parentshiftbook #391 - Chapter 391 Protection and Prophecy
#391 - Chapter 391 Protection and Prophecy
"Wu Wei, kid... there are some things you need to know."
"The entire Human Empire is actually filled with so-called cheaters."
Han Xuan lowered his head, looking at Wu Wei, who seemed slightly confused.
"Kid, do you really think you're strong?"
"Indeed, you are strong, at least considering your age. You can be considered among the strongest newcomers in the entire empire."
"But your so-called strength is just a fleeting illusion, a trivial phantom in a mirage."
"Do you know why I say that?"
"Because you believe that my current achievements are insignificant, and that I, alone, am no match for those lords with family backing."
Wu Wei frowned, guessing the meaning behind his words.
"Yes, but not entirely."
"The fact that you are not their match is not that important, at least not as important as you think."
"In the empire, there are people or forces that can rival those major families, but their numbers are relatively small."
"Few, but not nonexistent."
"These people, although still members of the empire, each have the ability to resist imperial orders."
"They also have the ability to refuse the goodwill of various families and focus on their own affairs."
"You have the potential to become one of them."
"But you only have the potential to become one of them."
"Because you most likely won't live to see that day...."
"Haha, are you serious?"
Wu Wei couldn't help but laugh at this sudden "threat."
However, Wu Wei was not mocking Han Xuan, the principal of the War College; he was just a little confused about the connection in his words.
"Do you think I'm joking?"
Han Xuan put away all his expressions and looked at Wu Wei.
And Wu Wei, at this moment, felt the other party's invisible seriousness.
He was not joking!
This old principal, at this moment, was like a prophet, foreseeing the shackles of death placed on Wu Wei's neck!
However, Han Xuan did not continue this topic, but changed it.
"Wu Wei, do you know why the entire empire is so vast, yet the number of 'geniuses' born each year is so small?"
"And I am not talking about those mediocre geniuses who can only be compared to ordinary people, nor those wealthy children who are propped up by family resources, nor those scholars who are only focused on studying certain technologies and are unworthy of the name."
"They are not true geniuses."
"The geniuses I am referring to are those who have the strength to dominate the entire Lord Era, be invincible, and independently establish their own territory!"
"I don't know."
Wu Wei shook his head honestly.
To be honest, he really didn't know the answer to this question.
Because although he didn't care much about current affairs, as Han Xuan said, this type of genius seemed to have disappeared from the history of the empire.
It had been a long time since a newcomer in the Lord Era had been able to completely break away from the family and independently support a territory.
If you had to use a word to describe it, then a word from ancient times would be more suitable for the current scene.
That is [Class Fixation].
The entire Human Empire has long been divided up by several major families, alliances, and guilds.
The biggest changes in the power of the Human Empire are only reflected in the lowest families.
Sometimes, the cancellation of the title of a lower family can already be regarded as the biggest news in the empire in recent decades.
Apart from that, Wu Wei had never heard of any changes in the top-ranked families in the empire....
"The reason for this phenomenon is very simple...."
Seeming to notice that Wu Wei was finally starting to think, finally getting the point, Han Xuan showed a smile.
"That is because these geniuses actually appeared, and they appear every year."
"It's just that they are all [dead]."
Hearing Han Xuan say this, Wu Wei couldn't help but widen his eyes.
"No, not all of them are dead."
"Some of these powerful geniuses are really dead, killed by the encirclement and suppression of various families."
"And the other part of the geniuses are divided up by various families and alliances, and become members of them!"
"No matter how strong these geniuses are, no matter how ambitious they are."
"The ending is always the same......"
As he spoke, Han Xuan found a bottle of wine and two wine glasses from the ruins.
He opened the wine bottle and poured two glasses of wine.
"I don't drink."
Seeing this, Wu Wei immediately waved his hand.
"I know, I'll drink two glasses."
Han Xuan looked at Wu Wei with a smirk, drank one of the glasses of wine in one gulp, and then continued to say.
"When these real geniuses walk out of the ivory tower of the school, they will despairingly find that they cannot compete with any family by fighting alone."
"These families have ways to strangle them in the cradle."
"In addition, these powerful families will also extend olive branches to them from time to time to ensure that they can join them."
"What defeats and kills these geniuses is sometimes not the guns of various families."
"The sweet gentleness is also an important reason for killing these geniuses."
"Don't underestimate the so-called geniuses. As geniuses, their vision is always longer than ordinary people."
"After they recognize the reality, they either die in depression or join those families who throw olive branches at them."
"There is a saying... if you can't beat them, join them, have you heard of it?"
"After all, in the society of the Human Empire, these families are the real masters."
"Because they control all the resources in this society, without them, any human lord is just duckweed on the sea, and a storm will sink them to the bottom of the sea."
"So..."
"The entire Human Empire is actually entering a state of irreversible chronic death because of this morbid order, because of the existence of these families."
After listening to Han Xuan say so much, Wu Wei thoughtfully asked.
"But, what does this have to do with you forcing me to join the War College?"
Han Xuan drank the second glass of wine in one gulp, grinning.
"Hehe, it has a lot to do with it, Wu Wei, kid!"
"You can guess, why did the founding emperor of the Human Empire, the founder of the War College, create the War College in the first place?"
"Why create such a college that selects the best of the best?"
At this time, Han Xuan stood in his office, under the huge portrait of the founding emperor, looking at the figure in the portrait with fiery eyes.
"To help the empire cultivate the strongest lords?"
"Incorrect!"
"Guess again!"
"To allow the waste geniuses born from those families to get training from this college and become real geniuses?"
"Incorrect!"
Han Xuan turned his body, he leaned on his crutches, and said powerfully with the strength of the wine.
"The purpose of the founding emperor in establishing the War College was to find a real genius who has the ability to overthrow the old order of the Human Empire, overthrow these families, and rebuild the order, and to protect him, give resources and let him grow!"
"The purpose of the War College has never been to cultivate, but to protect!"
"Because the founder of the Human Empire, the merciful father of all mankind, the true Human Emperor, had already predicted all of this."
"He predicted..."
"The Human Empire that we see before us, which is terminally ill!"
"From the day he founded the Human Empire."
Wu Wei suddenly noticed.
Behind Han Xuan, no matter how you look at the angle of the portrait of the founding emperor of the Human Empire, it looks like he is overlooking everything.
He....
Standing at the top of this world, overlooking all of this.
Just as he predicted back then!