Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2277

Chapter 2277: This Ain’t No Hymn

Eventually, Effie gave Sunny a glare and grumbled:

"I liked you more when you were Master Sunless..."

He chuckled.

"I am still the same man, though."

She sighed and leaned back, picking up a pastry from the tray.

"Well, yeah! But you are also a powerful Supreme who goes around beheading Sovereigns..."

Sunny raised an eyebrow, then shrugged nonchalantly.

"You are the world’s sweetest mom, but also a Transcendent powerhouse who goes around tearing Great Nightmare Creatures apart with bare hands. A person can be more than one thing."

Effie swallowed the pastry and gave him a satisfied look.

Then, her eyes gleamed dangerously.

"More than one thing, you say? That reminds me... Princess, does he ever..."

Luckily, whatever she wanted to say was interrupted by the sound of the door opening. Cassie entered the parlor, carrying a stack of documents with her.

"Oh, you are all already here. Let us start — Nephis has to move on to the next item on her schedule in thirty-four minutes."

With that, their brief meeting began. As the Supreme ruler of humanity, Nephis was endlessly busy — if she was not on the battlefield, she was usually drowned in an endless parade of strategy meetings and discussions. Every day, she had to make countless decisions, many of them having the potential to affect the very future of mankind.

Of course, the benefit of being the highest authority in the world was that there were vast resources at her disposal — human resources, most of all. Humanity’s best and brightest were ready to answer her call, advise her on the best course of action, and take various tasks off her hands. In fact, with Cassie’s help, Nephis had built a greatly efficient pyramid of delegation.

The great apparatus of the Human Domain worked as a well-oiled machine.

The most precious resource in the world was talent, and there were countless talented individuals working together to accomplish the goals she set. Still... even that was not enough. So, one of the most important priorities of the new regime was to seek and nurture talent.

Administrative talent, scientific talent, engineering talent... all kinds of people were recruited and given ample opportunities to realize their varied talents, as well as grow.

But most of all, of course, what Nephis wanted was to nurture strength.

Humanity needed warriors more than it needed anyone else, after all.

So, everyone was encouraged to grow stronger. Awakened were encouraged to become Masters, Masters were encouraged to become Saints. Saints were encouraged to reach the very peak of their potential, or even challenge the Fourth Nightmare if they wished — not that anyone had, yet. As a result, the number of champions of all Ranks had been swiftly growing in the last year.

The fact that countless inexperienced Awakened had returned from Godgrave as seasoned veterans was helping greatly, too.

...And, of course, mundane people were encouraged to become Awakened.

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