YM778.TV Chapter 462: Lux's Progress
"So, this is the tier 10 realm! Not bad," Readius muttered, secretly showing off.
"Hahaha, I\'m so strong now! How about we spar?" Alabaster asked, looking at Maximus with fighting intent.
With his current strength, suppressing Maximus shouldn\'t be a problem, right?
"Then take this~," Maximus muttered, mobilizing the Etherium Realm to suppress Alabaster.
Maximus could fight a tier 11 individual with his dimensional authority, much less someone who had just advanced to the tier 10 realm.
"Argh!" Alabaster screamed internally, feeling his insides being displaced as he did his best not to fall.
Seeing that Alabaster could no longer hold on, Maximus eased the pressure.
"You! I said I only wanted to spar, not get beaten up!"
"Furthermore, what\'s with using your dimensional authority?! Are you trying to kill me?" Alabaster vented, looking at him with resentment.
"I overdid it, sorry," Maximus said carelessly.
He didn\'t want to expose his true strength, so he could only teach him a lesson using his dimensional authority.
"What a jerk..." Readius silently muttered.
Readius had also wanted to test his strength against Maximus, but after seeing the result, he didn\'t want to suffer the same fate.
After calming down their surging strength, they began to discuss the preparation plan for the upcoming second phase of the war.
According to Maximus\'s deduction, in about 30 years, the second phase of the dimensional war would ensue.
By then, it would be a fight between tier 7 or tier 8 individuals, which would be the fiercest stage of war.
Besides the high morale and secret preparations that Maximus had made, they discussed various strategies to cope with the enemy.
After drafting a rough plan, they looked at the \'fifth continent\' before them.
"This could serve as the base of the Etherium Alliance. The one we have now is too inadequate, and we can\'t use the Etherium Academy for Alliance matters," Fealan suggested.
The Etherium Alliance had a base, but because they only used low-level materials, it was worse than even some of the capital cities within their continent.
"That\'s good, but what about the land we would gain from the Blood Ragnarok realm?" Readius asked.
Craving such fertile lands, Readius couldn\'t help but bring up the topic.
If they won and devoured the Blood Ragnarok realm, the Etherium Realm should at least double in size.
This kind of expansion wouldn\'t just include chaotic oceans and wastelands but also prairies of land suitable for survival.
Hearing this, Fealan and Alabaster also fell into silence as they turned to Maximus.
As the Dimensional Master and the nominal leader of the Etherium Alliance, only Maximus could decide such matters.
Seeing their looks, Maximus also fell into thought as his mind began to overclock billions of times.
Using the Seal of Truth, he deduced path after path, looking for the most perfect plan for the Etherium Realm.
Finally, after a few minutes, Maximus deduced a perfect solution.
"How about we make this land unregulated? Without interference from the Apex Sovereigns, we could assign sections where our people would fight for themselves."
That\'s right, Maximus chose the path of war and conquest.
Each land they absorbed from the Blood Ragnarok realm would be divided into three parts: the Tier 1-3 area, the Tier 4-6 area, and the Tier 7-8 area.
Each area could only be entered after reaching the corresponding realm.
Ambitious people from their continents could go to these areas to compete for territory, occupying more land for their respective continental leaders.
Not only would this be fair for the other three, but it could also drive them to train their people better and stronger.
More importantly, a chaotic place of battles and wars was essential to create a strong dimension.
During his deduction, Maximus realized that when he chose a peaceful path, dividing the land based on merit, a few hundred epochs later, the Etherium Realm would be weakened by a few notches instead of becoming stronger.
Although the population bloomed according to Maximus\'s expectations, an environment of peace and fairness made the people soft and weak-willed.
Most became lazy and dependent, always walking around the rules without any aspiration or hope for progress.
This made Maximus realize that a peaceful path would only lead to a corrupt and unmotivated dimension.
This should be why the Dimensional Alliance is full of competition and unfairness.
Although top families and organizations suppressed the masses, a way was still left for the strong to rise.
If they couldn\'t overcome such obstacles, they could only be exploited, drowning in the ever-flowing river of time.
After explaining his reasons and plan for the uncharted land they could devour from the Blood Ragnarok realm, the three couldn\'t help but nod.
Indeed, the Etherium Realm is too peaceful and systemized; all the paths of progression were basically laid out before them.
One just needed to be a little talented and hardworking to achieve a better life.
If it\'s just a short term of a few epochs, nothing would happen.
But if this continued for thousands or even millions of epochs, this kind of peace would lead them down the path of self-destruction.
Although there is the dimensional war to divert attention, it is not enough to create pressure, especially when Maximus could just revive everyone in the war.
After finalizing their plans, they dispersed with their thoughts in mind.
Reaching the tier 10 realm, how could a few hours of testing be enough to satisfy them?
Wanting to vent and test their strength, they quickly dispersed.
...
A few years later, seeing everything was still the same, Maximus heaved a sigh of relief.
"It should continue for over 20 more years..." Maximus calculated.
Twenty years should be enough for him to visit all his children and grandchildren.
However, before that, Maximus had a Void Auction to attend.
After preparing everything, he went to the virtual realm, Void Domain.
Walking to the Void Auction, he saw the familiar lively scene, with people from all over the Dimensional Alliance hawking their rare resources before the auction.
Seeing it, Maximus felt the stress he had accumulated from the war diminish.
Walking to a top restaurant, Maximus waited for his son, Lux.
It\'s been over 700 years since Lux started his business venture in the Virtual Realm, Central Domain.
The million origin coins Maximus gave him had now turned into hundreds of millions of origin coins.
Even Maximus was amazed at such growth.
Lux didn\'t have any ultimate treasure to cheat his way, like his Dimensional Origin Library.
All his profits and income came from insight and wit, investing in profitable establishments.
Lux had become a celebrity even in the Dimensional Alliance, growing to hundreds of millions of origin coins in value.
Especially in the Virtual Business Alliance, one of the three overlord organizations.
Seeing a business prodigy not from their organization, they nearly went ballistic, wanting to do everything to suppress Lux.
Hundreds of millions of origin coins earned by Lux meant hundreds of millions of origin coins were lost in their profit.
Unfortunately, they were in the Central Domain of the Virtual Realm, the base of the Dimensional Alliance in the virtual world.
Although prosperous, it is bound by the web of rules formed by all parties of interest.
Even an overlord organization wouldn\'t dare to be presumptuous in such a place.
They could only play by the edge of the rules, hoping to drive Lux out of business.
However, this only helped Lux become stronger, from his business acumen, sensitivity to the flow of money, ability to deduce trends, read people, etc., evolving to a higher degree.
Even his dimensional physique showed signs of evolving toward the ultimate level.
If Lux continued steadily advancing on his path, he might forge an ultimate path of his own.
Soon enough, Maximus saw Lux entering the room.
"Father! Long time no see~," Lux greeted with a smile.
Although Lux\'s physical body was in the Etherium Realm, his consciousness was too busy with business for them to see each other in the past hundred years.
If not for the Void Auction, Maximus might not even meet this son of his.
"Just call me Magnus; I don\'t want others to know my identity..." Maximus explained.
Unlike Lux, his money was earned by his alternate identity.
As for his real identity, he barely had a billion origin coins in his bank.
"Oh? It seems Father has a more prosperous side business," Lux said in an inquiring tone.
Lux knew his father had a casino in the Central Domain that earned a few million origin coins every year.
Lux thought that was already his father\'s main business, but looking at his alternate identity, it seemed far from the truth.
"Haha, don\'t pry too much; let your father have a few secrets." Maximus sighed, looking at his son.
They were becoming better and better; just from a few words, Lux could deduce so much information.
This made Maximus wonder how far his other children and grandchildren had improved.