But people tend to forget something, or rather, because of the information they had and their instinctive need to blame the nearest and most convenient figure, who happened to be Emperor Zolthemir Lux Vanthelmor, people overlooked the possibility that, perhaps, just perhaps, the Emperor was not the true culprit behind such a widespread and large-scale Mind Manipulation.
After all, there was no conceivable way that in an entire Empire consisting of around twenty billion people, with over seventy percent of its population being awakened individuals, only the Emperor possessed a Mind Manipulation ability. Surely, there had to be others who possessed similar abilities, perhaps not identical in name, but certainly identical or at least similar in function and effect.
