just now, fighting, war and other types of violences, are not gonna bring any benefits to anyone, not even to the winner, winners can take everything They want, but it would never enough or suffice to balanced out the loss They got from the losers. this especially becomes truer the fiercer the fight.
so get Your objective and goal of being able to fight clear and noble, before actually learning it. That's it, You are dismissed."
the students stood and bowed to Gita, They walked out from the classroom quitely in order.
"Lady Maha, You won't attend the fighting class with colonel Aditya, You will come with me instead, This way." She waited for Rani by the door and walked away along the four meters wide aisle, Her hand gave a polite gesture to command Rani to follow after her.
"umhhh Lady Dyah, may I know where will we go?" Rani innocently ask their destination
"Your father has given his order to train You privately on my own, I will be Your master for sometimes, so please take care me young Lady Maha , and for the time being, officially, I'm not a noble anymore, so please refrain from calling me by my surename. from now on call me Gita or master, whichever one suits You...
as for where We are going, it's to My family mansion, I may not registered as their kin, but the properties there, some of them are still under my name, They weren't able to do anything about it since They saw me having the ability to eradicate them, my clan, on my own.... heh." She just casually talking about slaughtering Her own clan out of nowhere, well, it would be stranger if She was not, due to circumstances, She hold enmity towards Her family, especially her sister.
as for Rani, She had decided on how She would call her new fighting teacher
"I will be in Your care then, Master.... "
to be continued