Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 878 Everyone has their own agenda
I originally thought that the sudden return of the Lord of Illum, blocking the Shadow at the door, would definitely lead to a conflict, or at the very least some minor friction.

However, once they sat down in the auditorium, they only chatted for the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee and eat a couple of fruits before running out of things to say.

It's like there's a generation gap between them.

One who has lived for countless centuries, but whose true form is a lower-level human.

He was already at the level of a high-ranking Shadow, but his real age was only in his early twenties. If we strictly count from the time he retrieved his soul and was resurrected, Milo was at most two and a half years old at this moment.

Therefore, the differences between the two sides were too great, and there were not many conflicts of interest (if those in the backpacks don't count), so they didn't know how to start a conversation.

Let's just stop talking.

...

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However, in Kai's view, the Lord of Illum and Brother Milo should be the same kind of people.

After all, they were both leading large groups of people to fight against the gods of dreams. The former directly built his city on the cold plains at the foot of Mount Kadas, while the latter... well, the latter directly flushed all the gods into the sewers. How could these two not have anything in common?

But that was the truth. It wasn't until Milo, carrying a large backpack and leading Kai out of the high walls of Ilan, that the Lord of Ilan asked "tenderly" from behind, "Are you really not going to return that cup to me?"

Milo waved his hand: "The kid doesn't know any better and just plays with it."

"Will it be returned? After all, that's a sacred object." Lord Ilan was still staring at the large cup in Kai's hand.

The latter shrank his neck and looked away, trying to hide behind Milo as much as possible.

Milo is incredibly shameless; he shut the Lord of Illum up with just a few words:
"Why are you so stingy? Our Nanwei City hasn't even entered the Second Industrial Revolution yet, let alone things like refrigeration equipment. Just consider it helping out our poor families."

"Speaking of this..." Lord Ilan's eyes suddenly darted around:
"Have you considered a cooperation agreement or something similar between the two cities?"

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"Thank goodness, you two have finally gotten down to business!"

Sadie, who was standing next to her, almost pounded her chest in frustration.

She almost burst out holding it in while listening to the whole thing.

Almost every time these two people open their mouths, the topic veers off into some strange and irrelevant direction. One minute it's fried sandworms, the next it's collagen, and they don't even mention the natural disaster that struck the city a week ago, as if that disaster had never happened.

Finally, finally, with the impending separation, I remembered the important matter.

There are not many independent countries or cities left in this world, especially in the series of mysterious cities. Places like Os-Nargai and the floating city have long been controlled by the Kadas Mountain God system. These completely independent city-states should unite with each other.

Kai ended up in the vast Gobi Desert in the western part of the Cold Plains and was taken in by Yilan. It was both a coincidence and fate. Although he almost brought Yilan to her doom, didn't Shadow save the day with his own strength?

The process was somewhat complicated and tortuous, but at least the result was good.

Shouldn't they take advantage of this coincidence and fate to get together?
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Of course, this is just an "immature" thought of Sadie, a "younger generation".

As the lord of Elan, Mabel naturally had more to consider.

She was unaware of Milo's background, let alone the situation in Nanwei City.

Strictly speaking, only Illan is a city that does not serve any gods, while in Mabel's eyes, Nanwei City is not much different from the territory of the gods. It is true that Nanwei City does not serve the gods, after all, the gods are gone now, but Milo is most likely the god of Nanwei City.

At least so far, Mabel has held this view.

Those in positions of power are not immune to the temptation to plunder faith, and the cities they control naturally become their primary targets.

From this perspective, Milo is not much different from the gods.

Even so, Mabel was still willing to propose a cooperation agreement.

The reason is very simple: she saw humanity in Milo, a quality that other superiors, dream gods, and even external deities could not fake.

Mabel didn't understand how Milo had managed it, but she was willing to cooperate with such a powerful figure. A cold, indifferent god, devoid of morality, boundaries, and principles, is completely untrustworthy.

But Milo might be worth a try.

However, we still need to observe and see what this family is really like.

Is the only problem that is forcibly taking things from others, or are there other, even bigger problems?

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"That would be wonderful! If all the female students in Nanwei City were to go barefoot... I mean, if they all knew magic, wouldn't it be more lively?"

Milo is still lying.

He's not really heartless.

The cooperation agreement was definitely given serious consideration.

After this period of immersive experience, he can say with certainty that the people of Ilan do not have a tradition of worshipping superiors, nor could they be believers in any deity. This alone is enough to make them a potential partner for Nanwei City.

But Milo was worried about the so-called star magic.

The mysterious power of the stars even allows these mages to fight against Mount Kadas.

In the other realms of the Dream Realm, the stars are always associated with malice.

To put it bluntly, the stars can be equated with "external deities".

The people of Illum have no connection with the gods of the dream world, but their power comes from the stars, so they might be related to the outer gods. We must be wary.

This is Milo's true concern.

This is also why he insisted on taking that so-called Holy Grail of Astrology.

Take it back to my clever wife at home and she'll figure out the truth.

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And so, a verbal cooperation agreement was reached very casually.

Mabel said she would like to visit Nanwei City if she has the opportunity in the future.

It means to test the waters and see what's really going on.

Milo welcomed it.

And, unable to refuse their hospitality, they marked the approximate location of the waters where Nanwei City is situated on the map, saying they were looking forward to Mabel's esteemed presence.

In the end, the two sides parted ways amicably.

Milo led Kai away from the city of a thousand pillars.

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After walking out of the high walls of Elan, Kai glanced back at the group from the Elan Magic Academy before whispering to Milo:

"Brother, you really marked the location of Nanwei City for them?"

Milo glanced at Kai:
"Of course not, do you think I'm stupid?"

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Yilan.

On the map of the Southern Territory in Mabel's hand, the circle drawn by Milo landed on the location of Oriba Island.

(End of this chapter)