A different world game? A different world game!

The conflict escalated inside the meeting room.

Golden flames surged in Alicia's palm, their scorching light illuminating the tactical sandbox like a furnace.

Achilles, however, did not retreat an inch. The arcane barrier of the level 13 legendary mage rippled, forcefully resisting the pressure of the holy flames.

He knew, of course, that his forced entry would anger the Night's Watch, but he desperately needed an answer; he was burning with rage.

Although he was angry, he hadn't completely lost his mind, so he just put on a show without actually doing anything.

His eyes churned with anger and a deeper confusion—why?
Void tentacles have entangled the world's barriers, and the doomsday countdown hangs overhead.

The Night's Watch, however, chose this most critical moment to launch a more thorough and annihilating attack on the aristocratic system than the extermination of the rat plague.

It should be noted that the Night's Watch, with their character and beliefs, tend to prefer stability and despise conflict, which leads to the loss of more people and manpower.

As the Night's Watch's blessing spreads, many now know what the Night's Watch intends to do, so to avoid angering the Night's Watch, almost all factions have now suspended any potential bloodshed.

It's truly baffling that the Night's Watch started the conflict at this particular time.

The bloody trial of Certil was not an isolated incident; it was a declaration that the sanctity of noble bloodlines would be uprooted and millennia of privileges would be reduced to dust.

This was undoubtedly a declaration of war against the entire aristocratic class, and once it was learned that the Night's Watch was behind it, the entire aristocratic circle was bound to be terrified.

Although they were very dissatisfied with the Night's Watch and often insulted them behind their backs, they were well aware of the Night's Watch's invincibility and power.

The reason we only dare to insult them behind their backs is because they simply can't afford to mess with the Night's Watch.

So the Night's Watch was such a behemoth that it could crush them to dust with a mere finger. It was this fear that prevented them from even considering resistance.

Achilles' anger, however, was not without reason.

"ungrateful!"

The word burned in his chest.

Because he was among the first nobles to side with the Night's Watch, and because he was not a stubborn nobleman.

To become a legend shows that he was a rational person who knew that the Night's Watch was the most likely organization to lead the world through the apocalypse.

That's why he was angry.

He recalled how he had suppressed the roars of the family elders and how he had used an iron fist to quell the protests of the nobles within his territory against the "widespread blessing"—simply because he believed the Night's Watch was the only hope for the end times.

The bloodline of the nobility could indeed awaken talents, making mortals look up to them as if they were gods.

The bloodline of nobility is truly powerful.

But what about now?

The Night's Watch crushed this insurmountable barrier with a blessing!
A farmer's son received a blessing that boosted his strength, and the flames he unleashed were no less powerful than the "Flame Dragon Bloodline" passed down through three generations of an earl's family.

wealth?

That turned it into a numbers game that the Night's Watch could control at will.

Their wealth is immeasurable, and their resources are so vast that they could overwhelm everyone.

They pressed on relentlessly, elevating the status of commoners, while the nobles were forced to remain silent and swallow the bitter pill…

He was cooperating from the very beginning; he was truly working for the Night's Watch.

But this time, the Night's Watch is going to abolish the entire social class!
This is no longer reform, it's a declaration of war!

Those frontier marquises forced to defect, and the ancient families behind the merchant alliance, are probably cursing his name and the Night's Watch's betrayal in their secret chambers right now.

His previous oppression of all the nobles would backfire at this moment, leaving him both bewildered and furious.

Even if you really want to do something, wouldn't it be better to wait until after the apocalypse?
Even if we survive the apocalypse, we will certainly suffer heavy losses, and when everything is in ruins, we will have to start all over again.

At that time, if the entire aristocratic class were to be overthrown, I believe no one would object.

Why at this particular time?

For the nobles of today, the Night's Watch's actions are simply unacceptable.

They would rather start a civil war and drag the world down with them than stand by and watch their bloodline honor be completely denied.

This is tantamount to actually killing them.

"Alicia!"

Achilles' voice was hoarse with suppressed rage.

"I silenced the voices of the nobles for you, not so that you could reignite the wildfire of infighting on Mount Doom!"

"The massacre of Ktyr will only convince all the nobles that the Night's Watch doesn't want allies, it wants annihilation!"

"They will retaliate like wounded beasts, and the depleted fighting power and the internal strife will become shortcuts for the void to devour the world!"

The Olympic flame reflected the bloodshot veins in his eyes—his last struggle.

Alicia snorted coldly, but the holy fire in her palm subsided slightly.

She gazed at this "pragmatic person".

The legend of the compromisers, even their leader.

Ultimately, they were trapped in the shackles of the old era.

“You are wrong, Achilles.”

Her voice was as cold as the wind.

"It was indeed the will of the Night's Watch that propelled the Cryptyl trials and shattered aristocratic privileges, but whose will was the Night's Watch's will?"

She uttered the name, word by word, a name that made even legends tremble:
“This is the divine message from Venerable Karna.”

"boom!"

An invisible pressure slammed down like a giant hammer!
Achilles's arcane barrier shattered instantly, and he staggered half a step before barely managing to regain his footing.

Kana!

The true god who walks among men, the great prophet, the creator of the blessing system... all chance vanishes in this moment.

Because it was the blazing sun.

He should have realized sooner that only a god could have orchestrated such a ruthless act that overturned the millennia-old order.

Despair spread like ice throughout my body.

He certainly knew that Kana might be implying something in this.

But he couldn't help but wonder if the gods would care about these things.

These are ordinary people.

They are like ants.

But if it's a strategy that Cana truly wants to dominate and implement, then there's no room for resistance or negotiation.

Revolt?

Even a level 15 legendary figure is like an ant before Kana; a god could unleash divine punishment with a single thought.

Not to mention that the world favors him, and he will unleash power far greater than that of ordinary gods.

The Night's Watch's willingness to promote change through law and war, rather than directly unleashing divine wrath to wipe out the nobles, was Karna's final act of mercy towards the world. A sense of powerlessness filled his entire being.

"Why?!"

He almost forced a roar out from between his teeth, and for the first time, his proud spine showed signs of hunching.

He didn't understand.

"The apocalypse of the void is imminent, twenty years... perhaps even less! No matter how corrupt the aristocratic system is, I can still use my authority to force them to supply resources for the defense line!"
"Why ignite this war that is destined to bleed everyone at this time? The Night's Watch has already seized real power through the continent of Lebia, and the nobles have long been puppets!"

He pointed to the model of the broken crown symbolizing Ktyr on the sand table.

"What good will a ruthless extermination at this time do, other than plunging the continent of Anvien into war?!"

Lebia's push to exterminate the nobles had a perfectly legitimate pretext, and it was done incidentally in the course of the war against the evil rats and the evil gods.

Therefore, there was no real confrontation with the entire aristocratic class.

A hint of seriousness finally flashed across Alicia's golden eyes.

She waved to disperse the sacred flame, and light and shadow flowed on the sand table, revealing a prosperous scene of the Leviathan continent.

The scorched earth, once ravaged by the rat plague, is now covered with rice paddies like golden carpets. The gears of the magic workshops hum day and night, and new cities rise up under the blessing and protection.

"You think this was a spur-of-the-moment decision?"

She pointed her finger at Ktyr, and the scene shifted to a surging tide of civilians and a high-flying parliamentary flag.

"The plan began twenty years ago when Lord Kana foresaw the void!"
"Lebia is a testing ground: the nobles may seem to compromise, but they are like termites in rotten wood! Give them a chance to breathe, and they will tamper with the law, reclaim their privileges, and even strangle those who do not respect them."

She took a step closer, her words like a judgment:
"The Night Watchmen have no time to fight the termites!"
"The lands occupied by nobles, the various treasures of knowledge they hoard, the resources they monopolize... all of this must be completely liberated! Ktyr's blade cuts the chains that hinder the world's survival!"

The sand table changes again.

Countless ordinary people toiled in the blessed light, farmland yields doubled, workshops' assembly lines ran non-stop, and the cries of newborns echoed throughout the orphanage.

"Do you understand now? The existence of nobles is a double constraint on both 'human resources' and 'productivity'!"

"Only by overthrowing them can we unleash the proven miracle of Lebia—a birth boom will be blessed among the common people, and side jobs will explode as knowledge spreads!"
"Only in this way can we amass a massive torrent of resources to engulf the void before the apocalypse arrives!"

Her fingertips finally struck heavily on the continuous virtual defense line at the edge of the sand table—the Great Wall of Steel spanning the continent, the mage towers engraved with holy runes, and the energy core buried deep in the earth's veins.

This is the future defense against void creatures; each one is an extravagant facility.

"The foundation of all this is the demise of these privileges of the nobility!"
"The private armies of nobles who govern independently in each country will perish. Only the legions led by the Night's Watch can mobilize the power of the entire civilization and build a true bulwark at crucial junctures."

"This is the 'order' that Venerable Kana considers ten thousand times more important than the survival of the nobility!"

Achilles stood frozen in place.

Alicia's words shattered his last shred of hope.

The prosperous image of Lebia overlapped in his mind with the bloody execution platform of Ketil—the nobles were indeed like rotten pillars, seemingly supporting the palace, but in reality hollowing out the foundation.

The Night Watch doesn't seek revenge; they seek to forge the entire civilization into a giant hammer before the Void devours it!
cost?

The corpses of the aristocracy were merely the first handful of fuel in the furnace.

His gaze swept across the flag symbolizing the Kingdom of Veranser on the sand table. The prince had already taken the initiative to slay the parasites in his family... Only those who understand the times can be reshaped in the crucible of the new era.

Among the nobility, there were also families who saw through these strategies and resolutely cut off one arm to survive in order to be reborn.

After a long silence, Achilles turned away dejectedly, his black robes billowing up a cloud of desolate arcane dust.

There were no farewells, no vows of compromise, only the silent, subdued footsteps that faded into the distance in the cold metal corridors of the Night Watch base.

Alicia watched the other person's back, but there were still some things she didn't say, things that were actually the most important.

Plans change as circumstances change.

How could they have planned to purge the entire nobility from the very beginning, given that Kana knew about the future?

It was precisely because the Night's Watch was powerful enough that Karna was able to push for the destruction of the nobles.

For example, in Lebia, the downfall of the entire Lebia aristocracy was a choice made entirely based on the circumstances at the time.

After all, the circumstances at the time were indeed very opportune. It would have been a waste of such a golden opportunity not to strike and destroy the nobility under those circumstances.

In such a supernatural society, even Karna had no idea whether the sudden demise of the aristocracy would bring any benefit.

So he only offered some suggestions, and left the specific implementation to the more professional staff below.

The situation is actually better than we imagined.

In this extraordinary world, the only way nobles suppress commoners is through power.

In this extraordinary world, talent and bloodline exert an absolute dominance.

Intermarriage between nobles, through the pure exchange of their bloodlines, endowed their offspring with innate abilities.

In that case, the bloodline of the nobility was truly noble, based on the facts.

As the power spread, so did the blessings.

They discovered that the commoners who became adventurers either wanted to become nobles or to gain status.

The problem is that as the power spreads, everyone's power is increasing at the same time.

In the extraordinary world, in the eyes of ordinary people, the power of nobles stems only from their strength, not from the strength or nobility of their bloodline.

So when these commoner adventurers rapidly increased their strength, even suppressing the nobles and knights to some extent, they instantly became somewhat disdainful.

If this trend continues, even if the Night's Watch does nothing, the conflict between nobles and commoners will only intensify.

According to calculations, the peak of the conflict will likely coincide with the approach of the end times.

In that situation, such a conflict would severely deplete their internal strength, which is absolutely unacceptable.

Therefore, after understanding the situation and gaining experience from Lebia, Kana's ideas and goals were solidly implemented.

However, the human territory of Anvion was not the primary focus of the Night's Watch's funding of the rebellion.

The real battlefield was the Orc Empire.

The continent of Anvien is merely an appetizer, a firefly, an example.

A real future that those oppressed races of the Orc Empire could see, and they too could achieve it.

Moreover, with Kana's actions, the possibility of surviving the apocalypse is almost certain.

What Kana is doing now is to help them survive the apocalypse more intact. Surviving the apocalypse more intact means that the existing order is very likely to be preserved.

Once the apocalypse is over, a glorious golden age will follow.

At that point, it will be difficult to accomplish anything.

Instead of dealing with potential future problems now, let's embrace this golden age with a fresh perspective.

Start the transformation now, for the coming new generation of education.

However, things here were already proceeding according to plan, and Kana's attention had long since shifted away from this area.

The Abyss is what Kana is currently most concerned about, and it requires his personal involvement. (End of Chapter)