Roman Empire Disaster

It was a stormy night, lightnings struck, thunders roared. An earthquake took place, a tsunami erased a massive city, a volcano erupted and killed thousands of people. It wasn't looking good for the Romans, and that wasn't the end. A huge army of barbarians attacked the north of the empire and stole Rome's biggest gold stock. The last place that was save was the capital city of Rome: Rome, the place where the emperor lives.


In front of the emperor, a huge crowd of Romans shouted: "What is happening? Has the gods cursed us?"
The emperor called his wise men to help him out, and they said: "Get the staff of light and break down the spell."
The emperor ran to his underground basement, and grabbed his light staff. He used the staff's power, and suddenly, the earth stopped rumbling, the tsunami's stopped. Every single disaster disappeared.

The people were very happy, they celebrated for 5 days and 5 nights. The emperor was also very happy and decided to reward all his wise men. The emperor first said to all his wise men, to not ask for too much, or you will get nothing. Most of them asked for a piece of land, or lots of money, but the last wise man, the wisest of them all, said: "Place a chessboard on this table and put a golden coin on the top-left square. Snake your way across the board and for every square you place coins in, double the amount of the square before."

The emperor laughed at him and did it. He began with the very top-left square and then went on with the one right to it. The smile the emperor showed slowly turned upside down. The numbers kept on adding up: 1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096, etc. The amount was insane, it was so much that when he was finished, the wise man became richer than the whole country. The people were mad at the emperor and they all voted, that the wise man has to be emperor now.


Soon, the wise man became emperor of Rome and used all that money to fix the problems that were leftover after the tragic disaster.

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