Chapter 1499: Chapter 266: I Believe in My Own Charisma
"Can he change this world?" The Archbishop of the Great Flame inquired, and all other clerics turned their heads to look at the Grand Archbishop of the Vowed Oath.
"We donât care."
The archbishop gave the usual response: "Humans have chosen Ian Silverpeak... since that is the case, we will not intervene."
"No."
After a momentâs thought, the Grand Archbishop felt he might have misspoken: "It is Ian Silverpeak who has chosen the humans."
"This is the most important thing that the First Knight and the White Folks from Harrison Port have accomplished... they have tied our Silver Peak Earl... making âhimâ willing to become human."
"This is Terraâs fortune."
Meanwhile.
At the top of the Xiawei Territory Lordâs Mansion.
The Silver Peak Earl, long deemed by the Embrace Light as having âchosen humans,â looked down upon his domain from a high vantage point. A silver-blue glow swirled in his eyes, resembling stars above the sky, gazing indifferently.
Ian needs time. His influence will spread with the expansion of the Supreme Spirit Sect, and the gradual perfection of the Heart of Terra. An initial systemized Alchemy Industrial Park will be established at the Gorge Mouth Area, where information terminals and various standard components will be produced in mass.
Artificial Intelligence within the Domain of Void will gradually take over all the mines inside the Highland Territory through this mechanical hand and will spread from the Xia Hui Domain to the entire âSilverpeak Domain.â
At the same time, the âfirst-generation people of Xiahui Domain,â who have gone through war and suffering, feeling despair on this land, are being âbrainwashedâ by Ian with a torrent of information through games, broadcasts, newspapers, communications, television, and various other means.
Yes, the human brain doesnât need spirit energy to be brainwashed; just infuse enough information, and people will become who he wishes them to be.
Someone loyal to âhappiness and peace,â someone who firmly believes that âSilverpeak Domain is the only light in this worldâ and that âIan Silverpeak is the only torch and direction in this world.â
Ian did not lie. He is indeed such a person, and he believes it far more than anyone else.
"Disaster... strike. I begin to understand the Guardian."
Standing alone on the shoulder of the Cyclops Giant Armor, his long white hair fluttering backward in the wind, he murmured softly, revealing a cold smile: "A disaster from an enemy, a defeat with room for retaliation, can unite everyoneâs heart like never before, making everyone eager to devour enemy flesh and drink enemy blood."
"At that time, after the trial by blood and fire, in Silverpeak Domain, there will no longer be Mountain People or Imperial People, only Silverpeak People."
"Should it happen or not?"
Asking himself, Ian already had an answer.
The answer is, of course, âno.â
Protector Axer is just an ordinary person with insufficient abilities, a weakling forced to choose this path out of helplessness. His strength is formidable, but his heart is always filled with doubts, not daring to trust his own charm, nor to believe in his own prestige.
He does not believe that he is like Inega II in his heyday when a call to arms would make the entire Empire follow his orders, so he can only adopt this clever and almost sacrificial method.
Forging the direction of the Empireâs multitude heart with the blood and tears of his subordinates and soldiers.
But Ian is different.
"I can win without doing so."
Closing his eyes, Ian suppressed his instinctive ârationalâ choice, beginning to feel a bit fortunate for choosing the Fairyâs Heart... If not for the Fairyâs Heart, he might really start leaning toward a future that is âtheoretically optimalâ instead of believing in a âbetter future,â though less probable.
Because rational people would not make the judgment to âbelieve in their own charm and prestige.â
The arrival of the Emissary Group from the Huai Guang Church is merely a prelude.
As time passes, one family after another, one force after another, sends their emissaries, either alone or leading a team.
They either scrutinize or gaze curiously at this city, then are surprised by its appearance completely different from any region in Terra, and begin to observe.
Whether people or city, whether architecture or planning, everything is so fresh and interesting to other lords on this land... or perhaps discomforting and unsatisfying.
Xia Hui Domain gradually becomes lively.
And at this moment, the enemy also started to take action.