Chapter 132

Morning, the Royal Capital Elosia City woke up from its slumber.

Jie Ming changed into a simple mercenary casual suit and walked out of the mansion alone.

The sun pierced through the thin mist, sprinkling golden light spots on the houses lining the streets. The children's frolicking, the vendors' hawking, and the clatter of horse hooves intertwined into a movement full of vitality.

Looking at the vibrant scene before him, Jie Ming couldn't help but sigh: "Sigh... finally don't have to be stupid over there anymore..."

Jie Ming didn't have a good time these past few days. Under the deliberate guidance of the three delegation leaders, the negotiations were basically ended with quarrels every day.

Occasionally, if they were unlucky, it would develop into group fighting.

Those dwarves looked drunk when negotiating, but when it came to fighting, each one was energetic, even more fanatical than the orcs.

Jie Ming was affected several times even while sitting in the listening area. At first, he didn't make much of a move to maintain his image, but later he couldn't help it, and he greeted everyone who came with his fists until they were bruised and swollen.

Thinking about it, it was actually quite effective.

Later, even King Otto-Lei-Ke III couldn't stand it anymore, feeling that if he let Jie Ming continue to fight like this, there wouldn't be anyone left in the entire delegation who could appear on stage to represent them, so he hurriedly stopped his listening work.

This also made Jie Ming breathe a sigh of relief.

This also gave Jie Ming time to have a good stroll around the Royal City today.

Walking on the street, Jie Ming still couldn't help but think about the three alien delegation leaders.

"Really strange, what is the purpose of these three people? Preventing the alliance between several civilizations? No, there shouldn't be anyone so stupid."

That's right, although it looks like the negotiations are going very unsmoothly now, everyone including Jie Ming knows clearly that humans will eventually reconcile with the orcs, and the reunion of the races is only a matter of time.

As everyone knows, under normal circumstances, the relationship between countries is actually related to interests, and personal emotions almost have no impact on it.

Even in another world, it is the same, but besides normal interest relationships, there is an additional factor affecting the relationship between countries in the Elosia Plane: gods.

Strictly speaking, the will of gods can also be counted into national interests, and it is a priority very high.

With the will of gods pressing on it, the reunion of these countries is inevitable.

Most importantly, whether it is the native gods of the Elosia Plane or the wizards, they are actually quite hoping to promote the coalition army.

After all, the best way to weaken the plane's origin is to slaughter a large number of living beings born in the plane. Only by having the natives of the Elosia Plane unite and engage in endless wars can wizards achieve their goals more efficiently.

Even the short retreat of the wizards' offensive was to give the natives of the Elosia Plane a breather, so as not to make them too nervous and give up on themselves.

It's just that I didn't expect the nobles of this world to be so short-sighted. Just a short-term slowdown in the offensive started them making small moves behind the scenes, eventually triggering the collapse of the Elosia Plane native alliance.

So Jie Ming couldn't understand the thoughts of the three delegation leaders. Regardless of whether they are apostles of gods or spies disguised by wizards, they should try their best to promote this coalition army.

"Forget it, regardless of what those guys want to do, anyway, as long as it doesn't affect my own actions."

Shaking his head, no longer thinking about these problems, Jie Ming began his real action today.

On the surface, he was strolling leisurely, but in reality, his perception was fully open, sensing every pulse of the Royal Capital.

As a Foundation Establishment cultivator, he could clearly perceive the red-dust energy permeating this huge city.

The red-dust energy here was more massive and complex than in the Golden Port period, almost reaching a level that made him a bit overwhelmed.

The joy of the people, the greed of the vendors, the loyalty of the guards, the arrogance of the nobles, the despair of the beggars... all kinds of emotions, like streams, flowed into the talisman seal in his dantian, making it exude more brilliant brilliance.

He could feel that his absorption speed of red-dust energy had been improved unprecedentedly in this city.

"Is this the power of the civilized hinterland?" Jie Ming thought to himself.

The red-dust energy here was too abundant, so abundant that he felt a bit overwhelmed.

Jie Ming suddenly jumped his brows.

He turned into a quiet alley at will. There were few pedestrians here, only a few ordinary dwellings.

Beside an ancient stone well at the end of the alley, several withered trees entangled with vines appeared exceptionally gloomy.

Jie Ming walked to the well, seemingly casually looking at the well wall, but in reality, his spiritual power instantly spread, deep into the ground.

He detected a trace of abnormality.

Below the well wall, hidden under the mottled moss and soil, several subtle energy fluctuations spread like ripples.

They were not common divine runes or mortal magic arrays in the Elosia Plane. Their structure was unique and contained a power system that transcended this world.

"This is... traces of a rune array?" Jie Ming was shocked in his heart, but his face remained calm.

These runes were set up extremely covertly. If it weren't for his superb rune knowledge and keen perception, it would be impossible to detect them.

He observed again without changing his expression, his heart full of doubts.

"Basically can confirm, this should be the rune system of the Wizard civilization, definitely not something from the Elosia Plane."

The energy of these runes was weak, and they should only be an inconspicuous node of a large array.

He didn't alert anyone, left the alley quietly, and continued his "strolling."

However, with the previous discovery, he began to deliberately extend his perception to every corner of the Royal Capital, especially focusing on those places that seemed inconspicuous but had weak energy changes.

Just as he was thinking, a commotion came from the street ahead.

"It's the sage's disciple!"

"Lord Lei Si! Lord Lei Si is here!"

Jie Ming looked up and saw a group of residents surrounding a man in a scholar's robe with a thin face.

The other party was currently greeting the surrounding residents with a smile, his face carrying a humble and elegant smile.

"Lord Lei Si, I heard you were advising His Majesty in the palace yesterday, you really worked hard!" A middle-aged woman with a grateful smile handed a basket of fresh fruit to him.

Lei Si took it gently and said softly: "This is my duty as a citizen of the Kingdom. You don't have to be polite."

In the crowd, a child in rags accidentally fell, his knees scraped, and he was crying loudly.

Seeing this, Lei Si immediately walked up and squatted down.

He reached out his hand, and a faint soft light emitted from his fingertips, falling gently on the child's wound.

The child's wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, the pain disappeared, and the child broke into laughter.

"Alright, little guy, be careful next time." Lei Si gently stroked the child's head. That sincere care made the surrounding people praise him even more.

"Lord Lei Si is really kind!"

"With Lord Sage and Lord Lei Si here, our Kingdom will definitely win!"

"Yes, he can always give the best advice to His Majesty. With Lord Lei Si, we have hope!"

Jie Ming stood not far away, taking all this in, and silently evaluated in his heart:

"Tsk tsk... this means of buying people's hearts is too old-fashioned, and the performance of the people around him is too stiff. Unqualified, all unqualified!"

"However... the sage's disciple?"

The so-called sage is a relatively special existence in the Elosia Plane.

The other party is not only powerful but also extremely wise and charismatic.

It is no exaggeration to say that when the wizards invaded, the first Elosia Plane coalition was promoted by the sage with his own strength.

The origin of the sage is quite clear, and people have even turned his life into an opera to perform in turns.

It can only be said that he is indeed a native with great ability, not a wizard spy.

But this sage's disciple is a bit strange.

He remembered the intelligence about Lei Si he heard at the banquet: this sage's disciple can always give "visionary" suggestions at critical moments, guiding the King and ministers to make decisions. Some people even say he can predict the future and point out the direction for the Kingdom.

But besides that, there is almost no other relevant intelligence. It is only known that the sage suddenly announced that he had a disciple not long ago, which caused quite a sensation at the time.

Seeing it with his own eyes at this moment, Jie Ming was even more confused.

It's not that he said his crude means of buying people's hearts—this kind of means is very normal for high-level figures. What really made Jie Ming surprised was that he sensed a faint threat from the other party.

"Hell, did this world secretly update its version without me knowing? How come anyone I meet casually can threaten me? Shouldn't I be a genius?"

Seeing that the other party didn't notice him, Jie Ming slowly retreated from the crowd and walked toward another direction of the market.

Soon, under an abandoned warehouse in another ancient market, he discovered similar rune traces again.

Then it was the backyard of a remote temple, beside a forgotten drainage channel... these runes were scattered in various places in the Royal Capital, seemingly having some connection with each other, pointing to a vague center.

Jie Ming's brain worked at high speed, and he began to outline the rough outline of these scattered rune points in his mind.

The scale of the array composed of these runes is huge, and they are interconnected. Their purpose seems to be for some kind of large-scale energy conduction or conversion.

Night fell again, and Jie Ming returned to his mansion.

He walked into the secret room covered by the illusion, looking at the rough map of the underground rune network of the Royal Capital that he had roughly depicted on the paper, his eyes flashing with deep light.

Relying on his own knowledge, Jie Ming quickly judged that their arrangement seemed to be guiding or gathering some kind of energy, and the direction was implicitly pointing to the area with the most faith in the Royal Capital—the church district.

(End of chapter)