Chapter 56 Conspiracy vs. Conspiracy

"Hey? Zi Ri? Why do we hold our breath?" Ying followed me to ask the reason, but I pushed the door and walked in.

This one here is the main reception room. Not only is it a large area, but there is also a small square-like artificial grass flat behind it. After I opened the door and went in, I didn't see the representative. There were only a dozen guards from the dark temple standing there in the room. The rest of the guards should have been taken to another room by our people. After all, the envoy could not bring hundreds of guards to negotiate with me.

The crystal door opposite the room was open, and you could easily see three people standing by the spring in the middle of the lawn outside. You don’t have to guess that it was the envoy of the Dark Temple and the reception staff on our side. I glanced in the room and walked towards the lawn. After seeing me, everyone outside turned around.

"President." The player in charge of reception ran over when he saw me.

"I'll deal with it here, you can go out first."

The receptionist nodded and left. I walked to the two envoys and stopped. The two envoys were obviously human, but their pale faces showed that they were no longer living people. These two undead were one man and one woman, and the woman looked average, but the man was quite handsome. From the point of momentum, this man should be the main character, and the woman was probably a follower or assistant.

"Sorry, something has been delayed." Of course, you should be more polite first when you are late.

The two envoys seemed to be unwilling to care about my lateness, and they got to the point. "Princess Zi Ri is so brave. You have not explained the matter of destroying the Dark Temple to the Temple. Now even the demon city has been destroyed."

Hehe! Alni is indeed the same Arni, and only her subordinates have such a arrogant attitude. "What do you mean by the envoy? Although Aisinger was destroyed, that's not what I want. Besides, you have seen that the new Aisinger has been basically completed. I don't understand what the temple means."

"Aisinger and Demon are two concepts, please don't confuse them. After the original one Aisinger and Demon City were completely destroyed, the place you rebuild is just Aisinger, and it is no longer the Demon City."

"Ah?" I was stunned by his words. Why does it sound like Aisinger and Demon are not the same thing?

The woman said, "Have you never seen Aisinger's urban layout before?"

"I've seen it, what's wrong?"

The female undead suddenly pulled out a scroll from her robe and spread it in front of me. I was quite familiar with the things drawn on the scroll. This was the top view of the old Aisinger before it was destroyed. The woman pulled both sides of the scroll, while the male envoy pointed it on the picture with his fingers. The spots were all turned into small red light spots.

He explained: "Do you know what the locations these light spots represent?"

Eagle and I went up and took a closer look. "These seem to be the locations of the supporting columns that run through the entire city."

He nodded and said, "Have you seen these pillars before?"

I nodded and waited for him to continue explaining, but who knew that he actually looked at me and didn't say anything. After waiting for a while, he continued, "Don't you understand?"

Eagle and I both shook our heads.

He seemed very angry and began to continue drawing with his fingers on the drawing. This time he drew many complex lines, including straight lines and arcs, but all of these lines passed through the dots at the beginning. After he finished drawing, he flashed to the side for me to see clearly.

"Spirit Gathering Array?" Ying and I shouted almost at the same time.

I finally know why Aisinger is called the Demon City. It turns out that the entire city of Aisinger is a giant undead transformation array. The dark cloud above Aisinger's head is not the magic cloud that we always think of, it is the cloud of death, a curse cloud composed of powerful resentment.

Now I finally understood. Many things I couldn't figure out were understood. Last time we started the battle with the Temple of Light, the Dark Temple and the Dragon Clan became our allies. The Dragon Clan had to participate because they had a decisive battle with the Temple of Light, but the Dark Temple's reaction was quite strange. Although it can be said that the Temple of Dark helps us for the sake of benefit, if you think about it carefully, in fact, the Dark Temple had no benefits to gaining money in that battle. Controlling more cities is not a good thing for the Temple of Darkness. In contrast, it is more investment. Isn't it strange that this kind of Darkness Temple is willing to participate in the transaction that obviously loses money and gains publicity?

At that time, I thought the Dark Temple wanted to curry favor with us, and Ling was Alnidi's sister after all. She was investing in love, so I thought her behavior was simple and she was just pursuing long-term interests. But now I completely understand that she was indeed pursuing long-term interests, but not the interests I thought.

Arni had originally planned to have the two sides fight in Aisinger, so that a large number of creatures would die near Aisinger in the end. Aisinger's super spirit gathering array can ensure that none of these lost souls can enter heaven, and they will all be referred to as undead or become dark energy. For the Dark Temple, the more undead they have, the stronger their power. Compared to the Temple of Light, they need believers, what they need more is the undead and dark energy, which is the real reason why the Temple of Darkness helps us fight.

I asked why I blew up the Dark Temple and Alni didn't take revenge on me. The system limit time has passed long ago. According to her personality, she shouldn't have been coming to trouble me for so long. Even if there is no direct conflict, she should at least give us some tricks. Now we all know that the reason why she doesn't take revenge on me is because she feels that she has made enough money this time. She doesn't want to care about those small profits with me, a coolie.

The strong ones have their own strength. One mountain is higher than the other. I always thought I was a conspirator. Compared to Alni, I was like a child player’s wine. She sold it and was still counting money for her! The NPC game in the past was too low and was always fooled by players. "Zero" was so easy to change NPC to play players.

Wait. I seemed to be trapped again. Alni suddenly asked me to tell me why this secret was for? Because I couldn't hide it? No, it's not that simple.

Alni should have a good understanding of our guild's strategic prediction ability. Although she has calculated it, it is because she is too slippery. It's not that I'm not smart. Besides, Hongyue and Sumi's IQs are not ordinary. Such a powerful think tank should not be calculated continuously. Alni, as long as she has a little brain, it is impossible for her to use the same method to calculate us continuously. Then it is not for her to disclose this news to calculate me. Her real purpose is...? Is it to throw a stone to ask for directions?

It was definitely true. She was testing my reaction again. She wanted to know if I had turned to the second force. Alni definitely wanted me to return to her control, and she wanted to try my reaction first. This high-end mind reading technique is something that cannot be conveyed through a third party. Unless Alni can see my reaction, the plan will be completely meaningless. But how should she see my reaction?

Use record magic? It is impossible. The reception room is a space forbidden demons, and magic items cannot be used. Then the only possibility is... I suddenly said to the Phantom in my heart: "Use the eyes of the mind to see who is staring at us in the room behind us."

"No."

"No?"

"Yes. None of those people are paying attention to us, and now they are looking at us only these two envoys."

"Encuse?" I understood. This woman is not an assistant at all. She is Alni. The representatives of the Temple Sect don't need so many people. It can be considered as a show of the trick, but bringing more attendants and guards is obviously not logical. In fact, the Dark Temple and we all know each other very well, and it is clear that everyone has a good pound of weight. The show of the trick is to scare those who don't know. There is no meaning between us. So the reason why so many guards are here is not a black one at all.

The Dark Temple wanted to make a spell, but because the goddess was in the team, they had to send more people to ensure safety. Migale in the Temple of Light was not a legitimate goddess, so she could of course run around. But Alni's status was beyond doubt. She didn't care, and the elders and other figures in the temple could not let her run out without the guards. This was like the ancient emperor, even if he was a martial arts master, the ministers would not let him travel alone.

Alni actually dared to come to Aisinger. OK. You just pretend. Since you have to look at my position, let you see enough.

"Commander Zi Ri?" The male envoy couldn't help but ask when he saw that I had not moved for a long time.

"Huh?" I suddenly returned to normal, "The picture looks like a very advanced spirit gathering array. No wonder Aisinger has always been very ghostly."

The envoy immediately said: "Just understand. The three important cities of the Dark Temple all have similar functions. Now that one of them has been destroyed, there is something wrong with our overall formation, which will seriously trigger our development. Do you have any laws about this?"

"I can understand that Eisinger was destroyed. This is indeed a loss, but it has not caused a general development yet, right? Isn't it too exaggerated?"

Arni disguised herself as a female envoy and said, "Do you have a map of China?"

"Do you want the big one or the small one?"

"Big, big enough."

"Then come with me."

I took the two of them and the Eagle to walk to the map room of our guild. Although the pictures on the floor of the conference room were the most detailed and largest, many of the secrets of our guild were marked out on it, and it would be troublesome if they saw it.

When we walked out of the gate, the guards wanted to follow me, so I held the guard in front: "You'd better not follow the ground here."

"We want to protect the safety of the envoys." The guard leader replied coldly.

"I know, but this is my territory, and I have the final say in everything. It is absolutely safe here, so you don't have to worry about any problems with your envoys. The place we are about to go is also a confidential warehouse, and it is not convenient for you to come with you."

"We want to protect the envoy." The guard did not give in. Arni and the man in front of him didn't say anything at all and deliberately looked at me for laughing at me.

OK. Since you are going to watch the fun, just let you see it. I first use a private chat to inform Hongyue to help Vina, and then suddenly became loud and scolded: "If I say no, it won't work. Don't talk nonsense to me. You are the envoys and don't be shameless."

My attitude changed too quickly, and these people were a little stunned, but they quickly reacted. The voice of the guard leader also became much louder. "Goddess Alni is the common god of our dark power, and her envoy is her representative. We must protect the envoy with the belief of protecting the goddess. As the commander of the darkness, you should cooperate with our actions."

"You...!" I suddenly realized that I was not tall enough and was not imposing enough when facing this guy. After looking around, I ran to the side and moved a sculpture to the ground and moved the pedestal to the front of the guy. I stood on the pedestal and was one step taller than this guy, and then bent down and scolded with condescending words in the posture of an adult instructing a child. "Don't go to the Goddess Temple at any time. Let me tell you. My commander is a honorary commander, and we have no direct relationship. And Aisinger is not the property of the Dark Temple, it is my land. Do I understand? Don't say it.

They are two envoys, and I have the final say when Arni himself comes. You are just a small guard commander and dare to take over me? How many souls do you have enough to take it away? Be careful that I will let you return to the fire of life. After I go back, I tell Arni that the goddess here is Vina Ost, the god of chaos and order. The second religion here is Taoism, and you are only ranked third. Don’t always treat us as a submissive people. Tell you, I am a bandit!" That guy was completely scolded by me, and even the two envoys behind me were not moved.

Huh! After scolding someone, I felt relieved. Haha! It looked good, and the audience was scolded to be stupid. I jumped off the stone platform and put the sculpture back on the stage. I turned around and patted the two envoys. "Let's go."

Although the passage just now was scolding the guards, I was actually scolding Arni, who disguised as an envoy. Her purpose this time was not to be the spirit gathering array. Now Aisinger has his own religion, and even if he rebuilds the spirit gathering array, it will not bring any benefits to the Dark Temple. She simply wanted to see my position on the Dark Temple. Now, by cursing the guards, I am telling her that we don’t take the Dark Temple seriously at all, and there are God of Chaos and Order and the Chinese Heaven to support me. I don’t need any Dark Temple.

Maybe my words were too shocked, and neither Alni nor the male envoy responded. I went over and patted them before I came to my senses. The guard behind me thought about it and planned to follow, but Alni's hand made a gesture below. He stopped immediately. I saw Alni's small movement but didn't expose it. The words just now were to stimulate the Dark Temple, but the ultimate goal was to make the Dark Temple lean up. The Temple of Light could not be stable without the Dark Temple. Once this balance was tilted, it would not be so easy to straighten it. I don't want the balance of power in China that I have worked hard to maintain is over, so now I can feel at ease to stimulate Alni but never expose her identity.

"Let's go here." I took them forward, and everyone was thinking about their own worries. To be honest, I don't like to always calculating others, but if you don't bother with Alni, she will be plotted against by her. There is really nothing I can do!

After arriving at the drawing room, I asked the administrator to take a large China map from the shelf and then pounce on the dedicated map display stand. "What are you going to show me just now? Tell me now?"

Arni said: "Do you know the specific locations of those cities controlled by the Dark Temple?"

I nodded and turned to the administrator and said, "Give me the Montu of the Dark Temple the power of the Dark Temple, and I need a standard scale."

The administrator quickly handed over a transparent sequin paper. I spread the transparent paper and covered it on the map. There were many red dots on this transparent paper, which represented the city controlled by the Dark Temple. In addition to these dots, the surrounding area is translucently red with these dots as the center. This red area is the sphere of influence.

The male envoy asked, "Is it okay to draw some marks on this?"

I nodded: "It's okay, we have a lot of this."

The male envoy used a red pen to draw a large number of lines on the cellophane on it, like the top view of Aisinger at the beginning. After these dots were connected, they were actually a magic circle. Moreover, this magic circle almost covered the entire China, and even several small countries near our country were included.

"What kind of magic array is this?" Ying asked.

Although we can be sure that this is a magic array, we are not NPCs. We can basically remember it except for the more distinctive ones like the spirit gathering array, and this one seems to be particularly complicated.

The envoy explained: "This is the Soul Reverse Formation. All cities in the Dark Temple hide the Spirit Gathering Array like Aisinger. Except for a few souls absorbed by these formations that are particularly strong in willpower, most of them are transformed into pure dark energy. These energy will gradually gather at this center point through this large array, and then the soul energy will be reversely transformed into complete bodies through the Soul Reverse Formation."

I noticed the central point, which seemed to be a no-man's land. "Is it meaningful to transform the soul into flesh?"

"It's a lot of meaning." The envoy said: "The body shaped by the power of darkness has darkness and belongs to real creatures, so they are not afraid of the power of light. And because of their special properties, it can use almost any form of power."

The eagle said in surprise, "Will that become a 100% anti-demon creature with all attributes invalid?"

I suddenly remembered that the dragon seemed to be such a creature whose soul turned into a physical body, so all the dragon's magic resistance was almost full. The dragon clan's dragon egg is actually a dragon soul, and the long hatching period is just a process of transforming the soul into a physical body. Because the egg is a complete soul, the dragon clan basically had memories before the shell was broken. For example, plague and luck remember a lot of things before they hatched.

The Dark Temple wants to convert soul energy into physical body in batches, isn’t they equivalent to creating an extremely powerful anti-demon army? After thinking of this meaning, I looked at Arni in surprise, and she was also smiling at me.

"I know you have guessed who I am, so let's stop striking each other's riddles, everyone just click." Arni snapped her fingers, and a black mist flashed out of her body. After the mist dissipated, Arni appeared in front of me with her original appearance.

"Arni?" Eagle took three steps back and sat down on the ground.

"Oh! Why don't the guest come and say hello to my master?" Vina really knows how to stop, but she actually arrives at this critical moment.

"Isn't this the daughter of the Oste family who was expelled? I didn't expect to start a self-employed family now? I've learned to raise a novice." Arni is not a soft persimmon, but this woman is too rude!

"Hey! Are you careful when you speak?" Alni obviously brought me in just now, and if she didn't come out, she would tell me what would work.

"Just kidding, don't be so stingy?"

"Can you, the Oster family, be so chewy, you, the yellow-haired girl?" Vader actually followed in. He was much more angry than Vina. He was approaching Arni while drawing his sword.

The male envoy suddenly shook his sleeve and slid out. "Respect your Highness the Goddess." This guy was a personal guard for a long time.

Vader went up and shook the guy back three steps, but finally Arni kept it calmly to stabilize his body. Vader was Vina's younger brother, so Xiaozhao must be opened, so his strength was naturally different from before. Vader also knew the right person, but after one sword shook his opponent, he did not advance. "Where did the kid come out? Is there no one in the Dark Temple now?"

"Who are you?" asked the guard who pretended to be an envoy in surprise.

"I am Vader Ost, commander of the Seventh Legion. When I followed Marshal Clark to fight, you didn't know where to look at the gate!"
Chapter completed!