Chapter 105 Fake Surrender

The Fisher family has sent people with a large number of gifts to negotiate with the Case family. Originally, the most suitable candidate for the peace talks was Byrne, but he always felt that he might not be able to come back after he went, so in the end he had to let Baron Leander negotiate on his behalf.

Byrne also wrote a letter in which he used as many servile and fawning words as possible, which could be said to be extremely flattering.

He claimed that the Fisher family was incapable of managing the village of Urd and had to ask the Case family to take over the management.

They voluntarily handed over all resources within the village of Urd to Baron Keith for safekeeping.

Because of Viscount Garcia's behind-the-scenes support, the Case family has always been arrogant in the Four Towns, and they are unaware that the Fisher family has found the Lion family as a deeply bound backer.

They would naturally feel that the Fisher family had been completely overwhelmed by fear and terror.

Next, the Case family will surely greedily find a way to occupy the town of Nasir.

But that would not be something that could be accomplished all at once. The Fisher family could try every means to delay for a few months, using all kinds of monetary gifts and verbal flattery to buy precious time.

As long as Chris can successfully step onto the third step of the Road to Tranquility in a few months, the plan to destroy the Case family will be implemented immediately.

The only request they made was that the Case family would release Theo's son.

Unexpectedly, the Case family accepted all the gifts but rejected Fischer's only request.

They were willing to accept the Fisher family's surrender and then immediately send their own people to the village of Urd, and those people would become the managers of the village again.

The Fisher family not only sent a batch of gifts to the Case family, they immediately started working on a second batch of expensive gifts.

Anyway, those extraordinary materials, gold coins, and alchemical props were just stored by the Case family for a few months, so Byrne and the others didn't feel too bad about it.

Only Irene felt confused and heart-broken when she saw that there was less money on the account, and she often sighed.

The precious time that is gained next is the Fisher family's preparation stage for war.

Byrne began to use his "deconstruction perspective" ability to focus on analyzing the specific material composition of the two masks of the Alchemy Council.

He discovered that the alchemical materials inside the white mask were very complex, and each alchemical material was of high value, while the ingredients of the low-quality dark gold mask were much cheaper.

Byrne began to try to imitate an alchemical item that could have a "shielding" effect.

In fact, he had been trying to create an alchemical potion that could change his appearance for a few years, but unfortunately he had never been successful.

Now with the ability of "deconstruction perspective", Byrne can instantly reverse the composition of all the materials in the mask, which can be said to be assisted by God.

Carl silently followed all the developments of the Fischer family, hoping that things would go smoothly.

If things didn't go well, he knew that Irene was ready to sacrifice herself completely.

At that time, Carl will not refuse the prayer and will fulfill Irene's wish to destroy the Case family and send her to the last journey of her short life.

He recently discovered that the mysterious objects that were dismantled did not disappear completely, but a vague shadow remained in the depths of the soul.

Simply put, all the runes in the mysterious objects can be disassembled into rune essence, and in fact, those rune essences can also be reconstructed into the original runes.

However, runes are like extremely complex building blocks.

It's easy to take them apart, but it's extremely difficult to put them back together without making any mistakes.

“It’s going to be tedious and complicated to piece it back together, but it’s still a good discovery.”

Carl was still very happy, because in the future he could disassemble the essence of the rune without restraint, and no longer feel it was a waste if the original rune disappeared.

If the new effect of a rune after evolution is incompatible with the paired Fisher family member, you can disassemble that rune and then piece it together with a rune that has been disassembled before and replace it.

For example, "Iron Wall" currently doesn't match Chris's sequence ability very well.

He thought about dismantling the "Iron Wall" and exchanging it for a rune for Chris one day in the future.

The replaced runes may be runes that have been obtained but dismantled, or they may be new runes obtained in the future.

"In short, the combinations of runes will be very flexible, and you no longer have to worry about mismatches or being dissatisfied with the effects of new evolutions."

The only problem is that it is easy to disassemble the rune, but it is extremely difficult to put it back together.

It takes a very long time to reconstruct the runes, otherwise he would have thought of immediately replacing Chris's "Iron Wall" with "Lightning Expulsion" or "Bad Blood".

But Carl was extremely bored to begin with, so he thought it was a way to have fun.

"Chris, are you done?"

In the alchemy workshop of the Fisher family estate, Chris silently wrote down his specific findings about the third-level promotion route as requested by Byrne.

"You actually discovered two routes?" Byrne was a little surprised after reading what he wrote.

After finishing writing, Chris put down his quill, nodded, and said nothing.

In fact, he accidentally discovered that in two situations, the spirituality would be suddenly mobilized and show signs of boiling.

The first situation is assassination.

As long as one kills people without being noticed, one's own spirituality will show signs of autonomous mobilization.

As for the second situation, when Chris was pretending to be a passerby, he found that his spiritual power could also be mobilized autonomously.

Moreover, he soon discovered that the mobilization efficiency of the second situation was even higher than the first, and it was easier to approach the boiling state.

Byrne thought for a moment, nodded in confirmation and said:

"Then it seems that it will be easier to take the second route. Your third-tier ability should be closer to 'disguise' rather than 'assassination'."

Chris also thought so and he expected that he would be promoted in a few months.

"Then we'll wait for you to come back."

After listening to Byrne's instructions, Chris went to say goodbye to his sister Irene and then left Fisher Manor.

He thought about it, but still didn't go to find Vanessa.

Chris then left Nasir alone in a carriage.

He came to the more populous city of Finn. As various factories were being built one after another, the city was now adding new population every day.

It is said that several families in the city make important decisions based on the suggestions of the Lion family.

They want to expand the urban area of ​​Fein and build several towns around Fein to alleviate the problems caused by the population explosion in the urban area.

Chris was very clear about one thing: building a new town would require a lot of money and would involve a lot of construction projects, which would ultimately lead to many complex conflicts.

But those had nothing to do with the Fisher family, and there was only one thing he had to do now.

The route of the promotion ceremony is "disguise".

According to Byrne's experience in being promoted to "Mystic Scholar", the more complicated the ritual steps, the greater the impact, and the more obvious the spiritual boiling.

For more than a year, Chris kept thinking about how he could completely disguise himself as another person.

Time is running out, and I must reach the third step as soon as possible.

The boy took a deep breath. Although he didn't communicate much with people, it didn't mean that he didn't value his family and friends.

He recalled the worry in Theo's eyes, the moment when Archibald was almost killed, and finally the broken bodies outside the factory, and Vanessa's sad and angry request in the rain.

Chris knew with absolute certainty that there was no more time.

If the Case family is not eliminated, the town of Nasir will be wiped out sooner or later, and Byrne, Irene, Vanessa, Archibald, and everyone in the Fisher family will lose their foothold.

Sister, I will never tolerate that scene ever happening.

He wanted to completely abandon himself, change himself, and become a completely different person.

The boy shaved off his smooth silver-white hair, endured the pain and cut messy wounds on his face with a dagger, and finally changed into a set of tattered clothes.

He came to the stinking muddy water. The boy in the water had completely lost his beautiful appearance and turned into an extremely ugly "dwarf". Chris jumped into the muddy water and it took him a long time to climb out.

At this time, Chris was completely dirty and exuded a strong stench.

It's very uncomfortable.

Chris suppressed his discomfort and closed his eyes.

He then came to a mining area outside the city of Fein, deliberately hunched over, and found a man who was responsible for recruiting people in the mine.

The man in charge of recruiting was surrounded by several thugs who were constantly patrolling the area. They all frowned when they smelled Chris' scent.

"What kind of pig is this thing, a disgustingly smelly dwarf!"

Chris didn't care. He walked slowly towards me as if he had been hungry for a long time, and suddenly uttered a series of begging words:

"I want a job. I'll do anything! I need the money!"

Even as he uttered these words, he could clearly feel his spirituality beginning to boil.

Although it did not last, that boiling moment was extremely obvious.

The man in charge of recruiting stared at the short, dirty, and ugly guy for a while, and suddenly laughed:

"Okay, shorty, but you won't be able to work for long in this state, so we can't give you money. We can only give you food. How about that?"

"You're not going to give me money? I, I..." Chris pretended to hesitate.

The man suddenly yelled in anger: "You are not satisfied with the food you gave me. If you don't want to do it, there are plenty of people who will do it. If you don't agree, get out!"

What he said was true. The number of immigrants to Fein City had increased dramatically recently, and there was no shortage of miners in the mining area, so the mine owner decided to reduce the labor cost as much as possible.

"I'll do it! I'm about to die, I'm willing to do anything!"

Chris yelled excitedly, his eyes widened, his whole body trembled, and he even spit out a few drops of saliva!

Killing is easy, talking...

So difficult.

(End of this chapter)