The original purpose of Emperor Russell's name Black Iron was to create a new era directly on his own like the ancient Sun God.
In the masterpiece he wrote through professionals and after some final revisions, there was such a nonsense argument.
World history is a cyclical process. Historical trends will rise and fall like waves, sometimes reaching the top and sometimes falling into the trough.
The very beginning of the Chaos Era was a trough, and then gradually rose to the Dark Era. Even though the Dark Era carries the word "dark", it is a peak.
Why do you say that? After all, there was no spiritual wisdom in the Chaos Era, and the original spiritual wisdom and civilization were born in the Dark Age. Darkness was for human beings at that time, but in the entire history, it is undoubtedly a process towards a climax.
When civilization reaches its peak, it begins to decline, and then there is an era of catastrophic decline, and human civilization once again falls to the bottom.
Anyway, most people in the Northern Continent don’t know that there was a glorious era in the Cataclysm Era. As the name suggests, "Catastrophe", you said it was a dark era, which is an easy thing to understand, right?
After this masterpiece was written, or rather after some people saw this content, Emperor Russell was blacklisted by the true Creator for the first time.
After the catastrophic era that fell into a trough, mankind, under the leadership of the great seven gods, gradually moved to the top of the wave. This was the Fourth Age of Gods.
After all, regardless of how people's living standards have changed during the Age of Gods compared to the past, after all, it is still the age of the Seven Gods, so naturally we can only say good things.
In the end, due to the turmoil of the Pale Age, the Age of the Gods ended, and the gods no longer walked the world in person. This was a great loss to mankind.
No matter what Emperor Russell thinks in his heart, or how he feels that the gods no longer walk in the world, anyway, the words written in the book must say that this is a great loss, a great loss for all mankind.
Therefore, in the Fifth Age, mankind has fallen into a low period again. It can only contact the gods through faith, and there is no way to obtain God's grace in person.
Emperor Russell vaguely remembered reading a book called "History of Western Historiography" when he was on Earth. It introduced that the Greeks divided history into the Golden, Silver, Bronze and Black Iron Ages.
So the name "Dark Iron Age", which originated from Greek history books, was used in this book, calling the fifth era the "Dark Iron Age".
Due to Emperor Russell's influence on this world, although for non-supernormal people, many fragments of the book have been deleted, they can still see this "black iron" comment.
In most cases, people who are dissatisfied with the status quo will place their hopes in three directions: the distant utopia, the ancient utopia, and the paradise of faith.
Anyway, it can't be a place they can really go. Only places they can't go can have room for imagination, and the most likely to go bankrupt here is the distant utopia.
After all, with the development of transportation and communication technology, distance no longer limits human communication, and distant utopias can easily reveal their true faces.
What's more, in this world, there is no place that can be called a distant utopia. The territory of the northern continent is known, and the exchanges with the southern continent are just like that. Just by the name, you can tell that the land abandoned by the gods is not a good place.
This place is not like on earth. In the Age of Enlightenment, China under the rule of the Manchus and the Qing Dynasty was used as a utopia for their spiritual sustenance, a transformed utopia.
So Rousseau, who was also a great Enlightenment scholar, ridiculed his Enlightenment colleagues, do you really care what the Manchu Qing Dynasty was like?
The second is the Kingdom of Heaven in faith, but the problem in this world is that the Kingdom of Heaven in faith can really be reached, which faces the same problem as Utopia.
This kind of imagined place must be inaccessible. Only inaccessible places can there be room for imagination.
Therefore, the ancient Utopia has become the only object of storage, which makes the masterpiece of Emperor Russell have a flavor of emphasizing the past and overshadowing the present.
Of course, his ancient is limited to the Era of the Gods, and Emperor Russell does not really want to emphasize the ancient. The focus of his discussion is to ignore the present.
Only Bo Jin can show his status. He was in the fifth era of black iron before, and he will create a new sixth era like the ancient sun god in the past.
According to his historical theory, since the fifth era is a low ebb period, then in the sixth era, the world will enter a holographic peak stage.
In this wonderful era at the peak of history, everyone can have better living conditions and a more prosperous life than in the past because of the development of the Industrial Revolution.
Just like the ancient gods of the pan-human camp and the ancient sun gods, Emperor Russell also named this era that has not yet appeared, called the Industrial Era.
Because this era was started by the Industrial Revolution, it is naturally most appropriate to call it the Industrial Era, which has nothing to do with the God of Steam and Machinery.
It should be said that Emperor Russell's theory has attracted the support of many idealistic people, hoping that with his help, he can push the world into a beautiful industrial era.
However, just like all previous dreams, the industrial era of Emperor Russell did not appear, and everything came to an abrupt end when he was assassinated.
However, many concepts he proposed in the book are still retained, such as naming the Fifth Age as the Black Iron Age, and using the outbreak of the Twenty Years' War as the criterion for dividing the ancient and medieval Black Iron Age.
And although the Industrial Era of Emperor Russell the Great is gone, people regard the era brought about by Emperor Russell as the dividing line between the Middle Ages and modern times.
In addition, Emperor Russell made another contribution to Chaofan, which was to name the revised path sequence of the ancient sun god with a profession that is more in line with the times.
The original book "Lord of Mysteries" only mentioned that each profession has an ancient name and a current title, but did not say who made the ancient names and current titles.
In the "Lord of Mysteries" anime in this world, the former's achievements were given to the ancient Sun God, while the latter's crown was worn by Emperor Russell.
He contacted the other Seven Gods Church through the God of Steam and Machinery, and also cooperated with the Twilight Hermits, and finally updated the names of each pathway sequence.
Of course, some forces actually do not agree with the new title, especially the True Creator. This is also one of the differences between the anime in this world and the original book.
