Chapter 207: Deceiving the Priest

Although the survivors had stolen all of the Devil Gold Coins, most of them had been spent at the auction.

The scant few were in Zi Di’s and Cang Xu’s hands.

Of those, Zi Di had less than Cang Xu.

Therefore, Zi Di recovered first.

She also understood how the agreement’s power worked: when the agreement was active, its power was constantly decreasing, but as it weakened, it maintained a constant level of influence. Until it reached its time limit, when it would suddenly collapse and quickly dwindle to nothing.

This also caused Zi Di’s misjudgment.

If she had known about it earlier, she would have adopted a different strategy.

Zi Di had returned to normal.

For a split second, she blankly stared in place.

When her will reinstated itself from before, an intensely complex mood swept over her heart like a huge wave.

Dread.

“I actually did that, unimaginable, how did I fall into this trap?”

Joy.

“Heavens, fortunately the agreement has dissipated before I transferred the Deep Sea Monster Fish.”

Self-blame.

“My conducts and deeds put everyone into danger. I was just a step from revealing all our secrets.”

Vigilance and nervousness.

“The naga priestess is right before my eyes, what should I do?”

She was a gold level caster.

While the Deep Sea Monster Fish was just a gold level magic ship.

If there were some distance between them, then there’d be some leeway to contend with. But now, they were nearly face to face, the distance was too close.

The naga priestess was completely able to break through and kill her way into the Deep Sea Monster Fish.

The ship didn’t have a gold level defending it, or even a silver level.

No, to be more precise, there is a silver level.

The ghost Lan Lu.

In life, he was a silver level two headed ogre magician.

In death, he was a silver level magician ghost.

But Lan Lu had been wounded when it ambushed Xi Dai Zi, it was in poor condition and without soul crystals, it would be difficult for it to recover completely.

A peak condition ghost Lan Lu couldn’t be the naga priestess’ match either.

Zi Di had no confidence he could deal with a gold level.

“I can’t let her see any flaws! Otherwise, the Deep Sea Monster Fish might change hands.”

“It is very lucky indeed that she mistook who I was.”

“No, that shouldn’t be so!”

“The Deceptive Disguise spell, she hasn’t seen through it and falsely thinks the Deep Sea Monster Fish is a lifeform. A giant fishman.”

“At the same time, its characteristics are obvious, almost impossible for the naga priestess to be wrong.”

“In other words, does such a divine envoy fishman exist?”

Zi Di racked her grains, guessing a portion of the truth.

Her eyes glistened, “It’s likely that when War Merchant built the Deep Sea Monser Fish, he deliberately designed its form this way.”

“War Merchant is a goblin, not a human, and an enemy to the empire. He is an arms manufacturer and a massive smuggler, so why did he design this form like this?”

“Don’t tell me he has contacts with the fishmen and sells weapon to them?”

“Or does he have some crafty plot, desiring to masquerade as a fishman divine envoy to attain some secret goal?”

Zi Di’s train of thought diverged the more she pondered.

Seeing the fishman divine envoy had sunk into silence, the naga priestess questioned, “Lord Divine Envoy, do you have Hai Ping’s saint corpse?”

Zi Di was startled out of her thoughts.

However, that question did give Zi Di some hints.

She had some guesses when the purple scaled fishman suddenly appeared with Hai Ping’s corpse.

Now that the naga priestess asked about it, Zi Di increasingly felt that it was one of the fishmen’s main goals.

Zi Di was just about to admit that Hai Ping was in her hands.

But after thinking about it, she felt that wasn’t appropriate.

If by any chance they demanded it, she didn’t want to hand the saint level corpse over to them.

It was an extremely valuable thing.

Not something that was easy to buy on the market.

For example, Two Eyes Island’s auction was of unprecedented scale, but not a single piece of saint level material was there.

The saint level was above the gold level, and even if was decayed, it wasn’t something the survivors could obtain.

“Furthermore, spitting it out might become a flaw.”

Zi Di took a deep breath and deliberately used a serene tone, “Don’t be nervous priestess, everything has gone to my God’s plan.”

She didn’t say she had Hai Ping’s corpse, nor did she deny it, it was all ambiguous.

But the priestess quickly imagined what she wanted, and she smiled cheerfully, “Praise our God!”

She knew she had been assigned this heavy burden, but after doing everything she could, the purple scaled fishman had died, a blow that chilled the naga priestess’ heart.

She wasn’t able to understand why the purple scaled fishman was detected, causing her to be shot by the light cannon, and was exceedingly worried that this operation would fail at the last step.

Filled with wishful thinking, she dove towards the scene and discovered a giant fishman.

From her point of view, she immediately imagined that her God predicted this outcome. Therefore, not only was I dispatched, but also a fishman divine envoy. The divine envoy was hiding on the seafloor, and when the light beam cannon was about to damage the saint corpse, they acted promptly and saved the plan!

“If it weren’t for the Divine Envoy, and just me, this operation would have been a complete failure already!” The naga priestess rejoiced to herself.

She guessed that Hun Tong was being affected by the Devil Gold Coins, but didn’t suspect it had been caused by the fishman divine envoy before her.

Zi Di continued to use a serene tone, “Next, priestess, you will command the fishmen to retreat. If they don’t listen to your orders, then you will leave immediately; no need to look after their fates.”

“This?” The naga priestess had misgivings.

She guessed that Hun Tong “defected”, the current situation was very good.

But the divine envoy was making her retreat?

After a moment’s hesitation, the naga priestess immediately bowed in salute, “I understand, Lord Divine Envoy!”

Despite having misgivings, she chose to comply.

She was a priestess.

Although she was unable to make sense of the divine envoy’s order, the matter of Hai Ping’s corpse had already proved that the divine envoy was correct.

“My God predicted this.”

“The good situation before us is nothing but a facade.”

“That’s right.”

“The Devil Gold Coins can work for a time, but there are many things that can counteract its power.”

“Which pantheon of gods is the strongest? It is without question the Sheng Ming Empire’s!

“I can’t rely too much on the Devil Gold Coins, after all they are tools of an external god.”

The naga priestess asked, “I will move at once, what about you Lord Divine Envoy?”

Zi Di answered, “You don’t need to get involved. Your mission has already been accomplished, priestess. Go now, this is all part of our God’s plan.”

Zi Di placed everything on the gods.

The naga priestess was not a fighter, nor a magician, she was a clergy.

As expected it worked great!

By touching upon the god she believed in, the naga priestess unconsciously stopped pondering and only wanted to obey.

Even if there were some doubts, the depths of her heart would persuade her.

The naga priestess left and began to contact the other fishmen.

Zi Di drove the Deep Sea Monster Fish somewhere else.

Both sides gradually grew far apart, and Zi Di had successfully deceived a gold level enemy.

She finally let out a breath, and exhaustion filled her thoughts.

But a moment later, she immediately used an alchemy communication device to inform the dragonman youngster and the others of everything that had happened to her.

Zi then proposed, “I hope you can converge with me to protect the Deep Sea Monster Fish.”

“I don’t know how I fell into that state.”

“But just in case it happens again, those affected can be stopped by our comrades.”

“The Deep Sea Monster Fish cannot be lost!”

“The secrets of Mystifying Monster Island cannot be exposed!!”

Zi Di didn’t know about the Devil Gold Coins.

As a matter of fact, the agreement only took affect once.

But she was really scared, and her proposal was very sensible.

“That actually happened!” The dragonman youngster and Zong Ge were mentally and physically shaken.

Their exchange with Zi Di had confirmed their prior conjecture – Cang Xu really was acting wrong!

“But how were they affected?”

“No matter what, we have to join Zi Di as soon as possible.”

“How do we deal with Cang Xu?”

“He knows too much, and if he is forced, what will we do if he starts shouting out our secrets?”

The dragonman youngster and Zong Ge were equally perturbed.

At this time, Cang Xu’s eyes suddenly cleared.

He had also gone back to normal.

“I, this…damn it!”

Strong feelings battered his mind, causing him to freeze in place.

Chi Lai’s eyes suddenly flashed, and seizing upon the enemy’s weakness, he hurled the stone pillar he had been using as a weapon at Cang Xu.

But a moment later, the dragonman youngster jumped at Cang Xu, and as chance would have it, was hit by the stone pillar.

Chi Lai was alarmed, and he soon apologized, “Sorry, commander, that wasn’t my intention.”

The dragonman youngster dropped to the floor, his head and face covered in grim. He nodded to Chi Lai, “Never mind that, after this, we really should train our coordination together.”

When Chi Lai saw the dragonman youngster wasn’t blaming him, he couldn’t help but be moved.

He noticed that Long Fu was a tolerant leader.

This kind of situation had appeared many times already, but he was never blamed.

On the other side, Cang Xu had received “cover” and reacted by immediately withdrawing.

Countless ghosts screamed, lifting a bone chilling wind as they shielding him in all directions with terrible and astonishing grandeur.

“Exposing myself as a necromancer really is troublesome.” Cang Xu sighed to himself.

He knew he couldn’t stay here long and decided to leave the island and battlefield on the spot.

“But what to do about Qing Xin?”

Cang Xu slowed his flying sped and looked at Qing Xin not too far in the distance, not knowing what to say to win the trust of them.

However, Qing Xin unexpectedly approached, flew to Cang Xu’s side and yelled, “We are leaving, why are you still dawdling?!”

Cang Xu was stunned.

Qing Xin’s reaction was quite bizarre!

She knew he was a necromancer.

But immediately afterwards, Qing Xin added, “You will explain things later, but we will be departing first and use the chaos while it lasts to get out of Two Eyes Island.”

“Ok!” Cang Xu and Qing Xin flew towards the Iron Lump together.

Ya Ma tenaciously gazed at the two’s backs, but didn’t pursue.

After Cang Xu used necromancy, her summons suffered great losses.

Ya Ma wasn’t confident she could face a necromancer on the same level as she.