Chapter 80 President of the Alchemist Council
"What? The girl was taken away?!"
When they heard the news, the two remaining members of parliament, Dippel and Gustavo Fring, went crazy.
Although he guessed that the ceremony of becoming a god would not be so smooth, this was too outrageous. Not only did the lich run away, but even the key girl ran away. There were also a large number of undead running around in the city, almost submerging the entire Alchemy City.
Dippel was very angry and wanted to call Gustavo Fring a waste. After all, this was his job.
But Dippel also understood that quarreling now would not solve any problems, so he suppressed his anger and said to Gustavo Flynn: "We must first solve the problem of these undeads. The girl must be taken back. Once they kill her, the plan will fail completely."
Gustavo Flynn frowned and said, "How did he know that girl was involved in the ritual?"
Until now, Gustavo Flynn has not been able to figure out why Amber seemed to know everything, as if he knew every detail of the ceremony in advance and hit the most critical points everywhere.
There is no way this secret could be leaked because only a few people know the full picture. The only ones who can truly grasp all the details are the remaining three members of the Alchemist Council.
One is Dippel, one is myself, and the last one is...
Gustavo Flynn turned his head and looked towards the location of the magic circle, just in time to see the gold coin waking up from the magic circle while stretching.
He woke up so quickly, the drug should still be effective for a long time.
Gold Coin yawned, then picked his ears leisurely, exhaled all the laziness he had just gotten out of bed, and then looked around. Finding that he had been sent to the sacrifice position, Gold Coin did not show a panic expression, but said to Gustavo Flynn through the magic circle: "Flynn, Dipper, what's wrong with you two? You look so ugly, is there another problem with the plan?"
These words were like a knife stabbing the two men in the waist. Could this plan be carried out? If not, they should prepare to run away.
Dipper asked in a gloomy tone: "Gold, are you the one who led those undead spirits into the city?"
After hearing this, the gold coin asked in surprise: "What does this have to do with me? Do I know those undead spirits?"
"Then why did the Undead Queen of the Underdark appear in the Alchemy City and secretly stay in the city, waiting to launch an attack when our plan begins? This Undead Queen has no hatred against us, and our rituals will not harm her in any way. It will be of no benefit for her to go against us!
"Tell me, if she didn't have a deal with someone, why would she do this? She even left the Underdark and came to the surface world in person! The only explanation is that you don't want to sacrifice yourself, so you deliberately found this Undead Queen to disrupt the ceremony!"
Dipper's repeated questions made Jinbi laugh out loud.
"Hahaha, it turns out that even a high-ranking legend can throw a tantrum like a child. I don't want to waste my time explaining such a boring question, because then I'll become a child like you.
"Dippel, if you have any doubts, why not start the ritual now and sacrifice me to see if I will despair or struggle? Then everything will be clear."
Jinbi's words were so casual that it seemed like he was talking about someone else's life or death, but it made Dippel waver. It seemed like it really wasn't him.
Gustavo Flynn also spoke up, "When we were discussing the sacrifice, Jinbi took the initiative to offer it. It doesn't seem like he's going to go back on his word. Maybe there was an oversight somewhere, so the lich guessed our plan. I'm afraid the undead have been preparing for a long time, so they made their move at such a critical moment, making us slow down every time. Now is not the time to discuss who leaked the information. The key now is how to take back the initiative."
Dippel frowned and said, "It's easy to kill people, but it's too difficult to save them."
Flesh and blood are weak and can be destroyed by any spell.
And if this druid girl cannot be sacrificed in the right place and at the right time, then it will be meaningless.
Therefore, they must be rescued alive first, and this is where the biggest trouble lies.
Who can have the confidence to rescue the living from the hands of an undead queen? Just when the two were at their wits' end, Gold Coin spoke again, "It's already the last moment, don't even think about solving it on your own, right? Alchemy City's greatest reliance has never been on people like us. The second, sixth, and 180th seats are actually just apprentices helping the president."
Gold Coin's words made both of them raise their heads and look at the president hanging in the air.
He still maintained his suffering posture and fanatical expression, but his consciousness seemed to be no longer in his body.
Dipper said: "The president has completely merged with the ritual magic circle. He can't leave now."
Gold Coin shook his head and said, "You underestimate the president. In fact, he knows all about the trouble we are facing now, but he doesn't want to intervene because we didn't ask for help. Don't you agree, president?"
As soon as Jinbi finished saying this, a ball of translucent energy floated out from the president's naked body, like a soul leaving his body.
However, this soul was very different from the hunchbacked body. The president in the soul state was a tall and majestic old man, with a faint halo emanating from his body, appearing extremely sacred.
This is the real president of the Alchemist Council, the real legendary alchemist, Gary Watts.
“President!”
Dippel and Gustavo Fring said in unison, but the old man's soul just waved his hand regretfully.
Gary Wozniacki showed no emotion towards these two companions he had known for many years. He just said calmly: "I know everything. Let me handle it."
After saying this, regardless of what they thought, Gary Wozniak turned into a shadow, passed through the thick ceiling, and flew towards the ground.
Compared with the chaos and unrest in the sewer, Amberxiu seemed very comfortable.
He only needs to follow the Withered Rose and do nothing else.
What is a legend? It is a strong person who can only be dealt with by legends. As Amber Xiu followed the Withered Rose, he really experienced this feeling of being invincible.
Unlike a fake like him, Withered Rose is a true master of necromancy. During her journey, she did not lose any Death Knights around her. Instead, she gained a bunch of staggering zombies and hundreds of puppets.
The most terrifying thing about the undead siege is that their numbers keep increasing, and when the snowball starts rolling, no one can resist it.
The biggest mistake of the Alchemy City was that it failed to drive the Withered Rose out of the city, and most of the huge and sophisticated city defense system was destroyed.
The undead have already entered the city, and it will be destroyed at any moment.
But Amberxiu did not come to attack the city, he came to seize the final fruit of the prayer ceremony.
Therefore, Amberxiu did not waste time in street fighting with those administrators and puppets. He occupied one of the seven towers in the Alchemy City, asked the Withered Rose to set up defenses, and then hid in the tower with the druid girl.
This is a tower created by the God of Alchemy, a divine tool used to nail those lunatics to the pillar of shame. It is considered indestructible. If you want to come in and rob people, you have to fight your way up layer by layer.
The tower had long been deserted, and Amber took Naomi to the top floor without any hindrance.
When Amber put the person down, Naomi woke up from her coma.
Amber Xiu said awkwardly: "Tsk, my magic power has weakened, and I didn't pay attention to the time."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
The strength of a spell is related to magic power. After Amber's rebirth, his strength has been greatly weakened, and the effect of his sleeping spell has become much worse.
As soon as Naomi woke up, she hid in the corner in panic, quickly transformed into a black panther, and growled at Amber.
"Don't yell at me, I'm your savior." said Amber Xiu.
Naomi said angrily, "You! You killed my people!"
"Correction, it was a group of tribesmen who wanted to sacrifice you. Never mind, since you are already awake, let your tribesmen explain it to you themselves."
Amber snapped his fingers, and Van Jones, who had turned into a zombie, walked up to Naomi with an expressionless face.
Naomi stepped back cautiously, but found that there was a wall behind her. She had nowhere to retreat. She could only choke and shout, "Uncle Jones, wake up!"
Van Jones stood still, then said in a cold tone: "Naomi Watts, you must die!"
Naomi said in disbelief: "What did you say?!" But soon, Naomi turned her head and looked at Amber Xiu, and said angrily: "You controlled Uncle Jones, I won't believe it."
Amber Xiu said indifferently: "It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not, just treat it as a story and don't cause trouble for me at this time."
After saying this, Amber searched the room, found a pile of parchment, and began to draw on it.
Naomi doesn't understand what Amber is doing, but Van Jones, who has turned into a zombie, will only obey Amber's orders.
"Naomi Woz, you must die. You are the blood relative of Gary Woz, the president of the Alchemist Council. Your sacrifice is related to a secret ritual of the Alchemy City. If the ritual succeeds, the Alchemy City will disappear completely, and this land will become the territory of us Shadow Druids."
"Shadow Druid?! No, that's impossible!"
Shadow Druids belong to a very extreme association, which is completely different from other druid associations that advocate peaceful coexistence between humans and nature. They believe that the existence of any mortal is destroying nature.
Balance is an illusion. Wherever mortals step on it, they will suffer.
Unity is a lie, and mortals only want to tame the beasts and burn the wilderness.
We are the thunder, we are the storm. We will destroy the ignorant and reckless mortals and make a pure world for new life!
This is the oath of the Shadow Druid, to destroy the mortals and return the world to nature, and the Shadow Druid will also return to the embrace of nature at the final moment.
While drawing his draft, Amber Xiu also took the time to sneer: "It's the racial discrimination again, religious lunatics, academic lunatics, and environmental lunatics... They are even more twisted than us undead."
"No, this is not true! I am an abandoned baby picked up by you. If I were the child of the president of the Alchemy City, how could I be abandoned?"
Naomi's voice was filled with despair. She couldn't accept this truth. Doesn't that mean that all the care and love she had received since she was a child were fake? Her adoptive parents, brothers and sisters, and the memories between her tribe were all fake? Did they raise her to kill her? Naomi trembled all over, wishing she could throw herself on Van Jones and rip his throat to stop him from talking.
But before she could launch an attack, an old voice suddenly came to Naomi's ears.
"Child, what he said is true, because it was me who ordered you to be abandoned."
As the voice fell, a translucent figure penetrated the indestructible outer wall of the tower and entered the room.
Gary Watts, president of the Alchemist Council, has arrived.
(End of this chapter)