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#718 - Chapter 718 Thoughts are Poison
After Wu Wei successfully secured enough helpers using the power of contracts and money, he no longer placed any restrictions on the Fallen Angel, Liz.
On the contrary, he now gave Liz and Louis even more power.
This power meant that no matter how many resources and weapons Liz needed, Wu Wei supplied them openly, and no matter what tactics Liz used, he would not interfere.
Furthermore, Wu Wei didn't even manage the territories conquered by the Fallen Angel Liz, leaving them entirely to the Abyss Cult to manage.
And the Abyss Cult indeed lived up to Wu Wei's expectations.
Barely a day after being freed from Wu Wei's constraints,
the Abyss Cult began a new journey after finishing the plunder of the first plane.
This time, the Abyss Cult was no longer satisfied with plundering one plane at a time.
They were as greedy as their master, the Fallen Angel.
This time, tens of millions of Fallen Believers simultaneously opened up six different planar battlefields, frantically plundering everything in these six planes with the speed of locusts.
Although the enemy forces in these six planes were very powerful, strong enough to directly confront any Fallen Believer army,
it was as mentioned before, the existence of Fallen Believers was as terrifying as a disease to ordinary creatures.
Their military force was not the key to seizing the world.
What truly made them thorns in the side of the rulers was the chaotic and depraved ideology they spread!
Countless civilians who were originally submissive and obedient changed their original loyalties after coming into contact with the Fallen Believers.
They no longer served a specific lord, nor did they pledge allegiance to the so-called concepts of nation or national identity, but instead prioritized satisfying their own desires.
Under such circumstances, the number of the Fallen increased rapidly!
Even in many planes that were already suffering from oppression, batches of armies appeared, defecting on a large scale due to the temptation of the Fallen Believers.
Such disturbances would obviously lead to the iron-fisted suppression by the military.
But these iron-fisted suppression policies inadvertently made more exploited soldiers aware of the military system and certain unspeakable problems.
So....
The phenomena of rebellion and defection became increasingly obvious and blatant.
Eventually, some cities that were originally heavily guarded and had not been captured by the Fallen Believers began to disintegrate from within, turning into nests of the Fallen.
To change this phenomenon, the Twilight Dynasty began to take action.
First, within the Twilight Dynasty, all residents belonging to the Twilight Dynasty Guild's territory began to receive propaganda and brainwashing from the vested interests within the territory.
These vested interests were heroes or landlords.
As the lackeys of their respective lords, they used racial righteousness, glory, and other illusory moral principles to brainwash these people, trying to impose more solid thought control.
But unfortunately, these so-called thought controls did not have the desired effect.
The reason is simple.
No matter how powerful your thoughts are, the world these people live in is still governed by the laws of physics.
When the Fallen Believers discovered that the cities they had "contaminated" could not be acquired through inducement, they would only take another simpler way to get everything they wanted.
That is war!
Boom boom boom!
As a Demon Engine, clearly modified from a Plaguebearer, emitted its enormous roar, a 19th-century-style building was instantly blasted with large holes.
Countless corpses and remains of loyalist soldiers fell from these holes.
And falling out with them were the corpses of those who had defected, the Fallen.
These two groups of warriors, originally of the same origin, were engaged in a deadly fight in this building for the things they believed in.
One side for glory and loyalty.
And the other for desire and the abyss.
What was terrifying was that these warriors who were fighting each other were clearly close comrades who had fought side by side and served the same lord yesterday.
But today, they were enemies who had to fight to the death upon meeting.
Watching all this horror, the Abyss Lord on the other side revealed a satisfied smile.
"Sure enough, it's just like what is written in the ancient books."
"The most terrible poison is thought."
"Because the thought that lures people into depravity is contagious."
In just over ten days, these six planes, originally belonging to the Twilight Dynasty, were completely lost.
And although the Abyss Cult warriors who conquered these six planes suffered extremely heavy losses each time, the number of these Fallen actually began to increase slowly after a while due to the increasing number of defectors.
Also, because Wu Wei did not need to defend these territories.
After seizing these six planes, these Fallen Believers, who were no longer content, began to brew the next round of war.
The pressure was on the Twilight Dynasty Guild!
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