Volume 6, Chapter 24 – Yelena’s Ideas Are Sometimes Quite Extreme

In the Lingyuan family’s conference room, the holographic projection of the territorial map was still lit, the markers for the Vassals of Sky and Sea territories like two heavy ink blots that made even the air feel oppressive.

“Uh, Yelena, are you… serious?”

After processing the words Yelena had just spoken, Bai Lianyue asked in considerable bewilderment.

The black-haired girl looked at Bai Lianyue’s shocked expression, her red eyes showing not the slightest wavering, instead carrying a few traces of unquestionable rationality:

“Big Sister, I’m completely serious.”

As she spoke, the Black Witch raised her hand to control the projection, and the areas of the Westivian Covenant, Kingdom of Qingyun, and Maretide Kingdom on the map immediately displayed dense clusters of red and blue dots:

“Taking these three countries where we have the highest level of infiltration as examples. What we currently have in our grasp—people willing to listen to us—are only the most core figures of these three nations: the King of Qingyun, the Saint of the Maretide Kingdom, and the President of the Westivian Covenant. Though they’re all the highest-ranking figures, the nobles beneath them, local warlords, and Divine Faith forces are all taking a wait-and-see approach and don’t really follow their arrangements. The Corrupted Beast attack on Qingyun’s border a few days ago was a perfect example. The Dragon Kings of the Vassals of Sky could easily break through the defense line precisely because the border lord actively withdrew his defenses—he thought defecting to the Celestial Blight would preserve his territory and life, never knowing that Ulutiel would immediately have the Dragon King burn his fief to ashes and grant all his family members Ulutiel’s so-called ‘love.'”

“Similar incidents have happened even more frequently around the Maretide Kingdom. Humans often make incredibly foolish decisions.”

“Though we can use the leaders of the three major nations to issue policies for cooperation with the Terrabond Lineage, such policies will inevitably face opposition from various domestic forces. There will definitely be plenty who won’t cooperate or who will comply superficially while opposing secretly. Not following commands during wartime could be fatal.”

“Originally, I wanted to use those high-ranking officials as a starting point to gradually change these nations’ views of our clan through subtle influence… but that would also take time—at least five or six years. Right now, we don’t have that time.”

“Using the Salvation Game’s contract bindings to control all the high-ranking officials, especially those who hold military power. Only this way can we minimize the possibility of those idiots causing trouble and reduce our risks. Only this way can we get human armies to cooperate with us against the forces of the Vassals of Sky and Sea. If anyone really refuses to sign contracts, we’ll have no choice but to kill them and find replacements.”

Listening to Yelena’s words, Bai Lianyue fell into brief silence.

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Using contracts to bind others and force them—how was this different from House Solrog? Bai Lianyue felt somewhat resistant deep down.

“Are there other methods?”

“Yes.”

“What?” Bai Lianyue blinked curiously.

What came next was an answer that made her entire body tremble.

“We do it ourselves and wipe out the five human nations.”

“What? What? Yelena, are you serious?”

Hearing this, Yelena turned an increasingly chilling and serious gaze toward Bai Lianyue.

“Yes, I’m serious, Big Sister.”

Yelena replied without hesitation.

“After these recent major battles, nearly half of the top-tier experts in the human world have died or been wounded. Their overall combat power is far inferior to what it was a few years ago. In this situation, if they can’t follow our unified command, they’ll just become experience points for the other two factions. After being killed, their flesh will become new Corrupted Beasts, and their resentment will become energy to strengthen those two factions. Rather than that, we might as well do it ourselves.”

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“…..”

“Using the high-ranking contractors in the human world as cover, we’ll deploy large numbers of Terrabond Lineage Crimson Hex Tier Corrupted Beasts into the human world, then launch large-scale Abyss Hex techniques in one decisive strike before the Vassals of Sky and Sea can react, eliminating as many humans as possible. Of course, we’d preserve some humans in the central regions of the human world. After that, we’d assimilate all the killed humans into Terrabond Lineage Corrupted Beasts and absorb their resentment. This way, our Terrabond Lineage’s power would surpass the other two factions.”

“That’s… that’s way too ruthless.”

“It’s nothing. If we lose, humans will be eliminated anyway. This way, they’d at least preserve some embers. With those tens of millions of survivors, they could still make a comeback after all the Corrupted Beasts are eliminated.”

Yelena answered quite calmly, her eyes showing not the slightest trace of hesitation or mercy.

“Big Sister, what do you think?” Yelena asked.

“This… ugh.”

The evil god miss couldn’t help but sigh. Although Yelena’s methods were very extreme, undeniably… this could indeed deal with the alliance between Ulutiel and Polarvitan.

She was already heavily burdened with sin—adding a bit more might not matter.

“Large-scale slaughter is out of the question. The risk is too great—if Ulutiel and Polarvitan take advantage of the situation, it would be trouble. Let’s go with limited control of core leadership. Those who won’t cooperate… as you said, we’ll kill them.”

Let’s kill as few as possible.

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She didn’t want to become some terrifying executioner in her child’s eyes.

While answering, Bai Lianyue rubbed the head of baby Xing Wu in her arms with complex emotions. At this moment, Xing Wu had also fallen unusually quiet, silently watching the projection map nearby.

“Understood, Big Sister.”

As if she had already guessed Bai Lianyue’s answer, Yelena smiled lightly and nodded.

“So how exactly do you plan to do this? There are quite a few people who need to be bound by contracts.”

“Indeed, quite a few. But it’s not difficult. Big Sister, have you forgotten about the high-ranking officials of those three nations we control? We just need to use them. For instance, having them issue a joint statement inviting high-ranking officials and important figures from local forces of the five major nations to come to Clavino to discuss alliance matters for jointly confronting Corrupted Beasts. With the Vassals of Sky and Sea being so rampant right now, I believe most people won’t refuse this invitation. Then we can catch them all in one net.”

“I see…”

“Also, controlling the leadership’s will isn’t enough—we need to resolve civilian hostility toward us as much as possible. For this, we’ll need to trouble Big Sister.”

“Trouble me?”

Pointing at herself, Bai Lianyue blinked in confusion.

“I’ll arrange missions for Big Sister when the time comes. Things like helping repel vassals from the Vassals of Sky and Sea, rescuing civilians infected by miasma… Though humans’ views of the Terrabond Lineage can’t be completely changed in the short term, we can at least dilute their resistance psychology a bit and pave the way somewhat for cooperation.”

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“Alright, I understand. I’ll cooperate with you as much as possible. You can go ahead and handle the rest.”

The evil god miss nodded. She quite trusted this friend of hers.

“Also, we’ll need Miss Ailiya’s help.”

“Ai’er?”

“Yes, we need to use her identity as a Divine-Graced Maiden to endorse our faction. But before that, we need to significantly boost her public support.”

Cupping her face in her hands, Yelena spoke while thinking.

However, before Yelena could explain the specific operations to Bai Lianyue, urgent knocking suddenly came from outside the conference room door.

Soon after, a Lingyuan family maid stumbled through the door in a panic, her face pale as paper, forehead covered in cold sweat, her voice trembling:

“Madam… ah no, Young Mistress! And Lady Yelena! This is terrible! Wishaven… Wishaven has erupted in large-scale protest marches! Several thousand people have already rushed to the estate gates!”

Yelena: ?? What the hell?

Translator Note

What the helly