[Age 53: You and your wife nad your child Erian, aning hope and light.]
[Age 54: During your recovery period, your position was replaced, and the Nord Financial Consortium rcenary Corps fired you. You had to look for other rcenary groups, and through ’practice’ with Makeup Morticians on the battlefield, you have gradually mastered this Talent Sequence.]
[Age 55: The nshu Group rcenary Corps happened to have a vacant senior officer position, and they sent you an invitation letter, promising you better benefits and offering partial Mysticism access within the nshu Group. You joined the nshu Group rcenary Corps and beca a Captain of the rcenary corps. Your main task was to protect the nshu Group’s caravans from being plundered.]
[Age 56: The nshu Group arranged a villa near the legion base for your wife and child so that you could spend ti with your family during free ti. However, because you often traveled, as the child grew up, you found he wasn’t as close to you.]
[Age 57: Your younger brother contacted you, and he has now beco a Senator of Fro City, succeeding your father’s position. As your father grew older, he has mostly retired from the political scene. He hopes you can co ho and visit.]
[Age 58: After completing a task, you applied for a long vacation and took your wife and child back to Fro City. You t your father, who was already over eighty years old. Your brother had long been married, and his eldest child already had his own children.
You had many conversations with your father. You know that before retirent, your father successfully rose to the position of Vice President. He still had ambitions to run for President but was too old and was abandoned by his party, eventually retiring as the Progressive Party whip. He hopes you can often bring Erian back to visit, and you agreed.]
[Age 59: During a process of repelling wilderness bandits, you made military accomplishnts and beca the Deputy Captain of the First rcenary Corps of the nshu Group. The then-chairman of the nshu Group board t with you, and you learned that he was friends with your father. He granted you more Mysticism Knowledge access and found clues related to Makeup Morticians’ subsequent Talent Sequence, Talent Sequence 203: Hell Manager.]
[Age 60: ’Hell Manager’ is not a ’popular’ B-level Talent Sequence. As far as you know, in the Federation’s known B-level sequences, it seems no one has this Talent Sequence. Information related to it is very scarce, and even the nshu Group only knows that the Witch Church and Church of the Grim Reaper are suspected to have information related to this Talent Sequence.]
[Age 61: Your brother helped you connect with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and started investigating the Church of the Grim Reaper and Witch Church. But relying solely on your strength was still not enough to contend with the two churches. Your wife did not receive a promotion and remained an F-level Transcendent. Her health has been poor and she frequently gets sick since giving birth.]
[Age 62: To win support from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, besides handling rcenary corps affairs, you also started helping the Federal Bureau of Investigation with case handling and gained the status of an auxiliary personnel, amassing considerable rits.]
[Age 63: Through the introduction of your father’s friend, you t the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a mysterious old director who takes a liking to you. You had a prolonged conversation, and you began to leverage the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s power to partake in actions against the Witch Church and Church of the Grim Reaper.]
[Age 64: In a raid, you successfully eliminated a Witch Church base with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, acquiring the secret dicine formula for ’Hell Manager.’ Following this formula, you began gathering materials.]
[Age 65: Your wife fell gravely ill, and you took vacation ti to stay ho with her and summoned the best dical team from Stars Pharma for her diagnosis.]
[Age 66: Ultimately, you couldn’t save your wife’s life. At her funeral, you had a big dispute with your child who was in middle school, and he opted to rent a place near the school to move out of the house. You had an old subordinate watch over him nearby.]
[Age 67: You sold the fast-fashion brand you and your wife established in Fro City. Through marked-up acquisitions in the black market, you finally gathered all the materials for Hell Manager.]
[Age 68: You beca a B-level Transcendent. This year, the nshu Group obtained a quota for the third rcenary corps, and the then-chairman of the nshu Group board reached out to you again, hoping you’d assist in building the third rcenary corps as the Captain, and you agreed.]
[Age 69: Your father passed away at the age of 95, and even your child, who has always been at odds with you, returned ho to attend his grandfather’s funeral. Your son was about to graduate high school, and you began looking for recomndation letters for him.]
[Age 70: You had your brother, now a core mber of the Liberal Party, help you obtain a Vice President’s recomndation letter and donated a teaching building to Vitran University to allow your son to enter Vitran University without examination. But he didn’t accept your offer and instead got admitted to Dawn Industrial University. Without your knowing, he went to study in Dawn City alone.]
[Age 71: Your family’s influence in Dawn City is far less than in Vitland and Ains. However, through your old comrades from the Nord rcenary Corps, you were introduced to the president of Dawn Industrial University. You made a scholarship donation to Dawn Industrial University, hoping the president could take care of your son and cover his expensive tuition and living costs through the scholarship.
The president thanked you for your generosity and agreed to your request.
You stayed in Dawn City for a while and t local political and business elites. If your son wants to develop in Dawn City in the future, you can still assist him through these connections.
Dawn City is indeed the most prosperous city in the Federation, so decadent that you felt captivated. Among everyone, the one who left the deepest impression was a councillor nad Christos. Although he seed sowhat out of place with the crowd with views you found sowhat radical.
But inherently, you could see Christos as soone who genuinely got things done. Among politicians who only knew how to make money, he was considered quite dazzling.]
[Age 72: Your brother joined a new campaign team, attempting to enter the Cabinet. You helped persuade nshu Group’s senior managent for support, but their team still got defeated by the opposition, failing the election.]
[Age 73: Under your construction, the nshu Group’s third rcenary corps beca one of the most elite rcenary groups in the Federation. nshu Group’s board held a eting to comnd your achievents and stated that the First rcenary Corps’ Captain recently resigned, hoping you could take on the Captain role.
You knew they hoped to separate you from your old subordinates in the third rcenary corps to prevent your personal power from growing too large, but you agreed to their request.]
[Age 74: Your son graduated, and you paved channels for him. As a chanical engineering graduate, he could directly join the core departnt of the Evis Spatial System and potentially beco a senior executive in the future.
If he wishes to continue studying, you’ve also contacted the president of Dawn University.
But he did not choose employnt and didn’t follow your arrangent. Instead, behind your back, he applied to Vilensis University for a graduate program—a small school specializing in intelligent equipnt manufacturing, ranking far below Dawn Industrial University in the Federation, let alone Dawn University.
But Vilensis is located in the Northeastern Federation, which is the territory of Note Intelligence and Stars Pharma, where your influence is weakest.
You specially took leave to fly to Vilensis and tried to take him with you. Eventually, after a dispute, it ended with both of you parting unhappily.
This ti, you didn’t interfere with your son or provide financial support. But you still assigned an old subordinate to watch over him from nearby.]
[75 Years Old: Due to your years of contribution within the nshu Group, the nshu Group specially arranged an award ceremony for you. But you know, you perhaps should retire. Recently, a new captain nad Motoc from the Second rcenary Corps is rising rapidly. Clearly, the board is trying to find your ’successor’.]
[76 Years Old: Even without your help, your son seems to have settled himself firmly in Vilensis. He has also discovered your arrangents to monitor his old subordinates, and sotis intentionally avoids them.
A video of a person nad ’K’ spread across the entire network, but you haven’t cared about the internet for a long ti now. Your old subordinates noticed your son pays close attention to this person, prompting you to also glance at his videos.
You think this ’K’ makes so valid points, but his thods are rather extre.
Your brother still participated in the campaign team, preparing to challenge the incumbent President. The current President has been working in local positions for many years before finally rising up. You have talked with him before and know he is a capable person, but capable people aren’t necessarily lucky. After the first term, many consortiums expressed disappointnt and chose to support your brother instead.
But even so, the hope for your brother to win the election is low. Their team’s presidential candidate is not outstanding; your brother has a higher reputation than the presidential candidate but he is too old. The Liberal Party internally is unwilling to support him in running for President.
Until one day, your brother suddenly called you, saying the current President wanted to invite him to join the President’s team and serve as the deputy. This ans he is very likely to beco the Vice President in the new governnt— a position your father once reached.
If your brother goes over, a large portion of consortium support would be taken, enabling the current President to stably gain reelection and control the parliant.
But your brother would be continuously suppressed, making it harder to run for President in the coming years.
Your brother sought your opinion. You did not give advice but rely expressed you would support his decision, knowing that he seeks your backing.
You have no objections to the current President; you know he is a man of actions.
Finally, your brother chose to cooperate with the current President. The current President successfully won reelection, and your brother also beca Vice President of the new governnt.
At the end of the year, you received unexpected news: Christos beca Mayor of Dawn City— a young man under your influence, sowhat of a radical pragmatist.]
[77 Years Old: After two years without contact, you went to Vilensis to et your son. You shared a al, chatting about the events of these years. You found your son seems to really like this ’K’, even believing ’K’ to be so kind of Divine Being, which led to a dispute between the two of you.
But eventually, you both cald down and avoided the topic. He told you he is currently interning at Note Intelligence and will continue his PhD in Vilensis. You don’t interfere with his choices; for so many years, your conflicts were for the first ti not that sharp.
You returned to your original work rhythm. Christos successfully assud office as Mayor of Dawn City, seemingly triggering so changes but the Federation remained as usual.]
[78 Years Old: During New Year, your son returned ho and joined you in commorating your wife. You took him back to Fro City to honor your grandfather and told your son the entrepreneurial story of your grandfather.
The cleaning company founded by your grandfather still exists, running according to the logic set by your grandfather back then, and has beco Fro City’s second-largest employer after Rockville Energy Group. Legally, this company belongs to you, but it almost has no profit and can barely maintain operations. You did not manage it, but continued to let old employees run it according to your grandfather’s rules.
You let your son enter this cleaning company for a month, overseeing its operations, adapting to the company left by your grandfather. Initially, he resisted but after so ti, he seed to develop a fondness for the company. When you see him again, he was cleaning the streets together with the workers.
He even asked you more about your grandfather’s deeds. You feel like there is so reflection of your grandfather in this child.
Your son said you are not as open-minded as your great-grandfather. This ti he left hastily for school, leaving behind a commorative coin with a black-and-white mask, seeming to symbolize ’K’. You kept it, planning to return it the next ti you et.
You searched online about the ’K’ event and unexpectedly discovered Vitland issued the Scavenger Act, and Dawn City introduced the Wilderness Wanderer Act. You have to admit, although ’K’ holds radical views, he indeed pushed the Federation towards change and is a pragmatist.]
[79 Years Old: The group is gradually marginalizing your authority and arranging for your old subordinates to retire. You estimate that you won’t be able to continue for more years.
The first good news at the start of the year was the Rockville Energy Group suffered losses in Wint City, and even crashed a space carrier. You do not like Rockville Energy Group because it crushed your grandfather’s company back then.
But you vaguely sense that unrest is beginning in the Federation. The ’change’ that ’K’ brought to the Federation is taking root and transforming into sothing terrifying.
The storm is coming faster than you anticipated.
Mid-year, a coup occurred in Yilan City, involving rcenary corps from consortiums. Although the heroic Mayor Linen solved the problem, so uncontrollable beginnings have been sown.
Soon, you received orders from the nshu Group. The patience of the board towards Christos seems to have reached its limit as well. They hope you could lead the First rcenary Corps to Dawn City to ’harmonize’ so internal conflicts, but they are unwilling to disclose more details.
You rejected this task citing age.
Eventually, the board chose to have Motoc lead the Second rcenary Corps to execute the task.
In the later half of the year, many of your old subordinates were ’laid off’ or ’retired’. A person with little ability was promoted to be your deputy captain. You can sense that the board is quickly working on eliminating your influence in the rcenary corps.
In fact, you don’t have any allies; inside the rcenary corps, you already hold no influence.
You have a premonition that once Motoc returns, it will be your turn to ’retire’.]
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