Lord Shadow

Chapter 1717: The African Problem

The Order of Thinkers recruit scientist and people who wanted to do research and become a large tree for those who have knowledge but do not want to get caught up in the politics of the world

The World Government people all have the desire to unify the world under one government where great harmony would be realized and no more war would happen in this world

As for the African Alliance, they still uses nations of the past to rule their people and this is why some of the people in the other world power think of the African Alliance as digressing from the progress.

And that organization that have always bene relying on the World Government is now slowly decoupling itself from the World Government

This is actually a good thing for the Republic. But it seems the African Alliance is also shunning the Republic.

It is not that they donʼt cooperate. It is not like there is no trade. But there is a concerted effort to remove the influence of the World Government and the Republic on them.

Jean could understand the feeling of the African Alliance. Nobody likes to be controlled by a different force.

Jean himself always emphasize a win-win situation between him and the other forces.

He had heard that there is a new force growing in African Alliance from Sudan and Zimbabwe. The thing about the African Alliance, they are not united in hearts.

Why?

Because there are interest.

What is ironic about the whole thing is that even before the Fall, Africa had many resources that is exploited by the other nations.

And after the Fall, like it mirrored the reality before the Fall, Africa is the continent with the most dungeons and caves filled with energy stones.

There is mines with payload of energy stones, energy ores and many new minerals that could only be found in Africa

From the rivers to the mountains, to the hills, to its seas, all of it is full of resources. Such a rich continent.

With such rich resources all over their continent, the World Government who was the first force that manage to organize themselves and quickly initiate contact with other powerful people on the other parts of the world, they of course wanted to take some of these resources. And from the beginning the World Government make their own investment on Africa sending their officers there.

The crumbling government in Africa was then replaced by warlords and dictatorial regime. But unlike certain belief that the rule by these warlords and dictatorial regime is bad, at least, during that time of chaos, these warlords and dictatorial regime was the one that stood up for the people around them

A tribe leader could amass great force if they could prove that they could protect the people in the region.

These warlords did not rise from the ruling elite at that time. Instead, these warlords come from those strong people.

These strong people are either disenfranchised, poor, criminals and sometimes people with great injustice.

They are the strong one. Because they have that certain grit that some of those people living in ivory tower does not possess

Of course, they are also some people of the ruling class before the Fall that have their strength

These warlords themselves were oppressed when they were in their youth so they understand how it feels to be oppressed.

They rises and while some of them are drunk in power, most of them could restrain themselves.

The warlord raise an army to fight against the monsters, and the warlords and the people supported each other

The dictatorial regime pool the resources of the many, quickly giving their resources to one person to quickly level them up and they choose the strongest among them to lead them all to fight against the monsters

And when the small friesʼ monsters has been eradicated, only then these warlords that rise because of the era began to have bigger ambition.

A farmer rises to become a ruler of a nation, a butcher rises to become a formidable warlord, a child soldiers rises to become a King and a prostitute manages to become a Queen

In Africa, during the Fall, there is many such stories. And then when the dust settles, the nations before the Fall in Africa was transformed.

Fighting was all around. They fight against monsters, they fight against other warlords and not before long, the entire region of Africa fall into ceaseless war.

It was during this time; the World Government began inserting their influence all over Africa. Some of the most powerful warlords could see that if they keep fighting among themselves, the African interest would be usurped by the World Government and so in a historic event, these powerful warlords convene a great meeting between all the powerful forces in Africa. This kind of meeting of course alarmed the Quorum of the World Government but at that time, the World Government is still having a lot of conflict with the Revolutionary Army. Not to mention Lord Shadow who was just a rising fledgling back then.

These warlords also knows to choose their times. They waited for the World Government to have their hands full and only then they make these meeting

In that meeting, these powerful warlords lay down the rules.

To prevent the war from spreading too much old borders before the Fall would be respected.

And so, most of the warlordʼs war is contained.

And then when the world powers idea was floated around by Death Monarch, the same warlords that proposed the idea once again proposed another idea to the other warlords and other regions of government in Africa.

”Letʼs make an alliance of fifty more nations and called it the African Alliance to convince Death Monarch to gave them legitimate power and a voice in the world stage”

This was the proposal

The warlords all agree

At that time, there was even some people that believe that a united Africa would be born. They learn from history and try to create an alliance to make sure that their resources would be exploited carelessly.

But where there is profit, where there is conflicting interest, there would be conflict

The Alliance of the African nations. That is what the African Alliance means to the rest of the world. But to the other world powers, they see the true nature of the African Alliance.

It is not an alliance of African nations. It is an alliance of warlords, kings, Queens and

emperors of Africa.

And all of these people have their own personal desires, have their own personal interest, has like and dislike and as such, these are all things that could be manipulated

Asia is big. And Africa is also big. And just like Asia, they were ravaged by monsters after the

Fall.

And such event created strongman that would rule a region.

And they uses the name of the old nations.

There is Sudan.

There is Somalia. The name is the same.

But the ruler is different. And the border is also different

What Jean is worried about is the trend of the unification that is now merging among the

African nations. Unification sounds like a good thing

Unification is just one of the banners of the powerful that they would impose upon the weak. In reality, unification means purging of the old order.

And who would suffer the most?

The people. How many people would die?

How much blood will be shed for the ambitions of these people?

As there would be people for unification, there would be people who fought against it.

Old interest and new interest would appears and this interest would collide with each other

And the one that suffers the most are the innocent ones. Even more so in this age of gods and

deities.

Jean worries about this development.

He did not know how to say this though without offending certain people in the African

Alliance.

It is not worth it for him to speak now, have his words distorted later and offended people in

the African Alliance that could be his allies.

So, he sighed and spoke

”I believe there could be instabilities in the management of the African Alliance. The Sea of Darkness does not have that much of harmful effect. The island however is a wealth of resources. Sina herself always went there with her Battlestar to collect herbs and other kinds

of plants for her garden. I fear giving it to them when the.... force is unstable would lead to...

corruption”

Azief savors Jean words, think about it for a second and he simply said

”Ah”

He understand perfectly what Jean is saying to him. Just like Jean he also heard that some people now might have different intention that the Alliance.

Many of the warlords in the alliance actually wanted the same kind of administration like in Pandemonium where there is only one ruler.

That way, all the resources of Africa could be pooled together. The only problem is, none of

these warlords could convince the others,

They do not have a figure like the three great powers that could intimidate the world

In a term of the Old World, they do not have nuclear deterrent.

Everyone knows that if the three world powers is attacked, the force they could bring would

shake the world and changes the world as they know it.

Death Monarch stands on top of Pandemonium. Earthshaker is the guardian of the World

Government. Jean would stand for the Republic.

Once any of these powers is violated, then Death Monarch would began slaughtering

warlords.

It is the same for Raymond and Jean.

But the African Alliance did not have this kind of figure.

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