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Chapter 977 - 977 92 The Followers of the Future Sage 7600_3

977: Chapter 92 The Followers of the Future Sage (7600)_3 977: Chapter 92 The Followers of the Future Sage (7600)_3 “Simply buying the tools needed for ordinary people to rebuild the city will already cost more than half of it.”

“But with ten thousand Talers in my hands, I can create two First Energy Level Earth Sublimators.

And I can command them to rebuild the entirety of Xiahui City within three months.”

“Three months, ten thousand Talers—without utilizing Sublimators, it’s absolutely impossible to rebuild the city.”

“This is what resource utilization at maximum efficiency looks like.”

Saying this, Ian emphasized his tone as Green Tide listened, “At the same time, this is where the problem lies.”

“Because the technical depth behind Sublimators is too high, and their resource efficiency is so exceptional, fundamental infrastructure and the dissemination of foundational knowledge are often overlooked or even deliberately suppressed.

This isn’t wrong, because if the resources were wasted on something less efficient than Sublimators, it would instead weaken national strength, give enemies opportunities to exploit, and put one’s civilization at risk.”

“Take our Xiawei Territory, for example—if not for the fact that I’m a Second Level Sublimator, that we have the Third Energy Level Sio and the Fourth Energy Level King of the Mountain behind us, and my Ultra Giant Magnetic Storm Coil which is comparable to the Third Energy Level, would it have been meaningful to pour so much money into town construction and new agricultural development?”

“It wouldn’t.

Others could plunder it as they please, destroy it whenever they want.

The success of Xiawei Territory stems solely from the fact that I am a genius, and all of you are exceptionally outstanding as well.

This cannot be replicated.”

“But the road we need to walk next isn’t one a few geniuses can cross on their own.

We need to utilize every aspect of technology from beginning to end, without neglecting any seemingly pointless foundational knowledge.”

“What I need to do is attempt to create a civilization superior to the ‘Cultivator Civilization.’ So, not only do we need to learn, but everyone else in our territory must learn as well, meaning education and knowledge must be universally spread.”

“This is the core of my plan.

Only you know this, and I need your full cooperation.”

“Its name is ‘Arcane Pathway,’ or ‘Cultivator Civilization.’

“A truly great enterprise.”

“And the first step of this enterprise is to ensure that everyone is endowed with the ‘qualification to cultivate’…

Artificial Souls and the Supreme Spirit Sect are of paramount importance and the most critical point in our next plans which we must handle with extreme caution.”

From here on, it was no longer a lecture but a true core meeting.

During the meeting, Ian outlined the many prerequisites and technical requirements of the Arcane Pathway.

Only then did Green Tide and the others realize, to their astonishment, that whether it was Artificial Souls or the ‘Meditation Technique’ they had been practicing recently, both were integral parts of this pathway.

What a grand plan…

But to be honest, Green Tide didn’t fully comprehend the ‘great enterprise’ Ian described next.

He only felt it was somewhat inconceivable, along with a faint sense of epiphany.

——I knew it!

The question I posed at the beginning didn’t even need a meeting to discuss…

Turns out the boss used my question as a prelude to introduce his plan!

That makes so much more sense!

From the very beginning, Green Tide had known that Ian was someone destined for great things.

How to put it?

Those knight novels and legendary tales always feature sages who can shape an era…

Most of them serve as the backdrop to the story, figures who once brought immense change to the world.

It could even be said that the world in which the protagonist lives and adventures was built by those great sages.

The weapons they invented could defeat Demon Lords a thousand years later; the skills they developed continued inspiring wisdom across endless ages; the civilizations they founded, though faded into history over countless eons, still earned admiration and nostalgia from all who followed.

Whether it was the logic of life, the background of the story, the order of the world, or the stage itself, all were creations of the sages.

As a child, when Green Tide listened to these legendary stories from his father, this thought had always crossed his mind.

“Compared to these sages, can the protagonist truly be considered the protagonist?”

He had asked his father this question back then.

[Silly child.]

And his father, who had not yet succumbed to old wounds, would ruffle his hair and laugh as he replied: [How do you know those sages weren’t once protagonists themselves?]

[They, too, would have had their own adventures and legends—this book just doesn’t tell their story.]

[And how do you know that the protagonist of this novel won’t become a sage in the future?]

These memories that had once dimmed and faded, Green Tide thought he would never recall again in his lifetime.

Until he met Ian, and witnessed all that he had done, those dusty recollections once again came to life in his mind.

——He is that kind of sage.

For no specific reason—or rather, too many reasons to count, rendering it unnecessary to look for one.

Green Tide simply believed that Ian would become that figure found in every storybook—someone who would lay the foundations for all future tales, the cornerstone for all legendary adventures, the one to reshape the entire world order: the ‘Sage.’

And what’s more, unlike the sages described in those stories—

Ian wasn’t some distant background figure.

Ian is the ‘now,’ the ‘present,’ happening right before their eyes!

He is the sage who exists both in this moment and in the future!

And as for himself, Green Tide, he was one of the followers of the future sage, a part of his coming legendary tale!

And just this fact alone was enough to set his heart racing.