Laying the Groundwork (Lately, This Kitty Has Been Feeling Sleepier and Sleepier, Like It Wants to Hibernate)

Choosing the Liberl Kingdom as his base of operations had been carefully planned by Fang Zheng.

Of course, he understood very well what consequences the invention of a technology capable of shaking the entire world would bring.

If it were introduced in the Empire or the Republic, the two nations might use their overwhelming power to force the technology itself to be banned. That would not be surprising; there had been similar treaties during the Cold War. No one wanted to give technology that could make others stronger to another country, especially one of comparable strength.

However, as the God of Games, this was the very foundation of Fang Zheng's grand plan. If they refused to let him spread it out and hindered his great pay-to-win gaming enterprise, Fang Zheng would not stand for it.

Therefore, Fang Zheng believed that if he wanted to get started, he needed to choose a third party outside those two.

At first, Fang Zheng had chosen Crossbell, since it was the intersection of finance and trade between the two nations. However, after inspecting it personally, he crossed it off the list. Though Crossbell was prosperous and bustling, undercurrents ran beneath the surface. Moreover, the city of Crossbell was, at most, a dog jointly raised by the two great powers. If Fang Zheng released his technology there, the two nations would certainly pressure Crossbell, and Crossbell definitely would not be able to withstand it before selling him out—Fang Zheng did not even need to think about that.

Thus, Fang Zheng ultimately chose the Liberl Kingdom.

Like Crossbell, the Liberl Kingdom was situated between the two great powers. However, unlike Crossbell, which merely served as someone else's dog, the Liberl Kingdom was more independent. It also had a history of resisting Imperial invasion in the Hundred