Lu PingAn, restless from too much stillness, was forced back by harsh reality.
This unexpected encounter, especially the experience of being tailed by a demigod, also prompted the Military Committee at the front lines to issue him a warning—a highly formal written warning.
By every calculation, they could not bear the possibility of Lu PingAn dying in battle.
Leaving aside anything else, losing the Trading Ground would be a strategically unacceptable loss. At least part of the Eastern Kingdom's enormous additional Investment had been made for the sake of "risk-free mass production of Professionals."
If Lu PingAn's death caused them to lose that strategic necessity and consider withdrawing their investment...
"If you die, this world really might be destroyed."
What Lu Lu said in private was grave, but what weighed even more heavily was that Lu PingAn knew it was true.
Even setting aside the openly acknowledged "mass production of Professionals," he still had several projects in hand that concerned the survival of the entire world.
Without him, the Lamp Tree would truly be nothing more than a glowing tree. The rapidly growing God of Resistance and Redemption would come to a halt, and every plan to save the world would end there as well.
If he were gone, then as the "lubricant" between Lady Lin, the New Kingdom, and the Eastern Kingdom—the three major powers—they would still cooperate where cooperation was needed. The world would not collapse because it had lost one person, but their degree of cooperation and trust would drop drastically. An intermediary whom all three sides regarded as one of their own was simply too rare.
War was a contest of national strength and population. A figure like Lu PingAn had already become extremely important. The simple reality that he continuously produced Professionals could greatly unite