From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 759 Without You, It's Better for Everyone

In the command room, the true identity of 'Norton II', also known as Frederico, was completely exposed. After being ridiculed by Amber, the disguised calmness on his face finally collapsed.

His breathing became more and more rapid, and his chest began to rise and fall violently. There were clear finger marks on his neck where he had been strangled. The face that belonged to Norton II was now twisted with Frederico's anger and suspicion.

"So Mr. Amber, what are you going to do with me?"

Frederico's voice was hoarse, but the imperial pressure contained in it had not completely dissipated. Instead, it carried a kind of fierceness of a trapped beast fighting desperately.

Amber leaned back in his chair, his hands casually resting on the armrests, looking very relaxed, as if he was not confronting Frederico at the moment.

"Disposal? Your Majesty, what do you think? Of course, we should completely wipe out this remnant of your soul that shouldn't exist, so that you won't come out to harm the world again."

"No! You don't dare!"

Frederico straightened his body suddenly, and although he was bound by Amber's psychic energy, his momentum suddenly rose.

"My spirit has already been initially integrated with Norton's spirit! If you forcibly erase me, he will also suffer irreversible damage! He may even become an idiot!"

Amber burst into laughter upon hearing this, and her laughter echoed in the empty command room, full of undisguised mockery.

"Hahahaha! Your Majesty, you have such a great sense of humor! I think you can become an artist who specializes in telling jokes~"

Frederico's face turned red with anger. After a moment, Amber stopped laughing, leaned forward slightly, and stared at Frederico.

"I really don't understand. Why do you think I care whether Norton II will become an idiot? Who gave you the confidence? It's as if I have some special relationship with him. I'm not into 'ditch literature'!"

Amber's voice was calm, but it contained a chill that made Frederico's heart palpitate.

"To be honest, I really want to get rid of both of you in one go - one is the ambitious regent who wants to overthrow the empire, and the other is the insidious and cunning emperor who hides behind the scenes and manipulates everything.
How can I make a lot of money if I'm involved with people like you? If both of you disappear, it will only benefit the Atlas Group in expanding its market in the empire! There will be no harm! "

Amber looked at Frederico's face, which turned extremely ugly in an instant, and continued, "Oh, by the way, there is one last key point I didn't tell you about the 'Atlas Mode' I just talked about with you, and that is 'stability'."

Amber used her psychic power to pick up a few fragments from the nearby debris that had been shaken off earlier, and then stacked them up layer by layer like building blocks.

Under normal circumstances, it is naturally not easy to stack such irregular fragments. Amber controlled her psychic power and stuck them together like glue, as if these fragments were originally one.

"Absolute efficiency and strict systems also require an absolutely stable external environment to guarantee it. Any factors that may undermine this stability and threaten the interests of Atlas Group and its partners must be eliminated! No matter who blocks Atlas's development path and my financial path, there is only one outcome."

Amber didn't say what the outcome would be, but the determination contained in that calmness frightened Frederico more than any threat.

Frederico was shaking with rage, and he pointed at Amber, his fingers turning white from the force.

"You, you cold-blooded monster! There is no difference between you and those capitalists who only know how to extract profits, and those corrupt nobles!"

"My God, Your Majesty. Isn't it a bit strange for an emperor like you to say this?"

There was no emotion on Amber's face, and she even spread her hands helplessly.

"Your Majesty, I've said before that I'm just a businessman, so I don't understand why you always think of me as a saint or a savior? Are you too disappointed with this world, or do you have unrealistic expectations and fantasies about me?"

Frederico was choked by Amber's words and was speechless. He could only stare at Amber with fiery eyes.

Amber continued to maintain her calm, almost indifferent tone, and continued to speak word by word:

"Even if I really want to change something, look at this empire and the federation next to it. They are all rotten to the core. Can this be solved by changing the monarch or the ruling party? Without a thorough blood transfusion, without a thorough cleansing from top to bottom, conventional methods will be of no use at all. And a thorough blood transfusion means bloodshed and sacrifice. This is an inevitable price, and it has nothing to do with who does it."

Hearing this, Frederico suddenly fell silent. He just looked at Amber, not knowing what he was thinking.

Amber was neither anxious nor annoyed, and just played the "stare-eyed" game with him until Frederico showed an expression that said "I've seen through you".

"Hmph, that's a very high-sounding statement! Mr. Amber, you say you don't want to change the world, but I think you've already planned everything in your mind! Your plan is probably more thorough and grander than mine! That's why you want to deliberately eliminate me. After all, for what you want to do, people like me are the biggest obstacle."

Amber shook her head and looked at the other person with an expression of looking at a fool: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I think you have really become stupid because of being an emperor. Your pitiful intelligence has been used up in intrigue and power struggles. You don't understand what real 'business' is at all."

"Yes, I do have a plan~" Amber admitted straightforwardly, but with a smile on her face that made Frederico extremely uncomfortable, "but I don't plan to do it myself."

Frederico was stunned. He didn't understand what Amber meant.

Amber leaned back and adjusted the back of her seat to a more comfortable position.

"Your Majesty, take the Star Dragon Empire as an example. Implementing a reform of this scale is a thankless task and will offend a large number of the imperial nobles. It is really troublesome! Not only do you have to face countless resistance and deal with all kinds of messes, but you also have to be criticized by others. How tiring it is.

So I turned this "big plan" you mentioned, Your Majesty, into a "commercial project"~ If someone, for example, our beloved Princess Agnes, is really determined to completely change this empire and is willing to pay a tiny "technical support fee."

Amber's face showed the shrewdness typical of a businessman. If you are familiar with him, you will know that this usually appears when he is preparing to cheat someone.

"Atlas Group is very happy to share this entire set of 'Imperial Innovation Program' with you! We can provide a full set of theoretical guidance, be responsible for the early planning, and even provide support at the later stage of execution! As long as the funds are in place, let alone technical support, it is not impossible to discuss if we can let our people directly act as 'white gloves' or 'black gloves'~"

"This"

"Even if you want me to leave, it's not impossible, but you have to pay more (*^▽^*)"

Frederico was really stunned this time.

Even though he had lived for a long time and had seen all kinds of people - conspirators, ambitious people, idealists, and lunatics, he had never seen anyone like Amber.

How could a person simply describe a grand blueprint that could overturn a huge empire and reshape the living conditions of hundreds of millions of people as a bargain?
This is ridiculous! Shameless!
"How could you do this?"

Frederico's voice trembled with shock. He couldn't understand how a profit-seeking and unscrupulous businessman could come up with such a logically rigorous reform plan that went straight to the core of the problem.

Amber didn't take Frederico's shock to heart at all, and continued to speak:
"Your Majesty, I am not like some people who shout lofty slogans but have dirty calculations in their hearts! I am a very down-to-earth person. I talk about business and I also think about business~
As for how future generations will evaluate me and what history books will write about me, that's none of my business. If critics scold me, will I lose a piece of flesh? Isn't it good for me to lie comfortably in bed and count money? False reputation is the least valuable thing~"

Frederico was completely stunned by Amber's shocking and unorthodox remarks.

He felt that his own cognition and some of the things he had followed throughout his life were being torn to pieces by the young man in front of him in an extremely brutal way.

The dignity of the emperor? The evaluation of history? The well-being of the people?
To Amber, none of them seemed like a good deal.

Frederico's mind went blank and he was in a trance for a moment. He even felt that he was a wise ruler.

"what on earth do you want?"

Frederico's voice was almost squeezed out from between his teeth. He had given up the pointless resistance and just wanted to know Amber's real purpose.

Amber smiled slightly, as if she had had enough of Frederico's miserable appearance.

"It's very simple, Your Majesty, I just want you to understand that times have changed. The era of old guys like you is completely over."

Listening to Amber's words, Frederico suddenly realized that he might have underestimated Amber from the beginning.

This young man not only possesses great strength, but also a way of thinking that is beyond his understanding.

And this might be part of Amber's plan, to use words to destroy his will and distract his mind, thereby reducing the strength of his mental defense. Frederico tried to consolidate his mental defenses, but found that Amber's words were like countless fine needles, deeply rooted in the depths of his consciousness and could not be shaken off.

Amber stood up, walked up to Frederico and looked down at him, with a cold light in her eyes.

"Your Majesty, let me take you on your way."

Amber raised her hand, and a powerful psychic energy wave instantly enveloped the entire command room.

Frederico felt an unprecedented fear and knew that Amber was going to take action.

His mind went blank and he was in a trance for a moment.

It's now!

Frederico was shocked, his mind went blank for a moment because of Amber's unorthodox remarks. At that moment, the deep blue psychic light in Amber's eyes suddenly surged to the extreme!
A majestic and vast spiritual force, far beyond Frederico's meager imagination, was like a raging wave bursting through a dam, instantly breaking down the other party's self-proclaimed solid mental barriers, and brutally and directly invading Frederico's, or rather, Norton II's chaotic spiritual world.

From the perspective of embodiment, the spiritual core of Norton II in the spiritual world is exhausted and scarred, but it is like a tough grass standing in the storm, stubbornly resisting erosion.
And another force, cold, cunning, full of decay, entangled Norton's consciousness like a thorn in the flesh, was eating away and assimilating him bit by bit, trying to take over this body completely for itself - that was Frederico's residual soul.

"Amber, you dare!"

On the mental level, Frederico's consciousness let out a terrified scream that came purely from the mental level. His remaining strength instinctively tried to shrink his defense to resist this sudden and destructive invasion.

"Of course I dare. Why wouldn't I dare?"

Amber even laughed out loud when she heard the old emperor's feeble threat. Facing the absolute power of a seventh-level psychic, the old emperor's resistance seemed so ridiculous and futile.

Amber's mental power did not stop at all, and soon completely locked onto the residual soul of Frederico that was curled up like a parasite deep in Norton's consciousness.

He did not choose a brutal and destructive attack. It would be great if there was one less fool in the world.

So Amber was like a skilled surgeon at this moment. She used her invisible mental power to probe meticulously and began to carefully peel off Frederico's spiritual threads that were like poison ivy wrapped around Norton II's soul, one by one.

For Frederico's remaining soul, this process was an extreme pain that far exceeded physical torture and a fear that penetrated deep into his bones.

He could clearly "feel" that his existence was being stripped away and erased piece by piece, his consciousness was rapidly dissipating, but he was powerless to make any effective resistance.

The despair of watching himself go to complete annihilation caused the once high and mighty emperor to completely collapse.

"No, no! Mr. Amber Amber! Let me go! Please!"

The emperor's dignity and pride were finally torn to pieces and disappeared completely in the face of complete death.

Frederico's spirit body twisted violently, and he made the ugliest and most humble plea.

"I can tell you all the secrets of the Leon royal family! The secrets of the emperors of all dynasties! The true legacy of the star dragon! I can help you control Agnes! She has weaknesses, of course I know the weaknesses of my own daughter! I can even help you..."

Frederico's spirit body flickered frantically like a dying candle, trying to grasp the last ray of hope that made him reflexively throw out the chip he considered most valuable.

But in the face of his plea for mercy, Amber's spirit did not fluctuate at all, and the peeling action was still precise and efficient.

"Your Majesty, let me be frank. Your existence is a huge trouble to all the people involved."

Amber's voice sounded calmly on the spiritual level, cold and indifferent. Without any personal emotion, it was purely stating a fact.

"It's better for everyone without you, really~"

(End of this chapter)