When the plot-skips players into the game world Chapter 1493: 195: Professor Moriarty's Successor

Chapter 1493: Chapter 195: Professor Moriarty’s Successor

Coincidentally, the Parthians can just barely understand how this level of a city-state operates—because it is not a “pure slave society,” not the embryonic type of human society that developed from a primitive society.

Parthian Ancient Country is a fabricated, malford society, isolated as a crystal ball.

But even so, the Wise n among the Parthians also know what external societies have developed into.

Therefore, “the new Benevolent Lords co from foreign lands” is sufficient to explain “why they act this way.”

—Because the cultural traditions of foreigners are different from ours, after all.

Heaven City is promoted so well, so perfectly, that people are actually skeptical.

Except for fanatics, only the holess would attempt to go to Heaven City. Essentially, because in their hearts, they don’t believe it’s real.

But Aiwass is different.

The Moriarty Family does indeed have a multinational corporation.

Although Aiwass and Yulia have never managed it, or even visited the company, only the eldest brother and the old butler are still responsible for its operation, but it truly exists. And with Yulia ascending to the throne, the company has naturally continued to expand—

Moreover, Rock Cellar City is originally the westernmost city, making it extrely easy to transport goods from Star Antimony and Iris Flower.

Those Benevolent Lords who spent a fortune to transport precious food, dicine, fabrics, building materials, luxury goods… Aiwass can access premium sources at a rather low cost.

In Parthia, there is a saying, “Fish Sauce is more expensive than gold.” However, in almost every fishing village in Avalon, Star Antimony, and Iris Flower, fish sauce is brewed.

And the price of vegetables in Parthia is at least three tis more expensive than at.

So rare fresh vegetables are worth a hundred tis that of at—but when shipped from Star Antimony using Preservation Arts, even accounting for shipping, they aren’t that costly.

After calculating, Aiwass discovered a terrifying fact—they don’t even need the Benevolent Lords.

They can directly transport water from Star Antimony without issue!

Due to the cursed desert, it’s rely impossible to reroute rivers directly, but not all the imported bottled water evaporates.

The manifestation of this curse is that the desert depths here will infinitely absorb water, so the surface can’t hold water. It can only be stored in sealed spaces… such as city ground waterways, fountains, and pools.

Other city-states do it this way.

However, the Benevolent Lords of Rock Cellar City developed a new technology—they purchased Alchemy Slates from Star Antimony and discovered that this high-quality slate’s strength could seal off the “curse.”

If a completely sealed underground city were built using slates and the waterways run above the slate, the desert would not absorb the water.

Residents could pay to draw water at designated “cellar wells,” with water from different regions kept separate.

This prevents the issue of slaves poisoning the water used by the free people or the major figures around the Benevolent Lords and provides so water to the slaves, unlike other city-states that “prevent slaves from contaminating the water.” They can also leave for a period after ensuring enough water storage without worrying about the city’s population fleeing due to lack of water.

This is the reason why Rock Cellar City is called “Rock Cellar City.” The rock cellar wells are its unique feature.

However, perhaps due to limited vision or budget constraints, “Honest Avxin” did not further develop this technology. He stopped after setting up partitioned waterways.

But Aiwass realized sothing—this is essentially an underground water pipeline?

Although Rock Cellar City operates an internal interconnected underground water system… but isn’t it only less than twenty kiloters away from the Star Antimony border?

Just a re twenty kiloters, even if it requires building a waterway from the border to the water station, it’s still manageable.

It seems, probably, possibly… not difficult to do?

Once Aiwass had Sherlock, who understood this aspect, do the calculations again, he imdiately beca excited—

—Isn’t this easily doable?

The total length of the underground waterway of Glass Island already exceeds ten thousand kiloters!

If the Goblin Comrce Association were to begin work, it could be completed in at most a week. The cost would be less than a third of constructing a railway in Avalon.

Following this thought process, if such underground water pipelines were used to connect, wouldn’t they have access to water even without lifting the curse?

In this way, Aiwass has no worries about Sherlock being tied down here due to the piece of Geotric Celestial Marshal.

He imdiately contacted the Goblin Comrce Association, and the goblins responded quickly—they said a president would personally travel to Dawn City for talks within three days.

Thus, Aiwass waited here for a few days.

—Facts prove that Aiwass’s previous strategy of advertising with Desert Sound was also correct.

Desert Sound seems to have so relation with the Resistance Army, which is why they are particularly enthusiastic about helping promote Dawn City.

By the third day after Aiwass’s advertising campaign launched, people already started coming over, albeit cautiously and hesitantly, wanting to sign “that” contract with Aiwass.

Naturally, such matters were not for Aiwass to handle personally—Ligeia, with her unique Holy Appearance, was perfect for this kind of public relations work.

The Elf’s appearance cos from the Winged Ones, and humans’ appearance cos from Elves.

This is why people have a natural sense of closeness upon seeing Winged Ones.

Moreover, Ligeia herself is a Transcendent Being on the Path of Authority at the Fifth Power Level, capable of signing contracts herself. Such contracts guaranteed by the Divine Power of the Silver-Crowned Dragon are a great comfort to these slaves—they’re not afraid of harsh terms, but of Benevolent Lords going back on their word.

Such contracts, once signed and hard to sever, actually protect the weaker party.

The first to sign contracts with Aiwass were the private legion of the previous generation’s Benevolent Lord, “Honest Avxin.”

According to the original rules, unless it was inherited by a son, most of them wouldn’t survive—after all, the new Benevolent Lord wouldn’t let these battle-capable individuals, who previously served the forr lord, run loose; he couldn’t rest easy.

Next were his wives and concubines.

Though called wives and concubines, their status was essentially no different from slaves.

Those who served the Benevolent Lord, their status was higher than slaves and even free people, but in front of the Benevolent Lord, they were slaves in turn.

If Aiwass didn’t provide these won a ans of subsistence, they would tragically beco soone else’s slaves. As free people, they didn’t possess a free person’s work abilities and couldn’t possibly support themselves.

However, Aiwass provided them the perfect job—being lecturers.

All they needed to do was continually hold etings or publicly speak to new immigrants on the past cris of Rock Cellar City and how wonderful life in Dawn City is now.

No training was necessary, nor scripts or performances.

Because what they spoke, was the truth.

At this mont, Aiwass understood Foster Father Jas more deeply—

“All lies ultimately aim to make others believe in oneself and work for oneself… Therefore, the greatest, most advantageous lie is the truth itself. A lie is called a lie simply because what it says is not real, which is the greatest flaw—it’s all false. Only truth is different—truth is self-evident.”

Those were words Jas had said.

—For this reason, no lie can be more powerful than the truth.

Regardless of bewitched eloquence, regardless of argunts and sophistry that entangle people in doubt and confusion, regardless of deceit or incitent, nothing is more effective than speaking the truth directly.

Precisely like a sword, speak the truth that the counterpart already knows in their heart yet refuses to acknowledge.

When reaching this stage, a lie is no longer a lie.

It shall be called “truth.”

Aiwass rely spoke the words that people already knew yet left unsaid for them; he expressed the “answers” shackled by fear, norms, traitors, death, poverty, and kinship, which they dared not speak—

Just like how Professor Moriarty used the evil in people’s hearts to bewitch them before.

Aiwass now guides others with the good in people’s hearts.

Perhaps, in the future, they would have awakened themselves, and perhaps they will help others and recognize the errors of the old society… Aiwass rely hastened the arrival of that mont, solidifying those who hesitated.

It points to the wisdom in recognizing evil and the violence needed to change it.

—This is hope itself.