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"We don't know the specifics, but the most common explanation is that a new god has appeared in the desert, that the new god rules the entire desert, and is now preparing to lead the desert people to conquer the rainforest, so this is the reason why war is about to break out."

"Wait, a new god? Aren't there only seven gods in Teyvat? How can there be a new god?"

"We don't know the specifics, but this is the most accurate information we have gathered so far."

Catherine explained with a smile.

"Ok."

Paimon looked helplessly at Ying beside him.

"What to do?"

Without commissions, they can't take risks, and without risks, they won't have any income. Should they go find work? But they don't know anyone here. Where can they find work?

"I have an idea."

Ying put her hands on her hips and looked at Paimon.

"Paymon, you should eat less these days."

"Hey, Traveler, how could you do this! Paimon won't be able to fly if he doesn't eat enough!"

"You're kidding."

Ying smiled and shook her head as she saw Paimon's anxious expression.

"Hmph! Is this a joke?"

"However, we do need to find a way to solve the income problem. If there are no risky commissions, we can only find private commissions ourselves, but there should be very few private commissions during wartime."

"If it's a private commission, I happen to have a copy here."

Catherine suddenly spoke up while listening to Paimon and Ying's conversation.

"Hmm? Catherine, you said there's a private commission?"

"That's right, it's not an adventure commission, but a private recruitment commission. Because war is coming soon, a wealthy merchant in Sumeru City wants to recruit some powerful people to be her bodyguards in order to protect his daughter until the war ends."

"Oh? That sounds pretty good. As for strength, the Traveler's power is not to be underestimated!"

"That's right!"

Ying put her hands on her hips again.

"So, would you two like to accept this private commission?"

"We took it!"

Although they didn't receive any adventure missions, Luminous and Paimon did take on a long-term private hire mission.

While the two were heading to the wealthy merchant's house, the high-ranking officials of the Order of the Church began their special meeting.

The Adventurers' Guild's claim that the desert is preparing to wage war against the rainforest is not false; this news has been confirmed by the Order of the Church.

"Dotore, what's the deal with that new god? Don't you have any clues?"

"Yes, Dottore, some scholars in the Faculty even say that the Red King has been resurrected."

"The Red King is resurrected? Unfortunately, such a thing is impossible on the continent of Teyvat."

In the seat originally reserved for the Great Sage, the Doctor leaned back in the Great Sage's chair, answering with a smile.

"Then tell me what's going on! We haven't even created our own gods yet, but a god has appeared in the desert. If this continues, they'll attack us, and then Sumeru will be ruled by those barbaric desert people and will no longer be a land of wisdom!"

The sages strongly resisted being ruled by the desert people. Although there were many desert people in their council, they were generally looked down upon here.

Instead of answering the sages' questions, the Doctor changed the subject.

“I need to tell you something: the Red King, the god of the desert, was not some barbaric being. The wisdom he possessed far surpassed that of your Order of the Church.”

“We do know about the Red King’s technology, and we are still trying to decipher those special technological products. But that has nothing to do with the current situation. The current situation is that the desert people are preparing to attack the rainforest, and we in the rainforest cannot accept this situation.”

"Can't accept this situation? Then just complete the task I assigned you properly and hurry up and give birth to your god, shall we?"

"But is there enough time? We don't have enough knowledge of the divine to bring about the birth of a god."

"If you don't have enough knowledge about the divine canisters, then just find enough. Do you really need me to teach you this kind of thing?"

The Doctor looked at the sages in front of him with disdain. They were supposed to be sages from various schools of thought, but when it came to this kind of thing, they were basically useless. In the end, they were just a bunch of rigid people.

"But that will take time. Until then, can you hold off that desert god?"

"And to be honest, where did that desert god come from, and why have I never heard of him before?"

"Those gilded guilds that returned from the desert said that the new god is named Aizen Sousuke, but that sounds like Inatsume's name. Doesn't Inatsume have a thunder god? Why is this Inatsume becoming a god, and why has he come to our Sumeru desert?"

"To be honest, I'm also very curious about this god from Inatsume."

Finally, when the conversation turned to a topic that interested him, Dotole became a little more interested.

"And you don't need to worry. When I received the news, I had already sent people to the desert to gather information. After all, I am very interested in every god who was born after the existence of the Seven Gods."

"That's right, I'm very interested too."

The second sentence was also spoken by the "Doctor," but this "Doctor" was younger than the one in the Order of the Fathers. This was a glimpse of the "Doctor" in his younger days, and he was currently in Kavan Station, preparing to head to the desert to investigate!

254. There are no enemies ahead of us.

The doctor wanted to find Li Yue, but naturally wouldn't send the slide from his prime. Instead, he sent a younger slide, whose abilities were weaker, so it wouldn't matter if he died.

That's right, for the doctor, his biopsy slides were something he could sacrifice at will.

After making some preparations at Kawan Station, the doctor entered the desert alone. Because the tribes in the desert were about to wage war against the rainforest, Kawan Station was not peaceful. The soldiers defending Kawan Station were actually members of the Gilded Brigade, and most of the members of the Gilded Brigade were desert people. Very few people from Yulin joined the Gilded Brigade.

As desert people, they had various ideas after learning that all the desert tribes had been unified and, under the leadership of a new god, wanted to attack the rainforest.

There's no way around it; the rainforest people have been discriminating against the desert people for far too long. As a result, the rainforest people make a fortune in Sumeru City and Ormos Port, while the desert people can only be mercenaries. The desert can't grow any food, so they can't develop agriculture and can only be mercenaries.

Now, the desert has its own god and has unified most of the desert tribes. If the desert were to attack and conquer the rainforest, the status of the desert people would rise dramatically, and they would become wealthy.

Therefore, some of the gilded brigades stationed at Kawan Post Station were considering whether they should surrender and help open the gate when the desert army arrived.

Although there is no gate at the exit of Kawan Post Station leading to the desert, a huge wooden gate has been hastily built in an attempt to isolate the desert. Although it seems somewhat self-deceptive, this temporary gate does provide some psychological comfort to Kawan Post Station.

As for why these gilded brigades did not directly join the desert tribes, it was because after the Council of Religion learned that the desert tribes had unified and were preparing to wage war against the rainforest, they immediately dispatched a disciplinary officer and a 33-man regiment to Kawan Post Station. After all, this was the first line of defense between the rainforest and the desert. If the desert people wanted to invade the rainforest, they had to enter from here, and an effective defense had to be carried out here.

It was thanks to the existence of the 33-man squad and the disciplinary officer that these gilded brigades did not directly rebel, but whether they could hold out when the desert army arrived was unknown.

After departing from Kavan, the doctor first arrived at Aru village, but he did not stop there. He crossed Aru village directly and entered the vast desert.

The desert is vast and flat, with only one sand dune formed by sand blown by the wind. These dunes constantly change the terrain as the wind blows away the yellow sand, but the overall situation is still relatively flat.

Amidst these ever-overlapping sand dunes, the massive Crimson King's Tomb stands out prominently—a magnificent relic left behind by the once most powerful Crimson King in the desert.

Not far from the magnificent Red King's Mausoleum, a huge domed palace stands out even more because it is grayish-white. The Red King's Mausoleum is at least reddish-yellow like the desert, but the palace is a very cold grayish-white.

"That must be Hueco Mundo. It's really amazing. When I came to the desert last time, I didn't see such a magnificent building. Moreover, according to the task force's intelligence, they had never heard of such a thing before. It was really built in just one night."

The Doctor gazed at the gray-white Hueco Mundo in the distance and couldn't help but sigh.

"Such power is beyond human capabilities, which means that Lord Aizen is truly a god?"

The doctor acknowledged that Aizen was a god, but he did not acknowledge that Aizen was a born god.

"Interesting. Besides me, someone else has created a new god through a method I don't know about. I must see for myself how this new god was created."

If Aizen were a god long ago, he could have stepped forward long ago. To be precise, after the disaster in Kanria 500 years ago, the principles of Heaven disappeared, and the maintainers of Heaven are dying and have no way to manage things on Earth. That's why the Seven Kingdoms on Earth dare to act so recklessly, especially Winter.

Aizen, this god, is clearly a recent figure.

Especially after the Grass God disappeared.

The Doctor knew the Grass God. He was a Sumeru person, although he had been expelled from Sumeru a long time ago. However, he was still aware of some of the sordid things that happened within Sumeru, such as the Great Sage imprisoning the Grass God. Ordinary scholars certainly wouldn't know such inside stories, but the sages were generally aware of them.

The Doctor's collaborator was the Great Sage, so he naturally understood, especially after Narcida left Sumeru. The Doctor immediately received the news and was also very curious as to why the Grass God, who had been imprisoned for 500 years, had left.

But he soon discovered the whereabouts of the Grass God. This Grass God had nothing to do, so he went to Liyue and became a high-ranking member of Liyue. This change left the Doctor full of questions. What does it mean? As the god of Sumeru, you just don't want Sumeru anymore?

And Aizen appeared shortly after that.

It's too much of a coincidence that after the grass god of Mount Sumeru left Mount Sumeru, a new god was born in Mount Sumeru.

It's not that a new Grass God will be born after the Grass God leaves. In the Doctor's opinion, it's obvious that there are other people who also know the Grass God and discovered that after the Grass God settled in Liyue, he created Aizen, a new god, to fill the vacancy of the god's position.

"How could I not participate in such a blasphemous experiment? I really want to study this god named Aizen properly."

He disregarded even the gods, treating them merely as research material; this was the second seat of the Fools, the Doctor.

With this thought in mind, the Doctor set foot on the yellow sand and headed towards Las Noches.

While the Doctor was heading to Hueco Mundo, inside Hueco Mundo, the desert people's army had already assembled. At Li Yue's request, all the strong warriors from various tribes gathered in the central square of Hueco Mundo.

Aside from the elderly and children of the tribe, almost all the young warriors are gathered here. Desert mercenaries are warriors regardless of gender, so the number of warriors gathered here has reached tens of thousands. After all, not many people can live to old age in a desert tribe.

Li Yue stood on the roof of the central palace, looking down at the tens of thousands of troops gathered below, and slightly raised his right hand.

"Lord Aizen!!"

"Lord Aizen!!"

The mercenaries all began to cheer.

Li Yue nodded in satisfaction, then pressed down with her right hand, and the mercenaries immediately quieted down.

"Gentlemen, do you remember my promise to lead you to conquer the rainforest?"

"Remember!"

"Very good, remember that, for I am about to lead you to fulfill this promise!"

"The desert has been dormant for too long, so long that the rainforest dwellers have forgotten the glory the desert once possessed!"

"So, today is the day we set off to conquer the rainforest!"

"Oh!!!"

"Follow me and conquer the rainforest together! We are invincible!"

255. Doctor: There are actually people smarter than me?

The army is setting off!

After Li Yue said a few words, the mercenary army began to move. In order to ensure efficiency, Li Yue did not bring the entire army. He only brought the most elite part, which numbered just over 10,000. This number of 10,000 troops was enough for him, especially in the task of conquering the rainforest.

The 10,000-strong army left the Void Palace and headed directly towards Kawan Station.