Chapter 75

"It seems everyone still hasn't prepared for war with our Bai Huzi Pirates."

"Heh, since that's the case, I'll be leaving first."

Ace looked at the silent Chairman Crawford, chuckled twice, then casually turned and continued walking away.

This time, no one said anything to stop Ace from leaving.

After Ace had been gone for quite a while, the entire Magic Pingyi Society entered an unusually quiet phase.

"Meeting adjourned."

"Have someone repair the hall."

As chairman of the Magic Pingyi Society, Crawford was ultimately not someone who acted on impulse.

After forcibly suppressing the fury in his heart, he waved his hand grandly and left the conference hall.

As for the other council members, naturally none of them would go looking for trouble at this moment; they all voluntarily left the scene. Yet at the same time, everyone knew that an organization likely even more troublesome than the Lamutong Alliance was about to appear.

'Looks like the later plans still need to be carried out as soon as possible.'

Before leaving, Zikurein took one last glance at the scene left by Ace's battle with Wolfheim, then with no change in expression, departed with a faint smile.

As chairman, Crawford faced layer upon layer of obstacles even when trying to mobilize the magical spirit power, let alone Zikurein, who was merely a council member. Zikurein had to make even more thorough preparations.

In the end, the Magic Pingyi Society did not disclose what had happened with Ace inside the Magic Pingyi Society.

At the same time, Lin Cheng's second-phase script had also come to a small conclusion. Originally, Lin Cheng had wanted to take this opportunity to brief the Magic Pingyi Society on the three fabricated forces he had made up: the Monu Sect, the Bai Huzi Pirates, and the Akatsuki organization.

Unfortunately, the Magic Pingyi Society was being a bit ungrateful, so Lin Cheng could only save the briefing for the third script.

Night.

The faint moonlight draped a veil of silver over the entire land.

Eclair hugged her knees, sitting quietly on the grass, gazing at the scene before her in a slight daze.

Every year, Eclair would have a few days like this, quietly finding a place to sit alone.

"Why are you sitting here alone?"

After finishing up the business at the tavern, Lin Cheng walked over with a smile, lay down beside Eclair, and said, "Feeling like you should be remembering something, but no matter how hard you try, you just can't recall it?"

Looking at the scattered stars in the sky, Lin Cheng chuckled softly.

Having spent over a year with Eclair, Lin Cheng naturally knew that a few days each year Eclair would seem a little melancholy.

"Mm."

Hearing Lin Cheng's words, Eclair gazed at the half Phoenix Stone hanging around her neck, gave a soft "mm," and said, "I always feel like there's something I haven't done."

"It should be something about this stone, but no matter how I think about it, I can't figure out what I've forgotten."

"I only know this stone is called the Phoenix Stone, and it's extremely heavy important to me."

Because of her lost memories, Eclair had long forgotten her duty as a shrine maiden.

For four hundred years, most of her time had been spent in confusion.

Of course, in those four hundred years, Eclair wasn't without her happy times. The joyful days like now spent with Lin Cheng, Eclair had also experienced them over that long stretch of four hundred years.

Only in the end, none of them could withstand the passage of time, and all became a handful of yellow earth.

'This time will probably be the same.'

'Eventually, sometime, Lin Cheng will no longer be able to walk, and will close his eyes forever.'

Looking at Lin Cheng lying beside her, Eclair was a little lost.

'After Lin Cheng dies, I'll probably wander around again...'

Before Eclair could continue thinking, she felt a warm palm placed on her head.

"I won't leave Eclair all alone."

Lin Cheng ruffled Eclair's head, messing it up into a mess, and said, "In a while, let's go look for the other half of the stone."

"Maybe once we find the other half, Eclair will be able to recall many precious memories."

For Eclair to recover her memories, the two separated halves of the Phoenix Stone had to be reunited as one.

And the reason Lin Cheng currently wasn't preparing to take Eclair to recover her memories was entirely because once the Phoenix Stone was reunited, it would summon the world-destroying behemoth, the Phoenix.

This was a creation made by humans four hundred years ago to destroy the world and perish together with the dragon race of four hundred years past.

Currently, although Lin Cheng possessed the S-rank puppet Aizen Sousuke, he had no confidence in being able to control the Phoenix.

Perhaps when Aizen Sousuke was upgraded to S-rank two stars, with the Hogyoku state, Aizen Sousuke might be able to take down the Phoenix, but if the Phoenix died, Eclair would also die.

The Phoenix and Eclair shared a symbiotic relationship.

Therefore, Lin Cheng planned to add more cards to his hand before letting Eclair recover her memories.