Having developed the rules of capital finance and inherited the ancient Ruined City, the Second Ring True Spirit Wizard used Wizard Coins as True Spirit offerings, opening an even higher mode of resource plunder.
He had already seen through the essence of wars between civilizations!
Tracing civilization wars back to their roots, they were wars over living space and resources. Biological groups were filled with suspicion and distrust toward one another, while exterminating other civilizations brought unimaginable profits, making oneself stronger and safer.
Thus, the War of Civilization had never ceased and would never end. True peace and happiness existed only in fairy tales.
Compared to ancient wizards and the vast majority of biological races, who relied on savage wars to forcibly seize other races' living space and resources, the plundering system of the Wizard Alliance, built upon the deterrence of war and Wizard Coins, was undoubtedly more advanced and far more irresistible.
Every Demon-Hunting Expedition launched by the Wizard World was filled with the rules of capital finance operating behind the scenes.
Gold, utterly worthless to higher lifeforms, needed only the simplest processing and an infusion of a wizard's will to carry the bloody stench of capital into any conquered world, exchanging Wizard Coins for any energy source that caught the wizards' attention.
With this one rule alone, the wizards' savage and bloody plundering of survival resources was perfectly concealed. This was a fair purchase and trade!
Clearly, such so-called purchase transactions were more readily accepted by foreign civilizations. Many worlds that should have resisted stubbornly to the bitter end chose to give up because of it. Some weaker worlds even chose to join the Wizard Alliance voluntarily, engaging in so-called fair competitive buying and selling under the financial capital rules established by the wizards.
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