Foreigners had promised the Fantasy World a perfect safe environment and services for participants, which was why the city-state's powerful and influential members regarded the Fantasy World as a paradise and a safe haven. Now that news of the assassination at Yuhuashi had spread, it was bound to cause people's trust in the Fantasy World to decline, and even cause panic.
Now is not the time to stir up chaos.
"In the end, chaos and destruction will follow anyway. A little unrest can be considered a minor incident. At worst, they can blame it on me and say that the Yuhua Stone offended me."
Lilitu smiled and said, "You can push the blame onto me. I don't mind. Compared to that, the most important thing is that the current Blade of Misfortune Messenger is on his way. When he arrives, he will begin the process of destroying this secret realm."
"So fast?"
Akanlijiao frowned, "Theoretically, it will be another nineteen years before they set out on their winter pilgrimage."
Among the Disaster Vanguards, there is a skill that allows one to absorb the power of disasters and transform it into enhancing one's own strength. Those who practice this skill are called Disaster Blade Messengers.
Two years before a secret realm is about to cycle, the Disaster Vanguard will send out Blade Messengers to these secret realms. At this time, the infiltrators who have been planted in the secret realm will begin various destructive actions, or sow discord, or spread rumors, in short, use all means to make the order in the secret realm collapse.
The Blade Bringer gathers the power of disaster when the city-state is heading towards chaos and destruction. This process of wandering through the many secret realms is called the Winter Pilgrimage. (There are multiple Blade Bringers.)
There is still a long time before the secret realm is reset, but the Blade Messenger has set off early, which is not in line with past rules.
"I know the reason. My followers have long ago conveyed it to me through sacrifice."
Lilitu dragged out the last word but didn't give an answer. It was obvious that she was waiting for a price and needed Akanli to pay before she would share the information.
Akanli said coldly: "What do you want?"
"It's a little bug you raised. I wanted to give a little surprise to my subordinate."
"The worms were no surprise."
As soon as he finished speaking, a curled up, skinny worm was thrown out and landed on the palace carpet.
Compared with the worms that had eaten away the clear and rainy sky, the worms thrown out by Akanli were skinny and lifeless, like incompletely developed and deformed species.
Lilitu bends her finger, and with invisible telekinesis, she lifts the worm and places it in the palm of her hand. Looking at this cute little creature, Lilitu is in a good mood. She pinches it and hides it in her flesh and blood, feeding it with her own blood.
Lilitu smiled and said, "The Adventurer's Association's pioneering efforts have seriously irritated some of the old guard. They're worried that if the Adventurer's Association learns of their existence, it will interfere with the tunneling plan. So they want to retreat temporarily, abandoning unnecessary secret realms and only retaining the basics."
Lilitu spread her hands and said, "Obviously, Wild Dream City is among those that have been abandoned. But this is also a good thing. In the past, Wild Dream City had many extraordinary people, which meant that plans always had to be carried out slowly, and the destruction was not carried out with full satisfaction. This time, you can go all out and usurp a far greater share of power than before."
Akanli wanted to know deeper information.
"Is the one coming this time an extraordinary-level Blade Envoy?"
"I don't know. My followers don't know about this. You know, the people I nominate can't climb very high."
Akanli scoffed, "That's what demons do."
This remark irritated Lilitu, and she responded sarcastically.
"The Demonic lineage is a long-standing tradition dating back to the days of the Sunset Society. We still hold considerable weight among the Disaster Vanguard, and I'm always alerted to important events. What about you, respected Worm Faction member? Why are you so unwelcome and exiled to Wild Dream City? Even the Winter Pilgrimage's early start wasn't even notified."
"I think you know the reason. Rapidly cultivating the worms requires sufficient destruction rituals. The Blade Envoys also need the calamity power generated by destruction. You are competing with them for food."
When different factions need the same resources, competition becomes fierce. Since the Worm Faction is more uncontrollable and weaker, they are suppressed and excluded.
They cannot defeat the Blade Messengers, and the most important thing is that they do not have as many allies as the Blade Messengers.
Within the Disaster Vanguard, even demons discriminate against native worms.
ps: Okay, two hundred chapters!
Chapter 201: The Edge of the Blade
Although the ending was not perfect, both Lilitu and Akanli got what they wanted, so both the host and the guests were happy.
Akanli's consciousness left the palace, and Lilitu looked up at the sky, thinking about Noita's affairs.
She heard the details from Akanli. He killed the heavily protected Yuhua Stone in an instant, and escaped unscathed without even being caught by the illusion. This uninvited guest had real skills.
The stronger Noita becomes, the more excited Lilitu becomes.
In the distance, in the office building.
A small hand as white as snow reached out in front of Wu You, interrupting her work.
She looked up and saw the pink-haired girl lying on the building made of documents. Although the building was shaky, she unexpectedly maintained her balance.
In other directions, colleagues remained still when the Fairy Godmother appeared, and the time in the room seemed to be separated from the outside world.
Even though the Fairy Godmother had scolded Wu You and said she would never see him again before he made a wish, Wu You still felt happy and joyful after seeing her again.
The fairy godmother smiled and held out her hands.
"Wuyou, I have two candies hidden in my hand, one is delicious and juicy, and the other tastes ordinary. I want to give you one, but the decision of which candy to choose is yours."
Wu You looked at the Fairy Godmother's hands, which were clenched tightly like two identical pieces of jade.
Even with his eyes blurry, Wu You couldn't tell the difference between them, so he just picked one hand at random.
The fairy godmother opened her hand, and the candy wrapped in sky blue paper lay quietly in her palm.
Wu You took the candy, and Fairy Godmother suggested, "Would you like to try it and see how it tastes?
It tastes pretty good.”
Wu nodded, peeled off the candy wrapper, and inside was a light red candy. She chewed it and swallowed it.
It tastes really good, like rock sugar frozen with honey water and orange juice.
The sweetness blossomed on the tip of her tongue, piercing deep into Wuyou's soul, causing the corners of her mouth to curl up in pleasure.
The fairy godmother also arched her eyebrows. There was a worm in the pale red candy, and the sugar was just the worm's shell.
"Is it tasty?"
"good to eat!"
The fairy godmother opened her other hand and gave Wuyou another candy.
After she had no candy left in her hand, she made a move to leave, but Wu You stopped her.
"Are you just here to give me candy this time?"
"Not entirely," the pink-haired girl said. "Sweetness is the weapon of love, and candy is the greatest source of sweetness. From this, you can understand that candy is a weapon. I'm here to give you the weapon of the soul. If one day you fall into despair, I hope you can remember this candy and not completely collapse."
Wu You only heard the fairy godmother say a bunch of incomprehensible words and then disappeared.
After the fairy godmother left, time resumed its flow. Wu You stared at the candy wrappers and candies in his hands, slightly distracted.
The unopened candy was wrapped in red candy wrapper, and she flattened another sky blue candy wrapper. The light white pattern formed an eye-like pattern when the candy wrapper was spread out.
It was like looking up into nothingness, sending chills down her spine and making her feel extremely creepy.
……
On the other side, Noita walked into Lilitu's palace again, and Lilitu had been waiting for her for a long time.
The big devil praised Noita for his clean and beautiful movements, and for not leaving any clues in the process of dealing with the Yuhua Stone.
She did not mention the winged figure holding the flaming sword in the illusion record, and covered it up in a few words, with no intention of investigating the source of this power.
Noita has proved her strength with practical actions, and that is enough.
After praising her, Lilitu lazily said, "The next mission won't be issued for a while, so go back and enjoy your life. With my handwritten order, you can travel freely to most places above and below the ground. If you don't want to move, you can stay in the camp, whether you want to take care of your subordinates or just disobey the rules. If you prefer to show off your abilities, I can also customize a script for you to satisfy your desires."
Noita had no interest in any of this. After Yuhuashi was killed by the psychic incarnation, she gained 23,000 experience points, which made her in a good mood.
"No need to do anything extra. Just tell me the origins of the Vanguard of Disaster."
This was the condition they had agreed upon in advance.
Now that Yuhuashi is dead, it is Lilitu's turn to fulfill her promise.
Seeing that Noita had not forgotten about this, Lilitu sat up straight with helplessness and supported her face with her hands.
"Then you must listen carefully. I will only explain it once and will not explain any terms you don't understand."
Lilitu said solemnly, "Before the sank of Creek Moon Land, the Disaster Vanguard was once part of the Sunset Society. However, after it fell into the world's reflection along with Creek Moon Land, it lost contact with the Sunset Society in the material world. Over time, it reorganized into the Disaster Vanguard."
After saying this, Lilitu stopped talking.
Noita pressed on, "That's it?"
"Well, the following stories, such as how humans eradicated the influence of the snake people within, established the Disaster Vanguard with the Disaster Messenger as the main lineage, and how the Disaster Vanguard occupied most of the land, require you to clear more quest targets to unlock them."
"If you don't understand these terms, you need to complete the task before I can explain them to you."
Each question and noun is like a carrot hanging in front of the mule's head. Lilitu hopes to use them to drive Noita to act, and urge her to continuously complete tasks and indicators to unlock them.
It’s a pity that Noita is not a mule. Except for the Vanguard of Disaster, she knows all the other nouns clearly.
For example, the Sunset Club is a vast, shady organization with numerous factions and cliques. Within the Sunset Club, people with different ideals and skills are brought together by profit, forming cliques and factions to unite and suppress those who are different, hoping to dominate the Sunset Club's discourse.
During the long period of development, there will also be factions that break away from the Sunset Society and form new organizations.
The Vanguard of Disaster is obviously the one who re-establishes his power.
Noita recalled the main skills mastered by the Sunset Society: Deceiving the Gods, Blade of Misfortune, Thought Control, and Colonial Refining...
Numerous factions flashed through Noita's mind, and she instinctively linked the faction that controlled the Edge of the Blade of Disaster with the Vanguard of Disaster.
The Blade of Disaster is a profession whose main sources of power are the two great paths of Jiao Zheng and Dong. It needs to sharpen the blade with the aura of disaster and increase its determination. It is a profession that grows with disaster and destruction, and its strength is not inferior to the Blade of Tianxin.
However, its advancement requirements are too high, and subsequent growth also requires a large amount of disaster power. When people learn it in depth, it is difficult to distinguish whether the professional is chasing disasters to sharpen the blade, or using the blade to create disasters.
It was too troublesome, so Noita didn't take it.
Does the Herald of Disaster hold the edge of the blade in his hands?
If this is true, there is a high probability that they deliberately caused destruction in order to increase their strength.
Noita made her own guess, and further verification would depend on Lilytu.
As a player who knows countless secrets, Noita has too much fragmented knowledge in his hands, but he lacks the clues and inspiration to connect them together. Lilitu's words are like a ray of light in the long night, connecting these memories together.
Chapter 202: Conversation
We need to find a way to get the information out of Lilitu.
Noita made up her mind that as long as she could get some key information from Lilitu, she would be able to piece together the whole story.
Now she has more information than Lilitu thinks she knows, and there is a high probability that she can get the information she wants if she plans it intentionally or not.
You just need to choose an approach that can arouse Lilytu's interest.
The origin of the palace, the feud with the Rain Flower Stone, the source of the illusion in the Shadow Zone...
Noita quickly recalled something that might become a topic of conversation, and she said slowly, "I have another question I hope you can answer."
"But you can ask me, I will answer as appropriate."
"Can you tell me the origin of the illusion in the Shadowland?"
Lilitu became alert. She found that Noita actually used honorifics, and it seemed that she really wanted to know the origin of the illusion.
It's a pity that I can't tell her.
Lilitu and Akanli must pretend to be two strangers or even slightly hostile forces, so that they can become the fourth force fought over by vampires, drow and humans to maintain the balance of the Wild Dream City.
Only in this way can they become retainers and sycophants of the powerful forces in the city, use their tongues to interfere with their decisions, rather than being treated as hostile outsiders.
In order to maintain this situation, no one except the two extraordinary people knew that they were all disaster pioneers and believed the hostile situation to be true.
Lilytu remained calm and said, "I don't know, but I heard that the host of the illusion is a transcendental being with some connections to the humans in the city. Perhaps you could kidnap a few high-ranking humans and ask them about the situation. I think they would be happy to answer your questions. As long as you bring your sword."
Faced with the instigation, Noita snorted and left immediately.
Lu Zhong sent the connection between the Sunset Society and the Vanguard of Disaster to the Adventurer's Association through the Gate City, asking them to investigate in this direction and providing the speculation that "the broker connecting the secret realms came from the Vanguard of Disaster."
The specific results need to be confirmed by the responses of adventurers who go to other secret realms to investigate. If there are also forces from the Disaster Vanguard in other secret realms, this matter will be self-evident.
So far, Noita's progress is the fastest, and the other adventurers have not yet sent back specific information.
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