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.

from top to bottom was meticulously organized and despite searching for it, Leonel couldn't find signs of corruption and, more shockingly, poverty.

of this was that the poor had already

country or world could possibly function without labor workers or those that did less than lucrative

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

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 continue living their lush lifestyles while everything in the city seemed to work on its own were the inconspicuous workers wearing grey tunics and pants, gliding through the city silently with their heads lowered and their gazes glued to the

war. After all, the cities themselves resulted in an influx of tens of millions of people who had been essentially

their City Lords died, they were left behind with nothing and no way to get back home,

all massacred. The image he had of his grandfather was that he was a cruel man willing to do anything to hold onto his power and

yet… They had been seamlessly integrated to the point where even Leonel

some more observation, Leonel came to understand this as

Earth. With this promise in place, the current people of Terrain are living silent and peaceful lives and are even

Leonel had seen several of what he would classify as… 'sensual' shops. Whether it was a small boutique that

of that, Leonel had seen many parents walking about with toddlers and newborns. Such a thing would have

feel a clear push for the people of Earth to