Infection Plan

As the various construction plans Zhou Ming had laid out were implemented with increasing fanfare, the scale of production grew ever larger and affected more and more people. Keeping certain secrets from leaking out would become increasingly difficult.

Especially within the Orunian Empire, the thousand-plus Mana Web Walkers belonging to the Azure Hand Guild remained a variable. They could discover the empire's secrets at any time.

Unless these Mana Web Walkers who did not belong to his side were dealt with, Zhou Ming would always be constrained and unable to act freely.

How should he deal with them?

Kill them all?

He shook his head.

If he did that, over a thousand Soul Strings would snap, creating a "vacuum" of Azure Hand influence within the Orunian Empire. No matter how foolish Karosinasri was, he would quickly notice something amiss and send people to investigate.

The best solution was to absorb and assimilate those thousand-plus Mana Web Walkers as much as possible, integrating them into his own ranks.

How could he absorb and reorganize them?

Although Zhou Ming was a ruler and possessed some kingly charisma, he was not so formidable that a single demand for submission would make others immediately bow their heads.

He had already spent considerable effort subduing Shut and the other three. Trying to swiftly win over a thousand people now would probably be an extremely complicated undertaking.

But this time, Zhou Ming had come up with a brilliant plan that could rapidly subdue the vast majority of those thousand Mana Web Walkers... while eliminating uncertainties.

Of course, there would certainly be a small number who could resist temptation, who possessed stronger principles and would not submit easily. Those few would first have their Soul Strings severed, then be imprisoned or killed depending entirely on Zhou Ming's