440 Return Journey

With the rewards settled, Li Aoz began contacting the White Candle Fleet and planning his return.

Due to Dragon Satellite's stronger gravity, coupled with the influence of the void, time passed relatively slowly. Li Aoz had stayed here for five years and seven months, but twelve years and five months had already passed on White Candle Star.

Fortunately, White Candle Star's government had originally been reformed from the academic warlord system. The defining trait of academic warlords was that whenever trouble arose, they gathered people from their own circles.

Other than the president, a number of oligarchic groups affiliated with Li Aoz continued to control politics.

If this had been a traditional monarchy, Li Aoz's little system of an absent monarch would have thrown the country into chaos long ago.

The first thing to do was contact White Candle Star and ask about the situation.

When Li Aoz got in touch with White Candle Star's government, the elections had just ended, and the Indalia Party had won.

The industrial conglomerate led by Li Aoz—the Indalia Party—firmly controlled the White Candle Supreme Decision Council and ninety percent of the seats in the Decision Assembly.

The Indalia Party possessed innate advantages that other groups simply did not have:

First, Indalia had abundant financial resources. Taking advantage of the Crystal Tower's withdrawal, the bankruptcy of vast numbers of service industries and research institutes, and the collapse of the old workshop system, Li Aoz had acquired a large number of tangible industries, including both heavy and light industry, as well as quite a few food businesses.

Second, under Li Aoz's instruction, Indalia openly welcomed immigrants from Azure Planet. Li Aoz deliberately handed out benefits, such as housing in worthless fringe regions and completely useless consumption vouchers, guiding players and Azure Planet immigrants into joining