I'm a magnetic field madman

"After you were seriously injured and unconscious, a little girl named Katagiri Yumie brought you back and handed you over to me," Muroto Sumire answered casually while checking the various data...

"But she disappeared after bringing you here, and your physical condition has become increasingly strange. You've been sleeping for three months, and the energy produced by the viruses and microorganisms that coexist with you has been increasing..."

"That's not what I was asking," Rentaro interrupted Sumire Muroto, speaking in a low voice...

“Alright, after that major battle in Tokyo, Blue Dream Corporation took over the entire city.” Sumire Muroto turned to Rentaro and said softly…

"After defeating Scorpio and all the invading Gastrea, Bai Wujie, the leader of Blue Dream Company, announced that he and the Holy Emperor had taken over the ownership of Tokyo and Japan."

At the same time, he disbanded all military powers of the Self-Defense Forces and the armed forces of the police, killed or arrested all high-ranking officers, and officials suffered a similar fate, with AI taking over most government functions in their place…

The description given by Sumire Muroto is of a situation where the leader of an extremely powerful corporate organization has taken over and controlled the government, abolished all military and official departments, and completely controlled it by his own power.

It perfectly embodies the cyberpunk worldview. However, the Blue Dream Corporation's rule is not so simple.

"He ruled over almost half of Tokyo, which had been reduced to ruins, and with the help of his iron birds, he rebuilt all the destroyed cities and infrastructure in a mere month and a half, and regained control of the heavily polluted nuclear power plants and factories."

Using the chromium metal from dismantling the megalithic ruins, they created even more iron birds to protect the Tokyo area, restoring order to the city in a very short time... With the assistance of companies like Sima Heavy Industries, Tokyo even became more "prosperous" than before...

Sumire Muroto's tone was very neutral, and without a doubt, what she described as Blue Dream Company's actions were good deeds that no one could find fault with.

They rebuilt the city that was almost completely destroyed in the apocalypse, brought people under control and united them who had become a living hell due to the chaos of the world, forced corporations to hand over resources and profits to maintain people's livelihoods, and protected the place from the constant invasion of Gastrea.

How can anyone find fault or flaws in such a "perfect" ruler?

Rentaro couldn't find fault with it either. As long as Scorpio wasn't brought in by Blue Dream Company, his actions could be described as savior-like.

Yet he still felt no affection whatsoever for Lanmeng… because he knew the dark secrets of this company, this organization. He looked at Tendo Kisara, hoping to get the answer he wanted from her.

Facing Rentaro's gaze, Tendoki hesitated for a moment before whispering...

"I know what you want to ask, but now is the time for you to rest. We'll wait for you to recover..."

"Tell me right now!" Rentaro grabbed Tendo Kisara's hand, gripping it tightly, his resolute voice seeping through clenched teeth...

"On the very day that Blue Dream Corporation announced its takeover of Tokyo, the Gastrea New Law was passed." Kisara Tendo paused for a moment, then said in a low voice…

"But unlike the laws drafted by the Holy Emperor, this new Gastrea Law stipulates that all cursed children—no, now blessed children—automatically acquire a citizenship status superior to ordinary people from the moment of their birth, enjoying higher priority access to public facilities and welfare benefits. At the same time, upon reaching the age of five, they must undergo government intervention and join the Blue Dream Corporation for standardized education..."

In other words, the children of the curse, who were once despised, abandoned, and regarded as having no legal rights, have suddenly become people of higher social standing than ordinary people, and this is even enshrined in the law.

Rentaro fell silent once again. Bai Wujie had indeed accomplished what he himself had failed to do—to bring happiness to those unfortunate children.

Could it be that I really misunderstood Bai Wujie? Is the existence of Lanmeng Company truly a better thing for this world?

No, it can't be that simple. Rentaro's head throbbed with pain, but his active mind kept his logic sharp. He took a deep breath and asked Kisara Tendo...

"What about those who oppose him? It's impossible for no one to oppose such a regulation."

Rentaro clearly understood the fragility and baseness of human nature...

How could they tolerate a group of people they had just trampled underfoot standing on their heads?

Happiness is always derived from comparison, and for the general public, their joy often comes from the suffering of others.

The useless person lying in the pit doesn't think about how to climb out of this unfortunate pit, but rather how to drag others into this unfortunate cave, stepping on their heads and looking at their lower position to gain happiness and pleasure from comparison.

Tendogi lowered his head and remained silent, while this time it was Muroto Sumire who answered. She turned on a television in front of her, and what was being broadcast live was a large group of people marching.

They held up all sorts of signs, and without exception, they were all covered with various radical slogans.

Slogans like "Get out of office, you heartless entrepreneur!" and "Return the emperor to the righteous government" were mild; most of the slogans were aggressive and even insulting towards the "cursed son" and Blue Dream Company.

These groups of demonstrators roamed the streets and alleys of Tokyo, and strangely enough, fully armed troops stood by watching and even helped them maintain order.

These soldiers were all private armed forces of companies like Sima Heavy Industry...

After Blue Dream Corporation announced the removal of all police officers' right to possess weapons and the dismantling of all Self-Defense Force military forces, those troops either chose to be absorbed by the company or became civilians.

"This kind of march has been going on for six days now," Sumire Muroto said quietly.

"The city march that began six days ago was initiated by former Minister of Justice Yamanaka Iji on February 26. He delivered a passionate speech in front of the Lemon Tower, which is now the political center of Tokyo."

Sumire Muroto pressed a few buttons on the remote control, and a video recording began to play...

In the video, a middle-aged man in a suit and tie, speaking righteously, is standing on a makeshift platform and giving a loud speech into a microphone. Behind him is a towering building that seems to reach into the clouds and has no end in sight.

"Our government is finished! Political power has fallen into the hands of corporations, and military power has been plundered by Blue Dream Corporation! The Tokyo government is now a dead body!"

“If this continues, everything we have will be controlled by those big corporations. Our society will lose its vitality, all our social welfare programs will be abolished… and more importantly, our human rights will be violated!”

"The Gastrea New Law, which advocates the implementation of such laws, is trampling on the human rights of our Yamato people!"

They've given even greater power to children infected with the virus—this is an insult to us, a contempt for us!

"Tokyo is sick, and Japan is doomed! The international community is condemning the actions of our insane government, and now is the time for us to fight back!"

"Under the eight directions and one sky, Heaven will punish the traitors to the nation! Now is the time for us to rise up!!"

His passionate speech indeed ignited a passionate atmosphere among the many people below.

The content of the speech didn't seem wrong. Does a country controlled by many large corporations really have a future?

But the problem is, the world today is an apocalyptic world.

Three months ago, the entire city of Tokyo was nearly destroyed by the advance of monsters.

Don't people who have been immersed in peace for so long understand that they have been living in a seemingly safe but actually fragile birdcage?

One person's stupidity is understandable, and so is the stupidity of ten thousand people, but Rentaro knows exactly what the price of stupidity is.

Rentaro, forcing himself to sit up despite the pain, looked at the silent Sumire Muroto and asked in a trembling voice...

"Tell me, what became of those officers—Kikunojo Tendo!"

Blue Dream Corporation seized supreme power in Tokyo and purged all high-ranking government officials except for the Holy Emperor.

So what became of them?

Were they all killed? Or... is it even worse?

Rentaro had a premonition that what happened to these people would also happen to these people who were marching and protesting.

"They..." After a long silence, Tendo Kisara slowly spoke, his voice filled with both pleasure and sorrow...

"Still alive, living a life worse than death."

27. The Reign of the Sea Tiger God of War

Politics is a fucking, thick pile of dog shit that's impossible to spit out, and every person in power...

Yet they had to smile and hold that thick pile of dog poop in their hands, playing with it incessantly.

Some say the art of politics lies in compromise, while others say it lies in assimilation.

To bring a group of people to the same level of intelligence as you, or to lower your intelligence to the same level as the group.

People talk about politics with utter disgust yet flock to it. On one hand, they lament the corruption of political bureaucrats, and on the other hand, they tout politics as a science, a kind of wisdom.

Damn it, politics is a load of bullshit wisdom! In Bai Wujie's opinion, politics is just complicating a matter that can be summed up in one sentence into hundreds of sentences and then endlessly discussing nonsense!

Bai Wujie detests all politics because he has experienced the feeling of being forced to play with this shit.

Sometimes, even between martial gods, there are some damn political factors at play.

Wasn't this the way the earth used to be?

The Bai family royal family, the United Nations, and other major factions and tribes like Ultimate Boundless were all powerful. At their peak, the Bai family royal family could overpower everything. However, more often than not, even the Sea Tiger Martial God had to make some "compromises" with these organizations.

Where there are people, there is politics. Bai Wujie does not deny this statement, because people are such complicated things.

Hellish politics is still politics, but it's nothing more than the politics of one person. It replaces bureaucratic democracy with absolute authoritarianism and the entire framework of political factors with a wise ruler.

It is human nature to complicate simple things, regardless of strength or weakness. Even the most powerful martial gods sometimes have the vile habit of manipulating politics and engaging in intrigue.

However, Bai Wujie was definitely not one of them.

He loathed politics to the extreme, not only because he hated the disgusting feeling of complicating and inefficient things, but also because he was a "real" person.

He understands his true self and expresses it without reservation. Unless it's for his own amusement, he never hides his truest thoughts or words.

And even when he's just looking for fun, he never lies. He hates the feeling of making up lies, and he hates even more the baseness of going against his own principles.

That's how he once ruled the land—absolutely "true," an "unmasked" self that made no attempt to conceal anything. Even his plan to cleanse the land, which he had once been brewing, was never hidden from the Bai family.

Well, that must be one of the reasons why he and his brother once fought each other.

Even so, Bai Wujie is ultimately unable to completely escape the shackles of politics.

To put it another way, hellish politics is still politics, and absolute dictatorship is also a form of politics.

Bai Wujie doesn't manipulate politics, but he *is* politics. Even the supreme ruler of Hell cannot do everything personally; he still needs the government and institutions to share his power and politics.

Even if Hell were a perfect philosopher-king, it could not establish a perfect society, because a perfect society is inherently illogical.

So, if we get to the bottom of it, the country and the land that Bai Wujie wants to create... at most just avoids doing any of that bullshit bureaucracy and inefficient democracy.

This is why most truly powerful magnetic field warriors have no interest in ruling itself... because even for the most "real" people, even hellish politics has too many things that they dislike and that waste their time.

Even for unparalleled powerhouses and emperors like the White-haired Man, the process of ruling greatly diminishes their patience, and they are even more tormented by the things that come with ruling than by the enjoyment they receive from it.

Of course, all of this is based on the premise that you want to rule well.

If one only wants to do whatever one pleases and enjoy the feeling of being at the top and being revered, then any person with a strong magnetic field can easily do so.

Because it's just about becoming a god, and for those with strong magnetic fields, becoming a god isn't effortless; it's that they don't need to do anything at all.

For ordinary people, the Magnetic Field Martial God is already a god, so why would he need to learn or endure anything?

Absolute violence can create absolute power and an absolute state. But that is only temporary. Knowing only violence will not make the place you create a true "heaven." If you really want to practice hellish politics, you will have to experience these bullshit things sooner or later.

Precisely because one must be an emperor, precisely because one must be a ruler, it is necessary to endure and bear those things.

Only in this way can one enjoy the exhilarating feeling of being revered and respected by the people amidst the prosperity created by one's rule.

At the top of the towering Blue Dream Tower, Bai Wujie was soaking naked in a huge golden bath. Beneath the bath, surrounded by countless water mists, a fair-skinned mermaid was swimming and rising and falling.

Bai Wujie remained silent, sipping his wine while gazing at the dazzling neon lights of the night, his thoughts racing.

Even after becoming an emperor, there are still many things he needs to consider and decide.

Because he had to be a good emperor, he had to take on all of this.

Even though he had already delegated power, letting talented people manage the city for him.

This time, Bai Wujie did not adopt the Bai family's royal model for ruling. Ultimately, the Sea Tiger Martial God's ruling model lacked a fixed system.

It is not to say that the existence of a political system with the Sea Tiger God and the Bai family royal family necessarily means a hellish political model or a feudal imperial system. In fact, this is a wrong prejudice.

Whether it's letting the people spontaneously organize a parliament, letting the subjugated war gods solve problems among themselves, personally handling state affairs, or simply letting the Bai family royal family and relatives manage the land...

Some Sea Tiger Martial Gods even choose to follow paths that would be considered unrealistic by people in the old days.

As for the question of whether the Bai family, as its population grows larger, will become a parasite on the people, there's no need to consider that... The Bai family would never allow such a thing as a royal descendant neglecting production and crushing the people.

It's not because the Bai family is inherently superior; it's purely because of, well... the internal "outstanding" elimination mechanism.

Firstly, the Bai family royal family, being strong in magnetic fields, already faces difficulties in reproduction...

Secondly, the choices made by each generation of the Sea Tiger Martial God inevitably unleash a true bloodbath within the Bai family royal clan.

That was no small matter like some petty palace intrigue; the struggle for the Sea Tiger Martial God had escalated into…

Star Wars are not uncommon, so most members of the White House royal family either die at the hands of their brothers or leave the White House to go elsewhere...

Regardless of the model, the existence of the Sea Tiger God of War will always be above any political system or institution.

It's not just politics, but also the absolute supremacy of law and everything else—absolute power!

Therefore, whether or not it is a simple political system depends entirely on the interests and ideas of the Sea Tiger Martial Gods.

The ruling structure that Bai Wujie adopted this time was to support some giant technology companies to replace the government in ruling the country.

Including Blue Dream Company, several technology and industrial giants in Tokyo, such as Sima Heavy Industries, have seen their power increase rather than decrease with Bai Wujie's support, leading to both confrontation and alliances among them...

They rule the vast Tokyo metropolitan area, taking over the functions that once belonged to the government from Bai Wujie.

Is such a ruling structure good? Bai Wujie didn't know, but he would never lack the resolve to wipe out these giant corporations and replace them with a new system and a new group of people.

Ultimately, Bai Wujie admires Hell's politics, but he will not completely imitate the political methods of that Hell's Grand Commander.

He saw things very clearly; the so-called system made little difference to him. He only needed to control absolute power, maintain a healthy upward mobility channel, and ensure relative legal fairness to always create a decent political situation…

But he also knew that politics was no different from nature, and that all things inevitably go through stages of decay and decay.

Even the most perfect philosopher-king cannot establish a perfect society... unless he can completely change human nature.