A mage's journey begins with a battle mage.

Chapter 508 It's time for the electricity!

Having sentenced the prince to death in his heart, Jiang Shuzhou began to attend to other matters.

Previously, Jiang Shuzhou had been busy with research and had never paid much attention to territory management and military affairs, which resulted in Jiang Shuzhou's only military leadership skill being overwhelming strength.

This is not wrong in itself. After all, everyone has their own expertise. Jiang Shuzhou is a researcher and a leader. He does not need to lead troops. He has subordinates to help him.

However, due to Jiang Shuzhou's orders to endlessly expand his forces over the years, the Soth Society's sphere of influence now covers more than forty planes, as well as a considerable portion of the main plane's territory.

The territories of the primary plane are relatively better, mostly belonging to the orcs. These people are easy to appease; they are inherently extremely fierce and don't ask for much. Just collect a blood tax and throw them into the army.

However, other dimensions are more difficult to manage, and the frequency of various rebellions and corruption incidents has begun to increase.

Even though Jiang Shuzhou ordered the Extinction Angels to burn down more than a dozen planes, it was still to no avail.

This is the growing pain caused by overexpansion, and reform is needed to avoid it.

If you're a politician, then you need to create a new system to replace the old one.

However, in the short term, the Soth Society will not be able to control and integrate so many territories. After all, there are only so many talents. It may be enough for the lower-level governance, but not enough for the middle and upper levels.

This is not in Jiang Shuzhou's interest.

In military matters, although Hayes indicated that he could come, Jiang Shuzhou planned to personally take command this time, so he sent Hayes to continue suppressing the rebellion.

As the saying goes, everyone has their own expertise. Although Jiang Shuzhou doesn't know how to lead troops, firstly, he is strong enough, and secondly, he can solve these problems in his own way.

It just so happens that although the empire is currently in turmoil, it is not on the verge of splitting apart. Everyone is just preparing to become kings, and only plans to reclaim the throne later.

This is the best time for Jiang Shuzhou to make inventions and creations.

Jiang Shuzhou greatly admired the imperial alliance, and he had long wanted to learn about it, but only now had he had the opportunity to stay and study it for an extended period of time.

The old administrative system was inefficient, with too few things that one person could manage, many things required offline approval, and there was a lack of supervision, which Jiang Shuzhou could not tolerate.

If the flesh and blood world of the Mother Tree represents Jiang Shuzhou's chaotic and disorderly side, then the Soth Society represents Jiang Shuzhou's orderly side.

Often, he cannot tolerate uncertainty, especially when the outcome is unfavorable to him.

From a research perspective, this is interesting; from a societal perspective, it is a destabilizing factor.

After research, Jiang Shuzhou decided to create a new system based on the alliance agreement.

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Jiang Shuzhou is in a temporary laboratory in Mahablay.

The cold light shone on the wall; it was a healing light, capable of slowly healing the injured. It was originally a very good spell, but its effectiveness in a laboratory was uncertain.

"Grace, do you think this time it will succeed?"

Wearing a gray robe with gold trim, Jiang Shuzhou asked Grace a question. At the same time, Renoir was also there, faithfully fulfilling her function as a music player, playing the violin for Jiang Shuzhou.

However, this guy is getting more and more perfunctory. He doesn't even move his hands and just uses the resonance of the laws to make sounds. But thankfully, the effect is the same.

"It's 80% likely to succeed. The experiment has already been conducted 800 times. If it doesn't succeed soon, the bandits will run out of drugs."

"If we fail, we'll try to catch them again. Anyway, this is imperial territory, full of bandits, and there aren't any good people here."

"That's true, but if we use up this batch, we'll have to wait until tomorrow to catch more, unless you want to do it yourself."

"I hope it will succeed. This is the 888th time, which has a great meaning. I deliberately tried and failed dozens of times before, just so that I could succeed this time. I used all the previous attempts as a stepping stone."

"You'd better be!"

Jiang Shuzhou and Grace quietly watched the experimental subjects below from a one-way observation room several meters high.

He is conducting experiments on creating a system, yes, the kind of system that can become a cheat code.

Soon, commotion came from below.

Hancock awoke from his coma.

"How do you feel, number E001?"

In the laboratory, Jiang Shuzhou asked questions.

"What the hell! I... Ah!!!"

Upon hearing the voice, Hancock was about to curse when suddenly, sparks and lightning flashed, and he was electrocuted and knocked unconscious.

However, the healing light quickly brought him back to his senses.

"You're in great spirits. I hope you can handle the upcoming experiments."

Jiang Shuzhou praised him, saying he was preparing to proceed with the next experiment.

"Stay calm and don't act rashly."

Immediately afterwards, with a thought from Jiang Shuzhou, a mysterious entity connected with Hancock's soul.

"Exploration, knowledge, tolerance, and kindness have always been the motto of the Sothe Society. Welcome, lost soul."

"What is this?"

Hearing the voice in his mind, Hancock shuddered in fright, seemingly resisting.

"The target is emotionally agitated. Perhaps we should cast a calming spell when connecting to the target later, or install it at birth."

Jiang Shuzhou made the notes.

"Master, to save costs, I recommend you use sedatives. Otherwise, with so many people in the Soth Society, the cost would be too high."

"Good, let's test it out first. If it doesn't cause too many deaths, then we'll roll it out."

Jiang Shuzhou continued chatting with Grace, ignoring the terrified Hancock.

After a while, he continued speaking to Hancock.

"Calm down and accept it, or your only fate will be death."

Upon hearing this, Hancock could only do his best to remain calm.

Seeing this, Jiang Shuzhou continued the connection, allowing more information to be transmitted.

"Welcome, Firewood. For your dedication and hard work, you will be promoted."

Then came a whole host of dazzling options that Hancock couldn’t understand at all.

"Click to redeem".

Jiang Shuzhou gave the order.

However, Hancock remained unmoved.

"?"

So disobedient? He needs a shock.

Without hesitation, as Jiang Shuzhou thought, Hancock froze, his hair instantly singed by the electric shock.

"Sir, I can't read!"

This was his first sentence after recovering.

Upon hearing this, Jiang Shuzhou's lips twitched; he hadn't expected this question.

People in the past at least knew how to read, which made Jiang Shuzhou think that everyone could read. He never expected that in this day and age, there would still be people who couldn't read.

However, the thought that this was the empire made Jiang Shuzhou feel relieved.

"Why didn't you say so earlier!"

"You didn't ask!"

Slow to react, serves him right for getting electrocuted.

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Shuzhou threw a word that Hancock was fluent in, and Hancock immediately recognized it all.