Chapter 866

District 14, inside the botanical garden, a wooden hut belonging to the manager.

This was a safe house Lu Mian had prepared before going to Morora. He hadn't rented it; he had simply conquered the botanical garden manager with money, telling him that when he needed to use it, he had to give it up and also pretend that he still lived there.

After observing the lush trees around, Forsyth withdrew her gaze, walked to the side of Louis, who was sitting at a small wooden table gnawing on a donut, and asked with a deliberate smile:

"How about I assign you some homework?"

Louis raised his head with a swish, looked at Forsyth vigilantly, and his body instinctively moved backward.

Forsyth immediately laughed and muttered silently to herself:

I felt the pain of an angel, I felt another bit of digestion of the "Pain" potion!

"Why are you bullying a child?" Yu Jianna saw this and said with amusement.

"What kind of child is this?" Forsyth explained with a smile, "I was guessing before that letting Louis feel the pain of learning and doing homework would also help me digest the potion, but I didn't dare to try it, fearing it would ruin Lu Mian's 'training' of Louis and make him want to run away from home. Now, well, the vortex might be coming soon, so I'll digest as much as I can. Anyway, Louis won't form a tacit understanding and be of one mind with us that quickly."

Louis looked at Forsyth, and a sentence was clearly revealed in his brown eyes:

You witch!

Yu Jianna thought about it carefully and felt that what Forsyth said seemed to be no problem. After Lu Mian completed his advancement and she reached the "Pain Witch" stage, this could become one of the methods of digestion.

Louis's gaze moved back and forth between Forsyth and Yu Jianna several times, and he said in a tone of assurance:

"I will work hard to cultivate a tacit understanding with you!"

"Not bad." Lu Mian clapped his hands and said to Forsyth and Yu Jianna, "You also have the potential of a 'Conspirator.' Now Louis doesn't reject teaming up with you."

But I didn't expect it to be such a result... Forsyth looked around, always feeling that Lu Jianuo and Anthony's eyes seemed to be saying, "Look, you've forced someone else's child to this extent."

Lu Mian threw a piece of chocolate packaged like a gold coin to Louis and asked thoughtfully:

"After eating that chef's stomach, you should have recalled quite a bit of knowledge, right?"

Louis quickly unwrapped the chocolate and answered very honestly:

"Mm!"

The effect of this training is not bad... Forsyth saw Louis being so well-behaved and looked at Lu Mian with slight surprise and a bit of appreciation.

Lu Mian pulled over a chair, sat down, and asked in an inducing tone:

"Do you have any understanding of the 'Broker' path, and do you know what the vortex they speak of is?"

During this time, busy training Louis and giving him tasks, Lu Mian almost ignored that Louis was an evil god angel from outside the barrier and might have a certain understanding of the "Broker" path.

—After knowing about the Vortex Plan, before going to Morora, Lu Mian had asked Louis a similar question. At that time, Louis shook his head and said he had no impression, but now he had recovered some and was much more obedient.

Louis chewed the chocolate, his mouth not stopping as he fell into deep thought.

After several seconds, he said not very surely:

"The meaning seems to be more complex, involving transactions between more traders, not the one-on-one kind."

As he spoke, Louis took a stack of bread slices from the side and placed them on the table one by one, acting as different traders.

Then, the little boy pointed at those bread slices and said:

"Transactions can happen between any group of them, or they can be three-party, four-party, or more-party transactions. After connecting the corresponding lines, it's like weaving a spider web, or creating a vortex, dragging many people in."

Lu Mian understood Louis's meaning, thought for a moment, and said:

"Looking at it this way, the transaction between the 'Mother Tree of Desire' and the 'Great Mother' should just be one link of the vortex. So where is the center of the vortex?"

…………

Plaza District, outside the detached villa where several members of the "Rose School of Thought" Indulgence Sect lived.

Angouleme de Francois and a group of "Purifiers" had already arrived nearby.

For this mission, he had borrowed a sealed artifact from the Religious Court in the Market District. It was the Level 1 sealed artifact "Sun Sword" that he was accustomed to using. Now, it was inserted into the spine of a gray-white humanoid mechanical construct.

Angouleme looked at the sky with its scattered white clouds and not-too-intense sunlight, looked around, and said:

"The first squad enters with me, the second squad ambushes in Underground Trier, the third squad goes around to the back door..."

After instructing the team members, he slightly opened his arms and said:

"Saint Vief and Saint Plessis are watching here, we will surely be victorious!

"Praise the Sun!"

"Praise the Sun!" Every "Purifier" responded.

Once the different squads were in their respective positions, Angouleme, wearing a brown woolen coat, turned from static to motion and ran toward the villa, the gray-white humanoid mechanical construct following closely by his side.

Regarding this mission, which was said to possibly have a "Rose School of Thought" demigod, Angouleme was not too worried, because the Trier Archbishop Saint Plessis and the Trier patron angel Saint Vief were not just watching; they had already arrived nearby, ready to purify those evils at any time. The main purpose of him and the others was to force those bloody "Rose School of Thought" members to leave their hiding place. When necessary, they could directly destroy the entire villa and purify those Beyonders and ordinary people who worshipped evil gods together.

Although Angouleme felt that those ordinary people might still have a chance to be saved—some of them might not have such deep faith in the "Mother Tree of Desire"—the prerequisite for saving them was that the safety of his own team members was guaranteed.

As the captain, he first had to be responsible for his subordinates!

Thump, thump, thump, Angouleme rushed through the garden first and arrived at the main entrance of the villa's main house.

Just then, he saw white, thin mist permeating inside. Those mists were constantly twisting their forms, highlighting one painful face after another that looked real on the glass windows and the surface of the walls.

Angouleme stopped, preparing to summon "Holy Light" to purify these mists.

Suddenly, deep within the thin white mist, inside a certain room on the second floor of the villa, rays of light resembling crimson moonlight lit up.

They quickly outlined a stiff, dull, twisted, and blurred figure.

For some reason, upon seeing that crimson figure, Angouleme and his team members all had a feeling of being shocked by extreme beauty.

They gazed obsessively at the crimson figure deep within the white mist as it walked toward the window bit by bit, completely forgetting what their mission was.

The sound of a baby crying rang in their ears.

Following the crying sound came a sinister voice that could not distinguish between male and female:

"You came just in time."

…………

Deep within the primitive island, where the trees suddenly disappeared.

Relying on someone's help to circumvent her father's "ban," the "Mystery Queen" Bei Er Na Dai once again saw the black mausoleum built by hollowing out the mountain belly.

This black mausoleum mostly belonged to the mountain range itself, with a small part showing traces of human labor. There was not a single weed on the surface, nor was it covered with vines. It was over a hundred meters high, exhausting the possibilities of magnificence.

Sleeping here was Bei Er Na Dai's father, the former Emperor of the Intis Empire, Roselle Gustav, who had created an era.

The surface of the mausoleum was engraved with the "Civil Code" formulated and promulgated by Roselle, as well as the new social trends he founded and certain items he invented.

Emperor Roselle had forcibly jumped from the "Hermit" path to the "Lawyer" path, attempting to become the Sequence 0 "Black Emperor," but ended up falling during the god-making ritual.

This was the effect he deliberately wanted to achieve, because he had visited the moon once in his later years and suffered severe, hidden pollution. He could only consider using the characteristic of the "Black Emperor's" nine mausoleums not being destroyed and the order he built not perishing, which might allow him to return to life, to get rid of that pollution.

And after he was killed, the original Beyonder characteristics belonging to the "Hermit" and "Savant" paths would be completely precipitated. Once he returned to life, only the pure "Black Emperor" Beyonder characteristics would be summoned back to his body, and he would not fall into a semi-mad state like the "Blood Emperor" of the Fourth Epoch who had forcibly jumped to non-adjacent paths.

Unfortunately, Roselle, who possessed the status of a true god because the "Black Emperor" ritual had already been completed, discovered that the hidden pollution could not be shaken off even by death.

It was constantly being reborn.

Thus, Roselle, who was not completely dead but not considered alive, sealed himself to avoid being completely changed by that pollution.

Bei Er Na Dai had been to this "Black Emperor" mausoleum once before. Relying on the ability of a "0" level sealed artifact on her body and Mr. Fool's help, she had further sealed and protected her father.

She had come today to use the method of multiple pollutions pulling against each other to achieve balance, allowing her father to initially shake off his current state and return to life. After that, she could wait for Mr. Fool to wake up and perform the best sealing on the pollution—this way, even if it wasn't Mr. Fool who woke up, but the "Fu Sheng Xuan Huang Tian Zun," her father could barely maintain himself by relying on his own balance.

For this, she was willing to take the risk to push some gray transactions. Of course, she had also made many preparations based on the future she had foreseen, to avoid the situation developing in a worsening direction.

Traveling all the way here, Bei Er Na Dai did not encounter various obstacles and attacks like last time and arrived outside her father's mausoleum very smoothly.

She used this to determine who one of the traders found by the "Broker" Pailer was.

And this transaction might not just involve two parties!

"The ritual can be held now, allowing the pollution you want to enter the mausoleum." The "Overseer" Pailer said to the "Mystery Queen" Bei Er Na Dai with a smile, "But I need the 'Wish-Granting Lamp' as a medium."

"0—05," the "Wish-Granting Lamp"!

Bei Er Na Dai said with a calm expression:

"This is not part of the transaction."

Pailer sighed and smiled:

"That would make the ritual simpler and the effect better.

"But it doesn't matter. The transaction where you helped me come here made my Lord very satisfied. I have obtained new gifts and can try to complete the ritual by relying on myself and the corresponding items."

As she spoke, Pailer opened her arms, and her body gradually turned into white mist. The mist expanded, slowly rotating, forming a vortex.

(End of chapter)