Chapter 1576: Chapter 590: The Return of the Tribes, A Menacing Force (Part 2)

Such a so-called victory, achieved at such a great cost, is actually more miserable than defeat and losing territory.

Ren Zhong believes that from the beginning, the Ascendants never intended to defeat the Empire in one blow with this battle.

Neither the Pilgrims nor the Spirit Demon Race made a wholehearted effort to assist the Ascendants.

This was truly just a probe.

Ren Zhong believes the "dismal victory" he foresaw was indeed the strategic goal pursued by the other party.

The Three Clans Alliance simply wanted to use this probe to attempt and explore the details of cooperation, as this had never happened before.

At the same time, they wanted to see what kind of impact the three-party union could have on the Mechanical Empire.

Besieging the Three Major Star Regions, deliberately leaving the Star Gate open, continuously draining the Empire Core’s military strength, productivity, and population, spreading panic across the entire Empire to suppress the mechanical Empire’s morale and normal technological production processes, this was the fundamental purpose behind the Ascendants initiating this probing war.

In the end, though the probing war of the Three Clans Alliance will be repelled, it is actually an immense victory.

The productivity of the Three Major Star Regions will be completely destroyed, the Empire Core will suffer severe losses in this extraordinarily anxious tug-of-war, and its weaknesses will be exposed.

Thus, the next move from the Three Clans Alliance will surely be more brutal.

If there is no new external force injected, the Mechanical Empire will inevitably be relentlessly crushed by united opponents that it originally couldn’t handle even alone, until it’s completely vanished.

Ren Zhong has no emotional attachments to the Mechanical Empire, but the Mechanical Empire is currently the only support that the Red Blade Clan can rely on.

When the skin is gone, what will the fur attach to?

He doesn’t wish to see the Mechanical Empire head towards extinction.

Therefore, Ren Zhong decides to become the variable in this equation.

In the waves of the era, mediocrities drift along while resenting heaven and blaming others, lamenting the injustices of fate yet hopelessly waiting for someone else’s salvation.

But the true pioneer will bravely step forward using their own method, standing out, shining brightly, and becoming the variables in the era.

Of course, once you become a variable, you’ll inevitably attract more hostile attention and must face greater risks. However, risk and opportunity always coexist; some pioneers are swallowed by the storm, leaving only insignificant ripples, while others can stand firmly on the crest of the wave, unveiling their own era.

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Time flows silently, and four years have passed since Ren Zhong’s "prediction" of the outbreak of war.

By this time, Ren Zhong and his Red Blade Clan have become an epic laughingstock known throughout the Empire.

Ren Zhong and his Red Blade Clan were clearly a promising new civilization with immeasurable potential, displaying capabilities far beyond those of the average Imperial Earl and his subjects.

Whether in scientific research capabilities, productivity, commercial capacity, or reproductive ability, even in terms of overall social consciousness and war capabilities, they are outstanding, gifted.

No one doubts that given time, the Red Blade Clan will gradually become a powerful force at the Marquis Level or even Duke Level, becoming a mainstay within the Mechanical Empire system.

Earl Red Blade himself also has a very high chance of becoming the new official Chosen One.

But amusingly, Earl Red Blade "went insane" at a critical moment.

He halted the rapid development of the thriving Red Blade Clan on their broad path due to mystifying so-called intuition.

He abandoned all his feudal territories, even recalling all external personnel, relocating everyone to various sizes of interstellar travel vessels, gathering around the Liao Yuan Star System, just this one star system.

If not for the account used by the Red Peak Commerce Department to receive external technology authorization payments still being active, allowing numerous Empire enterprises and nobles who purchased invisible coatings, new metal recycling, and new dark matter capture and development technologies to transfer funds, and if the service personnel of the Red Blade Science Academy still provided remote guidance via information flow networks, other Empire people would almost think the Red Blade Clan had vanished into thin air.

Earlier, the Red Blade Clan voluntarily terminated the planet leasing contracts.

According to the original agreement, even if the Red Blade Clan no longer uses these planets, they would still have to pay rent regularly.

However, those enterprises and lower-middle-class nobles leasing the planets, either to curry favor with Ren Zhong from afar or possibly out of a sense of unease from receiving money unjustifiably fearing retribution someday, not only gave up collecting rent but also voluntarily renounced the right to pursue penalty payments.

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