Chapter 677 - 404: Baffled Mysterious Nobles
Xue Dili touched his chest, where there was little sand left in the Flowing Light Sand.
But before this, the Treasure did give him great help, whether as a hidden backup energy for battles or as a tool for simulating emotions.
Only now did he realize that this thing wasn’t a Treasure from the Interstellar Corps, but from a neutral organization called "Masked Ball," and this organization was even the base camp of the Void forces?
Xue Dili scratched his head. He already thought the Void was troublesome enough, but he didn’t expect that the people possessing this thing would form a base camp...
"Probably different from what you think, the Masked Ball is also known as the Masquerade Ball, where people who have suffered from Void’s ravages come together to support each other. Some are inadvertently eroded by Void, and some have received the legacy of others and accidentally grasped an authority related to Void, sinking deeper and deeper. After discovering something is wrong with themselves, they want to fight against the influence brought by Void, thus forming a spontaneously gathered organization," Captain Xing Jia’er stated.
"You can understand it as a gathering place for patients suffering from the disease called ’Void.’
A gathering place for patients, is it?
Xue Dili suddenly felt he might not need to go there; his condition should be almost cured. After devouring Mephisto, his overall state should have recovered to about seventy to eighty percent...
"Don’t think that your current state is good; right now, at most you can be considered to be experiencing a brief revival," Captain Xing Jia’er reminded him, "If you go deeper into the authority’s power now... you may turn into a twisted monster like the Apostle!"
Xue Dili froze for a moment. He realized the Interstellar Corps didn’t know he had already become an Apostle; although his Apostle identity was a fake Apostle wearing someone else’s skin, now he truly understood the risk of this matter.
And in the depths of his heart, the twisted Great Void had molded a Void monster...
A chaotic, twisted, swaying, disorderly creature without features...
If he really becomes an Apostle, that thing might become his true form, right?
Xue Dili even had the mood to think like this.
"By the way, hurry and resolve these trivial matters; I’ve already installed the planetary transmitter here, and everyone needs to hide underground when the time comes, otherwise the tearing force of the planetary transmission will shred any living soul," Captain Xing Jia’er said.
"Handle the mess in this world early on; ultimately, you must use the power of world authority to energize the planetary transmitter. We can’t afford such a level of consumption unless the Mimic Venerable King comes."
"So, hurry up and solve it, then fully harness the planet’s power to achieve interstellar planetary transmission."
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After agreeing with Captain Xing Jia’er to quickly resolve trivialities and visit the Masked Ball upon the event’s conclusion, Xue Dili began tidying up the world’s mess.
Actually, Mephisto’s fake death was merely a small interlude. Xue Dili was always waiting for the nobles to move their entire families to Yujin City.
And now, the nobles’ relocation seems almost complete, although many families like to hedge their bets, such as sending most of the members to other places while a few stay in Yujin City.
It’s unclear if this is due to the cunning strategy of these nobles or their fierce internal family conflicts, causing the main family to only care about eating the cake themselves, but it doesn’t matter anymore; Xue Dili will send each one to the guillotine.
"Leader, the guillotine is ready," someone from the Xiao Organization said.
Even though Xue Dili long ceased to possess the body he took over, the moment he appeared in the Xiao Organization, everyone recognized him as the leader.
It was as if he had become something indescribable; even though he took over someone else’s body, others’ perceptions changed and became contaminated, causing even those who originally knew the original owner to call him "Xue Dili" instead of the original name.
This cognitive contamination is unclear whether it’s good or bad, but at least it has provided a lot of convenience for Xue Dili.
"I understand. By the way, it’s the improved guillotine, right?" Xue Dili casually asked.
This world’s guillotines are the old-fashioned blade type, which Xue Dili found inefficient; he planned to execute many people, and the blade would jam after a few uses.
Thus, Xue Dili improved the guillotine, changing it into a triangular blade design, utilizing gravity and pulleys in a new-style guillotine, the kind that even Louis XVI praised.
Naturally, the people in the Xiao Organization collected the dirt on these Mysterious Nobles, which would all become weapons to kill the nobles and unlock the shackles.
The day quickly arrived when these Mysterious Nobles arrived, especially those who were once members of the Praise Society.
Some families had invested in Mephisto’s growth path, some were Mephisto’s friends, some were her classmates, namely Faust’s former students.
These people constituted the former Praise Society; they became the lords of this world.
And now, after Mephisto’s death, not a single person sought revenge for her, instead they kept saying she deserved to die, that she should have died sooner...
Xue Dili took a deep breath; this world was so corrupt. Mephisto wanted to rely on delay tactics to completely integrate Divine Tree’s power, achieving ascension, but she didn’t know that what she did was catastrophic for her world.