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Chapter 28 - Ashoka

At this moment, in the capital of India, a young man was filled with great ambition. He thought to himself:

"After this transformation, the world has become extremely chaotic. India is a country with an ancient culture and is also one of the cradles of human civilization. However, its reputation in the world is nothing short of a mess. All these nonsense remarks that tarnish our people's image are truly unacceptable. I must make the world see how great India truly is."

He immediately set out to find a suitable place to make a speech, to express his own views.

As an Indian citizen, he harbored a deep sense of patriotism. It was only that, under normal circumstances, the opportunity had not yet come for him to rise up and lead at this moment in time.

Now, the time had come. His great deity had given him an opportunity, an opportunity for the people of India. Even if it meant sacrificing his own life, he would bring India to the pinnacle of greatness.

After a while of preparation, everything was finally ready. He stood on the roof of a building and began his speech.

"Everyone, please listen to me for a moment!"

The noisy crowd below only had a small portion that paid attention to him at this moment. However, they did not ignore him because he was handsome.

Being handsome was also very important. Not to mention personality (something that takes a long time to see), in the first moment, people are often only impressed by looks.

So anyone who says that looks don't matter is simply an unattractive person making up excuses to comfort themselves, or a beautiful person saying that to avoid hurting others who are less fortunate.

"Everyone, please listen to me for a moment!" he shouted again.

This time, more people paid attention, but it was still not enough, so he had to continue shouting several more times. Luckily, he had a strong voice, otherwise, all this shouting would have already tired him out.

Seeing the situation improving, he continued:

"What I want to say is, I offer my condolences to those of you who have suffered loss and pain after the recent calamity. But let's think positively, this transformation of the world brings us more opportunities than sorrow. God, the greatest entity, the creator, who is also the great Brahman that we have always worshipped, has appeared. He has given us the chance to become strong, to develop to an unprecedented peak, to live an eternal life. We are immensely grateful to Him for that.

We should seize the opportunity He has given us to become stronger, to develop India, and then unite humanity and lead it to the brightest future. We are the cradle of human civilization, and we fully have the right to do so. Our people are friendly, intelligent, and filled with compassion. 

The clearest evidence is that most Indians follow Hinduism, a religion that originated thousands of years ago, teaching people to aspire towards goodness. Such a noble religion that has existed for so long shows that our people have been compassionate since ancient times.

No one is more suitable to lead humanity than our country, yet there are still many prejudices and slanders against us worldwide. 

They say our cuisine consists of dirty and unsafe things for people. But take a look, how many people do we have? We have one of the largest populations in the world, and if our cuisine were terrible, most of us would have died long ago.

Another issue is sexual assault. Do you know how many cases we have each year? Only a few tens of thousands, but we have over one billion four hundred million people. Everyone here has been properly educated, so you should understand the probability. There are countries with a much higher rate than ours, yet why do they discriminate against us while idolizing that nation?

This is clearly blatant injustice and racism against our people. But who are we? We are the people of India, taught about what is right and what is wrong, and we are a nation rich in compassion. We are willing to forgive their past actions and lead humanity to a bright future, to eternal happiness.

However, if they refuse to repent, we will be forced to use strong measures to re-educate them. As for those who are unworthy, who do not deserve to be called Indians, and most importantly, who do not deserve to be members of Hinduism - those people must be eternally condemned because their actions are an insult to our great Brahman. Such individuals will never be tolerated, no matter where they are. We will hunt them down wherever they may be.

I am Ashoka, and I will dedicate everything I have to make India great and lead humanity. If you agree with me, let us shout together. For the great Brahman! Long live Great India!"

What Ashoka said was indeed incredibly reasonable. The issue of their country being discriminated against by many places around the world was something they were somewhat aware of. The information spread about them was entirely fabricated and exaggerated, using a few individuals to insult over one billion four hundred million people.

This was something they could not accept. Although their country had some individuals who were like garbage and deserved to be eternally tortured, those were only a very small number.

It was a great injustice for many decent people to be lumped together with a few pieces of trash. They wanted to seek justice for themselves and also to deal with all the garbage.

Moreover, now that the great Brahman had appeared, they would absolutely not allow anyone to insult Him. As for those abroad, later on, they would...

"Great Brahman! Long live Great India! Long live Ashoka!"

"Great Brahman! Long live Great India! Long live Ashoka!"

"Great Brahman! Long live Great India! Long live Ashoka!"

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Ashoka was a bit taken aback at this moment because, although everyone was shout together, the sound was slightly different from what he had imagined. But he smiled with satisfaction because everyone's approval showed him that he was worthy to lead them.

"My friends, we will definitely make India the center of this world. We will surely make the great Brahman pleased with our actions. One day, we will meet Him."

The people below cheered in response to his call. They, too, held similar beliefs.

Well, Ashoka was completely right in his final statement because anyone who could live until the final stage would indeed meet God. 

To be precise, if they could withstand the final test, they would meet Him. Otherwise, they would only see God's hand.