But what if Lotus Order introduces another tiger?
The pirates.
What if they form an alliance with the pirates and uses it as a way to erode the influence and power of the warlords?
Then how could Asia be stable? Because Azief could see the ambition of the Lotus Order.
To cut down the vassal kings and unify Asia!
This is the plots and sche he had seen
Sangmin is not that good in playing politics but the emperor of Wei is a good politician and he could certainly think of this kind of plan.
If not him, then the strategist and minister under him. They could not share the world with their vassal kings.
But could they swallow it?
Those warlords all over Asia are not stupid. Azief believe that when this news is announced that Lotus Order wanted the Cloud Sea, those warlords that thins carefully about the Lotus Order choice would surely be able to see this plan
Azief could only sigh as he look at Jean.
He did not know whether Jean knows about this and pretending not to know or whether Jean really could not see this.
Maybe he did see it and wanted to promote it from behind the scene. A strong Lotus Order might be a more valuable ally for the Republic.
Or maybe he is aiming for the period of instability that would follow to gain so kind of benefit.
Azief look around the room and he could not help but think that all of these people all like old foxes
Each and every one of them have their own agenda. And they have many layers of secrets
For a mont there is silence. Hikigaya, Oreki and Raymond did not say anything about this matter
Instead, it would be counterproductive if they were to say sothing.
Hikigaya has his own thoughts when he heard it was Jean that spoke the desire of the Lotus Order.
He did heard that each of the world powers all gave their desired list of seas that they wanted to Death Monarch envoys
But the final decision would be made in this eting.
The reason is because they are the ones that would be moving and teleporting this sea to this area so they have the first pick and could even decide which sea that the others get
Azief clearly take note what the League of Freedom wanted because Warp is a crucial elent in Azief plans. And Lotus Order would send Lee Sangmin.
He is also a crucial piece of this plan.
Without the formation, the world would collapse when they rearrange the world
This has never bene done before and Azief would not allow any mistake.
If it's about destroying the world, it would be easy for any of them to create swathe of destruction.
But to move it around, to move mountain and seas, hills and islands around, that would require not only fine control of energy but all kinds of expertise on board
It is like playing mix and match.
The only reason Azief could do this now is because the size of the Earth and also because most of the land in the world is uninhabited.
If he tries to do the sa thing when Earth was small, it would create not only ecological disaster, it would probably split the world and created damage in an unprecedented way.
The weather would change drastically and such act would hollow the earth and cut the skies. Disaster of an unpresented realm
"Now as for the African Alliance, their representative had sent a ssage to . They wanted the Sea of Darkness"
"That sea?" Jean raised his eyebrows. He clearly did not expect that the African Alliance would choose the Sea of Darkness
A dark void.
That is Jean impression of this sea. He even scan the sea and he find it very hard to see the source of this darkness.
And it is weird in that it seems to have its own boundaries and these boundaries evolve and changes.
Of course, common people did not realize this.
Unless you could see it the way he see it, you would not notice that this darkness grew.
It is also one of the reasons he is very wary of this darkness.
If not for the fact that this darkness did not suck people in or created harmful gas, he might designate this sea as a forbidden zones for the rest of the world in the next World Security Conference.
There is a limit where the darkness could stretch but there is also a certain force in it that keep wanting to expand.
Hikigaya on the other hand nodded.
"There is no need decide for long. It is an Aye for "
Oreki nodded and express his intention quickly
"An aye for too"
"Aye" Raymond said. They are all eager to quickly settle this matter. Now that they already got what they ca for there is no need to delay it. But jean the one that rarely spoke a word since he enter the room still did not say anything.
And Azief just let him.
This is the most boring part of ruling.
Azief did have so expectation of ruling the world when he first get Pandemonium.
But that is just during the beginning. Since then, he did not have that much of an illusion about ruling the world
It turns out hegemony is that exciting for him.
It is boring.
It lack the fighting spirit. It is filled with discussion like these that would stretch for hours on
end
It is battle of the minds and words. It is distribution of interest. He needs to see and deduce what his rials or opponent is thinking
And while this mind gas is exciting for a few tis, after a while, there is just this
tiredness.
But Azief takes it slow.
He is doing this boring thing.
Because it is an important thing. What is insignificant and boring to him is the livelihood of
the people of the world
He did not understand this much in the past. But sotis when you reached his position,
so things are forced.
You think you could do anything you wanted.
Instead, there are more things you could not do.
He could do it of course.
But then that ans he had to let go of sothing. If he were to do thing thoughtlessly how
many people would die because of his careless words and careless action.
He knows this. So, he takes care of his words and his remarks.
And that is why he takes his ti. He waited for Jean to express his approval or disapproval.
The mont passes but Jean is still thinking
Azief then ask
"Is there sothing concerning about the African Alliance request?"
Jean smiles bitterly. The African Alliance is getting independence from the world
Governnt.
The effort is slow but gradual
The African Alliance was never under the World Governnt.
But it must not be denied that the World Governnt has been in the African Alliance since its conceptions and there is many interests between the World Governnt and the African
Alliance.
This interest is Hirate sche to binds the African Alliance to them and before the formation
of the Seven World Powers, most of African nations is actually a subordinate of the generals
of the World Governnt
The World Governnt influence is very strong.
And even after the African nations established their own force, the influence of World
Governnt toward them is very strong, exerting power in political sphere and even military deploynt between the warlords.
Of course, there are so people who could see that this is a bad thing.
Jean himself does not know whether to applaud Hirate or against him. Hirate ambition is
actually to unify the world against any other magical forces.
And after the war, against other interplanetary civilization. In a way, he wanted to unify the
world under one governnt.
African Alliance on the other hand is still in the thinking of the old world. They still wanted to
cling in the notions of Africa for Africans.
They still uses the old terms of old nations before the Fall. To so, this is a digression.
Most of the World powers no longer see the world under the lenses of old nation Pandemonium for example have all kinds of people, people that you would not thought would work together,
This is because to many people in the world, Pandemonium is a place for the strong. Nobody even associate Pandemonium with Australia anymore.
The fact that most Australians were almost extinct during the initial Fall probably also helps
this new culture Pandemonium culture is always to beco strong. Most of the people in pandemonium are
heroes.
Heroes who are strong enough to sails the seas toward Pandemonium is already strong
enough.
The Republic for example is not a gathering of Russians or Europeans but a gathering of people who did not like the World Governnt.
That is how it started and while it has evolved a bit from that simple thinking, most of the
Senators and those who join the Republic, most of them are still haters of the World
Governnt
The league of Freedom is a league of misfits, criminals and evildoers.
They hated the World Governnt calling them tyrannical and they also did not like the Republic which they deem just the aristocracy putting the cloak of democracy.
League of Freedom even though they are a flawed force, does give a lot of freedom to the
cities under their rule.
The only ti when the leader of this force could act like a tyrant is during the ti of war
where he would enact an Ergency Act to mobilize all the fighting force under his sphere of
influence to be ordered by him
But most of the ti, the cities under his rule is quite free.
Free also ans chaotic.
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