Roger was sitting on the separate tent from where he could see the whole ceremony. The makeshift tent was at the side, while most men and women sitting in the chair was arranged at the centre.
Today was the day when Archduke Edison would get the position of the dictator which was equal to the speaker in terms of power. A person needed to have tremendous amount of merit to reach this position while the position of the speaker was to be held by someone voted by the noble council.
Roger observed this. He had to do nothing and he just needed to observe. The ceremonial oath would take about 7 long hours from announcing his merits to letting him take the oath to letting him be challenged by a knight regiment of other nobles and he defending his right to be a dictator by his knight regiment and then he announcing his philosophy and way of life and how he envisioned the world to function. Then he will have to prove his power in which he believes he is good at. Every dictator has to show they are good at something even if it is just writing a poem.
Roger smiled while seeing it. He knew that after the 7 hour long ceremony, there will be celebrations ranging from good, games for the children, tea party for the ladies and the hunt for the men. Then at night there shall be a ball for everyone where the dictator shall come forward for the first dance.
He kept sipping the drink. He leaned forward when he saw the knight regiments numbered in hundreds fought and this time he really saw many dying as the blades were sharp ones. He sighed as such death was unnecessary and yet necessary. The dictator was a king in all manners except that if nobles had enough merits, they could become dictators too. So multiple dictators were possible to exist at the same time. They could veto any motion in the noble assembly. They had the right to consume their own merit to reduce the merit of another noble or citizen in the ration of 2:1. Dictator had to consume 2 points of merit to reduce the merit of any noble or citizen by one. While nobles had enough rights, they too would be punished for crimes. They had no right to murder although they were still given certain rights. The dictators had the right to consume merit to offset his or someone else's crime without being punished.
So every dictator was a powerful person in the political system of Athens. Then there was the fact that they could use those rights to do what they want the most even if it is declaring war on the world.
A person entered his tent. He looked at the man and did not speak as he really did not know him. He came forward and introduced himself, "I am the emissary from the nation named Dynalis. I am Owen."
Roger smiled politely and said, "Please be seated."
He did. He smiled and asked, "How did you make a bomb with energy in the scale of 20 digit explode without causing a shock-wave travelling around the world and not causing the massive earthquake as predicted."
Roger smiled and said, "My method for creating that weapon was intended to show off to the world. Hence the explosion and shock-waves was controlled. But the spike was felt all around once letting all humans and animals feel it without causing any damage to life and property."
Owen smiled and said, "I know that. I was asking how you did it. It does not follow science as I know."
Roger smiled and said, "it seems that you are a scientist." Roger was feeling angry at letting this man come here. He felt sad that Amelia had to leave to attend the ceremony at the front.
Owen smiled and said, "Do you really think that you are strong because you have some super-weapon in you hand? Any of our government having nuclear power can create stronger weapon with higher yield. Yes your striking is precise to the point and cannot be interpreted. But that alone would not make you strong enough. As for money and the number of elites under you all around the world, that will only make you strong enough to be taken into account. It will not make you strong enough to be scared. Money, we the government issue the money. The only reason that you are respected here is because you are a single man holding such power. Any country can stand against you and defeat you. Even my nation can do that."
Roger smiled and asked, "Really. So what kind of power will let your country really fear me."
Owen smiled and said, "You are of of the strongest man in this world. But that is nothing in front of a nation. You need enough resources to hold back a nation. You do have it but the nations can still work without you and once you hold back the resources, they will never let you in. As for super-weapon, those cannot be useful all the time. Your subordinates are genetically changed and hence most governments fear you as all attacks against them were a failure. Your intelligence ability scared the governments too as government is nothing more than a collection of people. But once you attack them, they will forever consider themselves your enemey until you slaughter all the nation along with its citizens. You need sea power strong enough to block a country and air power strong enough to block a country. Let's say If I challenge you what can you do. You cannot nuke me as that will make the world think that you are a maniac nuking anyone who speaks to you badly. Can you block my country's airspace or sea. Your products are not necessary one and you cannot ask other nations to block my nation. You have no allies. What does make you think that you are strong?"
Roger smiled and said, "I really do not understand what makes your courageous enough to stand in front of me and speak like this. I can simply kill you and all your family."
Owen smiled and said, "Will you make the whole nation your enemy."
Roger smiled and said, "Your nation named Dynalis is nothing more than an island naiton. You do not even have a nuclear bombs. You do not have intercontinental missiles. You just have an aircraft carrier and few destroyers and warships bought from Athens and Atlantis for a huge amount of price. 80% of your economy depends on importing raw materials that you lack and using those raw materials to produce things for MNCs to export them. Is this why you are hostile to me? Money does matter."
He smiled and nodded. He asked, "So what are you going to do. I and my family is willing to die."
Roger smiled. He thought about the intent slaves he had. He had enslaved some animals. He had fed many of his slaves aura every moment passively as he did not need that many aura. As every aura passed through his body, it also acted as a quenching for his body increasing his mystery. He had a few intent slaves among sharks and octopuses. They had reached a lot of aura rings each, growing bigger beyond biological limit. He smiled and asked them to coordinate with human intent slaves as his intent slaves could communicate with each other mentally to block the nation named Dynalis at sea by sinking any and all vessels from that nation.
He also let few eagles with more than 12 aura rings take care of the airspace. While the aura rings that he had was fixed and depended on his intent level, that was not the case for his slaves who could have as many aura rings as per how much they were fed with and how their body could hold.
So he smiled and said, "Your airspace will be blocked. Your sea will be blocked. As for business dealings, all the property in your nation will be closed. If your military can seal or take it away, do it. Do not come to me when your soldiers and the one who sent the orders die. If after 6 months, you do not come and kneel in front of me along with your president or you find a way to eliminate who I have sent to block the sea and air, I will take all the property and money I have in your nation. I will need the money in terms of gold and if after getting a notice for 1 month, you do not provide me with enough gold as per the cost of money before I had started this small scale fight, I shall destroy your nation."
Owen got angry and said, "Our nation is hundreds of times bigger than the one you destroyed."
Roger smiled and said, "Do not worry. I will change the shock-wave reduction function to pure destruction function. Your island will sink when the time comes."
Roger used aura to levitate that man and threw him out of his tent. He stopped thinking about him as he just wanted to enjoy the ceremony.