With Origin-Tier Talent, What's Wrong with Becoming a Warlord?

[Top-tier talent + descent into darkness + sheer perseverance + not brainless, or at least trying to avoid it] Disaster struck. After being slandered while applying to military academy, Jiang Shiyu entered the army, only to be kept under the thumb of the academy faction. During a mission, he was accused of treason, and a group of people surrounded him to kill him. “You think the likes of you can surround me and kill me?” “He's a nobody. Kill him if you want.” “An order? If I say it is, then it's an order.” “The north is in revolt? Then we march north.” “I'm Jiang Shiyu of the Southwest Army. What's wrong with being a dictator?” “Take my life if you must, but don't harm a single civilian.” With powerful enemies encircling Daxia, the leaders argued endlessly at a meeting. At last, after a long silence, a top expert from one of Daxia's premier military academies spoke up: “I will stand by Commander Jiang of the Southwest Autonomous Army. When he took the college entrance exam at eighteen, he said that the weapons of thought surpass the fire of guns and cannons, and that will and character are greater than noble talent.”