Kamar-Taj: Project Pegasus
The informatization project could not be completed overnight. Before humanity entered the information age, the previous Sorcerer Supreme had already intended to establish an information channel between Kamar-Taj and the Sanctums. Yet it was not until the Emperor took over the City of Immortals and began producing the relevant equipment that this concept gradually started to become reality. This informatization project included Sanctum terminals, Aether-detection radar, countless satellites, orbital missile silos, and other subsystems linked to the military intelligence network. Its physical manifestation was the fluorescent green data cascading like a waterfall above the holographic table in the Emperor's office at Royal City Castle.
The Arcanists observing the Aether issued a warning: the Aether Wave in the Outer Dimensions was gradually becoming more turbulent, and supernatural phenomena would grow increasingly frequent. Compared with the Yugoslav Federation occupying the Balkan Peninsula and the City of Immortals in Southern Europe, Kamar-Taj possessed deeply rooted civilian informants all over the world. Some of those informants had never seen an Arcanist in their lives, nor had they ever encountered any supernatural event. Yet their parents and even grandparents had passed down the secret to gaining wealth as a family legend, until one day an Arcanist came knocking. Large numbers of Arcanist apprentices, accompanied by well-trained armed personnel, were dispatched to collect the debts those informants had owed in the past. Now, most of those informants were ordinary people with a certain social standing. Generations of accumulated wealth had given them numerous intelligence sources, social connections, and operational funds.
When Kamar-Taj demanded a certain proportion of their wealth or resources, those informants who had never seen a Kamar-Taj Arcanist might refuse, or believe that the organization from their family legends had appeared before them merely to stage a scam. But none of