OBS Chapter 400: The Launch of the Plan, Evan's Intentions
Chapter 400: The Launch of the Plan, Evan's Intentions
Chapter 400: The Launch of the Plan, Evan's Intentions
After bringing his treasures home, Emlyn White immediately prayed to Mr. Fool about the day's events.
Ask Mr. Fool to convey to Ms. Judgment that the vampires cannot provide potion recipes, and can only trade materials after she obtains the recipes.
He relayed to Mr. "World" that the vampires had no information about the "Trickster" potion recipe, and asked if he could purchase the extraordinary property of "Light Priest" from him, or find it himself.
After asking Mr. Fool to convey the messages to the World and the Judgment, Emlyn White hesitated for a moment, but then honestly continued to pray.
"Please tell Mr. 'Power' that I sold the information he gave me about the secret society for a good price."
If we split it equally, he'll get 5000 gold coins, and he can come to me for that money anytime.
The source of the intelligence was Mr. "Power," and according to the usual practice, the proceeds from selling his intelligence should be split equally.
Of course, Emlyn White could have taken the money, but one reason was that he couldn't get past his own conscience, and the other was that he felt everything was under the watchful eye of "Mr. Fool," so he decided to be more discreet.
After praying, Emlyn White began to happily rearrange and display his treasures.
"It's been so long since I've spent time alone with them. Who should I hug tonight to sleep with?"
Is it Elise? Or LeBlanc?
Emlyn White, while tidying everything up, was caught in a happy dilemma.
After cutting out Emlyn White's prayer video and sending it to different members, Klein sat in the "Fool's" seat, lost in thought.
"It seems impossible to find a breakthrough with the vampires and obtain relevant information."
Am I really going to use the Zoroaster family angel within Leonard to get close to the Hermit of Fate?
After returning to his private room after dinner, Klein, through the preparations he made when leaving Backlund, contacted the seal of the Church of Steam and Machines 2-111 and learned from it about the origin of the angel on Leonard's body.
To be honest, Klein wasn't actually scared by the news that Leonard had an angel.
Back in Tingen, when Evan suggested he drag Leonard into the fight against the sealed artifact 008, he already had a plan in mind.
At the time, Klein was unaware that the angel on him was an angel of the "Thief" pathway.
This might also be due to the influence of the haze!
Klein looked up at the slow, flowing gray mist and suddenly realized something.
"Gray Mist" is the highest thing involving the three paths of "Diviner", "Apprentice" and "Thief", just like the mysterious city on Evan's body, so it will also have a strong aggregation effect on the angels of these three paths.
If Amon can detect the existence of the gray fog, can this angel from the Zoroaster family also detect it?
He shouldn't have detected the 'gray fog,' otherwise he should have reacted completely in Tingen.
Suddenly, Klein remembered what happened when he was promoted to "Faceless Man", and the scene he saw in divination after learning that the Rose School demigods were looking for him.
When he was promoted, he noticed a gray mist appearing around him, which was a symbol that the gray mist gradually appeared in reality as he was promoted.
It was precisely because of this that the "Mother Tree of Desire" sensed the presence of the gray mist through the extraordinary characteristics of the "werewolf" and thus sent a demigod to Backlund to find him.
If it weren't for a series of coincidences, Klein might have had to wait until Jax came to him before he learned about these things.
When I was in Tingen, I only rose to the rank of 'Magician' at Sequence 7, which is fundamentally different from 'Faceless Man' at Sequence 6.
Just because we might not have noticed it then doesn't mean we can't detect it now. We should at least wait until after his promotion before we can try to make direct contact with him. Right now, we can only try to find him through an intermediary.
This was too dangerous for Emlyn White, and the same applies to "justice," "the magician," and "the trial."
Therefore, it would be best to let Evan help with this matter. Thinking of this, Klein couldn't help but frown. He knew Evan very well and knew that Evan always liked to beat around the bush and rarely spoke directly.
Did Evan anticipate that I would ask him for help in contacting Leonard when he revealed the Secret Order and the Hidden Earth Society?
In other words, he himself wanted to get close to Leonard, or rather, to get close to the angel within Leonard.
If he wants to make contact, he should just do so. Why go through all this trouble? Who is he trying to impress? Klein carefully recalled Evan's words and actions, trying to figure out his logic.
Could he be doing this for Mr. Fool? After all, I can deduce a lot from the mysterious city surrounding him, and he can deduce a lot from the gray fog in return.
In this situation, if he wants to contact the angels through the 'Thief' pathway, he should report to Mr. 'The Fool' who controls the 'Gray Mist' to avoid misunderstandings.
Klein vaguely grasped Evan's train of thought and felt speechless, but he also understood Evan's caution. After all, in Evan's eyes, the "Fool" was the Angel King who "occupied the next house".
But why did Evan suddenly want to contact that angel?
Was he trying to win over this angel for the Horn family's grand plan, or was he eyeing the power of the Secret Order and the Hermits of Fate? Ever since learning about the Horn family's history, Klein has come to understand many of Evan's previous actions.
Judging from Evan's understanding of the Secret Order and the Hermits of Fate, the Horn family has been eyeing these two organizations for quite some time.
This might be a great opportunity for me. If Evan really gets involved in these two organizations, I might not have to worry about potion recipes and materials in the future.
Even if the Secret Order doesn't have high-sequence recipes for the "Occupy the House" pathway, the Hermit of Fate should have high-sequence recipes for the "Thief" pathway.
If all else fails, I still have the option of taking another route.
Thinking about this, Klein realized that Evan's involvement in the affairs of the Secret Order and the Hermits of Fate was entirely beneficial to him.
Klein was a decisive man, and once he made a decision, he immediately took action.
After leaving the gray fog, he immediately prayed to the Fool and told Emlyn White that he could sell him the extraordinary properties of the Light Priest.
He then asked Evan to help him contact Leonard to see if he could get through him to establish connections between the Secret Order and the Hermits of Fate.
Although the Antigonus family notebook shown in the scene of "Arodos" also allows him to obtain the potion recipe for "Trickster".
But when Klein learned that the Goddess of Night might have played a less-than-honorable role in the Tingen affair, he became resentful and found it difficult to remain as calm as before.
He is no longer completely unguarded when facing the Goddess of the Night; instead, he is now always on guard.
Unless he had no other choice, he did not want any more gifts from the goddess of the night.
Upon seeing the two images sent by Klein, Evan smiled slightly.
He did indeed deliberately leak information about the Secret Order and the Hidden Earth Society to the Tarot Society members, wanting them to spread the news.
During this time, Robert secretly observed the struggle between the Secret Order and the Hidden Fate Society.
The Secret Order, as expected of a secret organization with some official influence, was caught off guard by the Destiny Hidden Earth Society's "thief," but quickly recovered.
Now, it is the Secret Order that is beginning to infiltrate the Hermitage of Destiny.
This incident perfectly illustrates the saying "trying to steal a chicken but losing the rice instead."
Evan's reason for wanting to leak this information through the Tarot Club was simple: he wanted to muddy the waters.
If any force suddenly turns its attention to the struggle between these two sides, it can cause things to develop in an uncontrollable direction, which can also create opportunities to fish in troubled waters.
He's quite clever; he didn't try to keep the money for himself. As for Emlyn White's share, Evan simply smiled and didn't seem to care.
In fact, Evan would prefer Emlyn White to keep the money, so that he would have a weakness in his hand, which could be used as a card to play at a crucial moment.
As for Klein entrusting himself to contact Leonard, that was of course also Evan's design.
However, Klein's guess was slightly off. He thought Ivan's main target should be Zoroaster, but in fact he had contacted both Zoroaster and Leonard.
Klein thought Evan was worried about the Fool's reaction, so he put on this show. In reality, the Fool had no power over Evan at all.
He was actually using Zoroaster to cover up his true intention to make direct contact with Leonard.
Because Klein's progress in digesting the potion exceeded that in the original story, and because of the significant changes in Audrey's thinking.
Evan believes that the future plot development will deviate more and more from the original work, and the butterfly effect will become stronger and stronger.
This also means that Klein's revenge against Ince Zangwell may be brought forward.
The secrets sealed within half of the book "Lord of Mysteries" in one's mind may be unlocked ahead of schedule.
In order to prepare for possible changes, Evan decided to bring Dunn Smith, Daly Simone, and Leonard Mitchell into his army as soon as possible.
Ivan has already begun making the necessary preparations.
There is a special position in the military: the military chaplain, who is responsible for regulating the crew's faith and leading them in daily prayers.
The new army trained by Evan is actually a new type of military force, and the rank of the accompanying chaplains will not be low.
While they cannot be equipped with high-ranking deacons-level chaplains like large legions and fleets, the Red Gloves squad leaders and members can still be at that level.
According to past practice, troops with warships are usually accompanied by priests sent by the Storm Church, but this time the situation is slightly different.
On the one hand, it was because Evan, the founder of the army, and most of the soldiers were followers of the Goddess of Night. On the other hand, the Augustus family was also secretly pushing this matter to counterbalance the influence of the Church of Storms in the navy.
The outcome of this matter will be clear within the next month, and Evan wants to completely bring Dunn Smith's Red Gloves team into the picture!
As I said before, the experience of being in the Gray Fog for the first time left Evan with lingering fears, so he wanted to bring as many people as Klein valued as possible to his side and build his own protective layer.
Not only Klein's former colleagues, but also Benson and Melissa, after they arrive in Backlund, Evan will try to recruit them into his camp through various means.
This was a solution that Evan had devised back in Tingen.
However, this raises another issue: once Leonard officially becomes a member of his army, Zoroaster's existence will inevitably be exposed, because the Iron Knights can establish mystical connections with the demon army.
Under normal circumstances, even a War Bishop or a Weather Sorcerer would not be able to detect the parasitism of a Sequence 1 Archangel.
But Evan is no ordinary "hunter"; he is the "hunter" who owns the City of Calamity.
This also means that once Leonard and Evan officially establish a occult connection, both will notice each other's abnormalities.
It's a small matter if the existence of the City of Calamity is exposed; the real problem is if Zoroaster is scared away by the City of Calamity.
Therefore, Evan also needs to take advantage of this conflict between the Secret Order and the Hidden Earth Order to confront Zoroaster to some extent. Just as Evan was thinking about how to make contact with Leonard and the old man on his body, the clock in the corner of the room rang.
Evan glanced at the time, stood up again, walked to the huge full-length mirror, looked himself up and down, found nothing wrong, put on a black mesh veil, and then turned and disappeared.
That's right, Evan is currently in the form of "Alice". He received a contact notice from Maxim of the Fussac Empire tonight.
As tensions between the Fusak Empire and the Kingdom of Rune escalate, this "Iron-Blooded Knight" has been urging "Alice" to take action as soon as possible.
Evan, however, has been delaying his actions, citing the lack of a suitable opportunity.
This clearly did not satisfy him, so he decided to meet "Alice" tonight.
This is exactly what Evan has been waiting for; the upcoming meeting will determine what methods he will use to deal with Akhovatoma Einhorn.
In Evan's mind, the best thing would be to turn Maxim into a servant of the City of Calamity.
This would be equivalent to severing Ahomatova Einhorn's eyes and ears, making the entire situation completely transparent to Evan, thus creating a great deal of room for manipulation.
Although Evan was very confident in the status of the "City of Calamity", he was not so confident in deceiving the "Weather Wizard".
Last time, I used a level 0 sealed artifact to sever the connection when I defeated Burke Einhorn.
This time, however, the challenge is to poach people from a "weather sorcerer's" legion without being detected, making it a completely different story.