newbobooks Chapter 182 The Gaze of the True Creator
Chapter 182 The Gaze of the True Creator
Chapter 182 The Gaze of the True Creator
Realizing that even powerful figures could be assassinated, Audrey resolved to quickly resume her role, find the necessary potion recipes and ingredients through audience channels, and protect her family.
Therefore, in the past few days, she has frequently used Fors and Hugh's channels to attend the Extraordinary Gathering, giving away opportunities to purchase the "Audience" potion.
Thanks to the "audience's" keen observation skills, she sensed that some people were beginning to take an interest in her.
He was silently observing her, which made her both excited and nervous.
If she still can't get the "Mind Reader" potion recipe at the next Tarot meeting, she may have to confront the person secretly observing her.
In Backlund West, the attendees of the MI9 headquarters filed out of the main conference room, each senior intelligence officer looking grim.
Three days have passed, and no matter which organization—the Witch Cult, the Aurora Society, or the Gnostic Society—they can't find a single clue. They all seem to have vanished into thin air.
The operation only uncovered some minor players, and Backlund suddenly seemed to have become a no-go zone for the secret organization.
Therefore, King George III sent a special envoy today to give them a severe dressing down at the assembly.
They showed no mercy whatsoever.
In addition, MI9 received a request for assistance from the Church of Storms.
According to reliable information obtained by the Church of Storms, one of the pirate generals, "Hurricane Admiral" Ziringus, has landed, and his destination is Backlund.
This is another dangerous person, so MI9 received a strict order to find Zillingus and prevent him from causing trouble. If they mess this up again, MI9's budget for next year may be cut, and their year-end bonuses may be lost.
When it comes to money, MI9 is really in a hurry this time.
After the meeting, everyone was mobilized, contacting all available information channels and gathering all possible information, all in order to find Qilingus as quickly as possible.
Evan, however, didn't care much about any of this. His achievements in the previous two months and Robert's power made him basically ignore these troubles. Besides, he hadn't been assigned a position yet, so it couldn't possibly affect him.
Moreover, Zillingus is backed by the Twilight Hermits, and Evan has no desire to get involved in Adam's affairs. On the contrary, from the perspective of maximizing his own interests, he is happy to see it happen.
After leaving the conference room, Evan didn't linger at MI9. Even if he didn't care, he had to pretend. In reality, he went straight to the East District to secretly meet with Mr. A.
"Just as you predicted, MI9 has focused most of its attention on the Witch Cult, which has greatly reduced our pressure and further ensured Lanius's safety."
Mr. A saw Evan and was satisfied with the results of his previous suggestion. He then asked:
"Have you heard anything from Triss lately? With all that commotion the other day, have the Witch Cult and the Augustan royal family suspected him?"
Evan shook his head and said, "The incident at Red Rose Manor has caused quite a stir. Some people believe that Edsack Augustus is in danger of being assassinated, so the entire Red Rose Manor is under tight protection, and I cannot enter it."
When Evan was promoted to colonel last time, he secretly wrote a letter to Edsack Augustus reporting on Laneus, hoping to persuade him to "share his father's burdens," but there has been no response for a long time.
Moreover, judging from the information from other sources, Triss is also unharmed and is being closely protected by Edsac Augustus.
This made Evan wonder if the Third Prince had actually fallen in love with this witch, just because he knew her well!
Then, Evan informed Mr. A that the Royal Guard had made another unusual move and that "Hurricane Admiral" Ziringus had come ashore.
He didn't want to concern himself with the matter of "Hurricane General," but the news about the royal guards made Mr. A think of King George III and suspect that George III wanted to find Lanius.
Whatever George III may want to do, Mr. A, a faithful believer in the true Creator, will not allow anything to happen to Laneus.
As the head of the Aurora Society in Backlund, Mr. A also needs to take precautions in case of accidents, including who will inherit the Aurora Society's cause and continue it if he dies.
Yesterday, after consulting with the Dark Saint, he decided to hand over all the work of the Backlund Aurora Society to Evan, while he would focus on protecting the personal safety of Lanius.
"Evan Horn, after discussions with the Dark Saint, we have decided to temporarily entrust the Backlund branch of the Aurora Society to you. You will lead the Aurora Society's future work and inherit the codename 'Mr. Billion'!"
Evan was taken aback; this was something he hadn't expected, and he repeatedly declined.
"I haven't been with the Aurora Club for long, and I'm still quite inexperienced. How can I possibly shoulder such a heavy responsibility!"
The Aurora Society is mainly composed of a few saints and a group of evil god believers with Sequence 5 or 6 as their core. These people are able to be directly noticed by the true creator.
The blessing of the Goddess of Night and the mysterious city itself gave Evan the confidence to infiltrate the Aurora Society, but he lacked the confidence to be directly exposed to the true Creator!
For a moment, Evan had an urge to kill Mr. A and run away immediately.
But at that moment, Evan, who was already inseparable from the mysterious city, felt a gaze cast from the distant east, and sensed an aura full of darkness, filth, and depravity. A very strong mystical connection was suddenly established between the two.
The Mysterious City has a very strong corrosive effect on things that establish a connection with it. It once autonomously reversed the influence on 008 in Tingen. The more 008 interferes with Evan, the more likely it is to be reversed by the Mysterious City.
This was also one of the reasons why Evan initially suspected 008 was actively pushing him to leave Tingen; to normal people and things, Evan himself was a huge source of pollution.
But this time was different. The invasion of the mysterious city was firmly resisted, making the connection between the true creator and Evan even stronger.
Feeling the gaze from afar, Evan's blood seemed to freeze, and he stood there completely still.
Mr. A, who also felt the gaze of the true Creator descend upon him, immediately turned around and knelt down, making the sign of the cross on his chest and devoutly praying.
As time passed, through the mysterious city, Evan faintly heard a sigh that sounded like a sigh of relief, followed by the following words:
"City of Calamity!"
As the term echoed in Evan's mind, the words uttered by the true creator seemed to possess a real substance, transforming into a mysterious black seed that landed on Evan's body and spirit, attempting to merge with him, but was blocked by the mysterious city.
But the black "seed" was extraordinary; it was not eroded or dispelled by the red light of the mysterious city, but instead merged into the mysterious connection between the mysterious city and the true creator.
Before Evan could respond, the True Creator withdrew his gaze. However, Evan could see that the connection between the Mysterious City and the True Creator was so clear and unbreakable that the Mysterious City seemed to have tacitly accepted the other's existence and given up on its encroachment.
The City of Calamity? Is this the name of the mysterious city on my body? Does the true Creator recognize it? What does this mean? Judging from the feedback from the City of Calamity, have we become allies?
Just as Evan's mind was starting to go blank, Mr. A finished his final prayer with a devout expression, then stood up, looking at Evan with a mixture of envy and jealousy, and said:
"Congratulations on becoming a follower of the Lord, able to listen to His teachings at any time! You are blessed by the Lord! How fortunate you are!"
Seeing Mr. A's undisguised and open envy and jealousy, Evan felt a pang of resentment. He forced a smile, wanting to say, "Such incredible luck is yours, don't you want it?"
But then he immediately realized that this luck was something Mr. A might really want.
Mr. A, oblivious to Evan's unpleasant expression, said to Evan:
"Although you have become one of the Lord's chosen ones, you are still a member of the Aurora Society. The Lord has not given any further instructions, so continue to do as we have arranged before!"
After saying that, Mr. A called in a young man from outside the door who was exceptionally handsome, only slightly less so than Evan.
Then he continued to say to Evan:
"His name is 'O'Sullivan,' he's my assistant, and also a Sequence 6 'Rose Bishop,' while this is the new 'Mr. Z.'"
"Hello, Mr. Yi. From now on, I will be your assistant."
The young man named "O'Sullivan" seemed very polite, but Evan knew that as long as someone was an extraordinary person who followed the "Secret Analyst" pathway, no matter how normal they appeared on the outside, they were a madman who couldn't be mad any more.
Mr. A made no secret of his admiration for O'Sullivan, saying to Irwin:
"The O'Sullivan family are devout believers in the Lord. For four generations, his family has been fighting for the Lord's coming. They are completely trustworthy and have been my assistant for a long time. They can help you quickly grasp the power of the Aurora Chamber in Backlund."
Mr. A then began to introduce to Evan the remaining forces of the Aurora Society in Backlund, including seven or eight gangs in the East and Docklands, four or five nobles in Queens and West, and several trading houses and small banks in Hilton and Joewood districts.
Judging from Mr. A's introduction, these industries are actually doing quite well even against the backdrop of economic downturn, which makes Evan somewhat puzzled as to why Mr. A would risk assassinating the ambassador of the Republic of Intis for the sake of 10,000 gold coins.
It was then discovered that the Aurora Society's account now only had 2000 gold pounds in cash, which was far from enough for a large organization.
Faced with Evan's questioning gaze, Mr. A said to him seriously:
"The main task of believers in these industries is to develop themselves, accumulate strength, and wait for the right opportunity. This is a separate task from the actions of the Aurora Society."
Creating chaos to usher in the Lord's coming is a big deal, but planting seeds of discord in all levels of the Rune so that one day the storm will overthrow the rule of the false god from within is also a big deal. We must prepare for both scenarios.
To avoid risks, the people on these two lines must not overlap. Those who do organizational work cannot mix with those who do operational work, let alone have any financial dealings. You must remember this!
Therefore, the Aurora Club will need to raise its own funds, and this will be your main task going forward!
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Evan gasped, feeling a sharp pain in his teeth. He truly hadn't expected the Aurora Club to want to play the "changing landscape" game, which was far beyond Evan's previous impression of the Aurora Club.
Meanwhile, seeing that the Aurora Society, such a secretive organization that caused the official forces so much trouble, only had 2000 gold coins in its account for operating expenses, I felt that Mr. A's resignation might not be as simple as he claimed.
Could it be that Aurora has suffered huge losses during this period and is unable to make ends meet, so he wants to take advantage of Evan, this rich guy, in this way?
Seeing Evan's suspicious look, Mr. A felt a little embarrassed, because Evan was right, he was indeed planning to do just that.
Every organization needs funding to operate, and the Aurora Club has suffered significant losses during this period, with its income far below its expenditures.
Every morning when Mr. A opens his eyes, he is first faced with a mountain of bills, and most of the time he thinks about whether he should kidnap someone for sex and make some quick money.
The money from legitimate businesses shouldn't be used arbitrarily. Logically, they should also be in charge of some less legitimate businesses, which are very profitable.
Unfortunately, ever since Evan arrived in Backlund, there hasn't been a single day of peace. MI9, in conjunction with the three major churches and the police department, has raided the East End and the dock area more than once.
So in the end, Mr. A could no longer bear it and set his sights on Evan.
After this period of observation, Mr. A concluded that Evan was devout to God, quick-witted, had a powerful background, and looked very much like the Aurora Club's corporate culture. Most importantly, he was rich.
So in the end, Mr. A formally proposed to step down and, after discussing with the Dark Saint, officially promoted Evan to be a key member of the Aurora Society, to inherit Mr. Billion's legacy, and at the same time handed over the Aurora Society's Backlund branch to Evan.
"By the way, the intelligence you've provided these past few times has been very valuable, and your plans have been very effective. You've made a great contribution, and we won't be stingy with rewards. This item was given to you by the Dark Saint!"
Mr. A knew that it wouldn't be fair for him to leave at this point, so he quickly took out a square box and handed it to Evan.
Evan vaguely sensed an attraction from the essence of things, guessed what was inside, and opened it to find a piece of reddish-black brain that seemed to still beating in conjunction with the heart—the brain of a human-faced lion. It was covered with a lot of blood and could fall off at any moment, as if it were fresh material that had just been hunted.
Evan smiled as he closed the box and said to Mr. A with a smile:
"Thank you for the gift from the Dark Saint, this has truly solved my urgent problem."
Just two days ago, Mr. Hope, who works for Robert, came to Evan's door and gave him the compound eyes and venom glands for hunting black spiders.
With the addition of what Mr. A gave him today, he has now collected all the main materials for Hunter Path Sequence 6 "The Schemer".
The last two auxiliary materials: ten grams of amber powder and two white oak fruits are things that can be easily bought in jewelry stores and medicine shops.
In other words, if Evan wanted to, he could easily become a "scheming manipulator" right now.
After explaining the basic situation, Mr. A left in a hurry. From this day forward, he would dedicate himself to protecting Lanius and the hope of the Lord's coming.
Meanwhile, Evan and his assistant O'Sullivan continued to learn more about the Aurora Society and found that the situation was actually better than he had imagined. However, the Aurora Society still had a great influence in the East District, after all, the doctrine of the Creator coming to save the world was very much in line with the demands of the poor and needy.
No matter how the true church tries to suppress it, as long as the ruling class does not change its exploitation of the ruled class, the widespread dissemination of the doctrine of true creation will be inevitable.
This gave Evan an opportunity to create chaos and to use the Aurora Club's popular support to do his own thing.
"Don't worry about the money. I'll figure something out. The official organization is pressing us hard, and we've suffered too many losses recently. It's not a good time to take action or continue to fight head-on with our opponents."
What we should do now is to go all out to develop ourselves, strengthen ourselves, accumulate strength, and wait for the right opportunity.
Therefore, we should now inform all members and believers to stop what they are doing, protect themselves, and go into hiding!
Upon hearing Ivan's instructions, the young O'Sullivan frowned slightly, then said with difficulty:
"So how should we develop believers? You may not know that some believers are actually just superficial believers. If no one is watching them all the time, they will turn around and worship false gods, and all our previous efforts will be in vain."
Evan smiled and said, "This is the second thing I want you to do."
I've looked at some of the information you provided. Most of the believers owe money to the gangs we control, which is why they came to believe in our Lord on the condition that some of their debts be forgiven.
What you need to do next is to find some of these shallow believers who are eloquent and popular, and have them persuade others to believe in our Lord. The more they persuade, the greater the debt relief they will receive.
Once their debts are cleared, we can even give them money, the amount depending on how many believers they recruit.
All members must be registered to prevent duplicate recruitment. Furthermore, they are responsible for ensuring that each recruit prays to the Lord daily with them. Those with three vacancies are no longer considered members and must receive a refund.
O'Sullivan was stunned by the way Evan recruited his followers. Was it acceptable to recruit followers like that? Didn't he need to explain the doctrine to them? Didn't he need to understand the meaning of the Creator? Were these recruits even considered followers?
But he quickly came to his senses. This plan to recruit believers sounded good, but it was too expensive, and the Aurora Society was short of money right now.
After O'Sullivan pointed out this drawback, Evan immediately countered with a question:
"After recruiting so many believers, can't we cultivate some loyal believers among them? Since they are loyal believers, shouldn't they recruit new people? Why give them money then?"
If all else fails, you can increase the way usurers calculate interest rates so they can never pay it off.
This step is actually used to screen people with organizational skills and those who can recruit others.
We should recruit such people into our organization, give them a regular job managing believers, with a fixed base salary and commission.
I've given them stable and permanent jobs, shouldn't they be grateful?
Moreover, this is just the initial method for attracting followers. Once we reach a certain scale and gain a certain level of influence,
We won't use that method again.
Then we can re-establish unions, organize worker strikes, fight for workers' legal rights, and even occasionally have workers go to church to petition those false gods, so that they can see for themselves whether those false gods will bless them and improve their situation.
If those false churches interfere, it will widen the rift between them and the nobility and the upper bourgeoisie, and we can then proclaim that this is the will of the Creator.
And if they ignore it, all the better, for the workers who witness reality will abandon their faith in false gods and begin to embrace our Lord again, to have faith in our Lord.
If used properly, it could even undermine the will of believers within the false god church, making them doubt their faith and thus achieving the goal of dismantling the organization from within.
O'Sullivan had never heard of this method of recruiting believers, this method of dealing with official organizations and orthodox churches.
He and Mr. A usually carried out terrorist activities to make the Aurora Society's presence known and to make the world remember them.
Use fear to win over believers.
I've never seen such a "soft" tactic of using a workers' strike as a pretext to divide and dismantle the opponent.
But his intuition told him that this method was very feasible, yet he still stammered and asked in return:
"Will this... will this work?"
"Why not? I'm an insider in the ruling class, so I know all too well the shamelessness and internal conflicts within it."
Sometimes we need to be flexible in distinguishing who the main enemy is, who the secondary enemy is, and who the friends we can cooperate with temporarily.
For example, the Church of the Night and the Church of Steam have always demanded that women have the right to vote and be elected, and that they should receive equal pay for equal work. However, the followers of the false god of storms oppose this, which gives us a way to divide and conquer them.
For example, some of the lands of the Southern Continent people and the Highland people were occupied by the Rune and turned into colonies, causing them to become second-class citizens in the Rune. This made them stick together and actively seek civil rights, but they were ignored. They could only place their faith in the already dead God of Death. Isn't that a waste?
Anyway, the Kingdom of Rune doesn't belong to us, so we can make promises for free and issue empty checks at will.
When carrying out operations, do not allow members of the Aurora Society to directly intervene. Focus on cultivating white gloves such as gangsters, and do not give false god churches and MI9 the opportunity to interfere.
After the first phase is successful, we can take advantage of the natural loopholes in the electoral politics of the Kingdom of Rune to actively participate in politics and influence the parliamentary elections.
Although we may not be able to truly and openly step onto the stage, we should still become an important factor influencing the balance of political forces.
Take small, quick steps to gradually change our current situation! Mass production leads to qualitative change!
Upon hearing this, O'Sullivan took a deep breath. He felt that Evan might have found a new way out for the Aurora Society, a new way to spread the faith of the Lord and fight against the forces of false gods.
"No wonder Mr. Evan, who joined the Aurora Society less than two months ago, was chosen as the representative of humanity! Under his leadership, the Aurora Society will surely be revived!"