Universe Infinite Canteen-Chapter 327: Subject

Yong Yi continued, "Since then, I’ve stopped indulging in creating and patching up rules and turned to seeking and nurturing a qualified successor, because only people can cope with the changes and challenges of the future, achieving what rules cannot."

"Furthermore, I do not desire just one successor, as that would make little difference from the ancient emperors."

"I hope to explore a path that can standardize the production of excellent leaders, complemented by an outstanding system, to fulfill my ultimate dream."

"For this, I spent a long time studying those historical greats, trying to extract their commonalities, to find that lowest common denominator, but I underestimated the difficulty of this task."

"If you’ve read my biography, you should know that before becoming the Prophet, I was a sociologist, primarily studying the collective behavior of humans. However, individuals are even more uncontrollable than groups."

Yong Yi said so much in one breath, it took a lot out of him, and he seemed very tired, barely able to stand steady, so he pointed to a nearby chair.

"If you don’t mind, I’d like to sit down to talk."

"Please, feel free," Ma Lu said.

"Thank you." Yong Yi walked to the chair with a tremble and sat down, those few short steps nearly exhausting all his strength.

He sat on the chair, gasping for air, and after a good half minute, he spoke again, "The hibernation pod’s monitors tell me many of my organs are on the verge of failure...

"I don’t have much time left, so I’ll try to make a long story short. Where were we?"

"You want to standardize the training of successors to meet future changes."

"Right, right, that’s it." The old man coughed vigorously twice. "I see the armor you’re wearing. You’re a knight from the Sacred Order of Knights, and a Master at that. So you probably also know about the power struggle within the Sacred Order of Knights recently.

"Whether it’s Martin or Li Wei, no doubt they are both excellent people, possessing smart brains, firm beliefs, and kind hearts—at least they were when I found them.

"But once they found themselves in high positions, without exception, they forgot their missions, wasting most of their energy and precious qualities on continuing the struggle for power and profit. They turned a blind eye to the injustices right in front of them."

"For so long, I had been waiting for someone from the upper echelons of the Church to stand up and speak for those poor enslaved witches, to use their authority to rectify this obvious wrong."

"But not a single one did. They have countless excuses to convince themselves: witches are too dangerous, having spawned creatures like the Red Dragon; for the stability of Holy Temple City, they should be treated as weapons; the Ring of Order must never be removed, and so on...

"Eventually, they came to believe it themselves. So I had to give up on them and turn my attention elsewhere."

"The Shrike is another subject of my experiments that intrigued me. She comes from a distinguished background, being the youngest daughter of the current Pope. Yet, I had her infused with magic power, giving her the identity of a witch."

"As expected, her father chose to banish her for the sake of his political career, abandoning her, still in her infancy, in the wilderness. It was my people who rescued her."

"I even arranged for a teacher to instruct her, to guide her in unifying other Fallen Witches under her command, and even the equipment and supplies she obtained were gifts from me."

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"Such a person is a natural-born leader... That’s what I thought at the time, but in the end, she indulged in her hatred and used the gifts I had given her to save the witches to destroy the world."

"Gifts, oh, you mean that magic wand?" Ma Lu said.

"Exactly," Yong Yi did not conceal, "the so-called Holy Stone is really a machine encased in stone that generates a special magnetic field to shield the perception of Energized Plants."

"I gave control of this machine to the Shrike, so she would have the capital to confront the Church, forcing both sides to sit down and negotiate properly."

Ma Lu whistled, "Looks like your selection system isn’t that great either."

Yong Yi did not deny, "My experiment failed, but if given another chance, I would do it all over again. In the past two hundred years, I have witnessed firsthand the widening rift and disputes between humans and witches.

"At first, I might have been behind some of the turmoil, but the development of events has gone far beyond my expectations and control, including the Church’s development of the Ring of Order, which was not my idea. Their mutual suspicion and hatred reached a peak, even exceeding the real threats beyond the walls.

"When I realized I didn’t have much time left, I placed my last hope on that child, hoping her power would mend the fractures between the two sides.

"But as you can see, she brought destruction upon everyone in the end.

"So, can you understand why I conducted this experiment, seeking an answer?

"It’s not just about us, but also other universes, other races in different planes. If we can’t find a way to unite everyone, what happened here will inevitably play out elsewhere."

Ma Lu had been observing Yong Yi all this time, and during their not-so-long interaction, Yong Yi had always seemed very sincere.

Regardless of whether his words were right or wrong, and however extreme his actions, he was indeed one of the few people in the city who did not care about himself or power but was wholeheartedly busy worrying about the future of witches and humans.

No wonder the Pointy Hat had felt he was a good friend, experiencing a sense of regret for not having met him sooner.

Ma Lu then looked around again. Yong Yi had basically moved the Pointy Hat’s laboratory intact to The Great Tower.

There were no recreational facilities here, and according to Yong Yi, he had not gone down since moving in.

He never married, had no children, and as the final boss, he didn’t even have a secretary, devoting himself entirely to his experiments.

And just like that, he nearly destroyed a planet and, with death looming, he still fretted over his incomplete project.