Chapter 686: “Pirates” Attacks the Harbor
The fishman youngster’s meticulously prepared blasphemous prayer failed, as ultimately he didn’t achieve his goal – promotion to the saint level.
But at the same time, he succeeded.
Because he learned of an extremely significant secret, and an even greater conspiracy.
The Dueling Godhead!
The Godhead was more important than the saint level.
How many saint levels were there, how many Godheads were there? It was obvious the latter was rarer.
Cultivating a saint level only took decades or a century, but it took the Ice Sculpture Kingdom’s entire power and thousands of years of secret accumulation to form a Godhead.
The Dueling Godhead involved a portion of divine power, and that power could completely trounce a saint level.
“Why does Charming Blue Goddess know about this secret?” The fishman youngster pondered.
“Was this Charming Blue Goddess’ plot?”
“Did they make all kinds of plans earlier?”
“But why haven’t they acted? Was I molded for this?”
The fishman youngster thought back now, when Charming Blue Goddess was vigorously cultivating him. Each divine blessing was quite generous…it seemed fishman youngster slowly realized the implication that “Charming Blue Goddess was intentionally helping him”.
The National Ceremony Grand Duel was the moment the Dueling Godhead would be completed.
Charming Blue Goddess seemed to want to meddle in it and get a slice of the pie.
“Based on this, I am Charming Blue Goddess’ most competent pawn in their plan.”
“In the future, if my blasphemy is revealed, how much will it backfire on me?”
“If Charming Blue Goddess’ objective is the Dueling Godhead, and I come into conflict with them, what should I do?”
As for this, the fishman youngster schemed to have Cang Xu investigate it.
Since blaspheming Charming Blue Goddess produced such enormous profits, then they could completely blaspheme other gods.
They were too weak to vie with a raging Charming Blue Goddess who discovered the truth, but they could borrow the power of other gods to try to check and balance Charming Blue Goddess.
Of course, these are things to think about and do later.
From this, the fishman youngster had a new goal. Naturally, his main plan for redemption was still constant.
The Sheng Ming Empire was the most powerful force in the world; no other organization was a match for it.
To say nothing of a saint level, even with the Dueling Godhead, the fishman youngster was not a true god.
In fact, even if he was a true god, what could he do?
How many foreign gods have the imperial gods eliminated?
Wasn’t Charming Blue Goddess wounded into deep slumber by them?
“Having the Dueling Godhead will immensely benefit the entire redemption plan.”
“If nothing else, it will bring a fundamental change to the bargaining table!”
If the survivors were too weak, they wouldn’t be able to speak as equals and taking out divine artifacts as a bribe would court death! They might even be directly annexed by the imperial higher-ups!
Only with sufficient strength could they defend themselves and have the qualifications to negotiate with imperial leadership.
After this prayer was finished, the fishman youngster rapidly adjusted his plan. He had Dao Hen and Hun Tong leave Snow Bird Harbor and teleport to the Ice Sculpture Capital.
The fishman youngster used Divine Domain Descent to teleport over. Then after learning of Zi Di’s and Zong Ge’s situation, he acted.
He commanded Hun Tong, with the help of Deceptive Disguise, to play the role of Hua Tang and stage a show.
Through these moves, the fishman youngster successfully altered the situation, and created a façade that led to the Li Jian Clan’s wrong estimation.
Most importantly, the fishman youngster took over Zong Ge’s responsibilities as Commander Long Fu and would participate in the National Ceremony Grand Duel.
Bing Yang’s special Frost Aura, from a certain point of view, greatly lessened the problems for the fishman youngster.
The fishman youngster claimed that because of the aura’s time power, he was able to break into the gold level!
“Next, I should show off my power in a duel.”
The dragonman youngster was completely confident in himself!
The many blasphemous prayers had reaped him many things. Then during the last prayer, although he wasn’t promoted to the saint level, Charming Blue Goddess still gave him a divine blessing.
After obtaining this divine blessing, the dragonman youngster became a gold level magician and was given a lot of cultivation knowledge and a huge volume of spells to use.
Of course, water attribute spells were the most numerous.
So far, the young man had three types of cultivation. Battle qi, magic, and divine spells were al;l promoted to the gold level!
Snow Bird Harbor City Lord.
At dawn, Tan Mo rang at his study door.
Snow Bird Harbor City Lord sighed and opened the alchemy door.
The door opened and Tan Mo walked in.
“You got the news?” Tan Mo spoke bluntly, “The latest information from Ice Sculpture Capital, Long Fu has become a gold level.”
Snow Bird Harbor City Lord nodded, “According to his public claim, it was because of Bing Yang’s Frost Aura that contained [Beautiful Future]. Its effect was a blessing in disguise and allowed him to be promoted earlier.”
“However, I am more inclined to believe that he was always a gold level, he was just concealing it.”
“This was a suitable excuse to openly reveal it and expand his influence. After all, gold level duelists are an entirely different thing from silver level ones.”
When Tan Mo knew Snow Bird Harbor City Lord knew this information, he nodded, “The Li Jian Clan’s second navy fleet has already been routed, and pirates might attack Snow Bird Harbor at any time. To prevent Long Fu’s influence from getting bigger, we should move! The earlier, the better.”
Snow Bird Harbor City Lord’s finger tapped his desk, he muttered to himself for a moment, then nodded, “We must act as soon as possible.”
“But this is immensely risky.”
“For example, we were never able to figure out how Long Fu killed three gold levels in a three on one battle.”
“If they built a private teleportation device in the Ice Sculpture Kingdom, when we disguise ourselves as pirates to attack the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps branch, it is very likely that we will ‘enjoy’ this method.”
Tan Mo sank into silence.
But quickly, his hesitation was driven off by greed.
“Conservative estimates place Two Eyes Island’s property at 100,000 gold!” Tan Mo spoke his thoughts, “This amount of money is enough for me to gamble on.”
“Furthermore, during the process of this, I can hide behind the scenes.”
“The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps’ Snow Bird Harbor branch only has a few silver levels in it, no experts in sight.”
As he thought that, Tan Mo had no hesitations.
Snow Bird Harbor City Lord weighed up his words and observed his facial expression, then before Tan Mo could continue, he said, “If we act, then I believe that today is the best opportunity to do so.”
“The earlier the better!”
“First, we have to remove the magician tower.”
“I will secretly take control in advance, then when the time comes, I need your people to storm into the tower and slaughter everyone inside.”
After saying that, Snow Bird Harbor City Lord handed Tan Mo a list.
Tan Mo took a look at it and combined it with his own information. He laughed, “Many of these people are your loyal followers.”
Snow Bird Harbor City Lord’s face was cold, “But they are more loyal to the kingdom.”
“Perhaps, some of them are more loyal to me.”
“But I need them to be sacrificed so our operation doesn’t have any flaws.”
“After they are sacrificed, I will make arrangements to replace them with secret spies.”
“The magician tower is the highest priority, but apart from it, there are other strategic locations that I need you to do your best work on Tan Mo.”
Tan Mo shrugged, “You help me, I help you. Hey, I like this coordination.”
Snow Bird Harbor City Lord’s eyes seemed to penetrate the wall and looked into the ocean, “Thus, after the Thirteenth Prince returns, all of Snow Bird Harbor can be his to use.”
Night.
Snow Bird Harbor.
Inside the magician tower.
“I don’t know why, but I inexplicably feel a bit ill at ease.”
“What? Is it about your son’s college exams?”
“That’s not it…”
“By the way, have you considered my proposal from a few days ago? Do you want to ask for a holiday and go watch the National Ceremony Grand Duel at the capital? You have to know that duels of this scale are quite rare.”
“Alas, I wanted to go. But the kingdom’s recent naval battle loss means our vacation won’t be approved, right?”
A few magicians were chatting as they monitored Snow Bird Harbor.
Pop, pop, pop…
With a few soft sounds, the magicians were suddenly stabbed by assassins at the same time, and not a single death rasp was let out.
Ding.
An explosion suddenly occurred on the top floor of the magician tower, but it was a small one.
The assassins hurried to the top floor, but the assassin leader was already leaving with injuries, their hand holding a snow elf head.
It was the magician tower master.
The assassins let out a breath.
Very quickly, Snow Bird City Lord received a report of mission completion. It went very smoothly, apart from when the magician tower master, who managed to retaliate in a minor way before being assassinated.
Snow Bird Harbor City Lord passed this news to Tan Mo.
Tan Mo ordered, “Move!”
Thus, a group of imperial navy disguised as pirates came from the water, dark corners of the port, and other places to gradually encircle the Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps branch’s ships.