Chapter 912: Chapter 3: Ace Team_2
Shiyu Ling put his hands on his hips, smiling a forced smile: “Looking for trouble, little girl?”
“Look, look, you get angry when you hear the truth.”
“Very well, tonight you’ll truly experience what kind of power the Creator Realm Mage represents!”
Gongsun Ce held his head, feeling like he had two big headaches: “I beg you two, can you argue at ho…”
“Gahaha!” Mo Yuankai, who was running silently, let out two strange laughs. Gongsun Ce discreetly increased the treadmill’s speed with Telekinesis, and the strange laugh quickly turned into a wail. Qiluo quietly watched the group’s antics, and after the atmosphere had relaxed a bit, she spoke: “We understand the general situation. But what I don’t understand is, why have Alandia and Orianna co to the City of Skies?”
This question quickly shifted everyone’s emotions back to business. Gongsun Ce adjusted his glasses and pondered: “In the letter you gave , it only ntioned that you were coming to Cangdu for so reasons… But I think your responsibilities and Orianna’s must make it hard for you to leave the royal capital, unless…”
Gongsun Ce thought of the possibility, and he got confirmation from Alandia’s approving gaze.
“As you thought, Ce. Lord Loninles has recently awakened, so Knight Orianna doesn’t have to stay in the royal capital long term.”
“Loninles has awakened?” Mo Yuankai’s facial muscles twitched with excitent, “How is he doing?”
“The Mage spent a long ti returning to reality,” Orianna said with a smile, “and he’s doing quite well now, I believe, as good as before!”
“That’s great.” Gongsun Ce genuinely smiled. It was a rare mont where he felt so solace from matters relating to the past. They had all once hated that eccentric old man, but upon knowing he was fine, those unpleasant mories had long faded with ti.
“The second reason is that Knight Alandia’s investigation has made so progress. For these two reasons and the mission we are about to execute, I have co to the City of Skies.”
Gongsun Ce nervously ruffled his hair: “Your investigation has made progress? What are you investigating, Alandia?”
Alandia did not keep him in suspense. With a calm, machine-like deanor, she began to explain as if reporting a case: “About so details we overlooked four years ago, and the Dust Sect mbers who still continue their activities today.”
In an instant, the air in the room beca as heavy as if solidified by Superpower. Mo Yuankai stopped the treadmill, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and asked seriously: “Who is it?”
Alandia took a photo from her handbag; its background was a corner of a modern city, where a brown-haired man with a short beard was surrounded by onlookers, gesturing animatedly. The static photo couldn’t convey the sound at the ti, but the man’s confident and steady deanor and the admirative expressions of the onlookers were enough to let viewers imagine what a rousing speech it must have been.
Mo Yuankai recognized the man; anyone concerned with international politics knew this person’s identity.
“Gaius Otimis?”
“Aorus’s old man…” Gongsun Ce murmured.
“I suppose the surna is not unfamiliar to you,” Alandia said, “Otimis is one of the United States’ seven ‘Origin Families,’ ancient and powerful families existing even before the concept of Ustus. Gaius is the current head of the Otimis family. He is Aorus Otimis’s father, Vice President of the Ustus Federation, and the de facto leader of the country. Until now, all the events you’ve experienced have had this man’s shadow behind them.”
Alandia first looked at Shiyu Ling: “The Shiyu Research Institute is backed by overseas funds and resources, the source of which is the Otimis family under Gaius’s control.”
She then turned to Qin Qianbai: “About four years ago, the orchestrator of the agent struggle was Aorus Otimis, and one of the sources of his confidence was undoubtedly his father’s support.”
Qiluo, seeing the situation, beca uneasy: “Does it have anything to do with too?”
“I believe your experint is not related to this person.”
Qiluo pressed her ample chest, exhaling a huge sigh of relief.
Knight Dawn shifted tone: “However, behind the June 30th disturbance, there was also this person’s interference. He incited internal strife within the official ranks at critical monts, delaying rescue efforts; he used Aorus’s hand to reveal critical intelligence to the Red Mage, allowing the Red Mage to launch a surprise attack on key targets.”
The idol, who had once been taphorically consud by the Red Mage, sat down in confusion, joining two friends with different expressions.
Gongsun Ce tapped his chin with his finger, his words steeped in mory, like a somniloquy: “We never figured out the exact source of those Draconized Humans until the day of the duel. We instinctively thought they were Situ Yi’s prepared cannon fodder, but the Chaos Theater clearly didn’t have that capability… So that was also Gaius’s trick, right? Offering little assists, hiding in the shadows, only acting at crucial monts, just like Situ Yi and Shiyu Genmi?”
Alandia nodded: “I think so.”
“That’s their style, every mber of the sect behaves in the sa manner.”
Gongsun Ce said nothing, tightly clasping his hands, staring intently at the corner of the small side table as if it held the secrets of the world. Everyone felt varying degrees of unease; there were untouchable wounds in so hearts, like a dragon’s reverse scale. While they could usually indulge in life carefree, living their own mundane days, once those scars were unearthed and pain revisited, they would fall silent, feel anger, and cast everything aside to venture alone into danger, willing to cut through any obstacle…
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