Rufus Protector of Atlantis

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else." —Italo Calvino (Invisible Cities)

Atlantis was known to be the greatest bastion of enlightenment of humankind, in every single art we were getting the most depurate knowledge. The horizon was bright, we were becoming gods, or at least we felt it like that. Nevertheless it didn’t last, our people became greedy and fearful of foreigners. We surrounded our island with our best warships and made laws to make the outsiders illegal. As you can guess it didn't work. We started murdering them and getting severe sentense to anyone who protect them, but they keep apearing in our city that was becoming into a disgraceful place, nothing like our dreams of wonder and power.

So there's where I appeared, I developed an elixir to make any of our race, the true citizens, evolve, stronger, smarter, and able to live for centuries. But that was just half of the plan, the elixir also is capable of turning us into aquatic creatures, and that was really important because the rest of the plan was sinking Atlantis to the bottom of the ocean, where we could be safe from the outsiders. I showed the plan to the elite of our city and some of them rejected me in the most disrespectful ways. My disappointment was palpable. It was clear that the outsiders have corrupted even the cream of our elite, our city needed a purge. I made a plan with the gentlemen that supported me and we took every retractor down. That was the simple part of the plan, now we needed to change the elixir. It was clear that our society was corrupt and we needed to re-educated them and control them. So we made the elixir odorless, tasteless and transparent so we could put it in all the edible merch that our main enterprises make, and in our water and the rest was a matter of time.

The other problem was sinking the city but our island was mostly artificial, so it was not so complicated to make a flooding mechanism that would take us to the bottom of the ocean, and with the support of the richest of us we did it in a matter of months.

The elixir didn’t start working immediately and of course it just worked with our citizens, but when we were sure everyone had drinked it, we let a gas in our air that put them all to sleep and make the elixir advance rapidly in our bodies. At that moment an explosion in the bottom of the sea. so we07 started the sinking. And when everything was settled to start our new world, they woke up, but being more docile, so we could make them forget all the profanity of the foreigners and the times we lived on the surface. And that’s how I got my title Rufus protector of Atlantis.

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