Volume Six: What She Lost, What I Gained - The Spy

"Soon, in just one month, it will be time to build the World Crossing Gate. At that time...?"

The Jili suddenly paused.

He looked around and saw only floating darkness and gleaming Divine Item; nothing else.

"... Um?"

"What's wrong, Leader?"

"No..."

Yu He looked around again, but still found nothing. He had suddenly had a strange feeling, like a slight ripple on a calm lake, or a small grain of sand mixed into a large bag of rice... Was it really a sense of incongruity? It was even more natural than complete perfection...

Jili at the bewildered Gustav. Even with his senses and intuition sharpened beyond biological limits, Gustav hadn't noticed anything. Was he being too paranoid?

"... Let's go, Gustav."

"Yes, Leader."

The master and servant left the storage room, and silence returned.

The silence lasted for a minute, two minutes...

After ten minutes, when he was certain that the Jili and Gustav would not return, the man finally breathed a sigh of relief.

In reality, the storage room is a completely dark, sealed room except for the light from the Divine Item, but on a spiritual level, it presents a completely different scene.

In the spiritual space constructed by the anthropomorphic manifestations of several Divine Item, six figures huddled in six different directions, forming a regular hexagon. This space was also divided into six equally sized sectors.

The six people in the six different colored fan-shaped structures each have their own unique characteristics, but without exception, they are all very beautiful women, and they are all asleep.

Lying in a golden fan shape is a blonde mature woman with fair skin and a curvaceous figure. Because she is sleeping on her side, her right breast is pressed against the ground, forming a rather lewd shape. She is not wearing clothes, and her body is covered with what looks like molten gold, which only covers her vital parts.

Within the blue fan-shaped structure was a young woman of about twenty years old, with long, unruly, bright blue hair that reached her heels. It seemed never to have been cut; her chest was completely flat, and one could not even feel any curves unless one touched it carefully. In contrast, her legs were very long and beautiful. Her body was covered in blue crystal sand, which rustled softly from time to time.

Within the metallic fan-shaped enclosure was a girl of about twelve or thirteen years old, with light gray hair, fox-like slanted eyes, and skin that had a slightly inorganic grayish-white hue, but her sleeping face was quite innocent. Layers of metallic spikes covered her body like a blanket, looking rather prickly.

Within the pinkish-white fan-shaped enclosure was a short-haired girl of about sixteen years old, with a beautiful face, a perfectly proportioned figure, a moderately sized bust and hips, and a wildly beautiful wheat-colored skin. Her limbs appeared firm and muscular. Clusters of white flames gathered around her, flickering and repeating with her breath.

Within the scarlet fan shape was the Rakshasa True Word, which hadn't appeared in a long time. Her long scarlet hair was still incredibly beautiful, and her petite body, contrasted sharply with her dreamlike, enormous breasts, exuded a bewitching allure that stirred the heart. She seemed to be muttering in her sleep. Pale red Killing Intent clung to her body, condensing into a lace-like nightgown, which was quite alluring.

Within the pure white fan-shaped enclosure is Truth Incantation- chan, whom Rakshasa True Word despises the most. Her petite, loli-like body and twitching cat ears are a perfect match, and her snow-white, delicate skin evokes a protective instinct. Probably no one but Rakshasa True Word would dare to lay a hand on her.

The Truth Incantation differs from several other Divine Item.

She was enveloped in a faint, transparent shadow, imperceptible unless one looked very closely. If you stared at it for about a minute, you would notice that the transparent shadow seemed to form the shape of a young girl, who was intently gazing in a certain direction.

(... Did they leave? That was scary.)

The transparent shadow peeled away from the Truth Incantation and gradually gained color; the light brown long hair and the same color eyes revealed it to be Givinia.

After a period of effort, and with the help of the Huang Huo and Anubas covering for her, she finally succeeded.

The Lady successfully infiltrated the Truth Incantation and left a backdoor by mentally interfering with the Prayer Goddess. Although Givinia was far inferior to the Lady, the strongest mentalist, she had been so engrossed in her research that she hadn't paid any attention to Ye's situation. She held a certain trust in Ye... no, rather than trust, it was more like certainty. Although she had no concrete evidence, she was certain that the Extra Weapon couldn't harm Ye. Why? Perhaps because someone like Ye shouldn't die here.

Since Ye was fighting so hard, she couldn't just sit idly by; Givinia wanted to help her in her own way.

Former Special Class Combatant Yang Yujie secretly defected after accidentally discovering the Leader's secret. Before his death, he wanted to entrust the secret to Nid, but failed for unknown reasons.

But the trail did not go cold.

According to Yu Jie, this secret is a colossal one that could cause the organization's collapse, and only the Leader knows it... It's even possible that Gustav, the Leader's only close advisor, knows it too. If Givinia could find out this secret and make it public, it would be a devastating blow.

So, Givinia had been waiting here for quite some time.

By infiltrating the Truth Incantation, one can gain access to the location of the Truth Incantation —the storage room for the materials of the World Crossing Gate —which is arguably the only way to approach the Leader without attracting his attention.

Unfortunately, the Leader came to the storage room today didn't say anything truly useful, and didn't even talk to Gustav like he had before. Givinia had indeed heard some valuable things during this time, but none of them could be considered "secret enough to shake the organization."

(And what's more, the Leader is actually... just how perceptive is he?)

Givinia had been extremely careful; she had even gone to great lengths to separate a portion of her own will—not a projection, but her true will—and completely overlap it with the personified personality of the Truth Incantation, using the powerful and unique fluctuations of the Divine Item to conceal her existence. Yet, today the Leader still sensed a slight unease.

(This is getting more and more dangerous. Even the smallest inconsistency, if accumulated little by little, can be enough to affect a person's actions. If it happens two or three more times, the Leader should become completely suspicious and start investigating. At that point, my plan will have failed.)

Opportunities are dwindling.

Am I really left to rely solely on luck?

(No... let's try asking Huang Huo and Anubas again, that should be able to...)

Somewhere on the third floor of the Business Capital, in a certain room--

I sighed.

"Still can't get in touch with Givinia?" Xiao Wu asked.

"To be honest, I don't have a direct way to contact her; she's always the one who reaches out to me, and besides..."

I sighed again and rubbed my hair.

"She hasn't contacted me since she entered the Business Capital. To be honest, I really want to talk to her about the current situation, and... to be honest, I'm a little worried about her."

She is now essentially a spy infiltrating the organization's headquarters; no matter what she's doing, it's impossible to avoid risks.

"... Forget it, there's no point in thinking about it anymore. I should just focus on the task at hand."

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It's the end of the month... and I've already fallen out of the top ten. Looks like things are going to get salty again.