Tiy and Stug looked at Isaac like he was insane, because why would being able to vote for a leader be so impactful that other rooters would join them?
Stug voiced his concerns.
"Look, I don't doubt your home world, but what makes you so confident that ours would follow the same path?"
Isaac took off his glove and held it up.
"Because greed is a great tool. If you can promise the same things that the elders do, but with more benefits for the people."
The two of them looked at the glove, not understanding what Isaac was trying to say with it. Isaac saw their gazes, but let it slide for now.
"Let me ask both of you something. When someone hunts an animal, what happens to the meat?"
Stug shrugged, not knowing how hunting worked under the rule of the elders, but Tiy responded.
"From my time looking into the Elders, around half of all crop harvests are hunting trips go to them, and the people who work for them."
Isaac smiled at that.
"Well, we could let the hunters keep one hundred percent of the animal, and then offer goods for it instead of taking it. We call this trading, and it's basically the basis of society in my world. We use goods like food and clothes, and trade them with each other."
Stug's eyes lit up at the mention of trading.
"Some people already do that. My mother used to trade cotton with some of the crafters for our clothes."
Isaac nodded at Stug.
"That cotton that was traded, was it from the half of the harvest you got to keep?"
Stug shook his head.
"The crops weren't that good that year, so we took some from the Elder's half."
Isaac was practically beaming from that.
"So imagine how things would have gone for your family if you owned all of the harvest. Would your family still have been in a bad situation if the Elders didn't take a cut of it?
Tiy looked between the two and caught on to what Isaac was saying.
"No, Exo's family would have been one of the most well off family's that year. So, Isaac, what you are saying is that if we convince people of that exact thing, they will join us?"
Isaac gave a glance to Tiy, and inwardly cheered that he managed to explain a simple form of capitalism to cavemen.
"Well, Tiy, do you believe it will work? Because if you do, then isn't that good enough to convince others just like you?"
She nodded, with a sigh that could only be described as relief, as for Stug, he could only barely keep up with the conversation. He could understand the basics of the conversation, but the long term for when people joined them didn't make sense to him.
"Isaac, there is something I don't understand about this whole thing. Let's say we have a group of people that have joined us, how will we stay in power?"
Isaac tilted his head in confusion.
"Well, we are wanderers and can move between the worlds, so we could just use that to our advantage."
After a pause, Isaac followed up with.
"Say we got someone from your family, Stug, and they grew plants over here in this world, we would have more area that the Elders couldn't use, on top of the land we would use in your world, and you could say the same about hunting here, and resources for general goods."
Stug's mouth fell open, and it only closed when Tiy spoke up.
"But that's assuming we can get a wanderer to join us, and-"
Isaac waved his hand, cutting Tiy off.
"You're missing Stug's point, Tiy. He asks in the future, not right now. Remember, we have powers that non wanders wish they could have, so by using those we can get them to follow us, and then, after the Elders are no longer a threat, we can work on using both worlds."
Tiy, seemingly angry, was cut off.
"But why use both worlds and not focus on a single world?"
Isaac responded to her aggression with an equal tone.
"Because there are other worlds like mine connected to this one, and by making trades with them. With that, we could create an imbalance, as we are the only ones that can cross worlds, and use that as a reason to vote one of us as a leader, or even a non wanderer, who we choose."
Stug spoke up.
"Wouldn't that make us just as bad as the Elders?"
Tiy nodded with passion at Stug's words. Isaac sighed at how his words did seem a lot like what the Elders were doing.
"Consider the worst parts of what the Elders are doing, and compare that with what I suggest we do."
Tiy did exactly that.
"Well, the Elders kill for insubordination, take advantage of people in all ways, kill for being too similar to someone else, and take half of all goods made or gathered. While we want to kill the Elders and hold the whole market of cross world deals."
Isaac sat down on a crudely made chair.
"When you put it like that, we don't seem as bad as them, and even then we don't have to have a wanderer, or a person that favours our in charge. I only suggested it so that rules and laws don't get put against us."
Isaac shrugged.
"Who knows, maybe the people will vote one of us in charge because we freed them from the Elders."
Tiy still had a lot of things she wanted to say, but saved them for now since they had to finish everything they had to do before going to the rooter home world. To Tiy, it seemed like Isaac's world was filled with exactly the same type of people as her world, but she still wanted to free her people, so if she had to, she would use the same methods, as she could always change the rules later on.
The three of them began to finish everything that needed to be done beforehand, and walked over to the monument.
As Isaac looked at the monument, it was a cave painting depicting fire being made, as people huddled around it. Five fires were drawn on the wall, each with a person fuelling them, and from just a glance, Isaac could tell that they were the Elders.
Isaac reached out to the monument, as his own voice played in his mind.
"Would you like to bind yourself to the monument 'First Spark'"
Isaac looked at Tiy, who began to turn into a cloud of purple smoke, and at Stug, who had already left.
"Yes, bind me."