Chapter 931 - 931
Chapter 931: Pit two groups with one contract?
After letting Tang En properly digest this joy and calm down his emotions, some things indeed needed to be made clear to him.
For example... the issue of the Power Network.
Its core actually relied on the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree.
The reason he could use the Power Network in front of me was because my clone was here.
The clone was also a derivation of my own Domain Order.
If the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree was compared to a Wi-Fi that could continuously expand its range, then my clone could be treated as a temporary shared hotspot.
“...The Myriad Connection Main Network Tree is the foundation for the spread of the Power Network and the Root Network, and also the root source for you to master power in the future. The current Myriad Connection Main Network Tree is still in the growth stage. Even if this process is fast, it will still take time to slowly spread out.”
“In other words, the Myriad Connection Main Network Tree must not be destroyed under any circumstances, right?”
After my explanation, Tang En quickly understood the core issue.
“Mhm, once destroyed, the Root Network will gradually wither, and the Power Network will instantly lose its order. The manifestation will be that the power you can control will rapidly decrease until it disappears. However, this will not affect the Seed of Great Knowledge and the Seed of Knowledge. After all, the Power Network is just a functional module of the Seed of Great Knowledge.”
“I understand.”
Tang En nodded and quickly accepted this statement.
After all, even the game had a Myriad Worlds Terminal.
He could also understand the limitations of this kind of power.
Moreover, he had never seen those outsiders share this kind of extraordinary power.
It should be known that the strength or weakness of this power only depended on permission.
As long as the permission was open, he, an ordinary person, could also instantly become a powerhouse mastering extraordinary power!
“Tang En, do you think the association will accept this kind of... charity of power?”
I opened my mouth and continued to ask.
“This kind of power is undoubtedly urgently needed by the Truth Protection Association. But based on my understanding of them, compared to power, they care more about whose hands this power is controlled in.”
“They also wouldn't be stupid enough to hand over the handle of power to you. In that case, the entire Truth Protection Association would practically belong to your one-man rule.”
“As expected, they still care a lot... What if in the end they have no choice?”
“So Lord Witch, you want to eliminate those outsiders and push the association branch completely to your side?”
Tang En quickly associated it with the previously mentioned statement of eliminating those outsiders and directly sorted out a whole set of ideas.
If all outsiders were slaughtered right in front of the Truth Protection Association, then no one would dare to negotiate with the branch afterward!
In this situation, facing strong external enemies, the only choice they could rely on was one!
As for those who opposed in the association, even the tough bones, and those stubborn ones, elders, advisory groups...
“Mhm, do you think this is troublesome?”
“This... how could this be trouble! It is their honor for the association to serve you! As for those stubborn ones, I will personally eliminate them for you!”
“It's very good that you have this awareness.”
I was very satisfied with his reaction.
His brain also turned fast, so I also planned to reduce some difficulty for him.
“If you want anything, you can tell me directly.”
The various effects of extraordinary items were only limited by your imagination, not by their uselessness, and this was the convenience I provided him.
In this world of only ordinary people, it was simply too easy for extraordinary means to break through organizational defenses.
Hypnosis, suggestion, enslavement, curses, cognitive replacement, memory modification... these were very simple to achieve on an extraordinary level.
And the reason why these means were not very common on an extraordinary level... was because extraordinary people also had countermeasures.
But for ordinary people who had nothing, whose mental power couldn't even interfere with energy, it was really a sure hit every time.
And this was also one of the reasons why that Fallen Elf made the bold statement before that it was the Truth Protection Association's honor to serve him, because Transcendent beings really looked down on those ordinary people.
The means of Transcendent beings were far beyond what ordinary people could imagine.
Those outsiders were at most limited by their own power systems and couldn't master these means.
But if they mastered some special means, it would be really simple to make an organization serve them.
And I also learned from some intelligence provided to me by Tang En that many areas in this world had been directly or indirectly made independent by those outsiders.
Actually, it meant being completely controlled and serving them.
The place with the most independence was the Chaotic Area.
From the name, one could tell that it was an area where even the Myriad Worlds Terminal headquarters couldn't quite intervene.
Because of various geographical reasons, the Order Keepers didn't have enough control over this area.
The intervention of the vanguard team could only make these people submit temporarily.
Once they left, they could immediately cause chaos.
And it was impossible for the headquarters to station a vanguard squad here just for a chaotic area; this was simply too wasteful.
To completely change this place, it required changes to the personnel structure and social form here.
But due to special reasons like large population, the Myriad Worlds Terminal headquarters had no good solution for this.
Since they couldn't settle these “refugees” in a better way, they simply ignored them.
They also couldn't possibly spend huge manpower and material resources to build for these “pariahs” according to local conditions.
It was better to let them maintain the status quo.
It was best to let them fend for themselves!
Putting it nicely, this kind of place was called “autonomous.”
But essentially, they didn't want to alleviate poverty.
The money of those lords in the high-level wouldn't be spent on them in such places.
So such places became excellent places for those outsiders to develop initial forces.
Whether it was rule by force, death threats, or faith dissemination, or even large-scale brainwashing, capable outsiders would always have their own ways to gather a group of people to work for them.
But the Chaotic Area was ultimately a Chaotic Area, a place the Myriad Worlds Terminal headquarters disdained to even glance at.
Ultimately, it still had its great limitations.
So this made the fact that the Truth Protection Association occupied a surface city so eye-catching.
It wasn't an exaggeration that this place was hailed as the initial lighthouse of resistors in a very short time.
So the surface city of Igsuo would be the biggest thorn in the heart of the Myriad Worlds Terminal headquarters at this moment, prickling their hearts with pain.
And on this thorn, there was also a Calamity Witch who could slap them across the internet cable, and they had no way to pull it out even if they wanted to.
After explaining these precautions and needs to Tang En, at this moment, Tang En felt that he was now... terrifyingly strong!
He couldn't wait to rush to the front line to clear all obstacles for Lord Calamity Witch!
But excitement aside, he still remembered Lord Calamity Witch asking him to be a bit steadier in doing things and not be startled by everything, so he had already started trying to control his emotions.
And at this moment, he found that the Calamity Witch handed him something similar to a card again.
“This is?”
Tang En didn't care about anything and took it directly.
He didn't believe Lord Calamity Witch would harm him at this moment.
“This is my business card. It has my Summoning Rune on it. In the future, there's no need to summon me with such a big commotion like before. Of course, don't use this rashly if there's nothing major.”
I explained.
The Truth Protection Association summoning me with such a big scene before indeed opened my eyes.
But I also knew that this was because they were unfamiliar with the system of rune rituals, so that the obtained Summoning Rune would have certain deviations, but these deviations were eventually forcibly corrected by huge energy.
“Understood!”
After briefly explaining specific details to Tang En, this meeting was considered to have ended in an extremely efficient way.
As for that secretary who was dreaming on the side... at this moment, he was in the dream illusion I wove.
“The cognitive tampering method after hypnosis... you try it yourself on this secretary.”
I threw an alchemy pocket watch used for hypnosis to Tang En and said, “You coming here this time was mainly my dissatisfaction and questioning about your association contacting those outsiders behind my back. After the attempt succeeds, you can leave.”
***
Witch Academy.
After Ming Xueming obtained the simple Secret Realm location coordinates from Tan Han, they immediately found the Witch's Secret Realm Club.
Although the two of them were allied clubs, even biological sisters kept clear accounts.
This time it was Ming Xueming who lowered her status to negotiate with Tan Han, and the one suffering losses was still Wan Shi Wu.
They had to give Tan Han a Heart of Cold Tide, and a Child of Destiny, Lucianne!
They naturally couldn't let the Witch's Secret Realm Club take advantage, but the cooperation between them couldn't be terminated because of this matter.
After all, if Wan Shi Wu bore such huge pressure alone, they couldn't hold it.
Isolating their partner in this situation would really mean having to guard against sneak attacks from sisters while bearing external pressure.
As for compensation... they could talk about it slowly later, but the current plan had to proceed quickly; time was money.
Poor Ai En Gailand and the other three probably still didn't know that their value had completely disappeared the moment the Witch Academy side started to act.
If they had brought back important intelligence before, it could make up for their losses, but now, they were nothing.
Especially Ai En Gailand, she would even lose her identity as a Wizard Apprentice because of this!
Wizards would not accept the Witchified her.
The process of Witchification was also almost irreversible.
So she could almost only beg the Witch Academy to accept her. If not, then she would completely lose her status as a Transcendent student.
Without this, even if she knew more Transcendent-related knowledge, it would be useless.
Although the Witch Academy had too many people proving with countless cases that even if a person accepted Witchification, they wouldn't identify with the Witch race mentally.
But other academies would not accept students after Witchification even if beaten to death.
This was like mental mysophobia.
Even if there was a tiny possibility, they didn't want to cultivate a guy who might betray at any time.
Wizards seemed particularly serious in this aspect.
Even the most inclusive Bloodline Body Tempering Wizards, Wizards with the concept of integrating other race bloodlines to seize racial power, turned pale at the mention of the concept of Witchification.
And after making the decision, the Witch Academy side clashed with other Transcendent academies again.
But the Witch Academy side chose to directly play dead and deny, aiming to stall for time.
But whether it was the Witch Academy concealing news, or everyone going to find that site according to the original assumption, this interrupted their original plans.
Speaking of the happiest, it was none other than Tan Han and the others.
At least this bought them a lot of time.
Day one.
Wizard Apprentices united with Holy Angels and Elves to pressure the Witch Academy.
The effect was not good, and small-scale conflicts broke out.
Under the mediation of the Witch Academy's Disciplinary Squad, it dragged on for a day.
Day two.
Wizard Apprentices united with students from other Transcendent academies to negotiate with the Witch Academy for the transfer of Ai En Gailand and the other three.
But the Witch Academy refused with the attitude of being responsible for the wounded, and triggered the second infirmary riot.
Afterward, dozens of Witch students mobilized and fought them heavily on the grounds that they disturbed their recovering friends.
The situation the Wizard Academy side least wanted to see was facilitated.
Because of the lesson from the Disciplinary Squad on the first day, the Witch side forcibly provoked and pressed them in the Witch Academy Arena to “exchange and learn” for half a day.
It could be said that in these two days, the students of the academy seemed to be watching a big show.
It was as if inexplicably, people from other Transcendent academies started to stir up trouble in the Witch Academy.
But only insiders knew what exactly they were doing, and what those fun things on the academy network were covering up.
And by the third day.
The Witch Academy side finally relented, and under a series of operations, signed a Witch's Contract for joint development.
The contract stipulated many detailed contents, including but not limited to the sharing of experimental data in the laboratory ruins, the distribution of remaining precious materials, and other issues.
There were even clear regulations for personnel arrangements.
When other Transcendent academies happily prepared for joint development, only the Witch Academy's face was dark.
Not because of this joint development contract, but because...
They had already completed the preliminary search of the laboratory in these two days.
The final result was... this laboratory was worthless.
No materials left, no precious things, even the data had been rummaged through.
This place had already been “scraped clean” by Tan Han and the others!
So in this joint development contract, the Witch Academy side looked like they were in the wrong.
The contract stipulated that all gains from joint development included advance gains, which was also equivalent to the Witch side softening in a disguised way.
But only the Witch side knew clearly that these didn't matter because they simply didn't have anything to take.
Instead, they used the joint development contract to pin down all the main exploration teams of other Transcendent academies at the ruins.
The contract clearly stipulated that before the ruins were declared completely explored, no one was allowed to withdraw midway.
Other Transcendent academies thought the Witch Academy suddenly relented because they found the area where the ruins were located too difficult, so they didn't suspect much about this.
But no one expected that the Witch Academy side's thoughts were on another level.
This joint development contract could be said to have pitted these guys miserably.
But it didn't matter; they also pitted Tan Han along the way.
After Wan Shi Wu took the lead to bring the only remaining Grand Spellbook fragment for joint development of the laboratory ruins, students from other Transcendent academies were also completely relieved.
They didn't think the Witch Academy would joke with fragments.
Moreover, if something was discovered in the laboratory, they could also directly use the fragment for on-site testing and the like.
The Wizard Academy side was very good at research data.
So other Transcendent academies also gathered the remaining fragments.
They weren't afraid of being taken out in one pot.
If they really started fighting, in terms of numbers and personnel quality, the Witch Academy side would definitely suffer.
Moreover, there was still a considerable part of the fragments in the hands of the Ancient Glacial Ice.
Even if the Witch side designed to snatch the fragments, they couldn't gather them all.
But they never expected that gathering all fragments here was just for Ming Xueming to complete the contract transaction with Tan Han.
Although they couldn't meet, it didn't mean they couldn't sign a Witch's Contract.
They used a duplicate complementary contract to complete the signing of the same contract in different places.
After all, the constraint of the contract was not the signed name and witnessing, but the contractual binding force generated by the ritual of the Witch's Contract!
Like this... all fragments were gathered together.
They then told Tan Han the address, fulfilling the contract content.
Even if Tan Han and the others wanted to rob, could they really rob it?
So it could be said they pitted two groups of people with one contract, and even Tan Han didn't gain any advantage.