Raphael knows that if he went to enlist with one of the two empires right now, the outcome wouldn’t be much different.

Both empires and The Great Sun Temple have a relationship mainly based on mutual benefit. They certainly don’t consider every enemy of The Great Sun Temple as their enemy in every situation.

But Gabriel’s case is something never seen in ten thousand years. His desire to overthrow the noble system deeply worries the empires as well.

Therefore, they cannot let a dangerous factor like Raphael stay near them. Even if Raphael cannot overthrow an entire empire, he is strong enough to kill an emperor. If he actually succeeds, it will create enormous trouble.

This world is long past the era where the power of a few demigod-level contractors could change the order.

Raphael himself is very strong, Gabriel is also very strong. But against the foundation accumulated over ten thousand years by the nobles, the two of them have no way to confront it.

Fighting an army composed entirely of ordinary people, even a hundred thousand of them, he could handle. But what about twenty, fifty, or a hundred contractors above level eighty?

Raphael’s current energy reserve is six times that of level ninety. Compared to level eighty, it’s one hundred and twenty times.

It looks huge, but his combat power is only double that of an enemy at that level. His advantage would become clear in a prolonged fight, but the enemy certainly won’t line up one by one to duel him.

In fact, by the standard of trading blows in a fight to the death, five level eighty contractors, if they are a good team, can completely take any demigod down with them.

Of course, it’s not that more is always better. Five against one against Raphael might result in all of them dying together, but if it’s thirty against one, the result would be similar.

If being the number one on the continent allowed you to do whatever you wanted, Gabriel would have smashed The Great Sun Temple and the two empires long ago, instead of being missing as he is now.

“Hmph, isn’t he just the child of some old man leading a group of rebels? With just this little bit of status, they’re all wary of you. Truly a bunch of cowards.”

Seeing Raphael’s attitude, Michael immediately guessed that the higher-ups of the two empires were all afraid of being assassinated by him. That’s why he curled his lips in disdain towards them.

For a passionate young man like him, a cowardly emperor is a failure. And now the two empires dominating the continent are led by two ‘failures’.

“What do you know? Humans don’t live that many years, so being afraid of death is normal, isn’t it?”

No one asked, but Iris immediately spoke up to retort Michael. Moreover, her words were certain as if she truly believed that was the truth.

Raphael saw the two kids who didn’t understand anything arguing and helplessly shook his head. Being this naive, can they really make a revolution?

At this moment, he even considered sending Iris and Michael to ‘study abroad’ with Gabriel for a while to learn more knowledge.

“Most humans are afraid of death, but not everyone is. I don’t know about other emperors, but the emperors of the two major empires are the type who aren’t afraid of death. They are afraid of me shaking the stability of the royal authority that has been maintained for so many years.”

Raphael calmly explained to them that these emperors are not ordinary people. If they keep thinking that they are just cowards who only eat and play, they will definitely suffer big losses later.

“Shake? Just you?”

Leo felt these words weren’t very realistic. If Raphael had the strength to shake the entire royal authority, why was he hiding in this place with no people around?

“Actually, making it shake isn’t impossible, but for me, it doesn’t mean much. The two empires have achieved a nearly perfect balance, so there haven’t been major conflicts for tens of thousands of years. As a result, their royal authority has been maintained extremely stably, and its symbolic significance has also increased greatly.”

“Commoners, since who knows when, have subconsciously come to regard the emperors as inviolable, as gods among mortals. Just think, if an emperor were assassinated, how much turmoil would it cause?

They would certainly lose credibility, and the chance of them being replaced would increase significantly. But my target is The Great Sun Temple, not the royal families.”

This issue inevitably made Leo frown in thought. Compared to the world he lived in before, this world’s maximum power and maximum lifespan were both much greater.

He couldn’t use the experience he gained observing royal authority in that other world to shallowly judge this one.

If things were really as Raphael said, then shaking royal authority wasn’t hard. But destroying the current social system monopolized by the nobles was extremely difficult.

While Leo was deeply pondering feasible methods for the revolutionary path ahead, someone couldn’t hold back anymore.

“Damn it, you humans really give me a headache when you talk. We just need to become gods. Then who would dare talk back to us? If they dare talk back, just beat them until they submit.”

Hearing about royal authority, nobles, power, stability, and related stuff really made Iris feel extremely annoyed.

When she managed the dragons, it wasn’t this troublesome. Just beat them until they submit, and they will obediently lie down and follow her orders.

But that rabble wasn’t a civilization. They were just a bunch of brutes who liked to cause trouble all over the continent. So it was normal for their leader to think in a violent way.

“You’ve got the brains of a rock and the muscles to match. What would you understand? Acting like humans are as stupid as those dragons of yours.”

Michael seized the opportunity to insult Iris’s intelligence. Although if you were being fair, she and he weren’t that different, but right now he wasn’t being fair at all.

“You wanna die?”

Iris summoned her divine artifact and immediately lunged, thrusting her spear straight towards his chest.

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