Facing Thane's curious yet wary gaze, Daisy began spinning tall tales.
Bragging depended on who was doing it. An ordinary person boasting and a national leader boasting were entirely different concepts.
She was now a national leader, and with her subordinates' half-true propaganda, she was even trending toward deification—though she was a god herself...
The ties between Xandar and Kree were growing ever closer, and her title, "the emperor who seemed to have stepped out of ancient myth," had also become widely known through word of mouth.
With her deliberate encouragement, the rumor became more and more distorted as it spread.
After several revisions, it had initially remained unchanged, but then it morphed from "the emperor who seemed to have stepped out of ancient myth" into "the emperor who had stepped out of ancient times."
Then it became "the emperor of ancient times," and now it had completely turned into "the emperor who had lived from ancient times until now"!
It was much the same principle as "Heaven decreed the mystical swallow, which descended and gave birth to Shang." Make one's origins more mysterious and grander, and those below would naturally feel awe.
That awe also needed to feel grounded, and the methods had to be appropriate. Telling them about her Star Mark power or her status at the peak of a single universe was useless; ordinary people simply did not understand. It was like threatening the United States with nuclear weapons—you had to use something the other party understood to intimidate them.
An ancient emperor had a human side while still seeming profoundly mysterious. The balance was just right.
Combined with the fact that her strength was indeed unfathomable, it was not as though the Senate's opponents and the military had never tried assassination, poisoning, and other methods. Unfortunately,