Chapter 171: Cut Off the River of Underworld! [Request for Monthly Ticket]
No country can last for eons.
Even the powerful Silver Era and Arcane Empire eventually faced destruction. A kingdom’s fate is usually limited to a few hundred years, while a deity that falls in less than three thousand years is considered unfortunate.
Soren absolutely cannot tie himself to the kingdom.
Otherwise, when a country suffers from corruption, Soren will also be affected by it.
Modo is the same; Soren established the council to counter such situations. Perhaps Modo can maintain its current prosperity for one hundred, two hundred, or three hundred years, but what about five hundred or a thousand years from now?
There will come a day when the power structure of Modo will gradually decay.
When that day arrives, if Modo’s system becomes a barrier and the lower-class civilians start to accumulate resentment and spite, will Soren also be caught in the backlash?
He ultimately has to return to the Divine Kingdom.
Therefore, from the moment Soren founded Modo, he was prepared for the possibility of direct and brutal cleansing when Modo begins to corrupt, intending to purify the system completely.
The power structure needs to be replaced.
This may be an issue for several hundred years in the future, but Soren must prepare in advance.
Upon returning to the Divine Kingdom, Soren will have to divide the secular world to ensure his supremacy as a deity, and at the same time, when Modo’s corruption reaches his breaking point, he will carry out a bloody cleansing from the top down. This is not only true for Modo but applies to the deity’s church as well.
Why do the gods maintain an appropriate distance from the church?
Because even if the church does something wrong, it can be attributed to certain individuals within the church. Any church will inevitably face corruption, and when such corruption arises, deities will step in at the right moment to eliminate it.
For instance, a fallen archbishop of the Lord of Radiance, all his sins can be attributed to him personally, while the Lord of Radiance is unable to oversee everyone due to being far away on Mount Heaven. When this tumor is eradicated, the suffering believers and civilians will only resent this archbishop and will not direct their anger towards the Lord of Radiance, for he will always be great.
This is the way of the deities!
Soren divides the church’s internal structure, delineates the power within Modo, and schemes for the kingdoms on the Southern Coast.
All of this is for the sake of that end.
Ultimately!
Soren needs to extricate himself from these issues, becoming a sword that hangs over Modo and the Southern Coast, preventing all ambitious figures from rapidly corrupting, while also executing purification when necessary.
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Adele Isabella is a very important key.
Initially, as the bloodline of Queen Isabella, she could help Soren legitimately control certain lands on the Southern Coast. However, now, due to the impact of the three Saints’ Cataclysms, the entire southern region has been severely injured, with many lands already desolate and many towns destroyed.
Currently, there are many unclaimed lands.
But even unclaimed lands cannot be occupied arbitrarily; there must be a legitimate reason.
And Adele Isabella is Soren’s legitimate reason. The establishment of a kingdom at this moment will face no obstacles, and after completing all this, Spearwind Hills can reasonably expand its territory and quickly annex the nearby plains, dramatically increasing its size to approach that of the Rosad Duchy.
This benefits Soren’s future plans, for population growth greatly relies on land.
“However,”
Soren pondered and said to himself, “this still needs some royal recognition. Perhaps it’s time to visit the Princess.”
Establishing a nation is one thing.
Soren is still Soren.
As a deity, Soren can secretly control this nation, but once it is established, even if everyone knows that Soren is behind the scenes manipulating everything, he absolutely cannot flaunt his identity as the king.
That would be digging a pit for oneself.
Adele Isabella is a suitable candidate. As Soren’s zealot, she will surely return to the Divine Kingdom after her d*ath, and entrusting this realm to her control absolves Soren from the burdens of the mundane world.
Even if the kingdom is destroyed in the future, it will not destabilize Soren’s divinity.
Yet, this is still a risky endeavor!
Why do many deities choose to control a city rather than influencing a kingdom?
The reason lies in the fleeting nature of kingdoms.
For any deity, a kingdom’s few hundred years pass in the blink of an eye.
The corruption of the aristocracy inevitably leads to the kingdom’s collapse. If a deity becomes entangled in this cycle of causation, the outcome can be dire. Even the Noble Goddess wisely maintains her distance from any kingdom; she only offers protection to the aristocratic system but does not easily approach any kingdom.
“The system must be reconsidered.”
Soren looked at the map thoughtfully, where a large area was marked as land to occupy in the future. “The aristocratic system is too outdated. However, without the aristocracy, the civilization of this era simply cannot function. Widespread reform will take a long time; the best approach at the moment should be to separate the nobility’s titles from the kingdom’s official positions.”
“The feudal system is definitely not viable.”
In this era, a powerful noble essentially acts as the ruler of a city, but this is not the system Soren needs.
He will appropriately retain the aristocracy.
However, the power of the kingdom must be centralized. What Soren wants is centralized authority while ensuring that the kingdom has control over the appointment and dismissal of any official.
He will significantly reduce the nobility’s fiefs and remove the aristocrats from the whirlpool of power. The situation where a grand noble is equivalent to a local emperor within the kingdom is absolutely intolerable. For Soren, he cannot make giant strides; he does not care how long the kingdom may last, but he cares about how much executive power the kingdom can wield within that time.
Population, land, resources.
Soren needs a large number of believers, and everything serves this purpose.
Not only his believers but also Vivian’s, Gloria’s, and even Fallen Witch Corinna’s followers. Soren intends to establish a pantheon, and a pantheon usually arises from within a race. Even though humans have the largest population, their pantheon is still limited.
Only the entire Amazon rainforest can sustain the faith of the Lord of Storms.
Likewise.
Soren needs a vast population to support his pantheon. Now that Gloria has become a demigod and Vivian is gradually learning to control belief, once Vivian fully adapts, she should start expanding her followers on the stage; otherwise, the little girl might regress to a weak godly power.
“In a few days, I should visit Adele Isabella.”
Soren stood up and tidied himself, murmuring, “But for now, perhaps I should divide the wealth of the River of Underworld.”
He has a grand plan.
It is a very bold plan, one that deities of the Good Faction would definitely not undertake, and even those of the Evil Faction would need to be cautious, for this plan is—to cut off the River of Underworld!
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(PS: Can you guess what Soren plans to do by cutting off the River of Underworld?) (To be continued ~^~)
