Chapter 822 Double-edged Sword


    “What is the fundamental nature ofw? It’s simply a tool to rule over the social sses. Law is the materialization of the will of the ruling ss. Law is a way by which the ruler will regte every part of society.”


    Back in China of my original world, everyw student who just started to studyw would have to learn this definition regarding the fundamental nature ofw.


    Maybe since China was deeply influenced by Communist thinking, China’s definition ofw was also filled with ss conflict.


    “Law is a tool for the ruling ss to control the social sses.”


    Back in China, this was considered the public opinion, orthodoxy, and a definite. In fact, most legal schrs and those in thew profession viewed this as a maxim… but, at least in my opinion, that wasn’t everything there was tow.


    It was quite evident that such a definition ofw could only be reality after a country and social sses were formed. But, what about a society that was still unstructured, such as a primitive society that didn’t have written or systematic rules? In that case, weren’t the basic social norms the same asws?


    My old world’s definition ofw was endlessly battered in this new world where many different intelligent species coexisted together.


    For instance, to use the Silver Dwarves as an example, they were abnormally sessful in realizing equality for everyone in the tribe. They had no officials or tribe leaders, yet they were abnormally strict in obeying the tribe’s rules. In that case, since there wasn’t even a ruling ss in the Silver Dwarves species, the ssical Chinese definition ofw was nothing more than a joke.


    Another example would be the Antmen, a minority species. Every single Antman would be born for the sake of serving the Ant Queen. But actually, the Antmen had no self will at all. The Antmen had sessfully connected all of their wills as one. There was only actually one mind for an entire Antmen tribe. If there was only one person in the entire tribe, then it would be quite difficult to say who was ruling whom. It was also quitemon for the Ant Queen to be sacrificed.


    There were also undead tribes, as well as dragons who had even stranger societal structures…


    Such situations were actually quitemon. In this world, orderly societal structures like the humans’ and elves’ societies with nobles andmoners as separate social sses were actually in the minority. I had witnessed countless societal structures which were even stranger than that of the Silver Dwarves’ before.


    Since the majority of species hadn’t constructed countries for themselves, continuing to use social ss theory as the basis forw would obviously be nothing more than a joke.


    If I still used such a legal theory as basis, then the idea of “unjustws are stillws” from my original world would only be an ever more vicious debate that would be impossible to solve here.


    Maybe abstract theories would be difficult for readers to understand, so I will give an example. If a tyrant’s depraved rule, a terrorist organization’s internal rules, or an assassin organization’s unwritten rules about killing were all recognized asws, then the new power of Law that I created in this world would only be the strongest weapon of all for viins and tyrants in this world.


    Eich was a world where a person’s will was equivalent to actual power. Not giving a definition carefully enough would absolutely lead toplete disaster.


    If there was a problem with the foundational definition that I gave to Law in this world, then my system for Law would either end up copsing or be distorted sooner orter.


    “Is Law only a tool for ruling? Law’s functions for guiding people towards kindness and punishing evil in society can simply be exined as ‘maintaining social stability’? Perhaps the kindness and benefit for society is what Law’s true nature really is.”


    In the end, when creating the Original Codex of Law for this world, I abandoned the old Chinese “bible” ofw on ssical legal theory, and instead wrote my personal understanding ofw based on the special nature of society in this world.


    “Law is something that should guide people towards kindness.”


    From that moment onwards,w in Eich was destined to be different from the definition ofw in China. The debate over “unjustws are alsows” would never happen here at all. Evilws enacted by tyrants would be disqualified from beingws in my Original Codex of Law.


    “Law is something that should treat all criminals equally.”


    From that moment onwards, the power of Law would only act because of a crime, and the power of Law would never waver or change no matter the criminal’s status or power.


    “Law is limited to divinews and manmadews…”


    As Ipleted my definitions for Law, I discovered to my astonishment that a certain way of thinking which had long since been discarded by my original world of Earth was actually the best exnation for my personal interpretation of Law.


    “…It’s actually the bloody and primitive… principle of retaliation.”


    Maybe legal retaliation had a certain definition, but what I meant was actually quite simple.


    “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.”


    Someone who harmed or killed others should be treated in the same way depending on how many crimes theymitted. Someone who tore out another person’s eye should have their own eye torn out. Someone who killed another should be killed as well. In the most primitive societies, it was a blood rtive of the victim who would take revenge in the majority of situations. Thus, this concept had another name… blood vengeance.


    Since taking blood vengeance was far too barbaric, vicious, and cruel, modern-day countries in my original world had long since forbidden such a thing.


    However, perhaps it was precisely because the world of Eich was too cruel and barbaric that my power of Law could be created in this world with such a form.


    The power of Law would use even crueler methods to scare evil viins. Even if a viin was able to escape judgement in their life, they would still be punished after death in Hell. There would be zero exceptions to this.


    Law gave victims the right of vengeance. Once an evil viin’s deeds were exposed for all to see, once the Codex of Law at the River Styx Hall recorded a person’s entire life, their heavy crimes would finally be a noose that would strangle them.


    Law was something that gave the innocent and weak a necessary sense of safety because the cut-off heads of viins would remain hanging high up on the castle walls in order to strike fear into the hearts of would-be viins in the future.


    Law gave the protectors and enforcers of thew an iparably sharp sword as they were the protectors of the weak and ordinary people, as well as the representatives of vengeance for the victims.


    Obviously, this was rather extreme, bloody, barbaric, and unreasonable.


    But in this cruel world, if I used modern-dayws from Earth… which was a ce where some ces were already beginning to get rid of the death penalty, and the rich could simply pay money to get out of jail… using such ws written in a peaceful generation” for this world would only mean that I was a huge idiot.


    To give a very simple example, if I continued to use legal theory from modern-day Earth as the foundation for Law in Eich, then my Justice Knights would have to act like modern-day policemen even if they witnessed a murder themselves. They would have to first gather evidence and witnesses, then send the criminal to court to ept a fair and just judgement… in a way, the Justice Knights would be even weaker than modern-day policemen because the fixed Concept of Law would be far more inflexible and foolish than any justice system from Earth.


    I should also mention that the death penalty as a concept of vengeance was bing ever rarer on modern-day Earth.


    “A murderer should pay with their own life.”


    This was consideredmon sense back in more ancient and primitive societies on Earth. However, many modern countries of Earth were already rejecting this idea that murderers had to face the death penalty. Laws on Earth were bing ever moreplex, which actually gave criminals whomitted horrible crimes even more opportunities tomit evil deeds once again.


    Eich was a world with limited resources. This was far too much of an extravagance to afford.


    “A chaotic world requires strictws… this world is more chaotic than the word chaotic can describe, so thews naturally must be endlessly severe.”


    Only after I confirmed the core of the fundamentals of Law that I wanted were Law Incantations born.


    Still, no matter what, Law was still a power of Order, and a type of elemental power in this world. While Law needed to obey the definition of its own Concept, it also needed to obey the naturalws of the elements.


    Setting rules was a power of Order. The power of Law wasn’t the only power of Order rted to rules.


    Prophecy magic, wish magic, and other such types of magic relying on “reason” were actually using the variousyers of rules. This was quite simr to the power of Law. The traits of such magic spells were also the same as either the spell would seed as expected, or the spell would fail and produce nothing.


    Wish magic would distort any wish that was difficult for the caster to achieve. It would be impossible for any major prophecy spell to determine something overlyplex or to try and force a specific future to happen. Thus, even if a pope tried to force a prophecy, he would still say that it was something really simple.


    The power of Law was the same. Using a Law Incantation was still apetition of power between the two sides. If the Law user won, then the Law Incantation would seed. If the viin was far too strong, then the attack-type Law Incantations would be weakened, and the binding incantations would be ineffective. It was still a contest of elemental power.


    The moreplex something was, the weaker its foundation would be. The more simple and direct something was, the stronger and more difficult to distort it would be.


    In the end, when I resolved myself to create my Law sword, I finally used the most basic and primitive method to achieve my goal.


    “Begin judgement, Law Sword Vengeance, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth… a life for a life!”


    My double-edged runic short sword suddenly appeared in midair. As Karwenz watched in surprise, his physical body was directly torn apart into several pieces. As Iughed at him, my physical body exploded at the same time.