Chapter 428
Chapter 429 The Shape of a New World
In the Little God Star System, parents who took part in both childbirth and raising their children were rewarded with housing. One child earned them a 400 sqft home. Two children meant 800 sqft. Three meant 1,200 sqft.
To preserve the combat readiness of female professionals, there was no additional reward for a fourth child, though parents could still receive the standard benefits offered by the Space Alliance.
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In the Space Alliance, people awakened at 15. But with the Little God Star System’s early support system, childre
with every attribute
developed ster base attributes and could awaken at 13 instead,
Suaranteed to reach 100 before then.
Those policies had barely been announced before Joanna started getting mainstream media.
tacked by the
At the start of the school term, a reporter who had clearly been lying in wait for a long time
to Villa One.
blocked the entrance t
“Joanna, hello. I’m a reporter from the Human Poverty Relief Network. When you founded this new star system, why didn’t you establish poverty alleviation programs? Why didn’t you take in more orphans? You grew up an orphan yourself, so why are subsidies and education only being provided to the children of professionals above level thirty? Do you discriminate against orphans? Do you reject the Space Alliance’s reproduction policy? Are you currying favor with the children of elite professionals to attract more of them to live on your planet? I’ve also heard you’re anti-childbirth p>
Joanna had to admit, his lung capacity was impressive.
“You do seem deeply concerned about people’s welfare,” she said. “But I think you’d be better off paying attention to the front lines. Let me help you with that. I’ll send you to Ant City, the most elite battlefield run by our Divine and Demonic Academy. I’m sure you’ll find much better material there p>
As she spoke, Joanna used Astral Step and teleported the reporter straight to Ant City.
She even sent Nighthowl a quick instruction, asking him to take good care of the man, bring him to the highest-level battlefield, and let him properly record the danger of the front lines, including the terrifying companion beasts of the evil gods. It would do him good to broaden his horizons.
As for his questions, Joanna had no intention of answering them. But in her own mind, she was
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very clear.
If there’s no demand, there’s no killing.
If she started taking in orphans, then for the sake of profit, plenty of people would start producing even more babies.
Those children would be raised by mechanical nannies from infancy, without real affection or proper moral guidance. And without parents or a family to support them, most of them would have almost no chance of growing up well. Their futures would depend entirely on luck.
Out of a hundred million mass-produced babies, getting even one with S-rank talent would already be considered fortunate.
Only those with at least C-rank talent had a chance of entering a combat vocational high school. Anyone below C-rank could only attend an ordinary high school and spend the rest of their life as a replaceable cog.
Wasn’t that miserable? Did those children even want to be born?
Most of them probably didn’t.
To be born only to immediately begin suffering under fate. What was the point?
The Space Alliance really was a precise and fair system, like a perfectly calibrated game. But some people were born without ever having had a choice. Their entire future came down to a gamble on the day they awakened.
That was cruel.
As for whether her system would produce another entitled second-generation elite like Kayden, Joanna wasn’t worried.
When everyone was wealthy enough and class divisions no longer existed, people would follow the rules.
And those rules, naturally, were the ones Joanna made.
Her planet even had a moral conduct scoring system. The country she envisioned was slowly taking shape.
After dealing with the unnamed reporter, Joanna felt more exasperated than anything else. She had only wanted to take a quiet walk around campus, and even that small moment of leisure had been seized on.
Reporters really were everywhere.
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Left with no better option, Joanna teleported directly to the faculty office.
Classes for the next semester were about to begin. The junior-year curriculum would stay mostly the same, but senior-year courses were now focused almost entirely on internships.
Students even had to submit internship reports, go through strength evaluations, and then be assigned to internship locations.
That’s right. Divine and Demonic Academy guaranteed placement.
Of course, students could still refuse.
Joanna was double-majoring across two divisions. If she chose only one internship placement, the internship credits for her other two departments would likely be too low. She would lose her top-ranked departmental status and, with it, two skill slots.
That was why she had come in person to ask.
After making an appointment, Joanna stepped into the internship advisory office and was instantly stunned by the scene inside.
There were more than 30 people in the room. Every single one of them sat upright, dressed formally and looking at her with eager anticipation.
Anyone who didn’t know better would have thought Joanna was the interviewer and they were the applicants.
She looked up at the office name again. It was definitely the senior internship placement office.
“Joanna, you’re in the right place. Come in, come in. After you submitted your appointment request yesterday, we received notice right away. Your grades are simply too outstanding, so quite a few organizations are competing for you. We didn’t select too many, only thirty. I hope you don’t mind p>
Joanna was speechless.
So all of these people are from internship units?
Only then did she step all the way inside.
In the end, she sat down in the front row.
The teacher in charge of internship placement said, “Joanna, here’s the situation. You’re enrolled in three departments: Comprehensive Dungeon Studies, Public Dungeon Studies, and Strategy Team Dungeon Studies. That means your internship requirement also includes placements with three separate organizations p>
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