Power and ambition.
Usually, those were two equal things.
Without ability, you could only work like an ox or a horse.
With ability, you could become a Person Above Person.
But at certain times, those two things could seem rather unequal for various reasons.
Mediocre, utterly incapable people with no strengths held high positions and dictated the course of the nation.
Meanwhile, talented, learned, eloquent people worked like beasts of burden, merely scraping by.
And that would undoubtedly create all kinds of psychological imbalances and tangible problems...
Recently—roughly the past ten years within the Primordial World—
The outside world, meaning the Real World, had gradually formed some kind of connection with the Primordial World within Metaphysics Hong Huang.
From time to time,
Some strange things from this place would cross over there.
Demonic Beasts, wild animals... even all kinds of materials—anything was possible!
Their only commonality was that they were not particularly powerful for the time being. Thus, although the Real World suffered some losses after paying a certain price, those losses remained within acceptable limits. Moreover, through the things they captured and discovered, they had gained quite a lot!
Aside from that,
Some players at the forefront had gradually discovered that their bodies in the outside Real World were, to varying degrees, synchronizing with the power within Metaphysics Hong Huang and gradually surpassing the limits of ordinary humans...
There was no need to doubt that such developments had cast many shadows of uncertainty over both the Real World and the Primordial World.
Of course.
More importantly, faced with such a situation, anyone with a functioning brain could smell the coming storm...
That swelling power was making many players no longer content with their status as beasts of burden in the Real World!
And that undoubtedly harmed the interests of