Chapter 317
Therefore, developing the Southern Continent and cultivating the Saintess Faction's influence here is the best choice.
Helen bit her lip and said, "If that's the case, then Ryan, we can be friends, even friends with a stronger bond than she has."
"Friends with a stronger bond?" Ryan stroked his chin. "What do you mean?"
"For example, if I offered myself as a bargaining chip, would you choose to help me?" Helen looked at Ryan with unwavering eyes. "Ryan, I want to be Saintess!"
"?"
A question mark slowly appeared above Ryan's head.
No, if you want to be Saintess, go find the Pope, go to the Gate of Janus and talk to him. What do you want with me?
"Um... Helen, there's no point in telling me this."
"It makes sense." Helen dropped the pretense and laid her cards on the table. "If I were to rely on myself alone, I would have already lost the chance to compete for the position of Saintess. But if I achieve something in the Southern Continent, and with the Pope's help, I'm confident I can oust Lin Qi! If you help me, then no matter what happens in the future, I will find a way to help you."
"I see..." Ryan shrugged. "Then how is it any different from how I am with Lin Qi now? She'll still help me with all her might, won't she?"
"Of course it's different. I have the Pope's support, while Lin Qi doesn't," Helen shook her head. "Besides, as I just said, I'm not joking about using myself as a bargaining chip."
Having made her decision, Helen no longer hesitated.
The relic is gradually starting to take effect. The more it shakes Ryan's resolve, the greater its power will be, making it easier to defeat Ryan in the end.
As for what happens next, her so-called help to Ryan is just talk. Ryan will fall in love with her without hesitation, listen to her, and then infiltrate the entire Primal Church!
"You're using yourself as a bargaining chip?" Ryan asked in surprise.
"Yes. I don't think Lin Qi would agree to such a thing, right? After all, she has just become Saintess, and without anyone's support, her position is already unstable. If the Pope finds any fault with her, he can immediately kick her out of the Gate of Janus."
"Oh, this."
What's going on? This plot is weird! He hasn't even done anything yet, how did he suddenly turn against the Heavenly Generals?
Wait, something's not right.
Ryan keenly sensed that something was amiss in the room.
As a devout believer in desire, Ryan's gaze fell on the incense burner, and he immediately recognized it as a relic of desire.
Although his aura was not obvious, who was he? Holding the Mark of Desire, it could be said that no one understood desire better than him.
"This thing can affect my mind? Is this Helen's method?"
Ryan sneered inwardly. Nine and a half out of ten remnants of desire were not good things. They were basically the kind of things that would make people lose their minds and bark like dogs. Regardless of whether Helen really wanted to sacrifice herself, Ryan thought that he might become Helen's dog afterward.
Of course, Ryan was confident he could stay clear-headed about this, after all, he still possessed the power of the Mark of Desire.
But now he's come up with a better idea.
Since you've laid your cards on the table, I'm not going to pretend anymore.
Thinking of this, Ryan immediately took out the Pot of Greed.
As soon as this Sacred Object appeared, its aura immediately suppressed the incense burner.
Helen, standing to the side, froze for a moment, then instinctively asked, "What is this?"
Ryan smiled slightly, "Yes, just like yours, it's for calming the mind and focusing the spirit."
"Really? Wait... no, this is a relic of desire!"
The scent of the Pot of Greed is too strong!
Even if Helen wanted to pretend she didn't recognize her, she couldn't.
Moreover, she didn't want to pretend, because she could already feel her mind beginning to be affected by the Pot of Greed. This ugly pot, placed before her, was as if an ugly face was smiling at her from its surface.
When Ryan poured his Magic Power into the Pot of Greed, it immediately unleashed tremendous power, filling the entire room with a pink aura. To Ryan's surprise, the incense burner that Helen had taken out had actually established a connection with him.
Generally speaking, once an artifact is used by someone, it's considered to have been refined. There are only two ways to take it away: either kill the user or the user voluntarily relinquishes it.
But now, perhaps due to the influence of the Pot of Greed, the incense burner has 'betrayed' itself and become Ryan's possession.
"Huh? This thing... hehe, so that's what it is."
As the Chosen of the Gods of desire, Ryan immediately understood the effect of the relic and, through the power of the Mark of Desire, pushed the incense burner to its maximum power.
When the Pot of Greed and the Incense Burner worked together, Helen's barely maintained sanity crumbled like a dam bursting.
Boom!
Reason was swallowed up by the power of desire.
At that moment, in Helen's eyes, Ryan was like the person she had secretly loved for many years. Without hesitation, she took off her clothes and pounced on Ryan.
Swish!
A Mana Barrier was released from Adele's hand, locking Ryan's room tightly.
In the lobby on the first floor, Lista frowned as if he had noticed something, glanced up at the second-floor corridor, and then quickly disappeared again.
Lista didn't even notice it for a brief moment.
"I wonder how Helen's talk went? Are we going to have to wait another two hours?"
Chapter 199 Helen: Master! [Revised]
It's 11 PM.
Lista finally couldn't sit still any longer.
It's been almost three hours since I came from Sesia!
Three hours isn't enough time to finish discussing important matters.
Although Ryan probably wouldn't dare to do anything to Helen, if word got out that a man and a woman were alone in a room late at night, wouldn't Helen's reputation be completely ruined?
Therefore, Lista immediately decided that she could not wait any longer.
However, when he tried to find Ryan and Helen, he was stopped by Sesia.
Sesia certainly felt there was a problem, but there was nothing she could do. Ryan must have his reasons for doing this, and as a knight, she only needed to follow orders.
Besides, even if she didn't stop them, the others in the manor would have done the same.
"Get out of the way!"
In the living room, Lista glared at Sesia. "I want to see Helen, immediately! I suspect you're plotting against her. If that's the case, I will report this to the Pope, and then prepare to face the wrath of the Gate of Janus!"
"Lista, you can eat whatever you want, but you shouldn't say whatever you want," Sesia said calmly. "It was Miss Helen who wanted to talk to Rider. If anyone has ulterior motives, it's her. How did we become the villains?"
"What a joke! This is your territory. What kind of scheme could Helen possibly have? Whatever the situation, let me see Rider and Helen, and I'll know for sure."
Lista was about to rush upstairs when he saw Sesia trying to stop him, so he immediately took out a greatsword from his storage bag.
If a fight really breaks out, he's not afraid of Sesia.
However, the next second, a gray-black mist surged in, filling the entire first floor of the house.
"Um?"
Sesia, who was preparing for battle, paused for a moment.
Lista had vanished before her eyes.
But she didn't see any mist, as if Lista had vanished into thin air. She subconsciously thought that Lista had used some kind of relic, but when she turned her head, she suddenly saw the witch K coming down from the second floor.
"You're so annoying with all that chatter. If it weren't for Sylvia, I would have killed you long ago."
"That's what Witch K said casually."
"Miss K?" Sesia asked, puzzled. "What did you do?"
Sesia still held a sense of awe towards this being who could suppress a seventh-tier transcendent being in an instant.
"It's nothing, I'm just leaving him alone. After all, Rider might be causing a ruckus all night, and I don't want to listen to this guy making a racket all night."
As Witch K walked out of the house, Sesia stood there dumbfounded. "Miss K, what did you say? What do you mean, 'spending the whole night'? Who is Prince Rider going to spend the whole night with?"
This way.
Lista found herself seemingly in a peculiar space.
He was surrounded by a gray mist that stretched as far as the eye could see, as if there was nothing but him.
At first, Lista was wary of Sesia's attack, but after a few minutes he realized something was wrong. Sesia was just a Supernatural Being had only recently advanced to the seventh rank, while Lista was a paladin who could fight other hidden classes head-on without flinching.
But he couldn't sense Sesia's presence at all, not even the slightest bit.
The other party isn't an assassin, how could they possibly do it so silently?
The space here is very special. It doesn't seem like the barrier of the Inner World, but rather like a sealed space. Sensing something is wrong, Lista tries to break the spatial seal with brute force.
But when he unleashed his full power to strike the void, it didn't stir up any ripples, as if a stone had been thrown into the ocean.
"How is this possible? Where is this place???"
Lista was horrified.
"Could it be that the Eighth Tier Supernatural Being who made the move?"
Yes, it must be!
Only Eighth Tier being could render this seventh-tier transcendent powerless.
The Eighth Tier is the realm of gods. In internal church records, Eighth Tier transcendents also have another title—demigod.
Lista was well aware of the power of Eighth Tier transcendent being, because in front of Sylvia, he couldn't muster even the slightest thought of resistance.
All Eighth Tier Supernatural Being, regardless of their profession, will learn a single ability—the Domain.
The domain is related to one's profession, and the effects of the domain vary depending on the profession. The common point is that it is invincible, damn invincible!
Realizing this, Lista immediately took out his personal communication artifact. As Seventh Tier Transcendent of the Church and the leader of the Holy Knights, he held great power and was qualified to contact the Pope directly.
"It has to be useful..."
While remaining vigilant against attacks from the witch K, Lista channeled her Magic Power into the relic. Fortunately, it was a communication relic that Janus Path, and for Janus, the blockade of time and space was the most meaningless thing.
Swish!
Sylvia's phantom appeared before Lista, followed by an indifferent voice.
Lista, what is it?
"Your Holiness!" Lista cried out urgently, "I've been trapped by Eighth Tier Supernatural Being from the Primal Church!"
"Oh?"
Upon realizing that it was Witch K who had made the move, Sylvia glanced around, her eyes narrowing slightly as she discerned that this was a sealed space.
"She's not here," Sylvia said calmly. "Don't worry, there's no danger."
"But Helen might be in danger!"
"Helen?" Sylvia paused for a moment. "Tell me what happened."
Lista quickly recounted what had happened that evening.
"You mean Helen went to talk to Ryan, and three hours have passed with no news?"
"Yes, Your Holiness, I want to find Helen, but I was stopped by the Primal People. If they didn't have something to hide, why would they attack me? Your Holiness, do you have a way to get me out of here? I need to find Helen!"
Sylvia said calmly, "It's alright, Helen is fine. I just have something important to tell her, so it might take a little longer."
Hearing this after three hours, Sylvia felt relieved.
It would be problematic if they left after only a short chat.
The fact that she hasn't come out after three hours proves that Helen has succeeded, doesn't it?
If we can capture Ryan and obtain more secrets about the Primal and Balshatt, or even information about Janus, it would be worth it even if we had to sacrifice Lista, let alone Helen.
"What did Your Holiness ask you to do?" Lista frowned. "What could possibly take so long?"
Sylvia glanced at me. "Are you questioning me?"
"No, I wouldn't dare. I'm just worried about Helen's safety. That Ryan doesn't seem like a good person. What if he tries to harm Helen..."
Wouldn't that be even better...? Sylvia thought to herself, but considering Lista's deep affection for Helen, who was, after all, the leader of the Holy Knights and a core figure in her faction, it was better not to let him know about this.
"No need to worry, Helen has the relics I gave her. Once used, even that original Eighth Tier Supernatural Being could do nothing to her in a short time. Moreover, I can use the relics to get there immediately," Sylvia said.