Li Ang turned around and gave a thumbs up gesture to Kavala.
Kavala is probably not good at using people, but he is by no means a fool, and his ability to use troops is unquestionable - all the Snake Worship Cult army that went north were actually bait!
From the very beginning, the troops actually used to attack Imperial Port were not Snake Worship Cult's troops!
Li Ang really didn't expect that Kavala was willing to give up. Snake Worship Cult finally penetrated almost all of the Pande Continent's strength.
It turns out that the role of Malbert is just to delay time and further reduce the strength of Imperial Port...
No wonder Kavala didn't let Malbert's plan succeed, because he didn't want Li Ang to leave Imperial Port!
The Snake Worship Cult army has led away most of the troops from the two countries, and the guards of Alina have also been taken away by Brutus. Now in Imperial Port, in addition to the more than a hundred militiamen responsible for maintaining security and public security, only the guards of Li Ang are left, which is Silver Hand.
The total strength is only more than 400 people, of whom Silver Hand is less than 300, and there are more than a hundred militiamen on the city walls... Moreover, Alina is now trapped in the Governor's Mansion, unable to communicate orders to the outside world, and the residents of Imperial Port cannot mobilize.
The nearest reinforcements were at Buyulin Village, with more than a thousand wounded staying in Buyulin for treatment, and Radiant Cross Knights also had hundreds of people there - there were so many wounded in the Battle of Buyulin, and it was difficult to move after being injured, so they stayed in place to receive treatment at Radiant Cross Knights.
But Buyulin Village is more than sixty miles away from Imperial Port, and by the time they get the news, most of the day has passed.
Maritin's fleet is about to land. Viper troops are blocking the outside of the governor's palace. He is injured and unable to move, so he is unable to escape...
It seems to be a desperate situation.
But I have experienced too many desperate situations...
Li Ang will not give up hope until the last moment.
After experiencing so many things, Li Ang is able to remain calm no matter what happens.
"Kavala Your Majesty, what are you going to talk to me about?"
Since he didn't have much fighting power now, Li Ang simply sat down.
Wendy planned to walk to Li Ang, but Li Ang waved his hand and kept Wendy away.
"It's amazing that you can still be so calm."
Kavala praised, then looked down at Li Ang: "You should know what I want to talk to you about... You can't escape now, Li Ang, do you want to live?"
"Alive?"
Li Ang sneered, "Does someone like Malbert still count as alive?"
Kavala forced himself into a desperate situation, naturally to force himself to sign a soul contract, just like when he took advantage of others' danger to force Maltis and Malbert.
After being controlled all his life, this late king now always seems to want to control everyone...
"As long as I don't agree, there's nothing you can do to me, right? The most you can do is let the fleet outside land and kill me... But even so, what can you get? Snake Worship Cult's army is your own, right? But you have given them all up as bait... As long as you can't control me, you still won't get anything..."
Li Ang kept looking into Kavala's eyes and said a lot with a smile.
To be precise, he was looking at Malbert's expression.
Malbert is controlled by Kavala, looking at Li Ang, but his expression is very strange.
It feels like I'm looking at something and thinking about something else, that is, I have focus, but I don't take it seriously...
"Hahaha...Li Ang, it's true as you said, I can't get anything if I can't control you. But you are not alone here. You may not be afraid of death, but what about the ladies around you? Where are your loyal and brave subordinates? Are you willing to let them all accompany you to death?"
Kavala, or Malbert said expressionlessly.
Wendy and Alina frowned together, but did not speak.
And Li Ang was stunned for a moment.
But Li Ang was stunned not because Kavala was threatening him with Wendy and Alina, but because of Malbert's expression.
Kavala is smiling, and his tone is a bit proud - but at this time, Malbert's expression is like a puppet, and his tone and expression do not match at all, which is very different from when Malbert speaks.
It seems that this is not complete control...
Being manipulated is completely different from being completely possessed. The person being manipulated actually knows what he has done in the process of being controlled - just like Maltis, during the years when she was manipulated, she always knew what she was doing, but she just couldn't control herself.
In other words, when Kavala controls Malbert, Malbert actually has his own consciousness, but he just cannot express it.
Malbert is a kind of consciousness occupying Ares's body. Although it can only gain control after Ares loses consciousness, at least everything in this body, including the brain's thinking, is completely controlled by Malbert, and all behaviors are no different from normal people.
But Kavala can only control the behavior of Malbert. He cannot use the 'possession' method, because directly occupying the body of the indigenous people will violate the rules and will be exiled to the void.
In other words, Kavala's remote control of Malbert is roughly the same as Li Ang's control of a character's actions when playing a game - he can move, he can speak, he can use the character's own skills, and he can observe things through the character's five senses, but he cannot control the character's own thoughts.
Just to control its actions, of course there is no need to control micro-expressions, so Malbert looks like a sculpture.
The current state is probably similar to the previous dialogue between Li Ang and Kavala's statue in Lion City, except that the character controlled by Kavala at that time was that statue.
He can only control the behavior of people who have signed a soul contract, and he can only control one at a time, because his consciousness needs to be invested in the person being controlled...
Probably you have to enter the human soul space to control it?
So, the so-called soul contract...
Isn't this the relationship between players and characters?
Players can control characters and can create multiple characters, but they can only choose one of them at the same time.
But if you want to control a character who has not signed a soul contract, it is equivalent to violating the rules and forcibly controlling other NPCs, which is definitely cheating.
What are the consequences of cheating?
My account was deleted by GM...
Those gods who were exiled to the void, aren't they the same as having their accounts deleted by the GM Creator God?
Use Ares to hide Malbert, and use viper spies to hide other controlled Snake Worship Cult priests. This is probably for better concealment and will not be discovered.
But these people now have two souls. Malbert and Kavala have signed soul contracts, but Ares has not!
Moreover, Malbert's thinking is independent...
Kavala ah Kavala, the character you control is in danger...
Planning to control everyone, is this your desire?
But this desire is also risky...
Thinking of this, Li Ang laughed.
"Kavala, you have really grasped my weakness. I really can't bear to let Wendy and Alina die here..."
Li Ang asked Kavala with a humble smile, "Okay, I admit defeat. How do you sign your soul contract? I will sign it now."
"Hahaha... You just need to close your eyes and relax your whole body, and then you will see me in your dreams..."
Kavala laughed.
It seems that the oath made in the dream is a soul contract.
This is true, many gods use dreams to deceive people.
Moreover, while in the temple, Kavala also relaxed his whole body - probably to remove his defensive awareness so that his consciousness could be projected into his soul space?
Now, Li Ang has a plan in mind...
"In the dream... do you mean that you will come to my soul space? I need to swear allegiance to you in the soul space, right?"
Li Ang intends to ask questions clearly and thoroughly, using very humble words and a very soft attitude.
"That's right...Li Ang, close your eyes, you know what to do..."
Kavala probably felt that he had a chance to win, so he answered quite mildly.
Li Ang has now determined his thoughts.
He closed his eyes.
"Li Ang!"
Wendy screamed in panic.
"Wendy, I can only do this... don't worry, stay away."
Li Ang turned around and comforted softly, waved his hand to keep Wendy away from him, then blinked twice at Alina, turned his head and closed his eyes again.
Alina seemed to understand something. She pulled Wendy back to the corner and stared into Ares's eyes.
Li Ang is concentrating on trying to sleep.
To be honest, it is not easy to relax your body and mind at this time and relax into a light sleep state.
It was daytime now, and there was a war going on outside. Of course, Li Ang was worried about the casualties of his brothers; plus there was an approaching fleet on the sea, so Li Ang had actually always been nervous, but he didn't show it.
In addition, he had an injury under his arm, and the wound was most painful when it was being treated...
But Li Ang still entered a trance-like state within a few minutes, and then saw his soul space again.
It is still a gray chaotic space with some purple light seeping into it.
But this time, the purple light became stronger, filling the entire space with a faint halo.
Kavala's image in the soul space is still a golden shadow, and it still looks full of oppression.
Moreover, Kavala did not come alone - he brought the soul of Malbert with him.
Spirit Body of Malbert looks very similar to what Anna once looked like, a pure black figure.
"Your Majesty Kavala, actually I know that you still plan to kill me... I guess you still plan to throw me into the abyss, just like when you asked Anna to deal with me, right?"
Li Ang is now familiar with the communication method between Spirit Body, and can communicate with consciousness without moving his mouth...
In fact, he knows that Kavala will not sign any soul contract with him - Kavala is not confident about soul contracts, and Maltis is a lesson learned from the past.
Before Lion City, Kavala had made it clear that he would throw Li Ang into the abyss.
"That's right, hahaha... Li Ang, I originally thought I could only see you die here. But now, you can only go to the abyss anyway. Of course, you may also cross the abyss again and come to the temple - but that is better..."
Kavala replied calmly.
"Yes, if I go to the temple again, you will have another chance to escape from there..."
Li Ang also said very calmly, "But Malbert is not Anna. Can his soul magic really send me to the abyss?"
"You'll know if you give it a try... But you are so brave, and now you don't have any fear at all?"
Kavala is probably not particularly sure of Malbert's ability, and he is a little unsure of what Li Ang means now, because Li Ang in the soul space has no feeling of weakness at all - Spirit Body cannot lie.
"Ha, why should I be afraid, right Malbert?"
Li Ang smiled and said, "Kavala, this is my soul space. No matter how powerful your soul contract is, you can't control Malbert in my soul. You want to use Malbert to deal with me... But have you forgotten? Anna also promised you to deal with me in Spirit Body state. In other words, Anna actually signed a contract with you - but what did she choose in the end? You still didn't accept the lesson..."
As soon as he finished speaking, or just finished thinking about it, Li Ang heard a piercing howl.
That's Malbert casting a spell.
He did not cast a spell on Li Ang, nor did he deal with Kavala - he could not cast a spell on Kavala, which was his contracted host.
But he does cast spells.
"Haha... Malbert's soul belongs to you... So, what will happen if Malbert casts a spell on his own soul?"
Li Ang cannot lie in his current state, so naturally he cannot hide anything.
But now it doesn't matter whether you hide it or not.
"Marber... huh?"
Kavala seemed to want to say something, but his voice stopped abruptly.
This is in the soul space, this is Spirit Body communication. This sudden silence in the middle of speaking only means one thing - Kavala has lost consciousness!
Kavala probably didn't have time to figure it out, and it's probably very difficult to figure it out again.
Because Li Ang's eyes were blurred and he returned to the study room.
Li Ang has left his soul space.
He was forcibly awakened by Alina.
Alina did understand Li Ang's hint, although Li Ang just blinked.
Because, after Li Ang closed his eyes and fell asleep, Malbert's eyes changed - when Malbert and Kavala arrived in Li Ang's soul space, Ares's expression once again returned to the state of being hypnotized and foolish.
Alina knows how to wake up spies - this kind of self-hypnosis has a "key" for awakening. This "key" is actually just a word or a certain part of the body. When you hear this word or be poked at this part, you will wake up immediately.
The moment he saw Ares return to the hypnotic state, Alina promptly woke up Ares and Li Ang together.
Of course, waking up Li Ang is very simple, just pinch it. Li Ang is just sleeping.
However, waking up Li Ang and Ares at this time is equivalent to closing two soul spaces - the soul spaces of Li Ang and Ares are closed.
This is to seal the consciousnesses of Kavala and Malbert together - they will be left in Li Ang's soul space, and Malbert will probably not be able to return to Ares's body.
Kavala's performance has made Li Ang understand that as long as he is a complete life and has a sense of defense, his soul space cannot be invaded, and neither can gods.
Maltis also said to Li Ang that life is worthy of awe. People with complete lives cannot be controlled. No matter how powerful the god is, he can only sign contracts with people through deception.
Gods can control others through soul contracts. This is because soul contracts sell people's souls to gods - that is to say, this life is no longer complete.
But Li Ang is now a complete life. Since even gods cannot forcefully invade, of course the two people who have entered his soul space cannot escape.