Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 1597 - 904:
Chapter 1597: Chapter 904:
Robert, the Son of God, can fully understand that his only choice now is to cooperate well with the Alliance.
To acknowledge the Alliance as part of the Empire, part of humanity, and recognize Gu Hang, the High Lord and governor of the Dark Side of the Empire. Furthermore, he needs to rely on the Alliance, which is performing quite well on the Dark Side of the Empire, to continue their expedition and unify the Dark Side.
Additionally, he hopes the Alliance can provide support to help him initiate an expedition on the Holy Territory of the Empire, similar to the Dark Side Expedition.
Ultimately, to restore peace across the entire Human Empire.
Of course, true peace is impossible. Although it is the wish of the Son of God, he knows rationally that it is unrealistic for every place to be absolutely peaceful.
If it can be achieved that the entire Empire’s territory is relatively peaceful on the whole, or has enough strength to unify and address significant threats to peace, then that would be satisfactory.
He must leverage the power of the Alliance.
If half or even more of the Empire is covered by the Alliance’s system, and the Empire’s power is mainly controlled by the Alliance… so what?
Does Robert care about power?
He doesn’t care.
He only cares about the Human Empire.
If the Alliance represents a better Human Empire, then why not?
He doesn’t necessarily have to be the Regent King.
It’s called a right, but more importantly, it’s a responsibility.
Having reviewed the Empire’s thousands of years of history and studied the Empire’s recent situation in detail, he feels endless disappointment with the current status of the Empire.
Ignorance, chaos, internal strife, inefficiency, corruption…
All these troublesome things can be used to describe the Empire.
Whether it is the Central Empire or various local regions, everything is in a mess.
It’s not just rotten now, but has been decaying from a long, long past to the present.
Upon awakening, Robert was displeased with everything he saw.
To be honest, the two forces that most supported him – the Infinite Warriors and the National Church – were the ones he was most dissatisfied with.
In his mind, the National Church represents the most ignorant side.
In the glorious era he lived in, religion was something that could not make it to the stage. The Empire was promoting rationality and scientific thinking. The Emperor was just the Emperor, a great leader, without any notion of ’Son of God.’ They, the brothers, were indeed the Emperor’s children, but they were more the Commanders of the Empire, expanding territories for humanity, leading the people.
To Robert, it all seemed like just yesterday.
He indeed was asleep for ten thousand years, but for him, it really felt like a blink of an eye. Severely wounded, he entered the stasis position where everything stopped, and when he opened his eyes again, it was this dark and twisted era ten thousand years later.
How can he accept the current, ignorant appearance of the Empire?
Despite the appearance of such disgusting things like the National Church, which worships his father, him, and his brothers as deities. This made him feel extremely absurd.
And this feeling, he unexpectedly felt in his genetic progeny as well.
This is why following closely, the ones who disappointed him were his progeny.
Rationality, honor, fairness, justice… these are what he taught his progeny.
But it seems they discarded the first one, as they too have started worshipping the ’God’ Emperor and ’God’ Son.
With the most important first one lost, the following pursuit of supposed honor, fairness, and justice, is it still the virtuous quality he expected?
Yet, this heavy disappointment is something he can’t even speak of.
He has slept for ten thousand years, but he hasn’t lost his political acumen.
Under the current condition of the Empire, would he go around speaking openly, claiming the Emperor isn’t a god, the Emperor is merely human; I am not a god, I am just an ordinary human?
How can people believe that while looking at his physique, which is much taller than that of the Interstellar Warriors?
Even if he is the Son of God, speaking these words personally wouldn’t change the ten-thousand-year-old beliefs of the Imperial People.
Don’t mention today, even ten thousand years ago, his saintly brother already worshipped the Emperor as a god. During civil wars, his choice to stand with mortals and hand the Empire to humans was merely following divine instructions, it wasn’t because they believed everyone were humans.
Now, if Robert openly talks about rationality, hopes to eliminate ignorance and religion… the outcome wouldn’t likely be the good orientation he hopes for, but rather could further cause the currently fragile Empire to become more chaotic and divided.
He wishes to save the Empire, but precisely for this reason, he finds the current situation of the Empire tricky and even somewhat hopeless.
Even with his wisdom, he finds it challenging to think of a solution that can effectively solve these issues immediately.
After contemplating for a long time, ultimately, he can only plan for the long term.
He must proceed slowly, bit by bit. He might need to accept his identity, accept the presence of religion, and continue to maintain the unity of the Empire. Even if it makes him feel somewhat disgusted, he has to keep doing so to ensure these forces can continue to be utilized.
Eventually, through his words and actions, through gradual religious and political reform, he will change some things that he really finds displeasing.
