Yarra’s Adventure Notes Chapter 1498: 284: The Difficulty of Deception

Chapter 1498: Chapter 284: The Difficulty of Deception

“Knights have entered a state of war, thus all living beings, as a part of the knights’ forces, have beco tiny markers on the sand table.” Nellie extended a finger with an indifferent expression, mimicking a pushing motion, and said in a low voice, “They are all soldiers who can be sacrificed for the victory of war, or to put it more broadly, for the achievent of strategic objectives, nothing is sacrosanct.”

“Philarx used to say the sa thing not so long ago,” Pannis said with a wry smile, “Then he sacrificed his most trusted students, and conveniently himself as well, proving that indeed, nothing is off-limits.”

“Such a statent is only made when one is truly prepared to stop at nothing to achieve strategic goals.” Nellie was not surprised to hear Pannis ntion Philarx; rather, she spoke calmly, “A commander who cannot place their own marker on the sand table alongside their soldiers will never have the courage and awareness to utter such words. Only by considering oneself as expendable can the soldiers accept their own sacrifices without resentnt, because they receive the most important thing—fairness.”

“So what is your purpose then?” Pannis pressed on, “Increasing the frequency of their sacrifices doesn’t seem to benefit you at all, and obviously, their frequency is already higher than even you anticipated, which is even less beneficial.”

“Weakening the backlash slightly, my purpose is to make them believe that my strength is fading gradually, that Danacus is slowly awakening,” Nellie answered earnestly, “I cannot deny that in the short term, other than spurring them even more, making them accelerate their sacrifices like mad, it won’t have any other effect and holds no benefit for . But that is the point, there are no benefits, because as a non-beneficiary, they will not suspect its veracity and think it’s my conspiracy.”

“Just in the short term?” Pannis rubbed his chin thoughtfully and said, “If in the long run they do not question the awakening of Danacus, hmm, you could masquerade as Danacus and issue them commands.”

“That’s right, it’s one of my objectives,” Nellie replied, with an icy smile, humming lightly, “Only by influencing the direction of their actions can I guide them towards their own destruction. Therefore, to make them believe, even at the cost of more soldiers, it is worthwhile.”

“Do you rember our speculation just now?” Pannis asked calmly, “Perhaps Danacus and his followers can communicate instantaneously by so ans, or perhaps they had arrangents in advance.”

“I didn’t know at that ti, and judging from the final outco, they did not discover my disguise. In other words, they were not communicating with Danacus as imdiately as imagined.” Nellie shook her head, “I suspect that they may have been able to summon the powers of Danacus to raise the temple, probably because of arrangents Danacus had previously made. Otherwise, if they could really communicate imdiately or frequently, my plan would never have succeeded, and perhaps the deaths of those believers could have been avoided.”

“Perhaps,” Pannis pondered for a long ti and eventually nodded noncommittally, speaking indifferently, “Maybe he’s just been particularly tired lately, so he’s sleeping more deeply than usual.”

“Don’t be ridiculous, it’s not like he’s actually going to bed to sleep, and there is no such thing as being ‘more tired’.” Nellie looked at Pannis with annoyance and said, “Only you would co up with sothing like that.”

“Hehe, it’s just a no-strings-attached guess, just casual chatter,” the look in Pannis’s eyes did not match the ease he displayed, but for Nellie’s sake, he deliberately kept it light, “Anyway, by now, those obstructive moribunds and Danacus’s Undead Mages have all died, so no matter the speculation, they can’t jump out to object anymore, so the reasons no longer matter.”

“Is that really so?” Nellie looked back at Pannis with skepticism, but noticing nothing unusual, she continued with doubt, “Regardless of the reason, I’ve been working hard to make them think that their attacks are weakening bit by bit, and indeed, they intensified their attacks, even if exaggeratedly so. Having smoothly completed the first step, while I keep retreating, I’ve started working on the second part of the plan.”

“When did this happen?” Pannis asked, “The first step plan took a long ti, didn’t it?”

“Yes, it indeed took a long ti,” Nellie nodded, “After all, I couldn’t overdo it; going too far would make it seem not so real. Thus, it wasn’t until four years ago that I began the second step of the plan.”

“Four years ago.” Pannis did not express any judgnt but simply nodded and said, “Yes, that would be around the ti you began to respond less to the Undead, seemingly focusing all your attention on this plan and having no ti to bother with the Undead’s predicant. Go on, the second step of the plan was to deceive those believers, right? But are they so easily fooled?”

“Of course not, trying to impersonate a deity and deceive a believer is much harder than deceiving an ordinary mortal.” Nellie said with a wry smile, “It’s much more difficult than we imagined because this involves spiritual communication, rather than re language. Oracular ssages are about conveying a string of words directly into soone’s consciousness through a spiritual link, which seems very simple, even without the need to consider tone—just transmit the words directly. But the reality is far from simple. To deceive soone spiritually is countless tis harder than in the physical world because the characteristics of the spirit are so hard to imitate. The slightest misstep would reveal the deception, nullifying all the effort.”

“That is indeed challenging,” Pannis mused, frowning, “Especially since those moribunds are so familiar with Danacus, any discrepancy would be easily detected.”

“Exactly, it’s that difficult,” Nellie sighed, “To impersonate Danacus, I not only had to mimic his linguistic habits but also his way of thinking, even the atmosphere of his entire spiritual world. Only when I can mimic these closely enough did I dare to make brief contact with his followers. After more than a decade, I have managed so success and believed myself capable of fooling them. Therefore, more than four years ago, I began to make contact with them.”