Chapter 4060: Loyalty and Disloyalty

Flora didn't give Viggo a chance to speak and said to Bella:

"Miss Eilisse said that it would be very dangerous for the *Radiant Messenger* to forcibly enter the maze, so we can only wait outside for now. However, Miss Eilisse has already discovered the temporary base of the 【Blood Spirit School】 and the 【Alliance of the Holy Son】 on the banks of the Sernier River. They clearly also arranged for people to provide support outside.

Let's go. The *Radiant Messenger* will stay here, and you come with me to see the situation over there."

Before Bella could speak, the black-haired witch glared at her good friend and tugged at her sleeve:

"Flora, don't act like I don't exist! You, you... On Monday, you really were the same as them, you knew everything!"

Flora blinked:

"I had already seen that cat, but he didn't let us hold his cat form before. On Monday, it was thanks to you, otherwise I wouldn't have found such an opportunity. That cat feels very good to hold, right? This opportunity is rare; Bella hasn't experienced it much."

The female fortune teller on the side nodded. Xia De the cat indeed did not like being held by these witches.

"Including you, there are already four. Is your courage actually this big?"

Miss MacDonald, who was standing on the side with her mouth shut, heard her teacher say this in a near-groan.

"In the Council, there are only 13 people in total. What are you people trying to do?"

She pursed her lips, but she also knew that now was not the time to discuss these things in detail:

"After this matter is over, you must explain everything to me! I will go with you. It's still not safe with just the two of you, and I have also dealt with the 【Alliance of the Holy Son】 quite a bit."

"Viggo, you don't need to go this time."

Flora said hesitantly:

"Um... actually, it's not just the two of us. Megan and Claire have already rushed over. Claire said that since she finally promoted to the Twelfth Tier like everyone else, she must try her skills well this time."

"Megan and Claire?!"

Viggo's voice was already somewhat sharp:

"How are there two more? Are those two also in the same group as you?"

Bella corrected her:

"Viggo, you should say now, are those two also in the same group as 'us'."

"Six already, that's half... I don't understand, how long has this small group of yours existed? Fine, half the people in the Council actually know him? I previously thought I was in the minority who knew him, but it turns out I am in the minority who doesn't know him! Is his charm really this great?"

After Viggo finished the last sentence, she felt she could only give an affirmative answer, so she changed her way of saying it:

"Don't tell me that besides you six, there are more people who have known him for a long time. How many loyalists are left in the Council? Could it be that I can only trust Grandma Cassandra?"

In Viggo's view, the old witch in the Council would absolutely never allow the existence of someone like Xia De, and Grandma Cassandra was an absolute loyalist.

But after she finished speaking, she saw strange expressions on the faces of Bella and Flora. Viggo stuttered:

"I, what did I say?"

She looked at her student. The tall girl had already understood, and she reminded her in a very low voice:

"Teacher, you said you can only trust Grandma Cassandra."

Viggo covered her forehead:

"Flora, Bella, are you trying to say that Grandma Cassandra is also in the same group as you?"

After asking, Viggo coughed violently again. Miss Luolin hurriedly took out blood brew for her to take, but Viggo did not take the small bottle. Her hand gripped Flora's hand tightly, so Flora had to answer:

"Actually, Grandma Cassandra knew him earlier than Bella and me. Bella and I only met him last year, but Grandma Cassandra met him in 1853."

"So in the Council of Thirteen, seven people are actually no longer loyal, right? It turns out I really am in the minority!"

Viggo's tone carried disbelief and a hint of despair. She was loyal to the Council, and even though she had met Xia De, she only thought about "enjoying" him secretly. In her cognition, there was no such thing as more than half the Council knowing Xia De and tacitly concealing it.

Then she saw Flora and Bella reveal strange expressions again. Viggo only felt her body go soft, but fortunately, she was supported by Miss MacDonald on the side:

"What kind of expression is that again? What did I say... Could it be that the Speaker also knows him?"

"No, no, that really doesn't exist."

Flora immediately indicated. Adele, who was watching from the granary in the distance, really wanted to say "this could exist," but she could only watch at this moment.

"Then what is that expression... More than seven? Who else is there?"

Viggo had an absurd feeling:

"Could it be that among the thirteen, besides me and the Speaker, there are only one or two loyalists left?"

Winnie actually really wanted to remind her that she obviously didn't belong to the so-called "loyalist faction" anymore, but Viggo didn't think she was wrong:

"I was wondering, no matter how I tested, I couldn't find the person who was different from everyone else. You guys, one by one, one by one, were all acting with me, right?"

Thinking of Viggo's performance some time ago, Bella reminded her:

"If you are really angry, you can choose to stay away from him completely. Only then will you regain your status as a loyalist, and only then will you have a reason to reprimand us like this. Viggo, our sister, when you held him and kissed him, you didn't think that you were also disloyal to the Council, right?"

Viggo's face turned red:

"That's not the same... I won't leave! Wouldn't that just make it cheaper for you guys? I want to know everything later. Also! You haven't answered the question—besides me, how many Great Witches have known him for a long time? Don't tell me the names one by one, I only want the number now!"

Flora gave a precise number:

"Only 9 people know him. Including you, that's 10, exactly a round number."

Viggo's followers tried their best to lower their presence. The information that appeared in just a few short minutes was not something that ordinary witch followers like them should know. Even Miss MacDonald, who was a witch apprentice candidate, felt that she had heard "forbidden information."

"Nine, which means, besides me and the Speaker, there are really only two left..."

Viggo took a deep breath, and then finally thought of that most critical question:

"Who was the first to meet him? Who lived in the same city as him? Who started all this? Who concealed the initial secret? Is that Great Witch who made the Council what it is today you guys?"

Bella and Flora both shook their heads:

"We said it, even the two of us didn't know him as early as Grandma Cassandra. The witch who first met him is actually..."

*Boom! *

The loud noise attracted everyone's attention. The three Great Witches looked at the interior of the blood-colored maze together. All the eyes covering the surface of the "Giant God Soldier" were radiating light toward the entire world indiscriminately.

The blood sea steamed, the flesh-and-blood city collapsed, and everyone facing that giant statue was supporting shields to resist.

After the "God-Caller" and the other three Thirteenth-Tier entered one after another, Hermons clearly realized that this invasion of the 【House of Falsehoods】 had failed. He was trying to erupt the full power of the Relic to forcibly open an exit from the maze.

At this moment, the "Source of Fire" embedded in the statue's chest erupted with light, shooting directly at Xia De in front. And Xia De, who was in a fusion state with Xivi, had a Thirteenth-Tier Life Ring suspended behind him. The moonlight erupted from the "Moonlight Ray: Third Form" in his hand mixed with the energy of the "Life Ray," and after passing through the 【Wither Ring of Fire】, it was also stained with the light of withering.

The corrupt red moonlight and the crimson life energy collided above the blood-red city. The mutual annihilation of withering and life could be felt even by the witches outside the maze.

Last time above the sewage treatment plant, Xia De had just obtained the 【Wither Ring of Fire】 and relied on himself to suppress Hermons' "Source of Fire Ray," but this time, this Source of Fire was embedded on the surface of the Giant God Soldier, and the energy it erupted was more dangerous than being fired directly by Hermons.

Moreover, Xia De felt that the Source of Fire in the chest of the Giant God Soldier seemed to be somewhat wrong...

"There is no time to talk about other things. Flora, you come with me to support Megan and Claire. Grace and Helen stay here and wait to support the group coming out of the maze. Viggo, you and Winnie can continue to stay here, or you can go to the nearby lake and wait. When I was fortune-telling just now, I divined that something might happen in the nearby lake in a while."

Bella said, then jumped into the air with Flora. Viggo looked up again and saw a giant translucent ship suspended in the distant sky. Clearly, this was the *Radiant Messenger*.

"So, who exactly is he?"

Viggo whispered in the blood rain, and Winnie answered:

"In your heart, don't you already have an answer?"

Miss MacDonald and Miss Luolin actually already had an answer, but this answer was somewhat too unbelievable. It wasn't that they didn't believe it, but that they didn't dare to believe it.

Viggo pursed her lips, listening to the sound of a baby crying that suddenly came from the world of blood mist, watching the golden light on the "Madonna of the Infant" spread to the "Giant God Soldier."

In the crimson light erupted by the Source of Fire embedded in the chest of the Giant God Soldier, golden brilliance also appeared. The corrupt red moonlight radiated by Xia De was pushed backward, and he in the air was also forced to retreat constantly.

It was just that at this moment, the little unicorn that had just gone to support Vanessa and the others suddenly rushed into the sky:

"Bad person!"

A Nine-Tier Life Ring appeared behind Ellie, the brass-colored Life Ring turned into dark gold, and then it transformed into a dark golden apple. Ellie did not have outstanding energy-radiation abilities, but the Chosen One of Fate did not rely on such power. ===== CHAPTER 4061 =====