[Domination] can also be described as ruling, controlling.

Any creature with the ability to think is surrounded by 'domination' from the moment of its birth, which leads to a deep longing to dominate others within themselves.

For example, a child born into an ordinary family in a normal society.

From birth, they are dominated by their parents, whether in terms of clothing style, lifestyle habits, type of meals, schedule, or so-called 'etiquette,' all are forms of domination.

The young, often subjected to domination, cannot discern this process,

but deep in their subconscious, they desire to break free from these iron wire restraints acting on their mental brain, which accumulates and gradually manifests as external rebellion as they age.

However, this rebellion against domination is given a new, negative name by the dominator - 'rebellion.'

It seems that not listening to the dominator will earn such negative evaluation, and as weak beings, the young often cannot completely resist, ultimately compromising with domination deep in their thoughts.

Gradually,

as the young grow up, more and more 'dominators' will appear, not limited to school, work, law, morality, etc.,

as domination, like rusted wire, binds the individual's brain completely.

Young ones growing up under domination, to achieve mental balance, will try to dominate others, dominating those weaker.

Some individuals, innately possessing physical advantages, will try to dominate the weaker peers of the same age, even motivating those around them to collectively achieve this satisfying process.

Some individuals, innately weaker, might target lower species, such as stray dogs, wild cats, or even their own pets, in search of balance in domination.

With technological development, they may even satisfy their domination desires through open-world games, utilizing characters and NPCs in games.

This is just the situation in an ordinary social family,

expanding the view to different historical stages, different cultures, and countries, the phenomenon of domination is even more severe, its psychological effects surpassing all malice visible to the naked eye.

It seems that as long as there are two or more independent thinking entities, domination will immediately appear.

From a macro perspective, domination seems indeed to drive a civilization forward,

but also because of its existence, all kinds of malice continue to breed at every stage of civilization,

this is the most primitive evil, and also the breeding ground of evil.

(*The above elaboration holds no real-life reference value, limited solely to the author's pure imagination from the perspective of the First Disaster.)

As the embodiment of this malice, Ruben has developed [domination] to the extreme.

In his personal setting, he is the dominator of all things, wherever he goes, all living beings are under his domination, and visible iron wire restraints will even form between the brains of the dominated.

Thus, Ruben absolutely refuses to be dominated by others,

and upon realizing that the essence of evil is 'eraser,' he decides to change everything.

He intends to create a high-rank world dominated by himself after the Great Annihilation, and to kill all creators or observers who spy on everything and create everything.

...

[Sick Focus]

The nationwide domination that once enveloped the city of evil spread globally.

Patients below the Path level had no power to resist,

visible 'torture' iron wires climb onto their bodies, moving in and out of their heads, ultimately covering the entire brain.

Dominated patients not only completely submit, seeing it as an unquestionable existence, but also synchronize and upload the memories between their brains, streaming into the main brain server of Mobius.

As for patients who have completed their own [Path], they have touched the rules level and can therefore resist a little, but cannot resist for long, being completely dominated within minutes.

Even those at the level of Plague Master, or even actual Plague Masters, can distinctly feel the arrival of domination, penetrating their proud Source Epidemic Area, directly affecting their thoughts.

A mental level clash occurs between each Source Epidemic Area,

equivalent to all Plague Masters collectively resisting Ruben's domination on a thought level, but gradually falling into a disadvantage over time.

As the entire sick focus is about to be completely overrun,

ding!

A faint sound of metal coins and the sound of a mountain collapsing can be heard.

A trade of some kind realizes at this moment,

the vast wealth accumulated since the Duke's birth is completely squandered at this moment,

all 'domination effects' acting on Plague Masters and those of comparable level are subjected to some kind of rule-level suppression, and with the Plague Masters' own power, this domination is temporarily blocked, gaining a period of immunity from domination influence.

This left Ruben in Mobius extremely shocked,

"Seems I did somewhat underestimate the Plague Masters here, didn't expect there to be such figures... I hope this isn't their full strength."

"However, these guys are truly incompetent, I've done this much and they're still hiding in their own lairs."

"First, let me see if the information provided by non-Plague Master existences is sufficient, if there is coordinate information about the New Moon."

Ruben quickly reviews the memories of the dominated individuals to deeply understand the relevant composition of the sick focus.

The information provided by these memories is basically consistent with the [[Plague Book]] that William once presented at the Disaster Council, which also adds a bit of trust from Ruben towards William.

But as he searches through the memories of the vast group of patients, he finds a very strange situation.

If memory searching is likened to flipping through books.

As Ruben reviews the information in these books, clearly fluent text information would always suddenly insert strange phrases, even sometimes appearing consecutively disrupting the order, greatly reducing the efficiency of memory searching.

This also caused Ruben to spend a long time completing the search.

Neither gaining much information about the Plague Masters nor obtaining intelligence on the New Moon.

Just knowing that the sick focus indeed began a great project six days ago, named [Stage], but the memories regarding this project are extremely vague, as if erased in advance.

It's as if someone knows Ruben will search their memories.

And the way the memories are erased is quite eerie, not directly wiped away, but replaced with those frequently appearing words from before.

The entire page is written hiding this word.

Thus, Ruben and each of Ruben's fakery can't help but read it out loud.

"Teacher..."

At this moment.

William, following beside one of the fakers, suddenly descends from the sky, squatting on the ground.

The fake Ruben also immediately descends, inquiring of William in a squat posture.

"What are you doing?"

William, buried in his head, doesn't answer immediately after being asked, but turns his face slowly, frame by frame.

It is a completely clownish, tightly strained facial expression that seemed about to snap.

"Hahaha! My~ apologies.

It was really hard to hold back laughter! I feel like my intestines seem all knotted from holding it back, my stomach pouch is about to inflate from it... out of respect for you behind bars, I can't smile directly."

"Laugh at what?"

"Laugh at you out of all people addressing me by that title... hahaha! For I am indeed the teacher adored and respected by all patients, and there is also a large group in the City of Evil who like to call me that~

Since behind bars you've mentioned it, let's begin our class."

William, squatting on the ground, unfolds his palm to support the ground, touching the earth, his homeland.

Abyssal tones emanate from the split red lips.

The World... Flipping

Buzz!

The entire new sick focus enters a collapsing state,

the stage built inside, through the power and resources of all sick focus, with technical support provided by the manager, is being gradually overturned.