Of course, there were certainly opponents.
After all, not everyone could understand Meng Chao's far-sighted vision and flights of fancy.
With a formidable enemy at their gates, instead of pouring all resources into military technology and the war itself, he was developing rocket technology that seemed a distant prospect with an extremely low chance of success. The rationality and prospects of this route naturally drew plenty of doubts.
From vested interests among the Nine Great Families to bloodthirsty warriors of the Turan Civilization, many opponents could not comprehend Meng Chao's far-reaching schemes. Some even mistook his strategic contraction for weakness.
In the first few reincarnations, Meng Chao chose to patiently persuade every opponent, doing everything possible to gather all the resources, wisdom, and courage of the Chaos Faction through peaceful means.
He even revealed the whole truth, including his deductive and precognitive ability of "Infinite Reincarnation," and how he could arrange the most perfect way out for everyone in the Chaos Faction.
The result, however, fell short of expectations.
People either refused to believe him, treating the "prophecy of Infinite Reincarnation" as an outrageously absurd scam.
Or, after half-believing it, they were seized by overwhelming terror.
Meng Chao realized that for the vast majority of people, whether or not they possessed power, they were unwilling to accept a fate manipulated by someone else.
Even if that fate was good, even if it was the sole perfect path, innate curiosity and rebelliousness drove Carbon-Based Intelligent Lifeforms to refuse to become a chess piece that followed every step, to refuse to become one of the countless perfectly functioning components within a great civilization.
Even if Meng Chao laid the future—an incomparably terrifying future—plainly before them, and used irrefutable evidence to prove the inevitability of destruction, people were still unwilling to believe or