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"Enough!" the leader said angrily, and knocked the floor hard with the staff in his hand, making a thudding sound.
Wang: "Come on, we are trying to get to the bottom of the matter. Do you see the girl next to me? Can you comment on her appearance?"
"What good can be said about such an ugly thing?"
Wang and Lily looked at each other.
Lily: "It seems that Ragnora can also affect human cognition and mind."
Wang: "Now we have encountered three Blasphemers, including the Eye Demon and the Mind Flayer, who are all beings with very strong psychic abilities. These guys with strong psychic abilities are more easily affected when they encounter beings with stronger psychic abilities.
"Mind flayers will unconditionally obey their own brains and rarely maintain self-awareness."
He looked at the virtual image of the leader and said, "Don't you feel anything at all? You have been contaminated by Ragnora. What we are interested in now is how you were contaminated in the first place."
"I'm not corrupted! I've seen the ultimate secrets of the universe and mastered the common sense of the universe. Look at Catalai, who I control! At the beginning, this was a country where the rich lived in luxury while the poor froze to death on the streets. Ordinary people could only survive in this country! But look at Catalai now!"
Wang: "That's not your credit, it's the credit of the general trend of economic development. I guess your Catalonia was just at a time when the handicraft industry had reached a bottleneck and capitalism encountered obstacles, and then you came up and redistributed the pie, and the economy got better."
He paused and continued, "By the way, the Emperor of Monrovia is doing the same thing. It can be predicted that Monrovia's national strength will also increase rapidly in a short period of time. Can it be said that the Emperor of Monrovia has also grasped the same truth as you?"
"You!" The leader was speechless and couldn't utter a word after holding it in for a long time.
Wang continued to attack: "What? Are you surprised? You tried to preach to us and convince us that the way we are dealing with the crisis now is wrong, but I took away their underwear... Uh, does Catalai wear underwear?"
Wang turned and asked Lily.
Lily spread her hands and said, "How would I know? You've at least read the Gralia Chronicle written by your...your teacher. I haven't read it, and I don't have your photographic memory. It's already very hard for me to learn all the magic-related knowledge."
Flint, who had been unable to get a word in, quickly interjected: "They don't wear this. It's too hot."
Wang: "Ah, it seems that there is something wrong with what I said just now, but it doesn't matter. Anyway, you have been exposed now, so don't think you can fool us. One day we will expose all of you! You, and the blasphemers who gave you faith, all of you!"
The leader laughed loudly: "It's a good thing to be confident. You are clearly in my trap, but you are still so shameless! Think about how to say goodbye to your subordinates!"
Hearing the leader say this, the dwarf shouted: "Attention! The enemy is about to attack!"
Wang Ye took a defensive stance, holding the dragon head staff in his left hand and the materials for casting his most powerful AOE spell "Advanced Roar" in his right hand.
However, everyone was on guard for ten seconds, and no one launched an attack.
The leader in the projection was also confused: "What's going on? Where are my ambush troops?"
He shouted to someone outside the projection range: "Where is our ambush team? That monastery ruins! What? Fled? Where is he? Ran away?"
The king laughed loudly: "Look, your subordinates are very aware of current affairs! There is an old saying in a distant plane that those who know current affairs are heroes."
The leader glared at Wang fiercely and cut off the communication.
Flint asked worriedly, "Will he...get so angry that he will jump over to fight us? After all, they know the location of the monastery ruins and can send it directly to us."
Lily: "Don't worry, I'm here and will disrupt the transmission directed to us."
Wang: "Although the enemy said this is a trap, it doesn't mean they won't leave useful information. Look for it carefully."
Chapter 368 Catalan Resistance
Soon, the things found in the monastery gradually came before the king.
Wang: "I was looking for a diary, but I didn't expect to find so many diaries."
Lily picked up a book and flipped through it. She said, "This book feels a lot like the kind of study notes I would write when I was a kid."
Nini: "I remember that we seemed to have killed someone named Lily. She and her senior brother seemed to be studying together in a school of the cult..."
Lily looked up at the sky. "Don't mention it. Just because you killed this person named Lily, those guys in the Mage Tower made fun of me for more than a month! It just so happened that I had a birthday that month, but the gifts I received were all kinds of weird things!"
Wang: "What strange thing? Tell me about it?"
Lily: "Strange pieces of meat, special fungi, a crystal ball signed 'Erwin', and mushrooms that are said to taste good even when they turn into meat."
Flint: “That’s pretty gross.”
Lily: "The most annoying thing is, didn't the Lily you beat to death have a boyfriend? They performed a weird drama in front of me all day long, and the first thing they said was 'Oh, Lily, why are you Lily'."
Wang stroked his chin and said, "It does seem like something that those senior brothers who are good at handling things would do."
Lily shook her head. At this time, several adventurers pushed a small cart and brought more finds from the ruins.
"Teaching aids," Wang rummaged through the things in the cart and exclaimed, "There is also a part of what looks like a textbook. It seems that what is taught here is not only all kinds of idealistic knowledge, but also mathematics."
Lily picked up the torn textbook: "Indeed, this one seems to teach the basics of algebra."
Wang: "Grallia's mathematics classes have not developed to this level. This is knowledge from another universe. Before the leader of the cult successfully made the cult the state religion of Catalonia, he might have trained the backbone of the organization here."
"Are they also using the same method as in the tower to mass-produce high-level mages?" Lily asked.
Wang shook his head. "I don't think so. From the intelligence we have gathered, although the cult has a considerable number of high-level mages, most of them are below the eighth ring. The only ninth ring mages we met are already masters of the cult."
Lily: "They haven't accumulated enough knowledge to overcome the barrier."
At this time, the adventurer who was ordered to expand the search around the ruins rode back on horseback and reported loudly without waiting to dismount: "We found the campsite. It seems that it is where the enemy who planned to ambush us lives. But it is empty. We found a lot of documents!"
"Bring it here quickly!" Wang was overjoyed.
Nini asked worriedly, "Could it be false information?"
"It is also possible that the members of the cult knew they could not defeat the Savior Team and fled, so they did not bother to destroy the information."
The king pulled out a letter with sealing wax from a stack of documents, carefully identified the coat of arms printed on the sealing wax and said: "The coat of arms of the Catalan royal family."
He pulled out the letter and read it aloud: "General Noel, I am very much looking forward to your military exploits. I have already prepared a ceremony at my daughter's funeral hall, and I am just waiting for you to return triumphantly with the heads of the members of the salvation team..."
The king then remembered that he seemed to have killed a Catalan princess.
Could it be that this Catalan princess is very much favored by the Catalan emperor?
But she did it to me first, so I was wrong for acting in self-defense? I can't just stand there and get killed, right?
Flint, relying on the sunlight, read the contents of the letter from the back and said, "Perhaps the general ran away because the emperor had too high expectations of him."
Lily: "From the time point of view, he should have received the information about the Nine-ring Mage, that is, me, on the floating island."
Wang: "You don't have to emphasize that you are a nine-ringed person all day long."
At this time, Gao Chuike took out a document: "Here."
Wang took it and looked at it. Sure enough, it was the report on the day when Catalai's legion in Isonzo sent three airships to attack the floating island. Yes, it was the report on the battle in which Lily used Yangyan to explode three Catalai ships.
"See!" Lily said happily, "I told you that the general was afraid of me!"
Wang said a few perfunctory words and turned to ask Nini: "Is there any way to track down these Catalans who escaped?"
Nini: "Yes, there is a dense forest nearby, which happens to be the terrain I am good at."
Wang: "Please, please capture a few tongues of a high enough level."
Nini leaped up to the treetop and quickly disappeared.
Xiaobai: "So we came up empty-handed? We originally wanted to destroy the cult's base, but ended up stepping into the cult's trap..."
Gotrek: "This is a letter."
Flint frowned and took the letter from the barbarian. "Is it strange that the enemy commander has a letter? Damn, this is really strange! It's for you!"
The king took the letter and checked the seal on the wax seal first: "The family seal... Unfortunately, I don't know much about the family in Catalai."
He opened the wax seal, pulled out the letter and unfolded it: "Hello, Commander of the Salvation Team, Mr. Wang, the owner of the Floating Island. It doesn't matter if you haven't heard of my name. You just need to know that I am a person who has long been dissatisfied with the practices of the cult.
“We have all seen the evil deeds of the cult. At first we were deceived and thought they were really pursuing equality, but the cult’s terrible experiments changed our minds.
"Even in Catalonia, there are forces against the cult, and we are one of them. Because the cult uses the moon and more advanced means to control our comrades, our numbers are getting smaller and smaller, but we have never stopped resisting.
“Now, you have raised the banner of resistance against the Order, which has greatly boosted our morale.
"When the heavenly soldiers arrive to save the world, we will definitely rise up. When everything is settled, please do not define Catalonia as an evil country that wants to destroy humanity. Please tell the world that the people of Catalonia also participated in this war.
"Best regards."
After reading it, Wang glanced at Lily and said, "It seems that even without you, they will rebel."
Flint: "Didn't he write about how to contact these Catalan resistance fighters?"
Wang quickly glanced through the letter again and shook his head, "It's true that it's not written. But it doesn't matter. As long as we continue to fight the state religion from Catalonia, there will be plenty of opportunities to meet in the future."
Flint: "But you see, we are short of regular troops now. Don't these Catalan rebels just meet our needs? They also said that once the heavenly soldiers arrive, we can only put together such a team of adventurers, and they are hired with money. The Catalan resistance army, who are determined to oppose the cult, is obviously more reliable than these adventurers."
Chapter 369: Named Ranger
Wang frowned and read the letter carefully again. "At least, on the surface, he didn't write how to contact the resistance forces. I'll try using magic."
Lily: "I think it can detect hidden handwriting."
"Are you trying to teach me how to do things as a wizard from the school of prophecy?"
"Well, please."
Wang nodded seriously and said, "Then I decided to use a hidden handwriting detection device."
"Hey!" Lily patted his shoulder, "Give me a little more attention!"
The bard Gaines looked at the two of them suspiciously: "You two...are you already a couple?"
Wang and Lily waved their hands together: "No, no, no, how is that possible."
Lily: "This guy is a wooden man. He's great as a buddy, but he's pissed off when it comes to dating. I was watching the TV series in the crystal ball and thought he had finally gotten wise, so I came over happily. But it turns out that's not the case at all."
Wang: "Personally, I don't like men yet. My body's reaction has proved this many times. Look at her front face, just like a man. When I first came to this world, I thought she was a man! So there is no way I can fall in love with her.
"Love should meet two conditions. First, my body should react. Second, it should not react when it should..."
Lily: "See, he's hopeless. So I feel sorry for Elizabeth. She might as well be like Rosalie. At least she's happy."
As Wang finished casting the spell, soft light enveloped the entire piece of letter paper, but the words were not highlighted.
Wang: "Perhaps considering that there are many mages in the cult, they will use this method to find the writing. Let's go to the camp and take a look. Xiaobai!"
"Oh." Xiaobai turned into a griffin.
Wang held back Lily who was trying to get closer to Xiaobai and said, "You stay here and watch the other work progress. Dig deep and make sure not to miss a single clue. Only you have enough knowledge to distinguish what is dug out."
Lily nodded immediately: "Okay."
Soon after riding on Xiaobai and taking off from the ground, Wang arrived at the camp reported by the scout. From the air, the location of the camp was indeed suitable for launching an attack. If the general had not run away, it would probably be another big battle.