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#289 - Chapter 289 One Percent and Ninety-Nine Percent
“Don't you think this recruitment method is a bit too limiting?”
Wu Wei had this feeling because, at this moment, he was essentially a genuine creature of the Abyss.
The influence of the endless Abyss was omnipresent.
From the simple physical body to the soul and then to thoughts.
And the first thing that was influenced in Wu Wei was his thoughts.
Having accepted the influence of the Abyss, his thoughts were no longer restricted by ordinary order, and he was very averse to things like assessments, examinations, and most rigid rules.
It was also the nature of the Abyss creature that made him ask such a question.
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“You say limiting.....”
Li Xuefeng was stunned that Wu Wei would ask such a question.
He opened his mouth, instinctively wanting to refute Wu Wei's theory.
But for some reason, he, who was not good at arguing, suddenly couldn't find a suitable argument.
So, he silently extinguished the cigarette in his hand and then lit a new one.
Those familiar with his style knew that he did this when he was deep in thought.
So, in a haze of cigarette smoke, Li Xuefeng was unusually silent.
And Wu Wei didn't urge him, but silently waited for his reply.
The two of them stared at each other in silence.
Until....
“Wu Wei.”
“I know how to refute your theory!”
Suddenly, Li Xuefeng laughed.
Obviously, his thinking had yielded results.
“Everything you said before is completely sophistry.”
“Do you know why I say that?”
“Why?”
“Because the unfairness you speak of is precisely another kind of special fairness!”
Li Xuefeng took a hard puff of his cigarette and said excitedly.
Clearly, after losing to Wu Wei in the military chess deduction, he couldn't wait to win against Wu Wei in other aspects.
“You think that the Lord's Assessment cannot accurately express a Lord's future potential, right?”
“That's right, I don't deny that!”
“I even admit that the Lord's Assessment does have great drawbacks.”
“After all, a few dozen days of assessment cannot allow all Lords to achieve the most perfect performance.”
“But you must know one thing....”
“That is, the Empire is really too big!”
“The vast human Empire cannot achieve perfection in terms of efficiency and fairness.”
“So the Lord's Assessment, which you say is too limiting, is precisely the most balanced method between fairness and efficiency.”
“And, Wu Wei, don't forget.”
“In the vast Empire, how many new Lords are participating in the Lord's Assessment in a state where their families cannot provide enough help?”
“Ninety-nine percent or more, right!”
Li Xuefeng sneered and continued.
“These ninety-nine percent of new Lords, their parents may be small Lords of a small guild, or they may be peripheral members of an alliance.”
“Coming from such families, they cannot get help from their families.”
“And ninety-nine percent of them, their future potential is destined to be affected by their families, and they cannot be compared with those one percent of Lords from wealthy families.”
“Because when this group of new Lords leaves the Lord's Assessment, they must find ways to join a small guild, accumulate wealth, slowly upgrade their territory, and build their army.”
“And those Lords with unlimited future potential you speak of, they are completely different.”
“With the support of alliances, guilds, and family forces, they will immediately receive full support from their families as soon as they leave the Lord's Trial!”
“They will receive massive resource point support from their families, without needing to consider the invasion of foreign enemies, and only need to develop with peace of mind.”
“Even these Lords, who only account for one percent, will receive powerful heroes, complete technology trees, and powerful armies upon graduation.”
“What they think about every day is never the problem of survival.”
“What they think about every day is how to better make their families stronger, how to keep their status for their next generation, and how to use the accumulation of wealth to earn more wealth!”
“But this is precisely the real unfairness!”
“Because don't you think that, in such a situation, the future potential of these ninety-nine percent of Lords is destined to be different from that of the one percent of Lords?”
“However, the Lord's Assessment breaks this unfairness!”
Li Xuefeng laughed and extinguished the cigarette in his hand.
But this time, he didn't light a new cigarette.
Because his mood at this time was much happier than smoking.
“In the Lord's Assessment, whether you are the son of a family or a descendant of commoners, your starting point in the Lord's Assessment is similar.”
“Although there is a slight uncertainty in the extraction of races, in general, everyone's starting point is similar.”
“Under such circumstances, everyone participating in the Lord's Assessment can only rely on themselves.”
“Because even if you are a wealthy family son, without external help, you must rely on your own strength to pass the Lord's Assessment.”
“Therefore, the assessment method, which you say is limiting, is precisely the only opportunity for the ninety-nine percent of new Lords to defeat the one percent of new Lords!”
“And the reason why the War College uses the Lord's Assessment as a condition to screen out suitable Lords, recruit and cultivate them.”
“Is essentially to reduce such unfairness!”
“So, Wu Wei, the recruitment method you say is extremely limiting is precisely the fairest.”
“It's just that it's not the kind of fairness you imagine!”
“The Empire is always fair!”
Hearing Li Xuefeng say this, Wu Wei smiled.
“Is that so.”
“But I still have a question.”
“That is, since the Empire recognizes this unfairness....”
“Then why doesn't it do something about it?”
“Because I don't think this recruitment method, which is so limiting, is the best way to reduce unfairness.”
“On the contrary, in my eyes, what the Empire is doing is a very stupid behavior.”
“Because the so-called Lord's Assessment organized by the Empire is essentially just giving the ninety-nine percent of Lords a false hope.”
“The so-called guarantee of fairness in your mouth is, in fact, the most hypocritical.”
“Because where did those ninety-nine percent of people who stood out from the Lord's Assessment end up?”
Li Xuefeng was stunned for a moment.
But Wu Wei continued.
The black and red vertical pupils in his eyes became even more enchanting at this time.
“They joined that one percent!”
‘They became the new one percent!’
“In other words, the Empire's so-called maintenance of fairness is just a joke!”
“This so-called Lord's Assessment, in essence, is just another kind of screening!”
“It is screening out nutrients that are more in line with the needs of those one percent of strong people!”
“And, what's even more terrifying is that the Empire has not made any changes because of this.”
“Because if the Empire, if the Empire has consciousness, it will continue this behavior indefinitely.”
“Because the will of the Empire is not composed of the ninety-nine percent of Lords! On the contrary, those one percent of Lords are the real will of the Empire!”
“That is to say....”
Wu Wei smiled.
He spoke his true thoughts.
“The problem has never been the so-called assessment method.”
“The problem is the Empire itself!”
PS: This chapter prohibits meaningless associations. Any interpretation by readers has nothing to do with the author.