Isn’t Being an Honest Official Dull?

In nineteenth-century Europe, look up and you see heaven; look down and you see hell. Pavel is reincarnated in Tsarist Russia, where he contracts cholera and awakens the [Hundred Lives System] on the brink of death. [The attributes and professional skills acquired in each life can be passed on to the next.] [Before each restart, the System calculates your influence on the world, then changes your family background in the next life.] [After each restart, you gain 1 exchange point, which can be used to learn a professional skill, upgrade one, or increase any attribute by 1.] "Influence on the world? It doesn't say it has to be good. So bad influence counts too?" In his second life, Pavel instigates a coup. In his third, he instigates a great purge. In his fourth, he organizes an all-Russian battle royale. In his fifth, he instigates a world war. ... Life after life passes, and Pavel, now all-knowing and all-powerful, becomes not only the one and only sun over the European continent in this age of brilliant stars, but also the universally acknowledged little daddy of a host of politicians, thinkers, scientists, writers, and artists.