Chapter 141

Boom, boom, boom—!

Along with the dissipation of Blackbeard's afterimage, the people of the Magic Council also fell into a low valley.

And at this time, Lin Cheng was operating Blackbeard, entering the deep underground of the Magic Council.

Although Lin Cheng had long guessed that Blackbeard's attempt to seize the Council's trust had failed, in fact, he had never given up on Etherion from beginning to end.

That kind of power that exceeded imagination and could destroy a country; with such a tempting thing, how could Lin Cheng possibly give it up?

Although the magic crystals snatched during the Tower of Heaven incident seemed like a lot, in fact, with the increase in the number of puppets and the improvement of levels, energy was increasingly insufficient.

Snatching Nirvana was to alleviate this situation, but in fact, after installing Nirvana to extract magic power, although the situation was slightly improved, it still didn't solve the fundamental problem.

Especially this time, using a large number of puppets, energy was consumed even more significantly, and energy was almost bottoming out.

In such a situation, Lin Cheng had to consider the energy problem.

The Magic Council, with its long history and powerful strength, was clearly a good target for robbery.

This could be seen from the Tower of Heaven incident; how huge the magic crystals produced by Etherion were in the R-System's conversion line.

Although Lin Cheng himself didn't have an R-System and wouldn't build an R-System.

But wasn't this energy itself emitted through Etherion? Before emission, Etherion itself was magic power.

And this time, Lin Cheng was snatching the energy of Etherion.

Besides completely changing the entire magic world, while harvesting emotions, the magic energy of Etherion was also one of Lin Cheng's goals.

Although he didn't know where Etherion was hidden by the Magic Council, relying on Observation Haki, Lin Cheng didn't believe he couldn't find it.

Etherion itself was just a weapon, a forbidden weapon that needed to be controlled by people; as long as there were people, under high-level Observation Haki, no one could escape Lin Cheng's perception!

And now that the war had broken out, Lin Cheng had plenty of time to search slowly.

Thus, cooperating with the swallowing ability of the puppet Blackbeard's Dark-Dark Fruit, Lin Cheng controlled Blackbeard to enter the deep bottom of the Magic Council.

Under the full operation of the fruit's ability, Lin Cheng sensed the existence of living beings in an instant.

"Is it over there?"

After determining the direction, the puppet Blackbeard took a step and flashed to a stone wall built of sturdy stones.

Without a shred of hesitation, black mist surged, and then he struck the wall fiercely.

Bang—!

With a loud noise, giant stones flew, and the entire underground was shaking violently.

But to this, Lin Cheng didn't care at all.

With the war breaking out above and fighting constant, no one would notice this little movement; even if they did, it was highly probable they would think it was caused by the battle.

After all, Whitebeard was above, and with his powerful vibration power, even if Lin Cheng made a bigger movement, no one would notice.

After passing through the giant stone wall, the second wall followed; without a shred of hesitation, black mist surged, and there was another huge sound.

"Rumble—!"

After breaking through several walls in succession, just as Lin Cheng controlled Blackbeard to step over another stone wall, an unexpected character appeared before his eyes.

That was a werewolf with wolf ears and a cat tail, with spots on his body; at this time, he was standing on the rubble not far away, looking at Lin Cheng with a fierce gaze.

Through the characteristics of this werewolf, it was not difficult to discover his identity.

The werewolf in front of him was none other than Jackal, one of the Nine Demon Gates of Tartaros!

Looking at Jackal in his eyes, Lin Cheng narrowed his eyes slightly; he knew this guy very well, and could even say he knew Tartaros very well.

After all, meeting people from Tartaros the first time he appeared, it was hard for Lin Cheng to forget.

After that, Lin Cheng had also inquired about news of Tartaros, but although Tartaros was one of the Balam Alliance, it was the most mysterious organization among them.

All along, news about Tartaros had been sparse.

Didn't expect to run into them here.

While thinking, Jackal was already standing in front of the broken city wall, looking at the Blackbeard controlled by Lin Cheng in front of him, a look of wariness flashing in his eyes.

And the reason he appeared here was entirely the arrangement of the Underworld King, taking advantage of the two sides fighting to sneak into the Council to find information about Face.

But Jackal never imagined he would run into him here.

Wasn't there a war going on above?

As one of the Heavenly Kings, why would he appear here?

Could it be that his sneaking in had been discovered?

At this time, Jackal's brain was working frantically; clearly, Blackbeard's appearance exceeded his expectations.

Although Tartaros had always acted secretly and rarely appeared in front of the world, in fact, they had always been well-informed about external intelligence.

Especially when the leader of the Nine Demon Gates, Kyôka, died at the hands of the Archbishop of Sloth, they were particularly concerned about news of people from other worlds.

For Blackbeard, who had just joined the Magic Council and become a councilor, Jackal naturally had heard of him, which was why he was so guarded.

Severely damaging Grimoire Heart, killing the vice-master of Grimoire Heart and the master of Oración Seis, 'Zero'—such a record was not something just anyone could achieve.

"Person from another world, Blackbeard, what are you doing here?"

After thinking about it, Jackal still asked first.

Unless there was really no other way, Jackal really didn't want to fight to the death with this guy.

Although because of the existence of the Hell Core, he could be resurrected even if he died, dying like this was equivalent to causing the mission to fail.

And once the mission failed, the consequences were not something he could bear.

Thinking of the Underworld King's methods, a few drops of sweat couldn't stop flowing down Jackal's forehead.

Seeing that Jackal had no intention of making a move, Blackbeard didn't act too tough, just said lightly.

"This sentence should be asked by me to you."

"Actually sneaking into the interior of the Magic Council while the war is going on above; as long as you tell me your purpose and findings in sneaking into the Council, I can spare you."

Considering the intelligence in Jackal's hands, Lin Cheng also said lightly through the puppet Blackbeard.

If it weren't for Etherion, just based on past 'friendship', Lin Cheng could have directly killed Jackal.

Being able to spare his life was already merciful enough.

However, from the gloomy look on Jackal's face, clearly he didn't think so.

Finding Face was the highest secret of Tartaros.

Blackbeard asking about this directly from the start was equivalent to making him betray Tartaros!

And the end of betraying Tartaros was even more miserable than failing the mission!