Chapter 431: Chapter 432: The Wizard Emperor
William vanished without engaging in a battle with Murphy.
Sofia took away all divine-level powers through the Black Ship, leaving behind only an avatar in the mortal world. While this avatar could perform some miracles, its magical power was insufficient. Despite struggling, it couldn't avoid being eradicated in the end.
He even generously left behind the nuclear code briefcase, allowing Murphy to control all of the USA's nuclear weapons, finally alleviating his last bit of concern.
What followed was simple. A wizard was transformed to resemble William and then made a surrender declaration, ordering all USA soldiers to cease resistance and await reintegration. With that, the war of annihilation essentially concluded.
From start to finish, it took no more than ten hours for the once world's most powerful country to submit under the Anglo-Soviet Alliance.
Such military prowess terrified the entire world, everyone deeply fearing Murphy might target them next.
Murphy indeed didn't plan to stop. Riding on the momentum of his great victory, he immediately took several actions.
First, he launched more satellites and even deployed ten million-ton nuclear bombs in space orbit. These bombs, all equipped with "Phantom Shift Modules," could be commanded by Murphy to instantly reach any battlefield or city from space orbit.
The entire globe was under the threat of unilateral nuclear deterrence.
Although some smaller countries, instigated by others, stood out in opposition, no one intervened militarily this time.
Second, he established the Earth Federation and secretly met with European countries, which, under absolute military coercion, agreed to join the federation, subject to its laws and government regulation.
Third, he incorporated the magic departments of various countries, with Germany, France, Italy, and other European nations succumbing to Murphy's intimidation and joining the Wizards' Alliance.
Then, Murphy integrated the Wizards' Alliance with the Earth Federation, making the existence of wizards and magic a known but not openly discussed fact.
Simultaneously, the Augus Plan was forcibly implemented across the Federation.
With the magic nodes of various countries' magic departments, Murphy's total magic power greatly increased. He instantly built thirty-six AI factories worldwide, constantly producing various magic intelligence machinery and then driving them to produce even more intelligent machinery. This exponential growth method allowed him to create trillions of magic AIs in just a few months.
Taking over the magic departments unlocked energy limitations for him, while taking over the world's major Muggle nations provided endless resources and formidable production capacity.
Additionally, unlocking flying doorways solved the logistics issue, allowing global resources to be freely exploited. Murphy's mechanical manufacturing bases were rapidly expanding at an alarming rate that would make the natural world's insects envious.
The vast number of magic AIs allowed Murphy to break free from human labor constraints, enabling him to disregard any established rules of the human world and start a drastic overhaul of the global order.
He began gradually abolishing governments, starting with the bureaucratic layers that were entirely redundant under Murphy's governance system, designed to facilitate policy execution and power release. Instead, the grassroots execution departments were expanded due to their complex interactions with the public and non-governmental domains, thus preventing mechanical control.
Following the government were essential industries and public services. Umbrella Corporation, having been nationalized, and other major industries in the USA and Europe, such as energy, mining, armaments, telecommunications, finance, and transportation, were forcibly merged.
This process was naturally not smooth, and after decimating several super-families like the Rothschilds and Rockefellers with lightning strikes, resistance significantly waned.
Having almost controlled global politics and economics, Murphy even began extending his influence to every citizen.
After October 1998, all electronic products globally came from the Umbrella Corporation, all under the Augus Plan network and Murphy's surveillance.
Simultaneously, he implanted the "Global Wizard Detection System," based on the Acceptance Pen and Access Book, into the magic nodes of various countries' magic departments.
From then on, the birth of any wizard worldwide, their magic power growth and changes were under Murphy's watch.
In November, the Earth Federation began implementing the "Physical Enhancement Vaccination Plan."
According to the plan, all Federation citizens aged between eight and sixty were required to receive the "Physical Enhancement Vaccine," which was said to improve constitution and potentially awaken superpowers.
In reality, the so-called physical enhancement vaccine was Murphy's specially trained psychic seed virus.
It wasn't a lie that the virus could improve physical constitution and awaken superpowers. Under Murphy's control, it would enhance all citizens' constitutions, including healing old injuries, treating some diseases, and boosting immune functions.
Simultaneously, the virus would activate magical pathways, similar to the werewolf virus, giving ordinary people a certain level of magical power and helping individuals with stronger adaptability activate specific magical abilities.
However, the primary function of the virus was its influence on and control over hosts' minds.
All psychic seed viruses were communicative, all connected to Murphy's psychic network, where Murphy would continuously influence these psychic seeds, gradually altering the hosts' thoughts.
The virus could stimulate specific brain circuits, rewarding rational thinking with dopamine, suppressing activities related to divine faith, causing shallow believers to gradually lose interest in worshipping deities.
For devout believers and ascetics, this slow stimulation was insufficient, so Murphy would activate the psychic seed's conceptual pathways, replacing the concept of deity in their minds, gradually shifting their faith towards himself.
Time was pressing. Sofia's blockade of deities with the Black Ship at the beginning of '98 only bought Murphy a year at most.
To gain a greater advantage before the deadline, Murphy completely dropped the mask of kindness and began integrating global powers with an iron fist.
Even going so far as to step from behind the scenes to the forefront.
On February 24, 1999, Murphy's thirtieth birthday, he abolished the Earth Federation's republican system, established the Human Empire, and was officially crowned emperor.
Historically known as the First Emperor of Humanity, the Wizard Emperor, the Lord of Mankind.
Countless cursed Murphy in secret, and numerous passionate youths took to the streets, trying to stop this regressive action. However, the guns of the empire's magic AI soldiers revealed Murphy's unwavering resolve.
After cleansing more than a dozen rebel strongholds worldwide, no more protests emerged.
Yet, time was still insufficient.
The spread, activation, and influence of the psychic seed virus required time. Even with all of Murphy's efforts, reversing the faith of the global population in a few months was still beyond reach.
The return of the deities was now on a countdown.
This time, the blockade's collapse was inevitable, and facing the gods' furious counterattack, he had to be fully prepared.
In the mortal world, he had done everything to the extreme, having squeezed all resources to their limits. There was nothing more to perfect here.
But outside the mortal world, there was still one thing he could do.
...
In front of the Chamber of Secrets at Hogwarts, Murphy closed his eyes, counting all the magic nodes he had occupied.
Now, he had built synchronizing ritual arrays outside the magic nodes of hundreds of magic departments. These arrays would resonate all the magic nodes' power and provide it to a designated magical artifact.
That was a Time Box.
The entire magical network's power was enough for him to use the box to travel back thousands of years to a very distant past.
He had to meet the Seer Myrddin and clear up the so-called "ultimate truth" from
her.
Perhaps the method to seal the deities back then was among them, and it would undoubtedly give him an edge.
With this thought, Murphy no longer hesitated. He took out the Time Box, took a deep breath, and stepped through the door.
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