A New Plan

August devised a plan to prepare a strong force to oppose the foreign entities. But he didn't know the exact timeframe of their arrival. Either he can go around looking for the space cracks, or he could create a force to stop them when they come. He wanted to go in the offense but that could leave some loose ends that could come back to bite him later. He also wanted to establish a proper defense here.

Thinking about the invaders, they came to where there was an abundance of consciousness, and from the looks of it, they only came to the planets where there were living beings on them. And they need unintelligent beings for now to increase their presence. They can only take over intelligent creatures like humans if they are willing to let them invade. This conjecture was due to his observation of the beast in the glades. Then it meant that there might be humans who are already on their side and still are being corrupted.

The only way to stop all that now is to control the whole planet and eradicate all the foreign entities one by one. It might take some time, but he had to do it or the alternative is to give them more chance to spread.

He needed to take over the whole planet, either by force or make the leaders cooperate with him, which he was skeptical about, no one will give up their power and authority just like that.

This could turn into a war, and he didn't want that.

' How am I supposed to take over the world, without triggering world war ?'

Even if he was powerful, if he forcefully took control of countries, then the population would never approve of that. They will discard him, saying he is from another country. People wanted their own to become their leaders, he can't change that fact.

' I don't even want to control the world, but I need to, I need to cleanse all the corrupted users and awakened beasts all around the world, that will not be easy if I just search for them. I need all the resources on the planet for that. My force can only scan a couple of miles. So it will be really inefficient and they might grow more by the time I reach them, worse they could come out of the space rift.

After brainstorming for a bit, he went downstairs. The tv was on, and Jinny was watching something with great interest. August looked at the tv, and someone was giving a press conference.

< We are honored to announce that after three years, the awakened council has grown to a tremendous level. We have registered almost 100 thousand users with C level or higher, 20 thousand B rank users, 4000 A rank users, 109 S rank users, 7 SS rank users, and 3 SSS rank users. >

< To celebrate the third anniversary of the Awakened council, we intend to start a championship to gauge the level of users. This championship will determine the ranking order of the users. As you all know, the user's rank doesn't always determine your power, so I hope all of you will take part in this championship and if you win in your category, you will be able to fight in the upper ranks. The championship will be held two months later at the Carlton city in Zoma Federation.>

< The winners of each category will receive a specialized artifact from the Council. So I hope everyone will give their best. And finally, to keep things fair, the SSS rank users won't be participating in the finals after the category mathes are finished. I wish all users good luck.>

A middle aged man walked out of the stage after he finished the speech.

' A championship for users where all the users will gather. This could be a good opportunity.'

If he can find all the powerful users and control their systems, his work will be a lot easier. And there was a chance the corrupted user might take part in this championship. He could achieve two things at once if that were to happen.

' I need those two to increase their power too. I also want some good recruits for the guild.'

If I want to establish a proper system for users, I need to get the strong ones and nurture the talented ones from the start.

He also thought about researching aura, so that he could help the next generation of awakened to develop faster. Young awakened had the potential to increase their power early on, As they grow older, the power stabilizes and it becomes harder and harder to develop the ranks.

There was no proper system to nurture the awakened, as the awakened council only took in established users.

' It is clear that they also don't know that aura is the main force for the levels, this could be due to the fact that aura comes as a skill and they can't research the systems yet. They only know how to use the awakened core and bodies and turn them into artifacts.'

August also had the advantage of looking at hidden skills that no one else can read. He wanted to increase his System control skill rank so that he could control more users. This could help him achieve two things. He can monitor all the anomalies in the users and also help them increase their combat power by providing artifacts.

If he could control a sizable amount of users by the time the foreign entities invade, then he might be able to take care of them.

This is predicated on the fact that his System control skill increases in rank so he could control more users.

As he was thinking all that, he also considered the safety of his family.

' I have to build a defense system here.' He thought.

After all, when he is away his family is vulnerable. He might not return immediately if he was in the middle of a fight. He needed to make his house a fortress to hold out any foreign entities.

There was also one thing that was in his mind. If they were concentrating on the places where there was consciousness, then this planet was not the only place. There might be many such planets and civilizations throughout the universe.

If he wanted to take them down, he might have to look for all the civilizations in the universe. He was not sure how he was going to find them. As he can't go there if didn't know the location.

' This is too much for now, I need to secure earth first. ' August thought to himself.