Dimensional Descent

Chapter 973 Governance

Leonel slipped through the city gates completely invisible to the eyes of the guards. He didn't feel like going through an inspection process nor did he have anything proving his status as a Prince outside of his face, so he felt that it wasn't worth it.

After he was a distance away, he found a location to reappear and blended into the crowd. With just a few minutes of observation, though, Leonel realized that things weren't so simple.

Whether it was the residents of Earth that lived here or the tourists from other worlds, each had their own identification cards. It only took Leonel a moment to realize that Earth had replaced its original monitoring system with another one. What was surprising, though, was that this monitoring system was both less intrucive, and most surprisingly, it revolved around the very same wrist watch the people of Earth had always had.

Of course, outsiders weren't given their own wrist watches. Instead they were given badges they had to use to verify their purchases.

Essentially, without either a wristwatch or a tourist badge, one could only walk around the city aimlessly without benefitting from anything.

As Leonel continued to walk around, he picked up on more details. For example, outsiders had a higher sales tax to pay, they were restricted from certain regions, and they were only allowed to rent property but couldn't own anything.

was meticulously organized and despite searching for it, Leonel couldn't find signs of corruption and, more shockingly, poverty. It was as though the people of Earth had all simultaneously

the case. The cruel underbelly of this was that the poor had already been killed

or those that did less than lucrative jobs,

training Force Crafters of their own or had invited over Crafters to automate much of the labor process. And, where it was impossible to do

noted that there was no poverty, and this was true. But, this was only in the in your face, dirty slums and grimy streets sort of ways. The true underpinning of what allowed the people of Earth to

influx of

nothing and no way to get back home, leaving

he had of his grandfather was that he was a cruel man willing to do anything to hold

yet… They had been seamlessly integrated to the point where even Leonel had almost not noticed them at

came to understand

a hierarchy system with the promise that those born five generations from now would become true citizens of Earth. With this promise in place, the current people of Terrain are living silent and peaceful lives and are even

the city, Leonel had seen several of what he would classify as… 'sensual' shops. Whether it was a small boutique that sold women's lingerie or even something more

top of that, Leonel had seen many parents walking about with toddlers and newborns. Such a thing would have been impossible to see right after

clear push for