Read The Almighty Dominance Novel (Alexander Leonhart and Sophia Lancaster) by Sunshine Updated 2025 -26 - The Almighty Dominance Chapter 629

The Almighty Dominance Chapter 629

Zhuge Liang departed to carry out the orders, his robes vanishing through the courtyard gate alongside a stream of nervous servants hauling ledgers, gold records, and confiscated contracts.

Alex remained alone beside the spreading stain of blood.

The severed mercenary had already been dragged away, but the stone still reeked of iron and fear. Above him the sky stretched bright and cloudless, almost mocking the violence that had unfolded beneath it.

A soft chime echoed in his mind.

Mother Gaia had connected.

Streams of information instantly flooded his vision.

Population statistics.

Trade flows.

Household wealth distributions.

Hidden underground markets.

Smuggling routes.

Known criminal ties.

The newly deployed satellites had already begun mapping Qingshui City from above, while the Gaia strips spreading across the population fed a constant river of data back into the growing network.

Alex’s eyes narrowed slightly as glowing windows scrolled across his vision faster than any normal human could process.

Corruption everywhere.

Tax fraud.

Price fixing.

Merchant coalitions secretly starving poorer districts to drive grain prices upward.

Even several magistrates had been quietly diverting city emergency funds into private warehouses for years.

A cold smile touched his lips.

Perfect.

The more rotten the city was, the easier it would be to reshape.

Another alert flashed red across his vision.

NEW USER REGISTRATIONS: 18,442

ACTIVE GAIA NETWORK SYNCHRONIZATION: 27%

LOYALTY TREND ANALYSIS: HOSTILE / FEAR-BASED COMPLIANCE

Alex chuckled softly under his breath.

“Fear works faster than love,” he murmured.

Footsteps approached carefully from behind.

Bai Yuhan stopped several paces away, her arms wrapped around herself uneasily.

“Big Brother…”

Alex didn’t turn around. “What?”

She hesitated.

“The city is terrified right now.”

“Good.”

Her lips parted slightly at the immediate answer.

Servants were whispering. Merchants were barricading themselves inside their estates. Entire noble houses had already begun burning private documents before Zhuge Liang’s investigators arrived tomorrow morning.

Rumors spread faster than plague.

Some claimed Bai Xiaochun had sold his soul to demons.

Others whispered he had discovered forbidden Prussian mind-control technology.

A few even believed he had gone completely insane.

Alex considered all of those rumors useful.

Bai Yuhan lowered her voice carefully. “If people fear you too much, they may rebel.”

This time Alex finally turned to look at her.

His expression remained calm, but there was something unnervingly distant in his eyes now—something calculating and inhuman.

“People only rebel when they think they have a chance to win.”

The answer sent a chill through her spine.

Before she could respond, another notification flashed through Alex’s vision.

SUBJECT: ZHUGE LIANG

PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE UPDATED

LOYALTY: HIGH

FEAR INDEX: INCREASING

EFFICIENCY PROJECTION: EXCELLENT

Mother Gaia’s voice spoke quietly in his mind.

“Recommendation: maintain controlled demonstrations of overwhelming force to maximize obedience stabilization across Qingshui City.”

Alex mentally acknowledged the suggestion.

His gaze drifted toward the distant skyline beyond the Bai estate walls.

Qingshui City still looked ancient from afar—crowded rooftops, narrow streets, lantern smoke drifting through the afternoon air.

But beneath the surface, the transformation had already begun.

Factories would come next.

Then automated medicine production.

Then weapons.

Communication systems.

Transportation.

Mass cultivation.

He would drag this entire primitive world into industrialization whether it wanted it or not.

And if millions hated him for it?

So be it.

History rarely remembered whether the hand shaping the future had been gentle.

Only whether it succeeded.

Alex clasped his hands behind his back again as satellites continued rising silently into orbit far above the clouds.

The network expanded.

The city tightened beneath his grasp.

And somewhere deep inside him, the old king from Estoria—the man who once ruled with patience, diplomacy, and honor—grew quieter with every passing day.