Chapter 660 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

For the civilians, or for the lords?

Sui Xiong realized that he had spared much thought on this.

Originally, this should have been a matter of concern, of course. Whether it was his moral principles as an earthling, or the need to propel the development of this world, he needed to do things from the standpoint of the civilians.

But in recent years, especially after the Mystery God System was destroyed and many churches from the Void God System started to spread their teachings comprehensively within the Mifata Federation, Sui Xiong grew more and more concerned about missionary work. This gradually shifted the focus of his work.

Even… the focus of his thoughts also changed.

Why did he want to help the lords continue living? Just to expand his sphere of influence, to promote his church?

In that case, why would he have imposed limitations on the Life-prolonging medicine that Slime Alchemist, Wendy, had created previously? He could have directly launched that kind of potion that could endlessly prolong people’s lives, would that not be a better way? So long as he had a firm grasp over that potion, would those decrepit aristocrats dare to do anything to him?

He was no longer the same as before. He had enough clout. At least within the Main Plane, he feared no challenge at all.

Did this mean he had to change his tune and direction?

Of course not!

How those old lords, who had outlived their usefulness, continued living was no business of his at all!

It was good that they could support their own churches, but it also did not matter if they could not. Waiting for maybe another eight to ten years, or at best, 30 to 50 years to pass—would they not die by then?

When they had died, the next generation of lords might not necessarily support the Church of the Void Mask. Even if the next generation was not supportive, he could always wait for the next generation in line.

Who knew, maybe after waiting up to the nth generation, the family clan of this lord would have reached its end. On the continent, generally, the lordship within a family clan would be handed down for five or six generations. Then a hundred to two hundred years later, they would almost have reached their end.

There were many reasons why they had to meet their end. The most common one was war, followed by political struggles and the likes of them. On more than one occasion, there would be a situation where several heirs of a particular lord contended with one another overtly and covertly, and the conflicts had intensified so much that they were killing one another. Then the immediate heirs would die, thus leading to the posterity of that family being cut off. The king would thus be outraged, and so he would get the rest of the aristocrats who were related to his family to inherit the territories of the dead.

Generally speaking, a king should never dictate the inheritance rights of a lord. This was the rule, and it was also an implicit rule that the various lords recognized. But in such situations where the successors were creating such an absurd commotion, even to the extent of directly severing ties, as the alliance master of the lords, the king had the right to come out and mediate. He also had the right to mete out punishment to families who went overboard and who broke the rules.

So generally speaking, even if the aristocrats were to struggle over inheritance rights, they would still observe the rules and allow the defeated party to walk away with some dignity. They also would not go to the extent of hurting people. But the longer the family’s inheritance was, the more the conflicts accumulated, and eventually, it would become impossible to stop them. Therefore, an extensive family clan with a long historical standing would almost have reached a dead end by then.

Of course, these things had nothing to do with Sui Xiong. Anyway, whether these noble lords were prosperous or down on their luck, whether they had many children and grandchildren or were left with a family that was broken and decimated; either way it was really none of his concern. As a god with eternal life, it was completely unnecessary for him to pay attention to these lords.

Above all, he also did not want to pay attention to these people.

From his point of view, these lords were, frankly speaking, almost as good as parasites that clung onto their people, sucking their blood dry. There was no essential contribution to the society that they had made to deem them indispensable. Look at the earth—the places without lords were generally developing better than the places with lords. The former had oil beneath their feet, but there were no signs of them developing into democratic and strong societies. On the contrary, all kinds of phenomenal works and monstrous things had appeared in large numbers.