Swear Fealty To Me, My Subjects!

Chapter 128.2: Ascension Plan of the Ancient Dragon Princess (2)

After ascertaining that Rayne was not trying to terminate the contract due to her incompetence, Olivia was finally relieved.

However, at the same time, a question appeared as well.

Olivia said, "At the end of the day, Rayne, why did you want me to corrupt Leta back then? What's in it for you to do something like that?"

Rayne nodded and explained, "Of course there are benefits. That's because it can help me unify Leta."

Olivia was even more puzzled. "You've already turned the Empress of Leta into your lackey. Isn't Leta already yours?"

When Rayne heard that, he smiled.

Was conquering Alice equivalent to conquering Leta?

Rayne smiled. "Your Highness, you clearly know that taming the Moonlight Queen is only a temporary solution."

In order to deal with the impending calamity, all living beings in the mortal world had to be united and stop all internal strife, gathering all their strength.

For that, Rayne had to unify the mortal world.

Naturally, Leta was among them.

However, he could not make Leta work for him just by relying on Alice.

There was indeed a chance that the relationship between Leta and Haines could deepen and the two countries could become friendlier with the Moonlight Queen mediating.

However, that friendship would only be a facade of unity at the very most.

After all, Rayne merely turned the Moonlight Queen into his woman. However, the nobles and even commoners under the Moonlight Queen still had a deep feud with the Haines Empire.

It was easier said than done to resolve the feud between the two countries that had lasted for a thousand years.

Regarding this, the methods used by Rayne in the past were extremely simple and crude.

Start a war, defeat Leta and incorporate Leta's territory into Haines's territory. Leta would become a vassal of Haines and the elves would be forced to serve Rayne.

However, Rayne had always felt that there were many disadvantages to using war to unify the mortal world.

"Your Highness Olivia, I've once told you that I want to unify the mortal world. However, I've been thinking… by starting a war and forcing the enemy to submit to me, by planting Haines's flag all over the mortal world, is that truly unifying the mortal world?"

"I need to kill all challengers who disobey me, including close to 90% of the foreign demigods. At the same time, there's a risk that my demigods will die as well. After the war, I will still have to suppress rebellions everywhere in the world. Even if I unify the entire mortal world, the total power I can mobilize in the end will decrease instead…"

"The defeated countries have their families destroyed and their countries are almost paralyzed. They will become Haines's slaves and be drained of every single drop of blood to sponsor her for the next war. Perhaps for them… there has never been an apocalypse in the world because I'm the only natural catastrophe in their eyes."

Rayne's gaze turned increasingly grim.

"Your Highness Olivia, don't you think that the cost-effectiveness ratio of this so-called unification is very low?"

Olivia asked, "So, Rayne, are you going to give up on unifying the mortal world?"

Rayne shook his head. "No, but I intend to use another method."

Actually…

There was indeed a more perfect method of unifying the mortal world.

Be it the bug swarm transformation of the fourth era or the crystallization utopia of the fifth era, everything could be achieved.

All of that depended on powerful technology. It was an evolution that was naturally produced after civilization had developed to a certain extent.

However, the mortal world of the sixth era was extremely lousy.

The time left for the sixth era was way too short. Furthermore, under the rule of Order, the entire mortal world maintained relative peace and tranquility like stagnant water.

However, Rayne realized that he had another choice.

Faith.

If all living beings in the mortal world possessed a resolute faith and submitted to a certain noble supreme being...

Everyone could let go of their prejudices and seek common ground to become comrades with uniform ideals.

That was the question that Rayne had been thinking about ever since he was reborn.

Could he… intentionally guide a god of the Nether Realm to corrupt the entire mortal world and turn all living beings into her followers so that he could achieve his goal of unifying the mortal world?

That was a topic worth pondering about.

If everyone falls into degeneracy, wouldn't that mean that nobody is a degenerate?

Although there were many gods in the Nether Realm, after careful consideration by Rayne, there were only two gods worthy of his experiment.

First was the Ancient Dragon Princess, Olivia.

The other was the slumbering Harmony.

The two evil gods had a common feature—their faiths would not cause too much of a blow to civilization.

Olivia was an ancient dragon with the authority of an evil god. Unlike the other evil gods, she was not crazy. Compared to letting the mortals self-destruct in a carnival, this honest dragon preferred to manage things with longevity.

As for Harmony, she represented the epitome of human wisdom unification and was the most perfect goddess.

This was a strategy that Rayne had never tried before.

After all, in the past, Rayne was filled with absolute hostility towards the gods of the Nether Realm.

Using gods of the Nether Realm with gentler stances to rule over the mortal world...?

He would merely laugh off a thought like that.

However, upon careful thought...

Waging a war of unification would expend a lot of time and effort. His own side would lose combat strength while the combat strength of the conquered countries would plummet further. These battered countries would be barely tied together with injuries.

Thereafter, he would have to deal with the endless rebellions, insurrections and invest a lot of energy to continuously maintain this bloated and inefficient national machine...

Compared to that, why not just worship the evil dragon and be perverts together?