Chapter 364 Osman's Plan

When the first rays of morning light shone on the spire of St. Peter's Basilica, Arthur, wearing the papal vestments, sat quietly in a chair with a red velvet back.

This was his daily routine. The Saxon family's lost and regained papacy, coupled with the throne of the Farouk Kingdom, gave him a real sense of power.

Soon, sunlight came into the room and hit his face, awakening his wandering consciousness.

The attendant walked into the Pope's Hall and respectfully handed over a document: "Your Majesty, the Church of the God of Life sent an envoy to deliver a letter."

"Well, what did you call me?"

"Uh, Your Majesty, please forgive me."

The attendant immediately changed his words, saying that he was originally the king's guard, and now that Arthur became Pope, he still served as an attendant.

Now the king handles church affairs in the church in the morning and government affairs in the palace in the afternoon. He occasionally calls by the wrong name, and it is difficult to change the habit in a short time.

"In the church, I am the Pope, and in the palace, I am the King. The two cannot be confused."

Arthur took the letter while lecturing. When he read its contents, his mood suddenly became not so good.

It is absolutely bombastic news that Pope Flando of the Church of the God of Life has become a fifth-level transcendent.

Arthur frowned and raised his hand to his forehead. As far as he knew, all the popes of the churches took office more than a hundred years ago. In theory, the life source of these people must be damaged, and normally they cannot make any further progress on the path to becoming a transcendent.

Now that Flando has advanced to the fifth level, she must have made up for the damaged source of life. I don’t know if it’s because the Church of the God of Life has some secret technique, or if Flando’s divine bloodline has been further activated.

Flando is preparing to hold a meeting and invite the popes of all churches to participate to discuss how to unite to fight against the increasingly imminent threat of the evil god. The time is set for three months later.

Arthur fell into deep thought, trying to guess the other party's purpose. Since they wanted to form a union, it would inevitably involve the election of a leader. There were undercurrents between the churches, and it would be difficult to reach a consensus.

After thinking for a while, he wrote a reply.

This meeting must be attended. If you do not attend, you will be excluded from various actions by other churches.

There was another thing that bothered him. The Kingdom of Farouk had always been called a barbaric land by those southern churches. He planned to invite Clown to attend the meeting.

As for the fifth-level extraordinary person, the Church of the Lord of Fire also has one, and he is the first fifth-level extraordinary person in the entire continent.

As the Pope, it is also quite prestigious to have such subordinates.

You are a fifth-order extraordinary person, haha, and it just so happens that our church has a bishop! After writing the letter, Arthur stamped it with the church seal and the Pope's private seal, and handed it to the attendant: "Seal it and give it to the messenger of the Church of the God of Life."

The attendant took the letter and left. Just as he left, another bishop came in.

"Your Majesty, the River Valley Province has sent us the latest battle report. The number of murlocs going upstream has decreased recently compared to the past, but they have also become stronger. There are many third-order extraordinary murlocs, and even silver-level murlocs can be found occasionally.

The casualties among the soldiers were great. If not for the considerable number of murlocs continuing to move north, they would have been unable to hold on. Prince Sean requested that His Majesty send troops to assist. "

"Well," Arthur slapped his forehead heavily, feeling aggrieved.

Because of Osman's betrayal, many of the church's fourth-level extraordinary people were killed in the battle. If another member of the royal family had not become a silver-level extraordinary person, the situation in the Valley Province would have been even worse.

Send troops? The Vatican's standing army now only has some low-level troops left, and Osman is still hiding in the dark, so he has almost no troops to send.

But now the Valley Province is entirely guarded by the family's Silver Transcendents. They also know the situation they are facing, and would not ask for help unless they were forced to do so.

"Connie Salgado will be promoted to Silver Knight in a few days. I will write an order and issue it in the name of the king to mobilize the troops of the Salgado family to support the River Valley Province. Prince Sean, please be patient."

Arthur made the decision. To put it bluntly, the king's family was not the only one in the kingdom. He was just the head of the most powerful family.

There are also many great nobles who own territories, and their strength should not be underestimated.

Sending great nobles to participate in the war now will inevitably involve some exchange of interests.

He thought for a while, then wrote a letter and sent it to the Rhine Diocese.

In the wilderness filled with gray fog, various beast roars could be heard one after another, and the screams of animals could be heard from time to time.

On top of the boulder, a strange red magic circle flickered with an ominous light.

A huge snake as thick as a bucket was placed in the magic circle. Its size gradually shrank and finally it completely decayed into a ball of mud.

The silver solution flowed on the magic circle like a rushing river, and finally gathered into a thumb-sized silver ball.

This is the blood essence of the giant snake. The extraction array has been continuously improved by him and has become more efficient. It has concentrated all the vitality of the creature into the blood essence.

The giant snake is a fourth-order extraordinary creature, and is not far from the fifth order. If it had not encountered Osman, it would have completed the advancement within two years. From this point of view, the giant snake can be considered "extraordinary" and its endowment is stronger than that of most humans.

Osman reached out, picked up the small ball, and threw it to the distorted-faced "companion" beside him, a humanoid alchemical creature.

The disastrous defeat in Bligh City made him realize that no matter how many low-level subordinates he had, their usefulness was limited.

If he had put all his effort into nurturing a bloodline alchemy beast to the fifth level at that time, the two of them would definitely not be the loser if they joined forces.

Nourished by the essence of its blood, a powerful wave of spiritual energy emanated from the alchemy beast. White "silk threads" spurted out from its pores, quickly wrapping the alchemy beast tightly and finally forming a huge cocoon.

Feeling the vigorous heartbeat inside the giant cocoon, Osman's expressionless face showed a hint of a smile. The Alchemy Beast is about to evolve to level five!

During this period, he sneaked into the Kingdom of Ribia, killed several silver-rank archbishops, and killed countless fishmen and monsters.

Among them were two fourth-level deep divers. Now he had finally recovered from his injuries and trained an alchemical beast to the fifth level.

If Prince Sean, who guards the Valley Province, knew about his efforts, he would definitely applaud. If it weren't for his efforts, more murlocs would attack the Valley Province, and the Valley might have fallen.

Osman showed an evil smile on his face. He planned to train a few more fifth-level alchemical beasts and return to the Kingdom of Farouk to take back everything he had lost.

If the alchemy beast wants to advance, it just needs to devour enough. If the quality is not enough, the quantity can make up for it. Now that he has a helper, he can make a big move.

Possessing endless knowledge, he has developed a magical ability. As long as he can eat the brain of a creature, he can change into the appearance of that creature, and even simulate the soul fluctuations to be exactly the same as the reference creature.

This ability was inspired by shapeshifters and is the result of decades of research by a warlock.

Osman's first stop was to go to Rhine City, find Klauen who had hurt him, kill him secretly, and then take everything from him.

Then use this as a springboard to achieve the goal of replacing Arthur.

He already has a way to break the ability that allows him to stay still.

The reason why Arthur was not set as the first target was that the magic circle of St. Peter's Basilica was not destroyed on a large scale by him, and the protection magic circle of the Holy See should have been repaired and put into use.

As a former Pope, he knew very well how powerful the magic circle of St. Peter's Basilica was.

So he had to take a detour and deal with Clown first, and then use Clown's blood essence to see if it was possible to go further and reach the sixth level. He felt there was great hope.

Golden light radiated outward from Crown's body and lasted for half a minute.

After finishing the visualization of the Great Circulation, Crown opened his eyes.

He stood up from his cross-legged position and walked to the window.

Outside the window, the setting sun is as red as blood, and it will be night soon.

The Golden Light Mantra advances to the fifth level. The double portion of Sun Fire Liquid or Moon Dew obtained through visualization increases the time by one hour each. Only the midnight and 11pm hours do not have the double effect.

As he stood up, Eliza, Nick, Fanny and others who were participating in the visualization stood up, said goodbye and left.

Now, Crown leads the Dao Seed holders in visualization during the day and performs alchemy at night to obtain mithril.

Now more and more people are close to breaking through to the silver rank. Even if you trade the Golden Light Potion with the Brotherhood, you still can't get enough Mithril.

Everyone knows that Mithril has become a better hard currency than Golden Spirit Coin.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

The gap Fanny needed was huge. The Brotherhood could only offer a maximum of twenty pounds as a bargaining chip, but there was still a gap of ten pounds.

Crown planned to help Fanny advance to Silver first, so that he would feel more at ease when he left.

If Fanny advances, relying on the protective magic circle, even if a fifth-level extraordinary creature comes, she can resist for several months, provided that she is not defeated by the enemy from the inside.

Now the entire city of Hamers has been completely closed, and anyone who wants to enter it must undergo strict inspection.

He called Fanny and said:

"In ten days at most, I will be able to refine enough Mithril."

"That's great. Thank you for your help. I feel that my life essence is increasing faster. I am more confident that I can cross this threshold and fulfill my wish of advancing to Silver."

Fanny's face was filled with joy. She would reach the pinnacle of the third level earlier than expected. Now she could get the mithril earlier than originally planned, and it would be smoother for her to advance to the silver level.

The others said goodbye to Crown and left, and soon only his own people - Eliza and the three tamed beasts - were left in the room.

Although he advanced to become a sixth-level transcendent, Crown had new troubles.

Now he has 21 extra golden Dao seeds in his hand, and he is worried about who to give them to, because everyone he is familiar with already has Dao seeds.

Tao seeds cannot be given out casually. The higher the qualifications of the holder, the less extra care he needs.

People with good qualifications have more advantages whether they are climbing to the peak of the path of the extraordinary or practicing the level of the Golden Light Mantra.

Excellent people can provide him with more proficiency, so of course he has to select them carefully.

The Golden Light Mantra advanced to the fifth level. When Dao Seed holders meditated for the same amount of time, the proficiency gained by Clown decreased slightly, only about 60% of the previous level.

Therefore, he made higher demands on the Dao Seed holders.

Arcturus came over and licked the back of his master's hand in a flattering manner.

Probably due to Crown's advancement, the Northern Giant Bear advanced to the third level, half a year earlier than expected. The giant bear's body is stronger than that of an ordinary adult giant bear. I wonder if it has entered the adult cycle ahead of time.

Eliza smiled and said, "I feel that the level of the Golden Light Mantra is not far from being advanced. The Golden Light Mantra can accelerate the growth of the origin of life. Maybe in a few years, I will touch the threshold of the silver level."

What she said was actually very conservative. At the current growth rate, it would take less than a year to reach the threshold.

Klauen nodded and smiled bitterly. "After negotiation with the Brotherhood, we will use Mithril to settle the sales of Golden Light Potion in the future."

He had a hunch that those who held the Golden Light Dao Seed would reach the threshold of the silver rank more quickly, so he had to plan ahead and prepare more mithril.

His power will only be truly formed when some Dao Seed holders enter the silver level.

After thinking for a while, Clown decided to spend one to two hours every day to refine the mithril after returning from the Vatican.

The reason for his trip to the Vatican was that after advancing to the sixth level, he needed to refer to the experience of his predecessors to see what preparations were needed to achieve the Stigmata Gold.

Fortunately, his alchemy is strong enough and efficient enough, otherwise he would have to invest more time.

Eliza said, “I will apply to the family headquarters to see if I can purchase a batch of mithril.

You said you got some Dao seeds again. I wonder if Aunt Audrey can get one. If more powerful people emerge from the McLean family branch, it will be beneficial to us. The two families are close allies. "

The Moya family's castle is located very close to the McLean family, so the two sides can take care of each other.

She is now the mistress of the Moya family, and she will consider everything that is beneficial to the family.

You are really my good wife. Audrey is at the silver level. Assuming that the Dao Seed holders practice visualization for the same amount of time every day, the level of the Golden Light Mantra of these people is the same. The proficiency obtained by the fourth-level extraordinary is more than ten times that of the third-level extraordinary.

Crown took his wife's hand and said with a smile:

"If Audrey agrees, I have no problem with that. If anyone else in the McLean family wants to obtain the Tao Seed, that's fine too.

But there is one condition: if you want to be granted the Golden Light Dao Seed, the applicant must be at least at the third level."

How could Crown refuse such a request? He wished all his followers were at the silver level.

It is unknown how long the Moya family will have to wait before they can expand their branches.

There are now more than two hundred members of the McLean family who have arrived in Hamers City, including eight third-level extraordinary people. Together with servants, there are more than a thousand people stationed here.

It shouldn't be difficult to pick out a few with good qualifications.

Eliza said confidently:

"I think my aunt will definitely agree. No extraordinary person would refuse to achieve higher achievements."

She only needed to show Audrey her recent achievements, which would surely arouse her strong interest. She was very confident that she could convince her.

Everyone wants to become stronger, and the desire of the extraordinary people is even stronger.

(End of this chapter)