The Woman of the Nation's Downfall froze.
She understood what Roland meant.
For the weak, chaos was a vortex capable of swallowing everything, but for the strong, it was a raging current that stripped away their disguises.
That contrast was especially striking under the absolute order enforced through Yafei surveillance.
In environments beyond that surveillance, where Yafei might pursue them at any moment and enemies were of unknown identity, conflicts breaking out was perfectly normal, whether for self-preservation or other purposes.
And once traces were left behind and screened, any enemy would expose themselves.
After all, having taken control of all of Europe, Roland was free to take and consult all kinds of ancient magical texts.
Even the ability to conceal one's traces perfectly would not help, because that very tranquility was itself a flaw.
Erasing the other party in a conflict from the world completely also meant eliminating a trace that should have left a record. In the calculations of the Imperial Polarity Scripture, that tiny discrepancy was enough to be flagged as an anomaly, prompting more intensive investigation and creating a vicious cycle.
This strategy was almost impossible to resist. Even those with ill intentions could not deliberately mislead it.
That was because the data used to judge whether something was abnormal could only be obtained by a force whose rule encompassed more than half the world, which could reach incident sites quickly to investigate, and which possessed a supercomputer representing the pinnacle of technology.
Just as espers could not grow stronger without Academy City, without its systematic esper ability disciplines and Tree Diagram, created specifically for espers, their ability development would not merely stagnate-they might even be left behind by the times.
Those who had never experienced it firsthand often could not comprehend the efficiency of the