The Pathway Of Wisdom-Chapter 63: The Fire of Revolution has been started.

Paul was just one of the few people who were recruited and chosen because of their bad circumstances.

Ron, the ex-soldier, was a veteran who had fought on many battlefields and was very experienced in surviving in wars fought in the barren plains of the Ilma county.

He had grown up in a well-off family and joined the military early in life; his parents were soldiers, and they died fighting monsters on the battlefield.

With him being a temperamental person with a distant and cold personality, he never managed to marry and make a family of his own.

The women he liked died in battle due to the wrong decisions and tactics of the commanders, and that loss broke him from inside.

Ron left the military after that and turned to alcohol, and he often pickpocketed to get money.

He was spotted when he tried to pickpocket one of the soldiers on active duty and then was put in jail.

But Zeil secretly freed him at Alex’s order.

Alex and Zeil had made a massive list of people who were unsatisfied with society and were prone to manipulation tactics.

Although Zeil could not brainwash and command those people himself, he was still able to use the knights and subordinates belonging to him to find people like Paul and Ron.

People might suspect why Zeil was investigating people like them, but there was no regular pattern in choosing, and the people were chosen completely irregularly to prevent any traitor from infiltrating the organization.

The earliest batch of the people that were recruited were almost entirely from the various jails located in the city.

Some were accused of being frauds, as they were in heavy debt; some were offenders who had stolen things, and some were in jail due to getting in petty arguments and brawls with random people.

Most of the people that Alex and Zeil chose were not serious criminals but not innocent people either.

Only a few were like Paul, who was genuinely a misfortunate soul burdened by his circumstances and bad luck.

Nonetheless, the organization was slowly taking form after three weeks of continuous efforts.

There were already around forty people in the organization, and they were all handpicked for specific tasks and missions.

In a week or two the count of Ilma will return, so Alex and Zeil were starting to run out of time; thus, they had to start fast.

While making his way back from the hidden organization’s headquarters through a narrow tunnel that led directly to a hidden basement of a house near the church, Alex thought about various things in his mind.

’Forty people is quite low but I have no other choice as time is running out. I was hoping to recruit at least one ’Pathwalker’ but it seems that would be too difficult for now...’

The moment people become ’Pathwalkers’ in this world, they become qualified to get a lot of benefits, and none of them are unemployed or in any kind of financial trouble.

So it was not possible for Alex to just recruit them out of nowhere in such a small amount of time.

’Well, I will message Zeil to keep an eye on the whereabouts of all recorded ’Pathwalkers’ in the city and see if any of them has anything particularly interesting in their resume...’

Despite being ’Pathwalkers,’ they are still human beings after all; there is no way they will not be swayed by anything in the world.

If you can’t find a person’s weakness, that means you are just not looking for it hard enough!

’Talking about Pathwalkers... I might have to start dealing with the Pathwalkers that are loyal to the count of Ilma one by one... to prevent them from getting in my way...’

Normal people like Paul and the others can’t do their missions properly if some Pathwalker gets in their way, and thus they need to be dealt with before they can create problems in the working of the plan.

’Sigh... I wonder when I will become a ’Pathwalker’ myself... it’s quite difficult...’

Alex had already read through several dozen books in the past three weeks, and his knowledge about this world and this nation was expanding at a very rapid pace.

Learning new knowledge and expanding his own wisdom to become the most knowledgeable man was Alex’s goal and his ’Path’ in life.

He was surely working hard to accomplish it, but until now, Alex felt no visible growth at all.

According to what Ethan said, his physical fitness was steadily improving, and his aura was also getting stronger, but it was still far away from reaching the standards of a Pathwalker.

’Sigh... I need to speed up my acquisition of this county; only then will I be able to speed up my growth...’

Once the county is his to rule, Alex will have massive resources and money; he can then use them to create massive campaigns for the god of wisdom and recruit many priests in the church.

This way he will increase the divine healing potion-making capacity of the church and will use them for his own training speed enhancement!

The process is long and very time-consuming, but once Alex manages to create a stable supply chain of those healing potions, his own personal strength will skyrocket, and he will easily be able to reach Phase 1!

"Lord Saint, Antonio has been sent to the old mill to perform the mission... he might have reached there by now, I think..."

Jake’s words snapped Alex out of his daze and he nodded his head.

"Good... If things go right, once Antonio finished this mission of his, and comes back, give these organization members the task of spreading rumours about what he had found during his mission..."

Alex handed over a piece of paper to Jake that had a few names written on it, which belonged to a few members of the organization.

Once Alex handed that paper to Jake, Jake nodded his head and didn’t ask a single question before putting that paper in his pockets carefully.

’Little Antonio~ make sure you succeed in lighting the haystack I have prepared... I need the fire of revolution to spread in the entire city of Ilma...’

’I have high hopes for you~’