Odyssey of the Blind God

After some back and forth with Great Wirliam, Nial finally received the answer he wanted to hear.

The leader of the rebel army released the origin human slaves and he promised to find a solution for the Cultivation Drug issue. Not only would the Alchemists research a way to cleanse the body to wash away the addictive substance but Great Wirliam also promised that he would let the Cultivation Drug be altered to remove the addictive substance.

It would take a while to replace the substance with something that was not harmful, or addictive for origin humans but it was not as if time was running out. The most important were the slaves and their body cleansing either way.

Nial chose to make a small imprint on the Shelturion he caught before he freed them of their ties. Only then did he also release the alteration he had put on their mind.

The Shelturion were scared a bit but Nial told them to leave.

'If you dare to play tricks with me, I will find you…and you will never know how!' Nial thought while sensing the imprint he had put on each of the Shelturion.

When he asked the Royal Princess to check if there was a change in the appearance of the Shelturion, such as a small black mark, she confirmed that there was nothing noteworthy, not even a change in their mana fluctuations.

That was exactly what Nial wanted and it reaffirmed that his imprint was quite hard for ordinary people to find. After all, the Shelturion had accepted the imprint, though it was while they were under Dominion's control.

The Shelturion didn't remember anything about the Imprint because the removal of the alterations on their mind wiped out their memories of the imprint entirely.

Nial had thus infiltrated the rebel army of the Shelturion without giving them any way to find out about it…or almost no way.

"Your trust in Great Wirliam is quite surprising. I expected you to play with him a little bit more until he would give you everything you demanded before you released his people," Princess Evalyne said while she watched the Shelturion leaving.

The weak Shelturions' bodies were trembling and their gazes kept darting at Nial and the Elves in vigilance every now and then but nobody ended up attacking them once again.

"Trust? Not really… I just gave him a small present, which he will probably value a lot…he should value it a lot, if he is as smart as I expect him to be!" Nial said while taking a deep breath, his attention moving to the data the Elves had collected about the hidden laboratories.

"What about the inform—...." He was just about to ask for the data to be transferred when Nightingale appeared by his side.

"What did you give him?"

Nightingale had changed quite a bit, which was very nice. The annoying and arrogant pain in the ass Nightingale was different now…unfortunately, he had now become a nosy pain in the ass…

Thus, Nial's answer was short, "The chance to survive and win."

He disappeared after saying this while messaging the Royal Princess to send him the data.

"He knows that we were supposed to bring him back to the Forest of Life, right?" The Old Sacred Elf asked when he saw that Nial had disappeared but the Royal Princess could only shrug her shoulders.

Sometimes, she was not sure if Nial was a mastermind who was trying to stay humble, or a brickhead with great luck and insights every now and then.

"...I really don't know."

Nial knew that the Elves could use their spatial affinity to bring him back to the Forest of Life. However, they wanted to spend some more time in the hidden laboratory to search for more secret passages and hidden places. It was quite obvious that the vigilant Shelturion had created hidden passages and sectors that only a few knew about.

Maybe there were even more Shelturion, who had hidden away to save certain documents. The Royal Princess wanted to gather as many files as possible because she could tell the value of the potions and pills the Shelturion could create.

If their own alchemists were able to recreate these potions, they would be able to swim in high-quality Origin crystals, even if the product's quality were to be much lower than the original!

Nial understood Princess Evalyne's train of thoughts but he had other things to do.

The information he had acquired was already more than enough. As for his deal with Great Wirliam, he would find out how honorable the Shelturion was soon enough.

'But before that, I should visit a few Ambassadors!'

Nial retrieved a bunch of Origin crystals followed by the teleportation device that Master Crevian had given him a while ago before leaving the Forest of Life.

Now it was time to use the teleportation device again to return back.

Using the Origin crystals as fuel for the device, Nial reached the Halheim Shelter in no time. It took him less than half an hour and he was already back at the Otherworldly Residency.

Using Dominion on everyone around him, he entered the living room in front of Barion Iglanon's office after he destroyed the runic armaments in the room.

He sat down on the couch and messaged Melheim Zorn while waiting for the Baron to finish his business in the office.

[Make an anonymous post on the emergency hotline of the Heaven's Gates website. Forward the recordings where you can see the Linaton Ambassadors signing a Soul Contract with the newly awakened, the copy of the soul contract which we've received from a few victims, and a few pages of the victim list.

Include a copy of the alterations in the mana breathing technique and the videos you've received from the victims, where they state that the mana breathing technique was intentionally altered. But blur their faces…we do not want to expose their identity just to be sure that nothing will happen to them.

Write that the government turns a blind eye to all of this because they're afraid of war and that they're too greedy and focused on the benefits they receive from the Linaton…word it in such a way that it feels like the message of an amateur, who has found out the truth of the harsh world, or something like that. I don't want any traces to lead back to the Orion Association, you, or me!]

Nial felt like giving out a few more instructions but Baron Iglanon had already appeared in the living room. The guest who had been in his office had already disappeared through a different door.

"Hello, esteemed guest. I am terribly so–...." Baron Iglanon started, just like the last time they had met but Nial lifted his hand while his expression turned ugly, "Just shut your mouth and listen well!"

Nial's voice thundered in the ears of the Baron, who stared at the blind young human with a dumbstruck expression.

"Who do you think you…a–..." Baron Iglanon was just about to release his one and only ability when chains of darkness shot out of the ground. The ground around him was dark like the abyss and it looked like he was getting devoured by it.

Baron Iglanon was slowly seeping into the darkness of the ground. He was pulled down by the chains that only stopped moving when Nial took a step forward.

"Are you willing to record a video where you will say nothing but the truth about your deeds, or do you want to be stuck in eternal darkness until the end of time? As you can see, I am capable of doing that…so choose wisely!"

Nial couldn't actually put anyone in a prison of eternal darkness, but that was not something Baron Iglanon had to know. To Baron, it looked like Nial was capable of doing what he said and that was more than enough.

In fact, had Baron Iglanon not been so flustered he would have concluded that Nial was not able to imprison him in eternal darkness until the end of time but the Linaton was too overwhelmed to think straight.

"I…I will say everything you want me to say!!" He exclaimed, his voice quivering in terror.

"That is what I hoped for. Good job, my little boy!"

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