Infiltrates the Chinese government

"I've replaced the Emperor," I said. "And key members of the government of the CUI. I've Mastered their subordinates and created false attacks by the Fae that have made it reasonable for them to change course in midstream and prepare for attacks on their Interior."

It would have been easier just to Master them, but the odds of them being detected would have been a lot higher. The CUI was filled with an insane amount of politics that the rest of the world wasn't aware of, and underlings were always jockeying for position and trying to replace their superiors. People were constantly being executed and replaced, while the CUI kept the rest of the world from getting a hint of disunity. By replacing them with myself, I was able to read the minds of my underlings and Master them. I had a couple of bodies looking into the underlings of the underlings, and I was slowly changing them.

By giving them loyalty to the human race and to China in that order, I was helping in the short term. In the long term, I suspected that idealists would simply be murdered by the people making their way up the ladder. Sociopaths tended to either crash and burn, or to rise high in organizations because they were willing to step on anybody in their rise to power.

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