Male Succubus Apocalypse

Clara caught Soma's subtle movement and was about to look over there, but her view was blocked by the small umbrella Soma held up.

My hand was held and Soma led me towards the passage.

"Clara, ignore these wimps. I don't dare to accept you as my disciple. They just say nice things." Soma said with disgust.

"Soma, it's not the masters' fault, this is the rule..." Clara wanted to say something for the masters who were diligent but always received cold water from Soma.

"Rules? Rules are bullshit! We said before that you wouldn't be allowed to enroll, but I broke the rules by giving them a false title. Tianmen College is just a gathering place for a bunch of poor wretch who dare not fight against politics!" Soma interrupted Clara directly.

Walking into the somewhat dark passage, in the shadows, stood a man in a suit whose face could not be seen clearly, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

"Master Soma, Your Excellency the Crown Prince..." The man didn't finish his words. Soma didn't even raise his eyes. He just raised his hand slightly, and red lightning-shaped blood shot out from the tips of his fingers towards him.

“Ugh—” He cried out in pain, but the man held it in and continued, “The master asked me to talk to you.”

"Soma! Stop it! He is Chino, the servant who grew up with me!" Clara heard the voice and identified who the uninvited guest was from her dusty memories.

"Hmph, playing the emotional card? How despicable!" Soma twitched his nose, took back the blood in dissatisfaction, turned his back, walked to the end of the passage, and said: "Then you guys can chat, right here. Clara, don't forget, you still have to accompany me to do a manicure later..."

After Soma's figure disappeared, Clara wanted to help Chino, but was rejected by raising her hand: "My lord, I'm fine. My status is different now. Please don't embarrass me."

Clara's body trembled, and she stood still with some disappointment. "Are you here to persuade me to go back too? I have clearly promised to give up all family resources and the status of the prince, and not to embarrass the family. Now I am not your little master anymore. Can't we call each other friends? What else does the family want me to do?"

Hearing this, Chino sighed slightly and said, "Then Miss Clara, I will talk to you as a friend... The family has provided you with a lot of cultivation resources and cultivated you into a talent. It is common sense that we hope you can go back to help with internal affairs. You refused at the beginning, saying that you wanted to go deep into the grassroots and do something. Lord Zhenguanhou also agreed.

But now, not only are you not returning to your family, you've also joined Tianmen Academy, touching upon the political taboos of the Central Plains. Even if you unilaterally break with your family, Tianmen will certainly not accept you. Why are you putting yourself in such an embarrassing situation?

He also dragged Count Soma into the water.

Or is it that the righteous friend who was determined to repay the motherland and devote himself to the people has now become a selfish, rebellious person who only cares about his own likes and dislikes under the pollution of the materialistic city?

The family can provide resources, and if you don't want to get involved in politics, the family can delay it, but how can you escape here to avoid responsibilities and obligations? This is not the Clara Kalmia I know!"

He tells the story in a leisurely and emotional manner. The regret and pain implied in Chino's body language and words can be clearly felt in the darkness.

The family kept sending people to persuade Clara. First, they proposed to cut off the resources, to which Clara agreed. Then they proposed to expel her from the family, to which Clara also agreed. They even put pressure on her, but Clara remained neither humble nor arrogant, and had no choice but to send Chino.

They couldn't figure out what Clara had encountered and seen in Jincheng that caused her temperament to suddenly change and she completely began to fight against the will of her family.

Facing Chino's words, Clara's eyes dimmed for a moment, but her body did not retreat. In the darkness, her small but firm voice rang out: "Maybe I have really changed, but I haven't changed.

Chino, I am no longer the Clara who only listened to the words of her family. I understand that since I was born in Kalmia, I have been born with political positions and political responsibilities. I have never thought of escaping. At Tianmen Academy, when the Roen Empire was in trouble, I was allowed to take action. At that time, even if the family did not allow it, I would appear at the forefront without fear.

However, I refuse to participate in the ugly power struggle, checks and balances, and "power politics" of each fighting for its own. I also refuse to become a weight for the empire to oppress other races and peoples in the world.

I still want to contribute to the people, but for the people of the world, for all the suffering people in the world, not for the peace of the Roan Empire, but for the peace of the world. What I resist is not the war against the Roan Empire, but the war that threatens everyone in the world like the War of Ten Thousand Nations.

My father was wrong. Races are not completely incomprehensible. There is no absolute good or evil, and there is no inherent superiority or inferiority between people.

I can always make sacrifices for the Empire, but my sacrifice will not be based on the oppression of others. This is my belief. The only freedom I want is

Chino, let me ask you, if I return to the family, can I still get this kind of freedom? Even if you keep saying that you are my friend, isn’t it your instinct to address me respectfully? "

After saying this, Clara was about to leave. This was the first time she truly expressed her true thoughts.

Chino knew that Clara in front of him would not be moved by him, so he struggled to say: "Clara, what on earth did you encounter?"

Clara paused, then shook her head and walked away, leaving behind a sentence: "Nothing, I just met a new me."

……

While waiting for Hermes to come back, other masters who had secretly brought their students to watch on the wall came to say hello.

They were all impressed by a "cat man" who looked very stupid and whose movements were very mechanical - was such a person also selected for the silver preparatory position?

Julian was helpless, as he did not want his colleagues to doubt his vision in selecting people, but Xu Heng did often appear dazed but responsive. Hermes said it was related to his field and cruel experiences.

So he couldn't ask Xu Heng for anything.

So what is Xu Heng doing? After asking Julie the question "Why doesn't Clara have a master?", he got a rather large answer that required understanding.

Everything started with the extremely unique "politics of the strong" and "politics of the middle land" that emerged after the War of Nations.

These hidden political knowledge cannot be found in any recent new books. Only those who are in a position of strength or power can get a glimpse of it. It can be said to be a kind of inner world politics that is visible but tacitly understood.

The War of Nations showed the world that a demigod has the ability to start a war across the entire continent.

Moreover, in the continent-wide war at that time, those who were extremely powerful and were both the rulers and the strongest people in a country became the first deserters at the beginning of the war.

First of all, a strong person may not necessarily rule a country, and if a country is weak but he himself becomes strong, it will only create the illusion of a strong country that is strong on the outside but weak on the inside. This was particularly evident in the war between the orcs and the humans.

What's more, the strong spend a lot of time practicing, how many people have experience in governing the country? How can they really spare time to deal with state affairs?

The army was weak, the country was empty, and no matter how strong the king was, he would be unable to fight alone after the people had fought, and his opponents were not without strong ones. After understanding this, all the powerful kings chose to flee at the first opportunity, taking their people who could still provide them with resources.

It is not because he loves the people, but because the people still have value for him. So is such a monarch suitable to be a monarch? No.

This is the first point.

Secondly, many powerful people who had no country to supply them took the opportunity to rob resources and enslave refugees. They had no obligation to resist the invasion, and only a small number of people with a sense of justice stood up, but they were unable to reverse the situation.

It not only allows the world to see the cowardice of the strong, but also their greed and ruthlessness.

Therefore, combining these two points, we understand that the strong are born from the people, and the strong will always be strong, but they may not necessarily be able to govern the country. However, a country cannot lack strong and knowledgeable people, so a new political approach "politics by the strong" is proposed.

That is to propose that wise men should govern the country, capable men should take charge of management, and while providing for the strong, they should also establish nepotism with them, and check and balance each other for symbiosis.

A wise king can govern the country and seek power, while a strong man can protect the country, obtain cultivation resources and certain privileges, thus achieving a creative political system that uses state power to counter the power of the strong.

The Roen Empire was the first country to implement this system. Of course, the specific system was quite complicated. Although it was criticized at the time, history still proved the advancement of this political system:

It made the Roen Empire strong and prosperous for hundreds of years.

Now that the strong ones who are willing to be checked and balanced have been dealt with, what about the other strong ones who are unwilling to be checked and balanced, and even more unwilling to be used as bargaining chips by the wise king to fight against each other?

We can't let a group of guys with heavy weapons wander around outside, can we?

So, in order to solve this problem peacefully, Middle Land was born.

It seems to allow the strong to practice freely and pass on their skills, but in fact, when Hongdao, Tianmen Academy and Black Domain were first established, it was a big plan to encircle the strong people in the world.

The game is played by warriors.

Warriors need to fight, right? Then gather you all together to fight! The country can provide help, gather undisciplined fighting masters from all over the place, and provide students. It seems that Tianmen College is a paradise for warriors, but in reality, there is a political factor.

That is, those who are sent to Tianmen Academy to study successfully are often not allowed to participate in politics, because they have to leave the country when they are young and come to Tianmen to study. Once a genius enters the silver class and becomes a disciple, it is equivalent to being put in shackles.

First, if one stays in Tianmen for a long time without contact with the secular world, one will lose his keen sense of politics. Second, if one has a master, one's own behavior may very likely implicate the master himself, and one cannot participate in national struggles at will. Let me ask you, if the disciple whom you have carefully cultivated is caught up in a political struggle and is about to die, will you save him? Once you save him, then you are also involved in the game.

Therefore, entering Tianmen Academy - meaning entering the Silver Class and truly becoming a part of Tianmen Academy is equivalent to giving up politics. You have the right to go down the mountain when the country is invaded, but you do not have the right to participate in the country's foreign wars.

Then, with this as the core, in order to weaken the power of a certain prince, a major country would force him to send his talented children to Tianmen Academy, or even secretly bribe a certain master to accept his children as disciples.

This is an internal political measure.

As for external affairs, it is very simple. Tianmen Academy can force small countries without resources to send their own talents there. All they need is for the big countries to exert war pressure. Then the small countries will need strong people, but they do not have the ability to train them and can only rely on Tianmen Academy.

Therefore, although in the end they may very well have a patron saint who can stand out when they are invaded, they have also completely lost their talents and cut off the possibility of rising. Will their economic development be good? Then they will be exploited by big countries, because in the end there will be no strong people stationed to protect them.

What about the big countries themselves? They have the confidence and can cultivate themselves.

Such foreign political means will lead to a wider gap between small and big countries. This is a component of the "Central Land Politics" extended from the "Politics of the Strong" - "Tianmen Politics"!

The princes who knew this well would never let their descendants with potential go to Tianmen Academy. Tianmen Academy often did not dare to accept them because, to be honest, you really could not guarantee that there would be an apprentice who would not care about the life or death of his master, and would be recalled by the family after completing his studies.

Small countries can still teach people a lesson and make them useless, but what about big countries? It's hard to say.

This is the case with Clara. No one dares to offend this bad luck. In addition, Clara's family has been putting pressure on her. No one would be willing to offend a big family for a disciple whose loyalty cannot be judged.

But not only that, as a powerful family with military power, don't they want to have a descendant who is good at both politics and cultivation? After experiencing a series of changes, it is impossible for the strong to fail to see the importance of understanding politics.

But they can only encounter such a genius who can put aside some time for cultivation to study politics and eventually become the offspring of a strong man.

The family division of labor model, which has the great disadvantage of some people participating in politics and some people becoming strong, will use their strength to oppress the children of politicians. It is far from being able to fight against those cunning and wise kings supported by the people.

But Clara was obviously different. Not to mention her talent in cultivation, she had also changed a lot since returning from Golden City.

This is what is worrying, because it is because of this difference that the family is currently unable to completely win over Clara.

In addition to "Tianmen politics", there is also "Hongdao economy".

Most of the mages in Rainbow Island were sent out voluntarily by their country - of course, the trump card mages would not be sent out - why? Because the cost of supporting mages is very high, and there is no large-scale war now, so it is better to put them together and improve technical productivity.

In particular, it can allow technology to circulate. If a mage, as an individual, is nurtured by the country, he may discover some arcane arts or invent some magical tools, but he does not necessarily have to hand them over to the country.

But if you let them support themselves on Rainbow Island, it is not necessarily the case. Not only can they force their own mages to sell their technology, but they can also buy the technology of other mages.

It takes money to buy technology, right? It takes resources to monetize technology, right? Who will benefit more in the end? The big countries.

On Rainbow Island, stateless mages are the freest, and those with nationalities are the most uncomfortable. But no matter what, a quiet place for research far away from politics is a fatal temptation for every mage.

In addition, the grassroots education in various countries has some kind of brainwashing education that believes a wizard can only succeed if he has a fundamental interest in magic, or a warrior can only become successful if he has a natural obsession with fighting skills, which makes it easier to control these strong people.

The dark domain? Not to mention the dark domain, the dark side of all countries is there. No matter how dark and cruel a country portrays it to be, Julie, who regards it as her hometown, knows it best.

It is a paradise lost specially designated for a group of people who have made meritorious contributions but have committed serious crimes, and whom the country does not want to punish but has to punish in order to appease the people.

It also circulates some shameful but extremely profitable commodities and is a concentration area of ​​the black and gray economy. Behind every merchant there is the shadow of the state.

Necromancer spells, devil contracts and other seemingly evil but actually profitable things are secretly fermenting in the black domain and being used by various countries.

The above summary is the central controller that controls the entire continent - "Middle Land Politics", and it is also the truth about why Middle Land is allowed to appear.

Is it a shocking plan to put shackles on all the strong? For peace? For checks and balances? For the tragedy of war between nations to never happen again?

Only those in high positions know what it is really all about.

Or maybe each of you is very strong, but when you come together you are just loose sand, a single force? Then if you dominate all the countries, how will you divide the non-renewable resources without the people?

It is the people who rule the strong, not the strong who rule the people. This is the essence of "strong politics".

But without the war of nations, which caused the people to lose trust in the strong and even increased their hostility, such a political system would be difficult to achieve.

It’s just that dwarves and elves have slightly different political traditions. Julie will introduce these one by one later. There is a reason why there are few dwarves and elves in Tianmen Academy.