My portable grandfather refreshes every week

Even Su Su started listening to Faust's story while munching on bread.

Previously, their understanding of the world was limited to stereotypes gleaned from Faust's words, but after the events in Roland City, they gained a better understanding of the world's current state.

Listening to the story of Faust now has a different flavor.

“My lord, in this world, innate techniques have the potential to be passed down to future generations.”

"Here, mystics are divided into innate and acquired, which means whether or not one is born with bloodline techniques. Generally speaking, innate mystics are more specialized and can go further on a certain path, while acquired mystics are forcibly mastered through knowledge. They are more comprehensive, but that also means they are more mediocre."

"Generally speaking, the ratio of innate to acquired skills is about 1:3. Among innate skills, commoners account for about half. Even though noble families have a higher chance of inheriting innate skills, their numbers are still much smaller than those of commoners. This means that there are still commoners who can master bloodline skills."

Faust paused for a moment and said, "In fact, acquired techniques are merely learning the bloodline techniques of others. Noble families may possess countless techniques left behind by their ancestors, or innate techniques of others, for future generations to learn."

"Although there was a large disparity between nobles and commoners among mystics at that time, the commoners were still a force that could not be ignored."

Xue Dinglu nodded. He probably understood the world's structure before Mephisto became an apostle.

This means that natives are born with a talent called "bloodline technique," which is not a unique ability; others can replicate or learn this ability based on its imprinted structure.

This reminded Xue Lude of the Great Sage's race, a group called "Demons," who were known as natural magical elves. The natives of this world seemed to have similar talents, but they were weaker than the Demons.

Noble families are those who, through generations, gradually and steadily master more techniques, passing on their own bloodline techniques and collecting information on the bloodline techniques of others, thus monopolizing this knowledge and forming a group.

This group was able to stably inherit bloodline techniques and monopolized some of the information on learnable techniques. This group was the world's first nobles.

However, at that time, no matter how much the nobles monopolized the knowledge, they could only encompass all acquired techniques, which infinitely raised the threshold for commoners to learn mystical knowledge, but they could not stop the birth of innate mystics.

Even children from commoner families have realized that their awakened innate magical abilities are actually their most precious treasures. Therefore, they have learned from the practices of the nobles in the past, looking for ways to pass on their magical abilities, and trying to obtain the magical imprints or structures of other people.

In this way, if a mystic appears in both the son's and grandson's generations, there is a great chance of becoming a nobleman.

But how could the old aristocracy possibly tolerate this situation?

Having already enjoyed the monopolistic practices and extraordinary benefits, how could they tolerate newcomers sharing their power? And how could these newcomers possibly try to imitate their methods of success and encroach on the ecological niche of the early adopters?

Why should those who came first have to tolerate those who came later?

Mephisto grew up in such a social environment.

At that time, the nobles' solution was to recruit most of the innate mystics into their own families, invest in their education when they were young, and eventually recruit other talents from commoners into their factions. This was still within the normal range.

Mephisto was one of those talented individuals who were able to pursue his studies thanks to the support of the Alban family. In fact, he suffered countless hardships in his youth in order to learn about the mystical. Even though he was a transmigrator, he endured countless discriminations, bullying, and beatings in this world before gradually making progress.

This is why Faust was able to become the second seat in the Singing Council, and Harley Alban was able to become the third seat. Faust and the Alban family helped him when he was at his weakest, and this was his way of repaying them.

However, as Mephisto grew, more and more discerning nobles discovered his value and began to invest more in him. When he became a god, he united all those who had invested in him to form the Order of Praise, which jointly managed the world.

Although it was supposed to be jointly managed, everyone in the entire Praise Society except Mephisto was a nobleman!

Even Faust was a true aristocrat.

Mephisto only requires the nobles below him to hand over enough women as tribute each year. In this case, what would the nobles do?

The world as it is now is fully revealed.

A world reduced to gangsters and prostitutes...

There are no more commoners; all commoners are descendants of prostitutes. Girls, once they reach a certain age, either become prostitutes or are captured and disappear.

The vast majority of boys are forcibly castrated and then transformed into girls under the influence of a magic potion, thus achieving the same fate as girls...

What should be done about those who have awakened innate techniques?
Like the peripheral members of the Alban family, they either joined the nobility and became their henchmen, or were sent to become managers in a nobleman's gang.

Or, it's still castration, gender-swap drugs, and being sold off all at once...

After the nobles achieved priority control over the extraordinary through their ancestors' accumulation, they did not make the world a better place. Instead, they chose to lock the door to upward mobility, ensuring that the common people would forever remain common people.

Even if you awaken an innate technique, you still have to sell yourself to a nobleman. Unless it's an exceptionally powerful one, like the kind that can reach a near-4th rank of power right after awakening, nobles will choose to take you in as a son-in-law or accept you as a dog for better conditions, in order to get higher value.

But essentially, they still accept them as dogs.

The nobles of this world are a perfect example of the saying, "Why do you think you can surpass the accumulation of our ancestors for more than ten generations just because you have awakened your innate techniques? You are a commoner for a day, and you will be a commoner for a lifetime."

What role does Mephisto play in all of this?
Xue Dinglu closed his eyes and thought of several old friends once again.

Wanyan Gou, Wang Mouren, Pétain of Vichy Franz...

By betraying the people to gain benefits and by indulging in compromises to gain support, the mystical aristocracy has become the underlying logic of this entire world.

Just like those peripheral members of the Alban family who risked their lives to fight for the city lord's head, most of them were commoners who had awakened innate magic techniques and had joined the Alban family.

Nowadays, they are capable of doing anything without any moral bottom line in order to obtain a surname, much like those abstract figures from the Northern and Southern Dynasties who buried their children to raise their mothers.

At this moment, Su Su raised her hand and asked, "Brother, brother, I know, I saw it online before. Shouldn't someone raise their arms and shout 'Are kings and nobles born with special privileges?' and start overthrowing the current situation where the nobility and the Chanting Society jointly rule the world?"

But at this moment, Faust and Schrödinger's Law both fell silent.

After a long silence, Xue Dinglu finally said, "If this trajectory of development continues, then the nobles of this world are truly born with a special destiny..."

"Huh?" Su Su was immediately stunned.

"Because civilians are endlessly divided and arrested by gangs, even if someone awakens an innate technique, it is almost impossible for them to gather a complete force. Because gangs rule over civilians, under the rule of gangs and the endless division of classes, the lower class can never gather a real force that can overthrow the existing system," Xue Dinglu said.

"Besides, even if they are lucky enough to overthrow the gang, nobles will immediately come to invite them to a banquet to be beheaded and take them in as dogs. After all, the lower classes have even lost the right to read, let alone knowledge. Their intelligence can be easily fooled by nobles, and they will be taken in immediately. If the nobles cannot take them in, they may not see the sun rise tomorrow."

"So, the mystical aristocracy of this world, are they really born with a special destiny?" Xue Dinglu's expression was also very solemn.

Although he looked down on the world's mystical nobles and what Mephisto did, the policies and structures they set up were indeed capable of maintaining their family's millennia-long legacy.

From the perspective of aristocratic families, this was a policy that would allow the nobility to continue to prosper while ensuring that the lower classes would never have a chance to rise up.

All I can say is that the political intelligence of this world is hundreds of times superior to that of the war fanatics in the old Demon Emperor's world. From the perspective of the nobility, the lower classes of the entire world have been turned into prostitutes who can be manipulated however they want through political means.

However, in such a world, there actually appears a guy who betrayed his own class: Faust.

Xue's Law also found it bizarre that someone could actually betray their own class. Faust was a nobleman among nobles, yet he thought of others. It was unclear whether this was due to his experience as a teacher or his awakening after witnessing the gradual decay of the world. Now, after experiencing Roland City, they had a better understanding of the world's situation.

Even Xue Dinglu, the body he possessed was almost cut off from his genitals and then drugged into a girl. If he had been less lucky, he might only be able to live in this world as Nan Liang now, which would have been truly pathetic.

Therefore, Xue's Law showed no mercy when dealing with nobles and gangsters, trampling the bones of high-ranking officials on the streets, for all things in nature are created to nourish people...

"As for the kidnapped girls, their fate is simply to become offerings to the other apostles," Faust said, and at that moment, they once again understood the underlying logic of this world.

Just as Faust and Xue's Law were recounting the situation of this world in more detail, the caravan had arrived in Tulip City. The two messengers from the Alban family said, "Gentlemen, we have arrived in Tulip City, and the Alban family has also arrived."

"Don't we need to go to the mansion?" Xue Dinglu asked, puzzled.

To everyone's surprise, the two men chuckled and, seemingly instinctively, spoke in a condescending manner: "Madam, you may not know this, but the entire Tulip City is the residence of the Alban family."

“Alas…” At this moment, it was Faust who sighed.

Xue Dinglu wasn't annoyed; he simply nodded. After all, these two wouldn't live much longer anyway, so let them enjoy themselves for the last two days.

After entering the city, the two led their caravan to the courtyard where their Roland City branch family was housed, and then went to report back.

After they left, the three of them on Xue Dinglu's side fell silent.

"Susu, have you checked the Alban family's festival schedule? When does it start, and when will Harley Alban arrive?" Xue Dinglu asked at this moment.

"Huh? I don't know!" Su Su immediately froze on the spot.

"Usually, they come during the harvest season, which is about three days later." Faust, on the contrary, seemed to know everything, even better than Susu, who had possessed the Olben family's body, about the Olben family's customs.

"What are the specific plans next?" Faust asked in return after the specific time was given.

“Three days is enough time for me to do a lot. I also brought a team of a hundred members from the Akatsuki organization, which can spread throughout Tulip City. Even if the Orburn family finds out, I am still a member of the Orburn family now. At most, it can be considered as a branch family undermining the main family. I will try to make arrangements during this time,” Xue Dinglu said.

At this moment, Faust suddenly stood up: "Actually, our plan has many problems. Many parts are too presumptuous. Even if we find Harley, I believe that you, Apostle, can successfully ambush her if you are prepared to catch her off guard. But even if we lure Mephisto here through Harley, how should we deal with him?"

"I will take action, and I can also find a friend with combat power similar to that of an ordinary apostle," Xue Dinglu said, but in fact, there are many problems with this.

In other words, Xue's Law does not know whether Xue's Law, together with Captain Singal of the Starfleet, can suppress Mephisto on their home planet.

You might spend all your time scheming, only to find out you can't win.

Xue's previous plan included taking away the remaining population of this world and then destroying the planet.

However, he now felt that this plan was somewhat far off. The Akatsuki organization currently had hundreds of thousands of members, and the number of people connected to Su Su through the Divine Descent Technique was only that many. This was a lot for a single organization, but far too few for Xue Lude, who wanted to save everyone.

Even if they desperately develop their network and spread the Akatsuki organization to all the nearby cities in the remaining time, they can probably only take away a few million people at most.

His initial plan was indeed somewhat presumptuous, after all, he did not know much about the world before. He even thought that the population of this world was concentrated, but he did not expect that this world had hundreds of cities, distributed tens of thousands of kilometers apart. The whole world was basically sparsely populated, and Roland City was only a slightly above-average of these hundreds of cities.

If given time, he could sweep the Akatsuki organization across all the cities in the world like the Yellow Turban Rebellion in just one or two years. Then he could launch a massive transfer, using the consciousness space as a transit point to move everyone to the temporary settlement of the interstellar column.

But he doesn't have that much time, and perhaps no one else in this world does either.

"So, what are your thoughts?" Xue Dinglu asked directly.

Faust took a deep breath; the old gentleman seemed to have made the most important decision of his life.

“I think that by using the same body-snatching technique as you, I can also function in a normal human body and get close to Mephisto,” Faust said. In the past few days, he had also figured out the body-snatching technique that Xue Dinglu and the others were using.

This is a technique with significant side effects. For example, Xue Dinglu's compatibility with this body is currently very low, and the original body cannot exert much power. However, the concealment of this body-snatching technique is unparalleled.

After all, it originated from the Mind Flayer's technique, which was originally a targeted ability to counter the world consciousness scan. In the world of Angel Rachel, the Mind Flayer God King did not discover his problem even when he fought Rachel head-on, despite Rachel's authority over the world, until he summoned the Divine Tree.

Therefore, the concealment of this body-snatching ability is beyond doubt. No matter how much the world consciousness scans, it will be difficult to detect that this body has been possessed.

Unless targeted code is prepared in advance, and unless the mind flayer actively exposes itself, even physical contact will not be detected.

However, one can sense contact on a spiritual level, since possession involves a change of soul, but no one would be crazy enough to engage in soul-to-soul contact.

"Whom do you want to possess?" Xue Dinglu asked.

Faust must have already decided on his target for possession, otherwise he wouldn't have told Xue Dinglu directly, and it's highly likely that Xue Dinglu was an old friend of his in the Hymn Society, so that he could get close to Mephisto.

Faust's lips curled into an exaggerated grin, and he exclaimed, "Harley Alban!"

"Oh, I see... Wait, who?" Xue Dinglu was immediately filled with questions.

Even Su Su, who was completely bewildered by the riddle, instantly snapped out of her daze when she heard that Faust wanted to possess Harley Alban, revealing a horrified expression: "I remember, isn't the head of this Alban family a woman? And she's more than friends with that apostle, but not quite lovers?"

“That’s right, it’s Harley Albann. I want to possess her and use her body to get close to Mephisto,” Faust said. “Furthermore, I know Harley and Mephisto very well. They are both my students. I have lived and worked with them for nearly a hundred years. I can perfectly imitate Harley’s personality, demeanor, and even her movements…”

“I’m even confident that even in my current spirit form, I can possess Harley, and once I have control of her body, carrying out some plans will be much easier.” Faust smiled, a smile that suddenly became sinister.

"No, why would you possess a woman's body? Killing someone is just a matter of beheading, you can just kill her and that's it..." Su Su seemed a little confused. With her IQ of 250, she couldn't figure out what Faust wanted to do by possessing her female student's body.

"What are you doing?" Faust laughed wildly, his mouth almost reaching his ears. "I'll poison him, and then find a way to break through that barrier with Mephisto and unite with him!"

Xue Law: “!!!”

Su Su: "!!!"

"Huh?" The two of them exclaimed in shock at the same time.

Even at this moment, Xue Dinglu suddenly realized that his extraordinary wisdom was like that of a green recruit in front of Faust.

What the hell is this "world-shaking wisdom"? Translate this for me: what exactly is "world-shaking wisdom"?

This kind of wisdom is something Xue's Law could never have imagined in a lifetime.

"Brother, I'm scared..." Su Su immediately hid behind Xue Dinglu.

"Don't be afraid, let me be afraid first..." (End of Chapter)