Adalbert, You're Fired! (23)

"No, it's not the same." How was it the same?!

Suddenly, Ian opened his eyes. He and Adalbert spoke almost at the same time.

At this moment, Adalbert finally understood what Grand Duke Solin meant.

—Because he had created Artificial Souls, because he had created the Undead Monarch legacy, human flesh was no longer the "only" thing their lives depended upon.

All they had to do was wait a while—wait several years, until every citizen of the Solin Grand Duchy possessed an Artificial Soul. Then Grand Duke Solin would make this pact with his people.

He would become an Undead Monarch and, amid the coming age of chaos, amid the many foreseeable natural disasters and calamities, protect everyone.

And as it happened.

The Avak Viscountcy was the technical pilot region.

Every dead person here, even those experimental subjects who had been butchered and tortured... still had souls!

As long as there were artificial human bodies with a 100% resonance rate and soul compatibility rate, as long as this technology could be cracked, then in the future, with the power of a Fourth Energy Level expert, Grand Duke Solin could create artificial human incubation chambers with his bare hands. From nothing, amid a field of ruins, he could forcibly bring all his people back to life!

Life would be redefined. The death of the flesh would no longer be regarded as "death"... Thus, Grand Duke Solin could obtain everything while losing virtually nothing!

Theoretically speaking, for Grand Duke Solin, this was the perfect solution.

He could compensate everyone after they died. After everything seemed to have ended, he could give them back a normal life—if he truly managed that, then theoretically, no one would suffer any loss. At most, they would have a stretch of terrible memories.

But Adalbert did not