Defying the Fate of Beheading-Chapter 624 - 333: Louis’s Divine Game, Heading to the Pirate Islands

Location: Inside the Ense Magic Flagship Command Room

Beatrice looked at the messages coming from various directions. The assaults by the Abyssal Church were all suppressed, and almost all of their high-ranking members were killed on the spot.

She couldn't help saying to Louis, "I didn't expect the united siege to go so smoothly this time. Louis, your strategy is amazing."

Louis glanced at his dear wife and shook his head, saying:

"This has nothing to do with me being amazing. In my hometown, there's a saying about a scheme, above a conspiracy but below an open strategy, called a divine scheme."

Beatrice had always enjoyed hearing stories about Louis's hometown, although she had long suspected that his homeland was nothing like a small village on the border of the Ense Empire.

Seeing her curiosity, Louis said, "Let's think about a question first. If it's said that the full-scale extermination plan against the Abyssal Church was devised by me, when did this grand scheme start?"

"Starting from the Tunisia cooperation agreement?"

Louis shook his head, "Still, that saying, no matter what, the think tank of the Abyssal Church can't be less clever than ordinary people, can it?

The Abyssal Church, almost representing the dark side of the Star Continent, why couldn't they see it?"

He thought to himself, this isn't like the open strategy of the imperial decree.

"Beatrice, it's clear that the nations of the Star Continent do not possess the absolute power or advancement to crush the Abyssal Church.

Therefore, the siege against the Abyssal Church, perceived as a reasonable action by the people across the Star Continent, wasn't entirely orchestrated by me.

Because there's a very fragile premise within, that everyone sees, did the nations respond to our call for encirclement?

But does that really mean we, the Ense, are the leaders?

No, it doesn't."

Beatrice fell into contemplation, "Maybe it's because of the human nations?"

Louis continued shaking his head and said:

"No, that's not right, either. This time, the participating nations include alliances that can rival the human nations.

The major nations leading this Fallen Star Sea battle, none of them are weak.

Even the Monet Kingdom, divided into East and West.

If the leaders were ordinary people who can clearly see the human nations, then the higher-ups of the Abyssal Church would have no reason not to see it and certainly couldn't be unable to stop it.

All they needed to do was first disturb the leading human nations.

This looks like a conspiracy theory about the Abyssal Church fabricated by our citizens themselves.

But is it really like that?"

Louis revealed a mysterious smile, piquing Beatrice's curiosity: "I might have a guess, but I'm not clear."

Louis then said, "We need to understand that a conspiracy implies that one or a group of people arranged a script to deceive the world.

But the biggest problem with a conspiracy is that it must not be discovered by the adversary. Once discovered, it falls apart completely.

A typical example is the battle on the Giant Plain. Even if the Abyssal Church cultivated demigod beasts, ultimately they were defeated.

This is why conspiracy theories and nested schemes often seem laughable when altering historical events.

Because to execute a conspiracy, you must assume that the other side can't discern your scheme.

Moreover, your execution must be flawless, with no leaks from your side, while the enemy becomes oblivious without any awareness.

Most importantly, there can be almost no unforeseen incidents during the plan's execution, as it has a very low margin for error."

Beatrice nodded and said, "That's right, while an open strategy is different. The open strategy seizes the absolute advantage or the opponent's absolute weakness, laying out the course of the situation. Knowing is okay, and they might even hope you know."

Louis agreed, but shared a story: "In my hometown, there was an emperor who, holding absolute military power, issued the Imperial Decree to weaken the nobles."

"How so?"

"In simple terms, it was a law requiring local lords to grant their territories to their children."

Beatrice gasped, "What a clever method."

"Indeed, so once the decree was issued, the outcome was essentially predetermined.

That emperor had absolute military strength, and the nobles found it difficult to rebel. If they followed the decree, the territories would be divided and scattered in just two generations.

If they chose to appear compliant but acted against it, their descendants' interests would be harmed, and it might not even wait for higher authorities to act before their own sons turned against them."

Louis previously devised the strategy of disposing of two peaches to kill three warriors, a typical open strategy tactic.

While Beatrice marveled, she also felt a sense of helplessness, saying, "But the biggest weakness of an open strategy is that having an absolute advantage in strength, or finding the opponent's absolute weakness, is very rare indeed."

Louis smiled.

In his past life, across five thousand years of history, the methods that could be deemed open strategies could be counted on one's fingers.

Pointing at the sea chart, Louis said, "So, I must say, the Fallen Star Sea encirclement battle is a crucial point sufficient to change the power dynamic against the Abyssal Church.

Beatrice, in the major events that change the course of history, there's often another scheme that appears.

It's above conspiracy, below open strategy, called a divine scheme.

Simply put, it's one word—coincidence.

No one orchestrates the scheme, there's no director, no one links events, and there's even minimal private communication, yet everyone happens to think alike, and then everything just happens."

In history, who, exactly, directed the failure of Wang Anshi's reforms, causing every executor to voluntarily push in one direction.

During the uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty, after Chen Sheng and King Wu, who linked figures like Liu Bang and Xiang Liang, prompting so many to respond one after another?