NOVEL WEB Chapter 21: This Planet Revolves Around Me
"I think you misunderstand something, Your Majesty Lord Entropy."
Li Aozi took a deep breath and said:
"This is not me challenging you."
"This is a war. A war that bets the life and death of a species' civilization."
"You are facing not Li Aozi, but all the soldiers and civilians of Azure Star."
"When you are erasing my personal potential, extinguishing my happy ending, the mortals are fighting for the safety of countless families' lights, for the future generations to have a beautiful end. We are willing to face the worst outcome."
Despite Li Aozi's impassioned words, Lord Entropy remained calm.
"I have witnessed the Four Nations, and what the world was like before them."
It no longer showed various possibilities. Abandon Mist rose up, and with a casual grasp by Li Aozi, it was a bloody and terrifying dark history.
"The Yamiriko Federation, in the year 4931, launched a military operation against a small country, causing 11 million people to leave their homes. And that small country wasn't anything good either, corrupt officials were everywhere, when the war started, no one cared about the casualties of the two peoples, other countries in the world took advantage to benefit, harboring young refugees, seizing resources..."
"The Frost Plated Republic, in the year 3927, launched a massacre against Sky Ring Deer Dream City, causing 920,000 deaths, with corpses floating all over the river. Downstream, it was a white brain horizon."
"The Mingji Heavy Industries Group, the Koster Plan, used the genes of two powerful psychicers to conduct unethical inbreeding experiments, resulting in a terrifying monster that caused the death of 1.01 million people."
"The Red Arrow Empire often complained about their suffering and hatred, but they should actually thank those who attacked them. Without the Four Nations, they would forever remain a small fisher-hunter tribe, it was war that advanced their civilization."
"My awakening was not a random factor either. The Yamiriko Federation was too greedy. After they learned about technology, they quickly discovered me, Lord Entropy, deep within the Earth's Core, and even planned to erase my existence."
"In this world, there are no victims without cause. The Yamiriko Federation was my first major attack target. The particle accelerators and Stellar Path they left behind were essentially meant to eliminate me as weapons — if they focused only on developing technology, I actually would not have launched the Ersha Sky Curtain."
"I have never killed humans. It was humans who, after being infected by Ersha, could not resist my power, then completely became Ersha's puppets, worshiping me of their own accord, singing my praises."
"The history of GTB's development is beside them. They blocked a lot of knowledge sent by the Maxwell Consortium. Actually, I'm not interested in those things. If you're really looking for an enemy, you should seek out the Maxwell Consortium, not try to eliminate me."
Lord Entropy said nothing, simply letting endless dark history surge forth.
It did not argue back. It laid out each fact for Li Aozi and didn't even bother using euphemisms.
Li Aozi browsed through the dark histories of each country on Azure Star.
"When you delve deeply into the history of this land, you'll find that human thought matches their suffering. Everyone is a descendant of original sin, their damage to the planet far surpasses anything I've brought."
Li Aozi withdrew his hand from Abandon Mist, and Lord Entropy said to him:
"Salt earth does not bloom freedom's flowers, nor do depressions bear the fruit of civilization. The humans on this land cannot unite."
"They can."
Li Aozi looked ahead and said to the omnipresent Ersha:
"Humans must unite, and they inevitably will. You understand this, Your Majesty Lord Entropy. Because you know very well, once humans unite, combined with my external force, they can thoroughly defeat you."
"However, Azure Star has never united."
Lord Entropy said:
"They are forever selfish, never able to comprehend each other. They will never reach out to face a common crisis, even at the last moment, leaders still only care about their country's interests — the entire Starry Abyss is like this, life is selfish."
"No, they have united. The people of the Four Nations and those from the Outer World all once gathered together, striving for a common goal, the Starry Abyss even had Life Commune organizations that worked tirelessly for liberating the fate of all Brief Lifespan Species and ending hegemony without seeking returns."
"That's impossible."
Lord Entropy denied it:
"The Four Nations have deep-seated conflicts, and the Outer World suffers countless hardships, they could never reconcile, let alone cooperate. I have never seen such a scene happen—"
"But you have."
Li Aozi smiled and said:
"I am that result."
This time, Lord Entropy was silent for a long time.
Li Aozi didn't care about what Lord Entropy thought. He had already understood this guy's disposition, so he said:
"The Orion Plan, initiated by Li Aozi, a Red Arrow Green Card holder of Outer World mixed heritage, led by Sky Ring Rouge Army's leader Gretto Yegg, primarily executed by Narrow Space Mirror, with Frost Plated Third Rule Agent Du Zexin personally stealing critical nuclear weapons, former Yamiriko Federation prosecutor Alicxia, Secret Society's Yawen, Metro Brotherhood of the Outer World, and the lord of Triangle Town, plus a large number of weapons and warriors from Zhengxu... none could be spared."
Li Aozi placed one hand on his hip, stating as if it were only natural:
"Human unification is not just my wishful thinking."
"But I lead their process from the very beginning."
"This planet has already been bought by me. Long before this, my incarnation controlled the State Religion of the Red Arrow Empire, my fleet provided global deterrence, the leader of Sky Ring was my friend, I had ended Frost Plated's regime, the Descenders from Zhengxu were also my people."
Li Aozi spread his hands and declared boldly:
"I am the Sovereign controlling the Power of the Stars, everything on this planet belongs to me. Civilization is under my control, unity or division, all depends on me — this planet revolves around me!"
"The truly blind one is you, my Lord Entropy."
"You think the threat to you is technology, is power, is civilization — no, no, no, relying on humans alone, breaking the game is too difficult."
"From the first day I came to Azure Star, this planet was fated to be mine, I control the fate of everything in this world!"
He chuckled and then immediately turned solemn, declaring:
"Now, I declare — the brilliance of human civilization will illuminate Ersha's perpetual long night."
"To the 2.4 billion soldiers and civilians of the Four Nations and the Outer World, hear my command: I want you to unite and drive Lord Entropy from Azure Star!"
"At this moment, this is the time when the human stars shine brightly!"