Chapter 6

In the blink of an eye, the Overlord Aura that Gao Wen unleashed was about to shatter everything in the room of the Five Elders.

But just as that was about to happen, the old man with the knife suddenly retracted his Overlord Aura.

"Hehe, confirmed. The one who possesses this Overlord Aura is indeed you.

And not some ambitious person hiding among the slaves, who ultimately infiltrated our Mariejoa!"

As he spoke, the old man with the knife hugged the long sword in his hand to his chest.

The scabbard collided with his chest, producing a crisp clinking sound.

With that sound, Gao Wen's Overlord Aura, as well as the Overlord Aura of the other four members of the Five Elders, vanished into thin air.

Noticing that his Overlord Aura had calmed down, Gao Wen was not concerned. Instead, he continued to smoke his cigarette as if nothing had happened.

Through the swirling smoke, the old man with the knife glanced at his colleagues and then at Gao Wen, and asked softly,

"However, compared to your unimaginable Overlord Aura, we are even more curious about why such an Overlord Aura was born within you.

After all, the Overlord Aura is not the innate talent that commoners speak of, but a mixture of determination and courage. It is the resolve to achieve a certain goal at all costs, and the courage to realize a certain objective at all costs!

On this basis, the possessor of the Overlord Aura must also have extreme confidence.

That is, the confidence that one can definitely achieve one's goal!

In addition, the possessor of the Overlord Aura must be broad-minded.

In historical records, anyone who is constrained by external things and cannot be true to themselves, even if they luckily activate the Overlord Aura, their Overlord Aura will not make any progress!"

At this point, the old man with the knife's eyes narrowed. The round glasses on his face, which looked ridiculous but did not make him look ridiculous at all, suddenly flashed with a cold light!

"So!"

He asked heavily.

"Answer our question, Gao Wen!

How did you, who awakened such an Overlord Aura, find your unknown goal in the corrupt environment of Mariejoa?

And what kind of goal, and what kind of ambition, could have nurtured your shocking Overlord Aura!"

As the old man with the knife spoke, the Five Elders stood in a row, their eyes dark as they stared at Gao Wen, who was sitting on the sofa.

But Gao Wen,

Faced with the Five Elders who were eyeing him like tigers, he just smiled and shook his head.

"Even you know that Mariejoa is a corrupt environment?"

As he spoke, Gao Wen glanced at the cigarette in his hand, which had burned down to the filter.

So he looked around again, but there was no place to extinguish the tobacco.

The floor beneath his feet was as smooth as a mirror, and with just one glance, Gao Wen could clearly see his own face.

That face was the one in his memory, with neatly combed black hair and a bright, radiant face.

Except for a slightly messy bloodstain at the corner of his mouth, he was still the same person who was once called "Little Chow Yun-fat" by his colleagues!

But at this moment, he, who was supposed to continue his diplomatic career and eventually have the opportunity to stand in a certain position and speak to the world...

Now, he already had the qualifications to stand on equal footing with the highest representatives of another world?

Thinking of this, Gao Wen's smile became even brighter. Facing the shiny floor that reflected his face and figure, he flicked the cigarette butt onto the face of the person on the ground.

He was still himself, but he was no longer the same person!

"Five Elders!"

He said.

"I have imagined the scene of meeting you, but without exception, today's encounter is completely different from what I imagined.

You ask me why I have the Overlord Aura I have now?

But why are you the ones asking me?"

Gao Wen smiled and placed his arms on the armrests of the sofa.

As he stroked the armrests made of unknown sea beast skin, Gao Wen thought about the current situation and continued to ask.

"Some questions do not need answers to be clear, so I also have a question for you.

Why did you create such a corrupt environment in Mariejoa?"

As he finished speaking, Gao Wen fell silent and watched the reaction of the Five Elders.

In Gao Wen's gaze, the Five Elders looked at each other and then turned to look at him.

At this moment, they all wore warm smiles, as if they were looking at a true junior.

"It seems you are much wiser than we thought, Gao Wen.

The answer to our previous question, why you would have such an unparalleled Overlord Aura in such a corrupt environment,

Is that we five were born in such an environment!"

At this point, the old man with the knife took a step forward.

"A family with famous generals as ancestors finds it difficult to produce another famous general.

A family with sages as ancestors finds it difficult to produce another sage.

Thus, a family with the twenty founders of the world as ancestors..."

At this point, the old man with the knife fell silent for a long time. Behind him, the other four members of the Five Elders sighed.

After sighing, the old man with the knife shook his head.

"How likely is it for such a family to produce another truly qualified ruler?"

As he finished speaking, the old man with the knife came to Gao Wen and patted his head.

"Look at the elders around you, and those... those peers of yours whom we are too lazy to pay attention to.

You have lived with them since birth, and it is possible that you will never think they have done anything wrong, and it is possible that your life will be influenced by them to become another you just like them.

But when you realize their mistakes, when you discover that their actions are tarnishing the honor of your ancestors.

When you realize that your future should not be like them, who can only be feared and despised.

At that moment, or perhaps now for you.

Do you not want to do something, hahahaha!!!"

With a series of loud laughs, the old man with the knife lifted Gao Wen's sofa with one hand and turned to walk into a deeper room.

As he carried the sofa, the old man with the knife laughed and said to Gao Wen,

"Your behavior today is truly rare in Mariejoa.

But looking back, every few decades or a hundred years, Mariejoa always experiences a similar event!"

Beside the old man with the knife, the middle-aged man with yellow hair nodded and laughed.

"The last one to awaken the Overlord Aura was me, and I am the youngest among them. The Five Elders are always five people, but the Five Elders are not always the same five people!"

"That's right, he was the last one to awaken among us, and he replaced his predecessor.

As for his predecessor, with your potential, you will eventually become one of us, so there is no need for me to hide the secrets that only we know from you.

We will eventually step down!

When there are true successors we can rely on and entrust, we will walk into the depths of the Red Land and sleep in the place where the elders have always been sleeping.

That is not death, but a kind of rest."

At this point, the old man with the shoulder-length hair, who was in charge of culture, took over from the old man with the knife.

"You, and those short-sighted civilian officers outside, even the most excellent among them, can only see the dark side of this world and the suffering of some people.

As for us, Gao Wen, you, who were born among us, need to broaden your horizons to a higher level!"

At this point, the old man with the two mustaches took over from the old man with the shoulder-length hair and continued.

"Those civilians, officers, pirates, and soldiers...

They are not like you and me, they are not the Celestial Dragons!

And you, and I, our existence is to consolidate and continue the rule of the Celestial Dragons over the world!

Next...

We will have a good talk with you about how we rule this world!"

As he finished speaking, the old man with the judge's head, who had not spoken until now, concluded.

"Perhaps you once thought we were even more corrupt than the corrupt.

Then I hope you can recognize the true us!

If all the Celestial Dragons were corrupt, then the world, which has been ruled by us for eight hundred years, would not have produced so many talents who have stirred the seas in every era of the past eight hundred years...

They would all be even more foolish and incompetent than the corrupt!

No matter how you viewed us old ghosts before, I will make you understand...

Every member of the Five Elders was once young!

And every member of the Five Elders was once like you in the past!"