Alvin looked contemptuously at Alan, who was stubbornly refusing to back down, and said with a laugh, "What else can you do?
I bet you can't even fully control the Elder Council, let alone the church.
You think nobody knows about the dirty things God King Freyr has done?"
Hanging in midair, Alan gave his daughter an apologetic look, then turned to Alvin and smiled. "Actually, we've already won most of the battle. People today stopped caring about their civil liberties long ago.
For centuries, we've tried religion, politics, and modern consumerism to eliminate human dissent.
Now, most people only care about their standard of living!
When people surrender their privacy for convenience and can only passively accept information, there's no longer room in society for ideas like 'freedom.'
Everyone wants to go with the flow, as though that's the only way to become part of the majority.
This is the result of a century of effort. Even we ourselves have been affected...
Wouldn't you say we've won?"
As he spoke, Alan looked at Alvin's furrowed brow and smiled. "I know what you're capable of. You could use your power to uproot the Elder Council.
But is that what you want?
The ones truly in control of the Elder Council are humanity itself, along with the immense forces of capital.
You can break them up, but you can't kill them all. And you have no way to erase habits that have taken root in people's minds—unless you start a war and plunge the whole world into bloodshed.
I did lose, but we won...
Many people tried to persuade me to give up, even my own kind. But I still couldn't accept it.
Because as long as free will exists, it will always be a threat to us.
When I saw