Chapter 408: The Missing History

Chapter 408: The Missing History



One Day Later...

"There is only one lesson you can learn from history, and that is the guarantee that humans do not learn any lessons from history. We will always repeat the same tragedies; we will never stop the infighting, no matter how much the next generation suffers..."

Emir stood in front of the students, his words echoing in the open room.

This class wasn't the usual one he taught in; it was a lecture hall with no less than ten rows of seats surrounding the podium.

All those seats were taken, which wasn't a surprise.

Though his classes usually housed around a hundred to a hundred and ten students, this classroom allowed for more, so he accepted those who wanted to at least listen to one of his classes.

Unfortunately for them, it was a history lesson, and as second-year students, they expected that they had already learned it.

But those thoughts didn't cloud their minds for long, as Emir's words easily hooked them.

"To be human is to fight, to inflict pain... To be human is to involve yourself in conflict-in war, no matter what kind. Peace is never an option. It's a dream and it will forever remain as such."

He chuckled, his eyes showing familiarity, seemingly remembering something.

"We might make poetry about it, sprinkle some deep-meaning words, and call it a day... But nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red, although some of us might say otherwise..."

The holoscreen next to him materialized a hologram that showed a long wall of text below a golden eye outlined in black.

"Take the CCA for example; it's made up of many orders. The first order, the second order, and so on, but even still, loopholes are strategically placed for their own benefit, ones that only they and a few geniuses would notice."

Emir threw shade on the Order, hinting at the start of his attempt at dismantling the propaganda present in the Academy.

But he stopped himself there, aware of the severe consequences of pushing further.

"Now... though I say all of that, it doesn't mean we shouldn't learn about history."

The hologram flickered, and a common term was shown.

{Missing History.}

"This term refers to the hidden truths within our historical books... And it's not only truths but hidden years as well."

Those smart of the students immediately picked up on what he was saying.

The Archive housed hundreds of history 'books,' but there were significant gaps of nothingness between most of them.

It was as if the knowledge and time between each historical record had been erased from existence.

Everyone who knew of it deemed it as strange but almost no one bothered about it.

Why would they? After all, it didn't affect their current lives.

Not many were interested in their history in the first place... and the reason for that was simple.

When knowledge became as common as pebbles on the road, it got treated as just that: pebbles.

But the Elites were better than that, as anyone must attest.

The position they reached today wasn't solely due to luck.

They had retrieved all they could of that history and filled the gaps with their own 'interpretation' of events.

Naturally, that interpretation leaned in their favor, but no one bothered to challenge it.

Bread and circuses-a time-tested method of control.

were at war."

Another set of flags materialized below; this time one was white, blue, and red, while the

other was blue and yellow.

"Those countries were at war as well."

The third set of flags materialized, followed by the fourth, fifth, and sixth, until the entire hologram was filled with flags, reaching all the way to the bottom.

Some were recognizable and clearly displayed with names beside them, but many others were pixelated, suspected to have come from the East-specifically Asia, many parts of Africa, and

a few countries in the Middle East.

Those countries and many other erased ones had experienced a communist resurgence... or so

the world was led to believe.

In reality, the West used this as a propaganda tool. Only China and some of its close allies genuinely fell under that label.

The West targeted nations like Vietnam, Guatemala, South Korea, Haiti, and especially Indonesia, feeding misinformation to suit their interests.

Mass graves became common in these areas, and the concept of a "free strike zone" emerged, where civilians were considered as much of an enemy as the military-even infants were not

spared.

Meanwhile, India and Pakistan were embroiled in conflict, and Afghanistan descended into internal strife, exacerbated by covert interventions from the USA.

Sudan was the same, with the only difference being that the UAE and KSA were heavily

involved. Argentina faced a coup, as did many African countries, while Saudi Arabia, not busy enough with Sudan, attempted to challenge Iran with the help of its Gulf buddies, all supported by the USA, their men trained by them.

However, they stood no chance, and when rumors of the deployment of nuclear weapons surfaced, they quickly retreated, focusing on smaller-scale skirmishes in Yemen, Sudan, and

other erased countries.

This wasn't the whole story-there was more to uncover.

However, Emir's knowledge was limited by what was available in Lyra's database.

Using the Archive In Between, he could only verify the accuracy of this information. The rest, not so much, for it was undoubtedly fabricated.

"All of them were at war... Who was responsible? They themselves. But ultimately? The

United States. China and Arabia were no slack, but when it came to impact, the US outmatched

them by a wide margin. Either way, these proxy wars were for their benefit, no matter how little. And guess what? All of this is considered missing history."

Students nodded in surprise at his words, even Sofia. They had all heard of small wars before Armageddon, but they hadn't realized there had been so many.

"Old Worldeners were jaded by this. At their time, there was a world-ending disaster every

other day, so it was natural that most of the wars became mere trends-badges they wore for

a while, throwing them away when the next best thing came along. It got so bad they could eat breakfast supporting one country and switch to another by dinner, casually forgetting their earlier stance within hours. Their hypocrisy was astounding: one side was indifferent, while the other only pretended to act if they were guaranteed safety."

Suddenly, two flags were highlighted and brought to the center. The first of the list that he

showed.

"This one is a great example of that. To be real with you all, this wasn't really a war-it was a massacre, a genocide, an apartheid. Whatever you choose to call it, it was a tragedy-a stain on humanity's existence-that it ever happened. And they weren't the first. It was just the

beginning, an appetizer."