Chapter 521: Chapter 39 Observation and Contempt
Putting himself in the other’s shoes, Anvis could actually understand the Duke’s concerns.
After all, the death of Yasila Aslade was still vivid in memory, and even the prophecy results had been tampered with. If it weren’t for the appearance of the Truth Circle distracting everyone, the Four Great Families might have already started a Cold War by now.
Moreover, ultimately, the leader of the Truth Circle and the aura of the Sword of King Selection were found near the fleeing Aitno Alfred, which inevitably raised suspicions about the role of the Truth Circle in this matter.
There were even rumors within the Empire that the emergence of the Sword of King Selection and the assault on the descendants of the Aslade family were all orchestrated by the Truth Circle!
They certainly aimed to divert external attention and incite discord among the Four Great Families to achieve their malevolent goal of weakening the Empire’s strength!
The most distressed about this situation was Marquis Draka. According to Shadow’s reports, his temper had grown significantly worse recently, and many desks had been replaced in his study.
The intervention of the Truth Circle not only resulted in the loss of the Sword of King Selection but also put the Four Great Families on alert.
If it had been his planned scenario of infighting within the Four Great Families, the Royal Family would not mind taking the opportunity to suppress one side. But now, with the presence of the Truth Circle, the situation has turned into foreign invasion.
Considering the formidable strength of the Truth Circle, the Royal Family does not wish to intervene and weaken the Four Great Families at this time, lest the external enemy gain an advantage.
Most importantly, although the Sword of King Selection appears to have been taken by the Truth Circle, those previous incidents were his arrangements.
Now, while everyone is investigating the Truth Circle, if they continue, they might end up tracing it back to him!
Although it seems like the Truth Circle has taken the fall for him in this incident, Marquis Draka always felt that, bizarrely, it was he who unwittingly took the fall for the Truth Circle.
In any case, the major forces within the Empire have become vigilant again. While searching for clues left by the Truth Circle, they also began to restrain their descendants, advising them not to travel far and to not leave the protection of their family.
After assuring the Duke solemnly that he would not go out arbitrarily, Anvis organized the information, picked out several relic locations that might contain powerful ancient entities, and began planning the specific order and route for the upcoming explorations.
Since he didn’t plan for his real body to leave the Pamir Academy for the time being, and his alter egos would disguise their identity while exploring the relics, even if accidents occurred, they would not affect his real body.
Although he had been using various means to dissolve the enemy’s conspiracies in advance and delay the time his family faced targeting, Anvis’s real breaking point still primarily relied on the enhancement of his own strength.
If he possessed true Legendary strength, then all the problems he currently faced would be resolved effortlessly.
Of course, while it is arranged for his alter egos to go exploring, the number of alter egos Anvis controls at the same time cannot be too many.
The strength of an alter ego ultimately stems from the original body, and splitting into too many would only lead to a decrease in the strength of all alter egos. Like a cake, the more pieces it is divided into, the smaller each piece.
Anvis had already split off two permanent alter egos: the leader of the Resistance Army, "Mirror Man", and the head of the Black Ring Commerce, "Rafael".
With his current ’Eighth Rank Mid-Level’ Professional status, while maintaining peak Eighth Rank combat ability for the alter egos, he could only split off two more autonomous alter egos to explore various relics.
Soon, the exploration plan was established. Anvis carefully checked it, confirmed there were no issues, and immediately arranged for the alter egos to proceed with the exploration.
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In the next half month, Anvis’s daily life was calm and tranquil.
Bishop Yanile and the Shadow side did not send any messages, seemingly taking no action for the time being.
The Black Ring Commerce was still diligently expanding its business scope and had begun to have subtle frictions with the local Chamber of Commerce within the Saint Messia Empire.
The players had also started stirring trouble everywhere, trying hard to escalate matters.
The Mirror Man was still idly fishing and drinking tea every day, but now, with Anvis backing him as an Eighth Rank Prophet, he started to act as the receptionist representing the Glory Alliance to discuss long-term cooperation with the Black Ring Commerce, which made Lady Mandel angry but powerless to speak out.
Harvey still went out every other day to meet his girlfriend, but to Anvis’s regret, his research had hit a bottleneck, with very slow progress.
Although Anvis could replicate the dream wave frequencies found in Harvey and that actress, due to the lack of samples, he couldn’t decode why such unilateral attraction effects arose when these two different frequencies merged.
His forces were also searching everywhere for samples like Harvey and the actress, but so far without any success, leaving Anvis no choice but to use a crude method, trying to change the frequency little by little and then observe and summarize its patterns.
However, Prince Lanno and the descendants of other Great Families were still secretly making their own ’plans’.
Such as secretly contacting the players’ Big Guild, surreptitiously developing their forces, covertly rallying average-born students to serve them in the academy, and engaging in open and secret struggles.
Of course, the process couldn’t all be peaceful, for instance, due to Yasila Aslade’s death, Keren from the Aslade family had a private conflict with Hillin from the Enock family.
This conflict started from a small friction; initially, it was just a struggle between their subordinates’ forces but soon turned into a personal duel between the two.
Though the process was relatively secretive, it couldn’t escape Anvis’s eyes; he even specially prepared more than ten Crystal Balls to enjoy watching the live broadcast from all angles while sipping red tea brewed with new leaves from the Life Ancient Tree.
In Anvis’s enthusiastic spying, both were slightly injured by each other’s unexpected trump cards, but overall they remained in a stalemate unable to overpower each other.
Only by observing these descendants of the Great Families’ ’struggles’ in their daily life, could Anvis truly feel that he was still a student at Pamir Academy, not some super villain aiming to destroy the Three Great Empires and revive the glory of the Ancient Magic Empire.
Of course, to the other major Nobles, including the descendants of the other Three Great Families, Anvis is also an anomaly.
Despite being born in the highly esteemed Four Great Families of the Empire, he shows no ambition but instead chose a Mystical School to ’behave’ and coast through his days. Aside from luckily developing a foreigner’s power, there are no other merits.
He behaves like a Scholar all day, only focusing on researching those strange relics and seldom interacting with any noble connections, spending most of his time with commoners, his only noble friend being the notorious playboy, Harvey.
An outright image of a reckless prodigal!
Many people have sourly thought that if they were in Anvis’s position, they could perform a hundred times better than him.
With such a mentality, apart from Harvey, Lanno, and a very few who truly understand Anvis.
Although others still respectfully treat him on the surface because of his family background, they have already begun to look down on him in their hearts and even intentionally or unintentionally omit mentioning him when discussing the descendants of the Four Great Families at the academy.