Capítulo 720: Chapter 238 Preparation

People around him in danger?

Watching the change of the text, Anvis squinted his eyes slightly.

To be able to interfere with his divination results, the adversary must be no ordinary force. Moreover, having conducted such vague divinations only twice, his strength of being Favored by Destiny had actually depleted nearly a thousand units!

Though this had little impact on his current total, which had already reached six figures, this made Anvis even more curious about the origin of the other party.

Though he had some guesses in his mind, for caution’s sake, Anvis still picked up the pen and swiftly wrote a new word on the paper.

‘Friend’

After a while, the silver text remained unchanged.

“… Not them, after all?”

With a sigh in his heart, Anvis no longer hesitated and finally wrote down that word.

‘Family’

But this time, the divination ritual underwent an unexpected and extraordinary change beyond Anvis’s anticipation.

As he lifted the pen, the silver text on the paper first turned an almost bewitchingly phantom purple in an instant, then the color gradually deepened, finally morphing into a near eerie green.

The originally liquid Moonlight Mercury ink had been ‘ignited’ by some invisible fierce flames, madly twisting on the Dragon Skin Paper, leaving behind trails emitting an unnatural stench from the charred marks.

Anvis felt as if he could sense, from beyond the distant starry sky, an unknown form of Great Existence that peered through these words, casting a gaze towards this place.

However, at that moment, the Mystery Locks of Pamir Academy seemed stimulated, abruptly increasing their shielding intensity, even blocking that peering gaze for a moment.

At the same time, the Ancient Secret Scripture on Anvis’s body, previously still, suddenly lit up; the pages flipped open on their own, greedily absorbing the word on the Dragon Skin Paper—quietly burning with a greenish flame—into its pages.

As the characters vanished, that strange spying gaze lost its coordinates and could do nothing but reluctantly disperse.

“Green Flame? Songxing Secret Sect?”

Witnessing this scene, Anvis knew he could no longer continue with the divination.

Even if he forcibly continued the prophecy, not only would it bring no results, but it might even draw further attention from ‘that existence.’

But at least, he had now pinpointed the most likely identity of the enemy.

Ever since the Yar Continent erupted into years of wars, the Alien God Sects emerged like mushrooms after rain, exploiting the time when the great empires’ ruling classes and the Church Court were too exhausted by the war to spread wildly.

As one of the oldest Heritage Sects of the Alien God Church, ‘Songxing Secret Sect’ incited wars everywhere while the Church Court was busy containing the expansion of the Overlap Area, seemingly with the aim of hastening this expansion to cover the Yar Continent.

Moreover, they had launched an attack on Fiona before; if it were not for the desperate resistance by the many Ninth Rank experts of the two major families, and the covert assistance from Anvis in his Truth Circle identity, operating the Floating City, they might have succeeded in their attempt.

With this in mind, Anvis took out the Crystal Ball to contact Duke Carrot, to ensure his family was preemptively on guard against the Songxing Secret Sect’s assault.

“… No response? What’s going on?”

But this time, there was no reply from the Duke to his call for a long while.

Realizing something was amiss, Anvis immediately got in touch with Duchess Elena and the steward Leonard.

“Your father? He just recently received a call for aid from the Ninth Rank Uncle Pomona and has gone to provide assistance; he hasn’t returned yet.

It is said the enemy are people from the Songxing Secret Sect, and that they were also behind the previous attack on your sister Fiona,”

On the other end of the Crystal Ball, Elena, looking at the solemn Anvis, tenderly comforted him.

“Don’t worry, Anvis, he not only took the family’s powerful Mysterious Object but also notified the Alfred Family of the Ninth Rank to be on their guard; nothing will go wrong.”

Although she said this, the way her fingers unconsciously twirled a strand of golden hair suggested that the Duchess’s emotions were not as calm as they appeared on the surface.

“By the way, His Grace left a message before he departed, cautioning us to be on guard against a possible attack from the Songxing Secret Sect and to strengthen the protections around Miss Fiona.”

When the Duchess ceased to speak, the impeccably groomed, silver-haired butler with his black suit neatly pressed, Leonard, spoke up.

“…Is it possible to monitor the current status of my father?”

There was nothing Anvis could do about this result, after all, the movements of the Duke were beyond his prediction.

“There have been no abnormalities with the Life Crystal Ball that His Grace left in the family, Lord Anvis, but the specific location remains undetermined.”

Leonard shook his head; he had already been asked by Elena to check on it previously.

“I see, then I have no further questions.”

After communication ended, Anvis’s thoughts coincidentally aligned with the Duke’s prior speculation.

The Songxing Secret Sect would not attack a Ninth Rank without reason; it’s meaningless and quite dangerous. They must be planning to use this act to achieve some other sufficiently valuable goal.

And Fiona fits this criterion perfectly.

Of course, there is also the possibility that the Duke himself might be in danger.

But currently, the Duke’s whereabouts are unknown, and he had gone to rescue Pomona, who is also of the Ninth Rank. With two Ninth Rank powerhouses together, the possibility of a real crisis is not high, it is more likely that they are merely temporarily trapped.

At present, his alter ego, playing ‘Levin Boli,’ the Deputy to Fiona, has not detected any unusual circumstances either.

However, during this period when the Eldest Prince and the Fourth Princess have reignited the internal strife, if we assume that both the Duke and Pomona have been trapped at the same time, then the Truth Circle is likely to take the opportunity to launch another attack amid the chaos.

After some thought, Anvis temporarily allocated more power to his ‘Levin Boli’ persona and shifted greater attention to that side.

….

In Karlars Province, Star Domain.

At this moment, Fiona was holding a tea party in the garden of the Lord Mansion with Princess Auswia and several other noble ladies.

Although the internal conflict had erupted again, the Four Provinces of the Empire had not yet been drawn into it. The war was still far from the young ladies, and Auswia would occasionally take some leisure time here.

As a Ninth Rank powerhouse, she can also use multiple personas to handle various matters at the same time, and the value of Fiona herself justifies a greater investment and collaboration.

The purpose of this tea party was for emotional exchange and to share bits of gossip and anecdotes, which often hold unique value.

“…In times of peace, you can find many pleasures at the Twin Cape in Paravani Province, where, apart from seeing the legendary mermaids and the giant sea monsters they domesticate, you’ll find the most beautiful coastlines in the entire Empire. Isn’t that right, Lilin?”

Clasping a cup of tea embedded with tiny silver blossoms, a pink-haired noble lady casually remarked.

“Indeed, there’s also the best and freshest delicacies produced in the Black Zither Sea. Some specialty foods truly can only be enjoyed locally at Twin Cape.

Only after tasting freshly grilled deep-sea black abalone and slices of silver dart flying fish caught less than one Magic Time ago do you understand what real living is!”

A black-haired noble lady also spoke up in agreement.

“It sounds delightful.”

Seated in the center of everyone, Fiona was somewhat curious; due to her identity, she had almost never left Karlars Province.

“If it’s convenient, how about we have our next gathering there? I happen to own a lovely manor there with a view of the submarine rainbow phenomenon that occurs every three years during the rainbow bass migration.”

Seeing Fiona’s curiosity, Princess Auswia took the initiative to invite.