"Hi, my friend, do you recognize these characters?"
Roland held up the paper with Sylph's full name written on it and loudly asked the crowd.
His actions were swift, most did not see clearly, and those who did mostly couldn't read, leaving the onlookers bewildered, shaking their heads.
"This sentence is 'I am with you', with the autograph below from Her Majesty the Empress. If you cannot read, even if the Empress blesses you, you won't understand."
Roland began to address the real issue, giving everyone a reason to participate in compulsory education.
Long-standing concepts are hard to change.
For thousands of years, the governance strategies of human rulers have remained largely unchanged.
Keep the populace ignorant.
As long as the people are sufficiently ignorant, mass awakening is impossible, and control becomes deeply entrenched.
