The Witch Hunter System - Chapter 1042

Once the Divine League stopped seeing the UN as the enemy, they realized the gargantuan opportunity waiting for them. Even though it had yet to join the UN, news of the UN's development quickly reached it.

The UN's frightening development was also the reason the Divine League was so anxious and afraid. No one was used to such rapid changes.

The amount of changes in the past six months was more than the past three hundred years added together.

New knowledge and technology were introduced every day, and overly ambitious or extremely motivated people would consume such knowledge and technology quickly to make use of them.

Those who did not have the same drive would fall far behind until they became people of little importance. The grand race of development was so suffocating that people with less drive would feel too much pressure to relax and take breaks.

Originally, the City Lords of the Divine League thought it would be difficult to reach out to the UN, given their previous stubborn stance.

However, they were all wrong. It was very easy to arrange a meeting with the UN's representatives. The UN welcomed all countries with open arms; only the benefits differed at the time of joining.

Although the Divine League received fewer benefits than the Freedom Federation, it ultimately secured a membership spot within the UN. The treaty and handover of sovereignty were signed three days after the Freedom Federation's visit.

When the world received news of the Divine League joining the UN, it received another wave of shock.

"The sky has changed," a person said after reading the news.

With the addition of the Divine League and the Freedom Federation, the UN effectively controlled two-thirds of the continent. Even if the remaining unaffiliated countries banded together, they could not match the UN's might.

As such, the remaining unaffiliated countries sent representatives to the UN, expressing their willingness to submit under the UN banner and serve the overlord.

Although it took a whole month to complete all the signing ceremonies and formalities to instate the new members, the world eventually united under a single will. To celebrate this occasion, the UN was renamed the United Pangea Federation, and a central government was formed to manage the world.

The feudal system ceased to exist, and old rulers gave up their authority in exchange for cultivation benefits. The power over a piece of land simply couldn't compare to becoming a strong being with a long lifespan.

Everyone aspired to become like Vaan.

That said, although Vaan received the oath of allegiance from every country, he was never one to trust in verbal promises. As such, he pulled every party into his power grid plan to guarantee their obedience.

If he didn't want to be betrayed by others, he couldn't give them a chance to betray him.

Vaan's power grid plan involved achieving a monopoly over the supply of electricity, spirit energy, and mana and making every country dependent on them. The plan was inspired by Celestial City's monopoly over spirit energy.

Nevertheless, Vaan did not monopolize Pangea's natural resources to achieve this.

Every country was free to procure its own mana and spirit energy from the world and develop its own electricity supply. After all, depriving them of their basic rights to these resources would only destabilize the new government instead of strengthening it.

Vaan's faith in his power grid plan came from the moon.

The moon could produce electricity, spirit energy, and mana of greater quantities and qualifies. If he could sell resources of such superior qualities and quantities cheaply, every country would naturally gravitate toward the offer.

That said, Vaan's power grid plan was only possible because the moon possessed the conditions to allow it.

After all, the moon possessed near-constant sunlight exposure, allowing efficient solar power generation. The moon also possessed helium-3, which was used as fuel in advanced nuclear fusion reactors to generate large amounts of energy.

The amount of electricity generated from all this was simply staggering.

As for spirit energy and mana, the lunar base's advantages regarding them were even clearer.

The essence of the Divine Tree of Life had transformed the moon into a floral paradise, brimming with spirit energy. The spirit energy of ordinary life on Pangea simply couldn't match the spirit energy produced by the plants born from the divine tree's essence.

The overflowing spirit energy on the moon had long spilled into outer space.

Although a bubble-like grand array was later constructed to contain the spirit energy on the moon, it wasn't a long-term solution. After all, the bubble-like barrier would eventually fill up if the spirit energy had nowhere else to go.

If they could be channeled to Pangea constantly, it would be for the best.

Finally, the moon had access to pure mana. Compared to mana from Gehenna, the difference was obvious.

With all these advantages offered to members of the power grid plan, only a fool would choose not to join.

Why would any country expend effort and funds on building electricity plants, mana-gathering towers, and spirit-gathering formations—only to collect resources of inferior qualities and quantities when they had better and cheaper options?

They could use the time and resources to develop other, more important things for their countries.

The incentives of Vaan's power grid plan were just too strong for anyone to reject.

"Lord Astarot, will the Supreme Leader's power grid plan really work? I don't doubt the lunar colony's production; it certainly has the capability. But... how are we supposed to transfer all this energy to Pangea?"

"Hm? Have you not been paying attention to the power grid's construction in the past month, Lord Kemun? Because if you have, you wouldn't be asking that question."

"I was in isolated cultivation, Lord Astarot," Lord Kemun explained before asking again awkwardly, "So... how does the lunar power grids transfer all the energy to Pangea?"

"For the electrical energy, it's all beamed to Pangea using laser and microwave technologies. Spirit energy and pure mana required more specialized equipment, but they, more or less, follow the same idea."

"Seriously?"

"Seriously."

Lord Astarot sighed after explaining the theory of light-speed transmission. It was incredible what they could do with technology.

If it was in the past, who would believe that they could power the entire world from the moon in mere seconds?

Who would have even thought of such a way of transferring energy?

Lord Astarot knew that if he had been told to send the energy to Pangea, his first thought would have been to package it into storage cells before manually delivering it.

"Lord Kemun, what do you think is the greatest difference between us dragons and humans?"

"Our looks?"

Lord Astarot stared at Lord Friatus speechlessly for a moment before glaring at him, replying, "No shit, but I'm not talking about that. Argh, forget it. I'll just say it – It's ingenuity. We have wisdom, but we lack the human's ingenuity."

"This is the biggest difference between us dragons and humans—No, this is the biggest difference between humans and any other races," Lord Astarot corrected himself.

Humans weren't the strongest race in Chaos because they were born strong; they were the strongest race because they were born the weakest. The powerlessness of being the weakest made them strive to better themselves.

Those who were born strong wouldn't understand the struggles of the weak; they grow complacent with misconceptions about their rights and never strive for improvement.

Only setbacks would make them aware, but by then, it might also be too late.

On the other hand, humans have always been aware of their powerlessness. Their awareness of their dangers was the reason they strived for self-improvement, and their ingenuity was the tool to achieve it.