Volume 3, Chapter 73 – Our Lord

What the elf girl requested was for the Headless Knight Fischerna to halt her current plan to attack the Kingdom army at the Northern Fortress.

The reason she gave was also very appropriate, and in a certain sense, her words stirred Fischerna.

She wanted to agree to this outsider’s request. After all, if Fisiel really did betray the Kingdom, then this outsider who knew that information in advance, if not the mastermind, would definitely be someone who had helped push things along.

But…

“Why should I agree with you?”

Fischerna directly rejected the condition Xingyu Muxi had提出.

“Although Fisiel is my descendant, whether she chooses to betray the Kingdom or not actually has nothing to do with me. Why would you think that if she betrays the Kingdom, I absolutely have to stop my upcoming attack?”

“Well…”

Hearing the Headless Knight’s reasoning, Xingyu Muxi’s expression did not change at all.

“What you say does make sense. I admit there are some flaws in my words, that I was being a bit too self-important… but I really am advising you to stop the attack in this matter. After all, I want to invite you to join our Eden.”

“Join Eden?… I do not even know what Eden is, and you want me to join a force I know nothing about. If you were me, what do you think you would make of that?”

“If I were you, I would definitely choose to join Eden.”

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“Oh? So confident?”

To the elf girl who had entered the camp alone and was calmly talking with her without being servile or overbearing, although Fischerna knew she was an outsider, in her heart she still put a “brain type” label on this outsider in front of her.

And with an outsider like this, killing her would only make her revive anyway, so Fischerna neither wanted to, nor could be bothered, to strike her down.

Likewise, Fischerna found herself just a little bit interested in what Xingyu Muxi was saying.

“The Graveyard’s defeat is already a fact. No matter how you persist, in your heart you must be very clear that the undead of the Main Plane are only a step away from extinction, that it is only a matter of time, right?”

“…”

Fischerna did not speak to refute the girl, and in Xingyu Muxi’s eyes, that attitude was equivalent to acknowledging the point.

“The extinction of the undead is only a matter of time, and your choice to remain here and lead these undead is actually because you want to save them, right? To be precise, you want to save as much as possible of the undead army the Undead Grand Duke left behind…”

“That’s right, I do have that thought. But since you know the undead’s situation, where does your confidence come from to want me to join your Eden? You know very well that the undead have many enemies. Our joining you would just be another way of creating hatred for your Eden, wouldn’t it?”

Xingyu Muxi then explained it.

“Objectively speaking, that’s how it is. But… if you analyze it carefully, you’ll find out that while it looks like the undead joining would in turn create more enemies, no matter how many enemies there are, when it comes down to it there are only a few factions.”

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“The Kingdom Stronghold was crippled in the Graveyard War, so it’s nothing to fear. The Sanctuary likes seeing the Main World fall into greater and greater chaos. Inferno is locked in endless internal warfare of its own. The Academy maintains neutrality, and in theory as long as you do not threaten them they will not intervene. As for Nature, there’s no doubt that because of the previous great war the Nature Plane suffered heavy damage, and its internal has now fallen into endless conflict over the inheritance of the power of the Thrones. As for Fortress, separated from Inferno, what they love most is fighting the demons next door, so they basically have no hands free…”

“So… when you look at it like that, you’ll find out that even if you choose to join, up to now your enemies would only be the Kingdom and the Stronghold, just those two factions.”

Terrifying intelligence capabilities.

To Fischerna, her first impression after hearing all this was that the outsider in front of her seemed to possess an indescribably powerful information network.

The internal situation of the Eight Factions was crystal clear to this girl before her, and just by relying on that information, she already had the upper hand strategically.

“And besides, do you really think our Eden is just some tiny force cobbled together by outsiders?”

“Is it not?”

“It is not. Quite the opposite… in Eden, I’m just someone who offers strategies and plans. The true leader is not me, and likewise is not any other outsider.”

If it was not Xingyu Muxi and not an outsider, then the meaning in her words was already very clear.

“You’re saying Eden’s leader is…”

“That’s right, not an outsider. And actually, you should have some impression of our leader, shouldn’t you?”

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“Impression?”

For a moment, Fischerna was a bit puzzled.

It was clearly some unknown force. Just the name Eden was something she was hearing for the first time. For her to have an impression of its leader sounded far too contradictory…

Wait… an impression…

“That lord… you should have heard the Undead Grand Duke mention that name, right? After all, in the undead-occupied territories, the only existence who can move about freely is that lord, isn’t it?”

The “lord” Xingyu Muxi was talking about was actually that cute and silly loli Tianyin.

However, because Fischerna did not know Tianyin’s true appearance, and also because Tianyin had been specially looked after by the Undead Grand Duke Sargus, Xingyu Muxi deliberately used the address of “lord” to increase the weight of her words.

“So it was that lord… I remember back when the Grand Duke was still alive, he mentioned to us that we must not provoke the lord within the territory… because that lord also possessed a power of the Thrones not inferior to her own… I didn’t expect Eden’s leader would be that lord…”

If it was that lord, then everything made sense.

After all, a “lord” whom Sargus himself had said possessed power on par with his own would naturally not fear retaliation from the Kingdom and the Stronghold.

“That’s right. I am a close aide who serves at that lord’s side. And wanting you to join our Eden is actually something our lord instructed us to do…

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“Hm? A request from your lord?”

Because she now understood that Eden’s leader was also a Throne, and also seemed to have some relationship with the Undead Grand Duke Sargus, Fischerna’s attitude unexpectedly improved.

“Your lord wants me to lead the undead to join you?”

“That’s right… This is something our lord also requested. Before this, I did not want to expose our lord’s existence, but now I have no choice but to bring our lord up.”

“But… Why would that lord want us undead to join? If he takes us in, wouldn’t that expose your lord?”

“Our lord has considered that too. But the reason she wants to take you undead in is actually because, in the past, she made a promise to the late Undead Grand Duke… that when the time came, she would do everything in her power to help the Graveyard.”

“So… So it was our lord’s… the Grand Duke’s request?”

For some reason, after hearing that, Fischerna felt unbearably sad.

So sad that even the “our lord” she had just heard did not sound wrong to her at all.