(Sword and sorcery + behind-the-scenes mastermind + clones + schemes + plunder + no System + different magical worlds)
“He is the dean of the academy of magic, and the number-one fugitive on the wanted list.”
“Today, he issues an order to hunt down evil mages. Tomorrow, he personally helps one escape.”
“In the morning, he condemns the greed of the nobles at the imperial palace. In the afternoon, under a different identity, he empties their treasuries.”
All these outrageous schemes were planned by Chen Tianbai, though not by him personally.
No one knows how he does it.
That's because he has nine clones, each embedded in a different faction.
One serves as a guardian of order, another as an agent of chaos.
One infiltrated the enemy, initially intending only to plunder the academy's fortune. But the clone wouldn't listen and insisted on having fun.
Wealth, intelligence, and magical knowledge are all plundered by the clones and sent back to the small world where the original resides.
Everyone thought they were the pieces on the board, until the player himself stood up from it.
No System, no binding. He relies purely on his cunning to turn everyone into puppets on strings.
He's not a villain. He's the villain's client.
(The author has already written 100,000 words in advance, so follow without worry. There will be occasional extra-large updates.)