Infinite Job Transfers Starting from Mechanic

Chapter 1191: Chapter 643: The Prince’s Dilemma

After Chu Mu became the Regent Prince, he immediately pushed his innate talents to their limits.

The Imperial that was originally chaotic, under his governance, in just a few hundred years, had largely restored peace.

The Imperial subjects, upon hearing that he was the bloodline of the Radiant Emperor, all submitted.

Occasionally, there were several Star Cluster Governors who did not recognize this prince, but Chu Mu personally led the army to quell the rebellion, and wherever they went, the rebel forces would turn and surrender, subduing the uprising without losing a single soldier.

A few hundred more years passed, by now Prince Chu Mu had already begun to redevelop the declining Imperial.

Although it had not yet reached the level before the rebellion, it was nevertheless much better than before.

However, although Prince Chu Mu was diligent in governance and loved the people as his own, after the Subspace tide erupted, a large number of Subspace Evil Gods awakened, constantly enticing the Imperial subjects.

Many people, if one was not careful, if a single thought went astray, could be targeted by the Evil God, secretly corrupted, turning them into its minions.

The rebellion was no more, but the heresies of the Evil Gods arose one after another.

Thus Prince Chu Mu declared the Mechanical Sect as the National Religion, promoting materialism, faith in technology above all, and rejecting Subspace erosion.

The entities they worship are, one, the Star Tower, and two... the ultimate creation of the Emperor, the "No Mechanic God."

It is actually the Evil God Nono.

After being summoned by Su Yu, Nono came and occupied a portion of the Mechanical God’s Divine Power, possessing the purest body of the God of Objects, rejecting almost any Subspace energy, and since it was Su Yu’s creation, its foundation was sound, thus chosen by Prince Chu Mu as the god of the National Religion.

Nono did not object, nor did it agree, in its heart, there is only Su Yu, other humans, whether they live or die, whether they are righteous or evil, have nothing to do with it. After Su Yu turned into a mummy, no longer responding to any communication, Nono stood silently beside the throne, motionless for ten thousand years.

Even being established as the National Religion’s god and prayed to by billions, there was no response.

This was precisely what Chu Mu intended; he did not want another god above the heads of humans.

It was because he saw through Nono’s nature that he dared to boldly establish Nono as the god of the National Religion.

Although Nono does not respond to prayers, its essence as the God of Objects can indeed influence believers inversely, allowing them to partially possess the essence that rejects Subspace.

In this way, it partially resolved the problem of Subspace erosion.

Only, the effect was limited.

Because those who believed in the God of Objects state of Nono would find it difficult to awaken Spiritual Energy, difficult to take up Extraordinary Profession.

So those who believed in the Mechanical Sect were essentially ordinary civilians.

The true Empire Soldiers did not believe in the Mechanical Sect.

However, Subspace’s erosion is omnipresent; these Empire Soldiers, without the protection of a great being, would still be eroded by Subspace, becoming heretics of the Evil God.

Therefore, what they believed in is... the Emperor!

On the surface, Prince Chu Mu established the Mechanical Sect as the National Religion, yet secretly proclaimed the Radiant Emperor as the God of Radiance, the God of Mankind.

Making Empire Soldiers with Spiritual Energy believe in the Emperor and pray for protection.

The reason for secretly declaring the Emperor as a god rather than directly establishing him as the national god is because the Emperor long ago strictly forbade being worshipped as a deity, the Imperial does not believe in gods.

No choice, Prince Chu Mu had to secretly resort to such actions.

After all, believing in the Emperor is far better than believing in an Evil God.

As predictable, when those Empire Soldiers prayed to the Emperor, the frequently heard whispers of Subspace diminished greatly, and the heretics eroded by Subspace also drastically reduced.

With the Emperor’s protection, these Empire Soldiers had no more concerns in battle, conquering the stars, sweeping all heresies.

In fact, Su Yu at this time could not hear any prayers; all the prayers were intercepted by the Twenty Princes.

But these Empire Soldiers genuinely received protection.

Their protection was actually granted by the Twenty Princes.

The Twenty Princes had already rebelled, naturally not having such good intentions.

They only acted in this way to intercept faith, to strengthen themselves.

This was a good thing, as the princes’ protection was equally effective, and because of their inherently evil nature, dealing with Subspace Evil God’s erosion was even more adept than if Su Yu himself were doing it.

Not only that, this Emperor faith circulating amongst Empire Soldiers quickly spread to the populace.

Many Imperial subjects who were reluctant to believe in the Mechanical Sect immediately converted to the Emperor.

Tens of billions of subjects believed in the Emperor, and all the Power of Faith was intercepted by the Twenty Princes, making them increasingly powerful, while Su Yu’s condition worsened.

This was beyond Chu Mu’s ability to predict.

Prince Chu Mu’s original plan was to use the vast faith to restore the Radiant Emperor from his mummified state.

Then he wouldn’t have to be the Regent Prince anymore, as he did not have much greed for power; governing civilization was only an interest, not satisfying a craving for authority.

Seeing that the faith plan was implemented and yet the Emperor did not recover for a long time, Chu Mu was helpless, having no choice but to continue finding ways to govern the Imperial.

With the Mechanical National Religion and the Emperor faith, there were far fewer heresies of the Evil Gods within the Imperial.

But there were a few powerful heretic forces that proved hard to eliminate.

These were the top-tier Evil Gods born from extreme human emotions like greed, gluttony, slaughter... and so forth.

They were not birthed for long, yet their strength was formidable, possessing billions of heretic believers.

These believers were fanatically devout, beyond saving, even with the National Religion and Emperor faith, they could not be turned back.

These believers occupied vast territories, constantly conceiving plans to counterattack the mother planet Zhendan.

Faced with these heretics, Prince Chu Mu demonstrated grand methods.

He personally led the army in an expedition into Subspace, penetrating the domains of several powerful Evil Gods, and after a thousand-year struggle, with great strength and wisdom, he suppressed and sealed these Evil Gods.

The largest heretic forces were thus eliminated.

From that point, the Imperial rule thoroughly stabilized, and Prince Chu Mu’s prestige soared, with the populace praising him as the "Second Emperor" and "Regent Emperor."

No longer merely the Regent Prince, but the "Emperor!"

No one dared to question the position of this Regent Prince anymore.

Except... himself!

Within Chu Mu’s heart lingered a dilemma; whether he truly was the Emperor’s legitimate bloodline, whether he was human?

He understood his identity as an experimental subject.

Yet his humanity was richer than others, far exceeding other princes.

He was kind-hearted, sensitive, even somewhat sentimental.

Yet also strong, rational, with a decisive and bold side.

Brilliant, yet often whimsical, even quirky at times.

No one resembled humanity more than him, even the human traits exhibited by the Radiant Emperor were inferior to him.

There were even rumors that he was not created through technical means but was indeed the biological son of the Radiant Emperor and his companion!