in the name of the queen.

After completely solving the hidden danger of the God's Punishment Legion, there was only one voice left in the world, and Roland finally became the real decision-maker in the Theia plane.

The Second Battle of White Mountain was a foregone conclusion.

In fact, this was not a war at all.

Most of the hopeless people chose to withdraw gracefully before the war. After spending their last moments with their families and fulfilling their unfulfilled wishes, they placed their soul fragments in the soul box and gave it to Roland.

Roland made a vow to all the extraordinary people who voluntarily gave up, so that everyone could see the dawn of a new era.

It is indeed painful to not have control over one's destiny, but still retaining hope makes them feel a little better.

Standing on the top of White Mountain, Roland, who replaced the referee team as the arbitrator, took action personally and accurately sniped those troublemakers who were hoping for luck but unwilling to take the initiative to be decent, making the second White Mountain peak battle a stage for him to dominate the world.

It's brutal, but it's the reality.

In fact, this formality of selecting strong men was just a confirmation of the victory of the Battle of Lisenburg a few years ago.

That war was truly brutal.

The chain reaction caused by the obscene video of the goddess landing in the sky of Lisenberg caught Roland off guard.

He had not expected the astonishing power unleashed by nearly ten million crazy believers, nor had he thought that the elementals whose faith had collapsed would be more vulnerable than he had imagined.

He originally arranged for the navy and the expert team to take advantage of the opportunity, while he and Christine replicated the exciting scene of the Goddess and the Sea King in the monitoring room. He thought the battle would be one-sided and easy, but the accident came as expected.

Negative emotions are a heavy burden, but they are also a resource.

The accumulation of countless negative emotions made Lisenburg a living hell. The brutal battle tore the space apart, and foreign monsters that came out from nowhere disrupted the battlefield.

These foreign monsters are not very interested in flesh and blood life, but their eyes light up when they see elementals.

They cooperated with the crazy believers to put an end to the God's Punishment Legion before Roland's army was launched.

When Roland contentedly ended his entanglement with Christine and before he had time to comfort his lovely girlfriend, he saw a horrifying scene on the surveillance screen.

Fortunately, Roland reacted quickly enough. He immediately ordered all the forces that could be mobilized to encircle and suppress Lisenburg.

He didn't know where these demons came from, but they made him feel cold inside.

Considering that the wall of the plane can keep the gods out, he judged that these monsters did not come from outside the plane, but were creatures that once existed in this plane.

Before the final return day, it is almost impossible for outside creatures to enter the material plane. This is the basic rule of the universe.

The appearance of these monsters made Roland feel deeply threatened.

These guys are quite powerful. If Roland is allowed to grow stronger, his dominance over this plane will be threatened.

If you can't integrate the power of all planes, how can you fight against the goddess?

In addition to considerations of concentrated allocation of power and resources, Roland has deeper concerns.

The death of Sophia will inevitably cause the Divine Realm to lower its assessment of the overall strength of the Theia plane, and the appearance of these monsters will inevitably cause the Divine Realm to raise its estimate.

All in all, it was as if Sophia died in vain.

How the hell is this possible!
Roland could never get over Sophia's death. He could tolerate appropriate compromise and concessions, but he was extremely stubborn when it came to Sophia.

The living space gained by Sophia's death was occupied by these beasts, and he would not be able to explain to her even if he died.

No negotiation, only war!
No matter what the identities of these monsters are, they must be eliminated immediately before they adapt to this plane!
The Battle of Rieseburg lasted for three full months.

As it turned out, Roland's judgment was completely correct.

These demons help the fanatical believers kill the elementals, and as long as they are given a little time to accept and communicate with each other, they can establish a solid alliance.

But Roland didn't give them any chance.

Taking advantage of their language barriers and communication difficulties, reinforcements from Rodinia, the South Continent, the New World and the underwater world continued to arrive on the island.

This war was extremely brutal, surpassing any war in recorded human history.

Although the demons and fanatical believers did not reach an agreement, there was a tendency for them to cooperate.

The humans and the marine coalition also knew that this was a life-and-death duel, so they both gave it their all.

Before going to the island, the extraordinary people left their soul fragments in the soul box, so they were naturally not afraid of life and death.

Ordinary combatants did not receive this treatment, but Christine went to the battlefield in person and summoned a small holy spring to minimize the casualties of the soldiers as much as possible.

Governments and major forces are also doing their utmost to ensure the treatment of their families.

This is not a simple war, but a decisive battle that determines the life and death of many ethnic groups in the entire plane.

All participants in the battle knew the significance of this battle, so they would naturally risk their lives and never retreat.

The demons and fanatical believers are naturally unwilling to die and will naturally resist with all their might.

When both sides are determined to die and fight for survival, the war will turn into a cruel millstone like the Verdun meat grinder, opening its bloody mouth to devour lives.

No matter how much blood you bleed, it will eventually dry up.

This brutal hell-meat-grinder battle ultimately ended in victory for both the human and marine coalition forces with almost equal casualties.

The casualty figures counted after the war gave Roland the illusion of dreaming back to World War I.

The total number of casualties is not for a particular battle, but for the entire World War I.

Millions of dead souls lingered over Lissenburg, turning this once holy place into a forbidden place that even evil spirits dared not approach easily.

War is very cruel, but Roland's aftermath makes many people shudder.

He ordered the use of life magic to search for the breath of life in Lisenberg, and dug out thousands of believers who had been hiding hundreds of meters underground. After that, he found a group of unscrupulous magicians and used necromancy to awaken all the dead. Christine personally led the priests to purify them all.

After this process of "sweeping - resurrection - purification", there was no trace of life left in Lisenburg.

Standing on the top of White Mountain, looking at the huge crack that Sophia had cut that year, Roland felt inexplicably empty in his heart.

He could now easily deliver a blow far more powerful than this one.

He also created a dominance in Baishan that surpassed Sofia's that year.

But is he a match for Sophia?

Both his main and secondary professions broke through to the second level.

[Erudiian], [Paladin].

The next step up is the divine realm.

He still needs time to enrich the details of these two major professional systems, but he can basically see the upper limit of the power he can possess.

He had seen Sophia's heroic figure breaking through to the second level in the Land of Death. To be fair, he was still slightly inferior.

He might be able to fight with normal Sophia, but
Thinking of the shocking scene of Sophia's self-explosion and the one-for-one exchange with the Queen of the Underworld, Roland's lips trembled slightly.

If he and Tia need to be swapped one for one in the end, can he do it? Is he willing to do it?
What if his self-destruction alone wasn’t enough, and what if Sif, Lisa, Alina, and Christine had to be involved?
Just as he was lost in thought, a crisp cough was heard.

"My dear, everyone is waiting for your lecture."

The slightly playful voice came from the long-lost Sif.

She seems to have never changed, and time cannot leave even the slightest trace on her pure and beautiful face.

If we count from the Third Age, Sif's age is already as old as the unverified history, but her mentality is always as young as when we first met.

very nice.

No matter how many troubles you have, they will all disappear under Sif's smile.

And Alina, Lisa and Christine.

Seeing them, the gloom in Roland's heart gradually disappeared.

No matter how much he missed Sophia, she was gone, and all he had to do was do his best to win the war.

If he were alive, he would do everything he could to find Sophia.

If you really can't find her, then take good care of her country and her people.

It was said to be a lecture, but in fact it was the MVP settlement screen of the Roland Gang's victory.

After all, the brutal battle was fought in Lisenberg, and those who should have withdrawn had also withdrawn.

Originally, the strong men of the God's Punishment Legion would occupy a part of the promotion quota, and even change the situation where Roland controlled everything.

But now it's completely different.

In short, just look forward.

After the Second Battle of White Mountain, there was only one voice left in the world, and that was Roland's will.

With the power of the great victory at Baishan, he declared nature and abundance to be invalid beliefs, and asked the believers of the two major divine courts to convert or give up their beliefs.

This kind of thing would have caused a violent backlash, but after the Battle of Lisenberg, everyone realized Roland's determination.

He even dared to destroy the Goddess's Divine Punishment Legion, so what else would he not dare to do?
Except for a very small number of die-hard believers who still persisted, almost everyone gave up their faith in tears.

"When there is a clear threat to life safety, one can temporarily change his faith and change back later."

This is what many religions say to their followers.

And that’s exactly what they did.

Roland was well aware of their little calculations, but he didn't care.

Change it in the future, right? If it were an ordinary world, it would be feasible, but this was an extraordinary world. As long as he was alive, any idea of ​​turning the world upside down was wishful thinking.

"If I don't die, you will all bow down!"

This sentence inexplicably popped up in Roland's mind.

Yes, he is also an emperor now, the emperor of the superpower Vladimir, and even the emperor of the whole world.

As an emperor, there are some things that you have to do even though they are cruel.

His orders will result in the loss of tens of thousands of lives, if not more, and the weeping and wailing of many families.

He would sympathize, after all, they were his fellow human beings.

But he would never show mercy because these people were standing in his way.

Keep winning and breathe the fresh air of the new era.

This is what he is pursuing.

He thought of Sophia. Any enemy who dared to stand in his way would have to pay with his life.

I won't back down even if it's a one-for-one trade.

Perhaps this is the real reason why Sophia is invincible.

Roland quietly discovered that, since some time ago, he liked standing on the top of the White Mountain and overlooking the entire continent more and more.

Just like Sophia back then.

Standing on the top of the Summer Palace, overlooking the entire city.

There is always a feeling that the whole world is a chessboard.

Unconsciously, he seemed to have embarked on this path.

When he is not in Baishan, he hides his identity and goes to every corner of the world to spread knowledge.

Although he has obtained all the achievements of knowledge transfer and unlocked the rank of true knower, occasionally spreading knowledge is more of a pleasure than a boring task that he has to do to upgrade.

Simply put, I am happy with it.

On the second day after the Battle of Baishan, a clear message appeared in the minds of the strong men who were still immersed in the joy of promotion.

The final day of return will come a thousand years later. The afterglow of the old era only lasts for the last thousand years.

Some people feel surprised, some feel desperate, and some people smile and start planning the last days of their life of feasting and drinking.

When Roland received the news, he was standing on the top of White Mountain, facing the wind and feeling the harshness of nature.

The news did not come as a surprise to him.

The original name of the Seventh Era was Annihilation, but it was forcibly changed to Rebirth by Sophia.

Since it is annihilation, of course there won’t be much preparation time.

You have been given too long to prepare. How can you be annihilated even if you are really ready?

The road to becoming a king is always lonely.

A hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.

Roland, who liked standing on the top of White Mountain more and more, gradually realized that he could never go back.

The time when I worked as a clerk in the Imperial Post Office seems so distant now that it seems like a lifetime ago.

The corners of his lips curled up slightly. If viewed from the perspective of an ordinary person, more than two hundred years is more than one lifetime, maybe even three lifetimes, so it is normal to feel it is so far away.

The girl his sister wanted to introduce to him at that time later died in an alchemy experiment at the age of 27. She didn't even find a suitable marriage partner.

Perhaps the only benefit of dying young is that you don't have to endure the devastating blow that alchemy can cause to your appearance.

On the contrary, her sister Lisa, who is two years older than her, is still as beautiful as ever.

Is Lisa's talent and ability really much better than that of the alchemist Elizabeth?
Not necessarily.

A person's future certainly depends on personal efforts, but the arrangement of fate is sometimes also very important.

Besides Elizabeth, he also remembered his time at the post office vividly.

He is a knowledgeable person, how could he not remember these?

He was even more impressed by the clever boy Raikkonen.

Different from those old servants who gradually left the world, Raikkonen not only embarked on the path of becoming an extraordinary person, but also made rapid progress.

Not only did he keep up with the progress of promotion, he even passed the Second Battle of White Mountain purely on his own strength.

Although he has retired from politics for many years, his hereditary dukedom has made his family the top celebrities in the Sussex Empire.

His father took great pains to send his only son to Roland in order to ensure a good future for him.

He won the bet.

When the old man passed away, Roland was there in person to see him off. The old man looked haggard, but there was light in his eyes.

The happiness of ordinary people is that simple.

They don’t know that the world is about to restart, and they don’t know what kind of pressure those powerful people at the top are under.

Their greatest happiness is for their children to succeed and for the family to continue.

Raikkonen did not use any special means to extend his father's life.

He is very open-minded. Everyone will be born, grow old, get sick and die. Even he will leave one day.

But there are not many people as free and easy as Raikkonen. Many important officials who followed Roland in those days began to pursue lives that did not belong to them after gaining power and status, and some even touched upon taboo areas.

Some tried human experiments, and some dabbled in necromancy.

Roland once dealt with two old ministers personally.

More than two hundred years have passed, and some of the meritorious officials who were rewarded back then are still continuing to serve, while some families have declined or even died out.

This kind of thing has happened all too often in the long course of history.

Roland, standing like a statue, slowly turned his head because someone was coming.

Over the years, he and his wives have been together less and less frequently. Everyone has their own path to becoming strong, and time is precious.

After enjoying some pleasant time with Christine, she was also immersed in the busyness of unifying the world's faith.

She openly declared herself to be the new God of Light and the old gods to be false gods.

From then on, the power of faith in the Theia plane no longer leaked out, but was directly absorbed by her.

Although her efficiency in absorbing the power of faith is not as good as that of a real god, she has the advantage of monopoly, so a lower efficiency does not matter.

Everyone is busy, but this world is like a big ship that needs a captain to steer the helm.

Roland was the captain.

Now the sailor is coming for instructions.

He looked at the young man walking quickly up the mountain and vaguely saw the figure of an old friend.

"Your Majesty, this is an important document that will require your judgment in the near future."

Roland took the document, his eyes flickered, he quickly read through it, signed his name, and returned the document to the young man.

"You are."

"Your Majesty, I am Vahi Jess, the new confidential secretary of the Alliance Standing Committee."

"Are you the descendant of Duke Novas?"

The young man raised his head excitedly, his lips trembling.

Roland holds the title of the Great Emperor and is a great monarch who will go down in history. How could he know his own family?
After chatting with the young man for a while, Roland suddenly asked, "Vashi, do you think I'm a tyrant?"

Vahi's face flushed, and he was obviously a little angry. "Your Majesty, whoever is so bold, I will kill him right now, no, I will arrest him and bring him to justice!"

Roland smiled and shook his head. "Okay, I'm just asking casually."

He casually pulled out a gold pen from his private space and gave it to Vahi.

"Good job."

Vashi's anger was instantly replaced by joy, and he was as happy as a child.

Until he left White Mountain and returned to Val City, Vashi couldn't understand who was so rude as to dare to call His Majesty Roland a tyrant.

"I am indeed a tyrant."

Roland thought silently.

Letting personal will become the will of the country or even the entire world, a single thought can cause thousands of people to lose their heads, and one person himself has the potential to become a tyrant.

What's more, he has never rejected the idea of ​​becoming a tyrant.

A tyrant is not a foolish ruler, he just uses cruel means.

In the last thousand years, what is needed is a so-called benevolent monarch. What is needed is a monarch who is good at cold-blooded calculations and has absolute authority.

Roland thought of Sophia again.

He thought about it, tapped his toes, and a teleportation array appeared out of thin air.

With a flash of blue light, he had arrived at the gate of the Summer Palace.

The palace has been uninhabited since Sophia's death.

Roland felt that no one was qualified to live in this palace, so he sealed it up.

Except for a few mechanical servants who were doing maintenance, there was no one here.

Walking into the Summer Palace and heading straight for the bedroom, Roland's heartbeat quickened slightly.

He even had an unrealistic expectation, wondering if Sophia was waiting for him inside?
Unfortunately, what this world lacks most is miracles.

Sophia did not come back, and the bedroom was a little cold.

A house that has been uninhabited for a long time always lacks a sense of human touch, and this place is no exception.

Roland sat down casually and took out the black and white gem that Sophia gave him.

He used to think that fragments of Sophia's soul were stored here, but it wasn't.

If there was nothing, why did Sophia emphasize it?

He stared at the black and white gem carefully and stood up suddenly.

The gem, which was originally the same temperature as the body, suddenly became a little cold.

The gem disappeared, and a black and white soul card suddenly appeared in the air.

[Monarch] Occupational rank two, [Dictator], [Wise King].

pick one of two.

Black and white cannot coexist perfectly after all, you can only choose one.

Roland seemed to understand something. This was the last gift left by Sophia.

Rumor has it that only top-level experts are qualified to fuse the third soul card.

He remembered what the elf Sif had said in his dream.

Roland's eyes sparkled.

Now that we have been given the opportunity, we must make use of it!

Without any hesitation, he tapped the black surface of the card.

【dictator】.

If given a choice, he doesn't want to be a [dictator] or a [virtuous king]. He just wants to retain his extraordinary abilities and travel around with his wives every day.

Travel during the day and have a wild party at night.

This is the life a time traveler should have, but unfortunately he has no choice.

There is no choice on the Theia plane.

"I am the world!"

Roland's voice was not loud, but it was full of Sophia's domineering voice.

The soul card flew into the sea of ​​consciousness and met the [Evangelist] and [Paladin] who were originally staying there.

The violent collision almost tore Roland's soul apart.

It is hard to imagine that [Erudito] and [Paladin] can be integrated with [Dictator], which means tyrant.

When merging cards, you need to choose attributes that are as close as possible, or at least not in serious conflict.

As the three cards were fiercely hostile to each other, Roland knelt on one knee, blood gushing out from his lips.

He had to find something in common between the three.

such as
"Shut up! I want to create a world that meets my ideals, a world of knowledge, a world of holy light! Only I can create this world, and no one else can replace me!"

Three cards are suspended in the air.

An unknown amount of time passed, but when Roland was about to collapse, the three cards finally merged.

When a monarch has profound knowledge, firmly believes that he represents light, and is completely dictatorial, there is only one possibility.

【Tyrant】. (End of this chapter)