Bab 177: Canal and Slavery

Crack!

"Hurry up, we're approaching the deadline! If you can't finish by the end of this month, you'll be used to fill the canals as sacrifices to the gods!"

"Work faster!"

As the guards yelled menacingly from above them, the scorching sun was hitting a large number of shackled slaves at the foot of the mountain. They were digging stones and carving out a canal under relentless whippings.

Thousands of slaves were working on this incomplete river canal day and night. It was a grand canal, the construction on which had been started three years ago. At that time, the Crete Empire had gathered nearly 200,000 slaves from all over to use for free labor.

The grand canal stretched from the south of Crete and led all the way to the Red River Plains. Ever since the beginning of its construction, it was doomed to be a river made of blood and tears, as it was the flesh and blood of countless slaves that fueled the huge project.