Lord Shadow

Chapter 1715: Distributing the Lot of the World V

The Kings and Queens and Emperors and empress outside the region seems to have followed the Lotus Order.

Lotus Order chose to compromise with the warlords and these independent regimes and maintain the false names instead of clashing with them.

Regardless Azief must admit that their approach is successful in quickly stabilizing the continent.

They might not have enough power to suppress all forces but Azief had never told the world power to oppress all the forces in that continent

As long as they could prove to the world that they could stabilize the continent and not have their authority challenged and defeated, then Azief would acknowledge that force as the legitimate force of the world

It was a different time.

The world was in so much chaos that an order needs to be established.

And Azief alone knows that if he does it alone, the order he created would be even messier.

More blood will be shed hence he delegated the authority over the world and instead of wanting to control everything, which is something he never wanted in the first place, he shares the world with other six forces.

Lotus Order is an example of not using force to stabilize a continent

At least, Asia is not embroiled in a war between the independent regime and the Lotus Order.

As long as they show appearance to respect the Lotus Order, the Lotus Order pretend to give them autonomy.

This is what Sasha told Azief when she briefed him about the Lotus Order.

The reason why Azief said pretend is because it is not that they pretend to give power to these warlords

From the very beginning, the power has always been in the hands of these warlords.

The giving off power is just optics to the rest of the world. It is like giving honorary title without no power.

Only in this case it is not the Lotus Order that give the title but it is these warlords. These warlords did not want to fight a world power backed by Pandemonium, the Republic and the World Government.

So, they pretend to obey the order of the Lotus Order and the Lotus Order could deceive the world saying that they gave autonomy

Both sides are happy.

Lotus Order could prove to the world that they have pacified Asia and gain control as the force that is acknowledged by the other world powers

It enables them to sit alongside the other world powers in the negotiating table.

As for the warlords, they could keep their power and influence and their region without worried about being attacked by other world powers.

As long as they did not do excessive things that affect the world and attract the world condemnation, they are free to do whatever they want

Living like kings and emperors in their domains.

But...can this false peace endure?

Azief did not know.

He did not know what the people in Lotus Order is feeling nor does he know what the forces of the Lotus Order would do.

In a way, it is like a group of nobles ruling the country, sharing the world with the emperor. The emperor is the Lotus Order and the warlords and the other regimes all over Asia are the nobility.

As for Pandemonium it is more like a rule of absolute monarchy. It is even more close to a theocracy as many people believe in the Death Monarch

The World Government is like a constitutional monarchy with the President having great power to draw up laws and even legislate it.

Having the power to move the army, having the ability to enact emergency act that would put power in the hands of the President and the Quorum as the place where the powerful and the influential could make their voices known to the central government

Even though the Quorum have power, the President power is overreaching and it is not an exaggeration to say that he has the power of a monarch even though he present himself as some kind of democratic leader.

The truth was no one elected him to become President.

He gave himself that title

Even more so when Hirate, the First President of this organization was the one who founded the World Government

It has been almost a decade and he is still the President.

The Republic is a Senate system with the rulers of a certain force being given the power of the Senate to do things that benefits the people under the rule and influence of the Republic. Giving the name Republic wins it many allies. This is what image means and this is what optics is useful for.

Names have powers and the meaning attached to a name gives it power. Pandemonium is basically something that Azief had chosen after seeing the land of Australia ravaged by monsters.

It is an apt name. But as the years passes, the meaning seems to take a different meaning in the minds of the people

To them, the reason it is called Pandemonium is because of the chaotic regions that surrounded the Australian continent.

Full of monsters, dangerous seas, pirates, and dangerous people. It is a land of crouching tiger and hidden dragons.

It is a land of the strong and only the strong could live here.

Azief was thinking of all of this and he sighed. ”I really did not want to waste my time dealing with this kind of nation building” he thought to himself. Azief has many things to do, and nation building is not really something he is looking forward to do.

Instead, he wanted to know what is that vision of the future he saw? Will it come true? And if he is walking that path, how could he veer off from that path?

What about the ring of Etherna?

What is the plan of Etherna? It must have something to do with him.

And the glimpses of the future he seen once in a while always makes him feel anxious. Loki... how does he plays into all of this.

A person that is not of this time. He became more and more sure about his guess about Loki

And hence he become more anxious to become strong. And this plan of ten realm is his way of settling cause and effect and at the same time this is his plan to quickly break through

He believe if he succeed doing this ten-realm project his power would undergoes a new evolution

And this alliance brokering thing sometimes drained his energy, figuratively. Azief look at Jean and then he ask ”Lotus Order.... could they deal with the warlords and the pirates? The warlords that is all over the continent of Asia is enough to give him a headache. Now, there is a group of pirates.

Wouldnʼt it be too...overwhelming for them?

Azief feel uncertain giving them the Cloud Sea.

The other sea is dangerous but they did not have that many human elements. What they have to deal with would be natural disaster and magical disturbances which is in Azief eyes is easier than having to deal with human elements ”I will help them if the pirates becomes too unruly” Jean said

Azief hearing this could not help but smirks a little

Jean continue saying ”And after the last beating that we gave them, I donʼt think they are too eager to clash with us again. Lotus Order, no matter how low they are in the hierarchies of the world power...is still a part of the world order. It is a part of the world power. And even the warlords would band together if the pirates tries to establish their influence on land. It is not a losing deal for you”

Azief shakes his head ”This is not about interest. This is about stability. I could not give the sea to Lotus Order if they could not keep it stable.” Jean did not say anything as he could only sigh and close his eyes. It is clear he leave the decision to Azief

Azief also knows why. Jean is the people of the Republic. He did not owe much to the Lotus

Order

The fact that he even spoke for the Lotus Order is good enough. Azief knows that the Lotus Order if they could unite the entire Asia would become a behemoth. There is many heroes and outstanding person in the scope of governance of the Lotus Order

It is a pity that all of these people belong to different master, regimes and kingdoms.

Azief is thinking.

And there is another reopens why Azie is reluctant to give the Cloud Sea to the Lotus Order.

The other people might not notice it yet but Azief notices it. There is a hidden scheme in this.

But this hidden scheme did not target the world power

The Cloud Sea is not dangerous. Other than it is a hideout for piratesʼ stronghold.

On the surface Azief said that he is worried whether the Lotus Order could keep the order stable.

What he didnʼt say was that maybe the reason why the Lotus Order wanted the Cloud Sea is because they wanted the pirates.

Maybe, they wanted instability.

Azief knows best that chaos is the best occasion to reorganize the order. Old order could be torn down, new interest occupied by a new interest class, a new world could be born

And maybe the Lotus Order wanted this chaos, wanted this competition so that they could clear off some problems of the past.

Azief is only speculating at this point. But if his speculation is true, then he worried whether this plan of theirs would backfire.

So, he sighed inwardly. He did not show this tiredness to the other four people inside the room.

The problem for Lotus Order was never other world powers.

But the warlords all over Asia.

There is two tigers in one jungle. >>