Reaper of the Martial World

Chapter Book 7: 356: Lightly (1)

Book 7: Chapter 356: Lightly (1)

On yet another day of Dyon’s extended vacation, he lay to the back of Soul Palace once more, half asleep.

“Why didn’t you tell me about the Shadows Faction?” Clara suddenly asked.

By now, it had been several weeks since Dyon spoke to Caedlum and it seemed Clara finally couldn’t hold in her questions any longer. Not to mention the family heads, no one but Dyon knew the details of the Shadows Faction.

This was an odd feeling for Clara who had technically drafted more than 90% of the current laws of their Mortal Alliance. She had known that Dyon refined a lot of the smaller details, but adding a whole faction unbeknownst to her was a bit shocking.

Dyon laughed. “You know more about it than you think.”

“What is it?” Clara asked.

“How can we hope to conquer lands quickly without information? The reason no one ever succeeded in creating an Emperor God Clan in a single lifetime wasn’t because no one was powerful enough, it was because the scope of the martial world is too large.

“Think about it. When we lived in the mortal realm, we didn’t even understand all the truths of our planet alone. Even the solar system was incomprehensibly large to us, while the universe was our infinite. Even if we have millions of lifetimes, we couldn’t delve into the secrets of them all.”

Clara nodded, she of course knew the value of information.

“Now imagine blindly trying to conquer a universe. You know nothing about its structure, or even the location of your enemies. You might even have to blindly jump from star to star, looking for life.

“To make matters worse, our lives as cultivators are actually long enough for the life cycle of universes to affect us. Maybe not insofar as its death, but we definitely have to worry about planetary and star orbits. If we spend thousands of years attempting to conquer a single universe, suddenly, the landscape we thought we knew so well would become a completely different one.”

This wasn’t even something Dyon thought of until his master told him the location of the celestial deer sect’s remaining legacy.

Back then, Esmeralda hadn’t described an exact location, but instead she said this:

“According to the year it is, and calculating the orbits of the universes, planets and galaxies…” The 25<super>th</super> White Mother spoke quickly, using an ancient calculation means to provide Dyon the exact position of the Legacy World.

“You don’t have to be in too much of a hurry. Orbits of such large bodies are very slow, so at least for the next ten thousand years, the position I’ve given you won’t be too far from what I’ve told you. But, you’ll have to recalculate the position of the planet when the time comes, or else you’ll have to search the entire solar system.”

It was then that Dyon realized that the scope of what he was undertaking was beyond his imagining. How could he coordinate billions, even trillions, of warriors with any sort of consistency in that sort of situation?

In this case, Dyon was only dealing with a single legacy that wasn’t moving, but what if he suddenly had to deal with dozens of powerful enemies with hundreds of subordinate clans spread across countless solar systems. Just how would he deal with that?

He needed information. He needed it quickly and he needed it efficiently. If he didn’t get it, he could forget about ever accumulating enough Fate to match the entity in battle.

A single campaign might last hundreds of years, larger ones might even last thousands, this was why largescale wars normally didn’t continue past the Gates. It simply took too much out of both sides.

But, what would happen if you suddenly had information to the tiniest details about your enemies? If you could meticulously lay traps time and time again, and rout them completely?

This was what Dyon was after!

“The Shadows Faction is our information network. You’ve laid down the groundwork for it already by creating the Sapientia Network. Once we implement phase 3, it will become too large a problem for the Sapientia to water down themselves. At that point, they can only accept the reality.”

Clara’s eyes widened. “Phase 3!” How could she had forgotten about phase 3?

The first phase was a one-sided affair, it allowed the Sapientia Clan to disseminate information to the people. Because of the control they felt, the Sapientia felt comfortable. Nothing had changed, they were still controlling information and making money hand over fist.

However, that was when Clara and Dyon implemented phase two. At first, the Sapientia had been slightly reluctant, but after seeing just how much money they were making, they allowed it. In fact, without this steady stream of funds, Dyon would have already run dry by now. But now, his vaults were overflowing with so much money that he was actually worrying about how to spend it all efficiently.

Then, there was phase 3… This was a point where the Sapientia would lose almost all control over the behemoth they helped create. And, it would allow Dyon and Clara to suddenly infiltrate the affairs of all 100+ tower quadrants with a simple thought!

“That isn’t enough, though.” Clara said after thinking a while. “Who knows how long it will take for Clans to begin trust the Sapientia Network with their most hidden secrets? Cultivators simply aren’t like mortals. Their memories are too good to need to store things consistently, and their lives are too long, making them quite stubborn.”

Dyon smiled. “The 3^rd Phase is just one part. The second part are our little scouts.”