The warm light in the living room gradually shifted, the beams from the chandelier like a soft embrace, melting away the winter chill in the space.

At this moment, the ticking of the clock seemed slower, no longer a curse of time, but a leisurely melody, the girls' gazes gradually losing their coldness and anger, turning instead to understanding and gentleness.

In this atmosphere, Sigrid and Hyperion's hands gradually loosened, untying the deadlock.

Before their hands were completely down,

"Holy Son, I didn't consider your feelings,"

Sigrid said to Lan Qi first, her voice softening a bit.

"!"

Hyperion was momentarily stunned; how could this woman change faces so quickly?

Hyperion immediately placed her hands back on Lan Qi's wrist, as if to check if she had hurt him earlier.

She didn't speak, but looked up at Lan Qi with a hint of apology, her eyes seeming to empathize with him.

"This..."

Gloria's eyelids twitched wildly.

This sudden change made her finally understand that the Overlord Holy Son's most extraordinary skill wasn't his terrifying business acumen, but his unique talent for managing a battlefield of love rivals!

From beginning to end, he didn't show too much emotional fluctuation, as if he really felt he was doing it for Sigrid and Hyperion's own good, but they didn't understand him, and in the end, he felt a little lonely, that was all.

So pure that it was incomprehensible!

Gloria couldn't tell whether this man was truly innocent or a super green tea master.

She always felt like her old mother was being played in the palm of someone's hand, but she had no evidence.

Perhaps Sigrid was very clear-headed and saw through the Holy Son's intentions, but this was an overt scheme. If she continued to argue, it would only make her seem unreasonable, and Hyperion would take the opportunity to seize her position.

"Meow..."

Boss Cat poked half his body out from under the sofa, looking up and meeting Gloria's eyes.

He knew that this adopted daughter of Sid's was currently itching in the head.

Boss Cat was in a better situation than her. He had heard some rumors in Iketerre, such as Lan Qi being very good at mediating civil disputes and resolving emotional conflicts.

Today was the first time he saw Lan Qi himself caught in a battlefield of love rivals.

It only made Boss Cat feel that when he saw someone walking a tightrope in the high sky, walking in the clouds, he should have such a calm expression, not feeling any danger to his life at all.

Boss Cat couldn't imagine him suddenly falling down and dying.

On the other side,

"Phew—"

Seeing that the dispute in the living room was finally resolved, Lan Qi smiled and breathed a sigh of relief, as if relieved that the two could reconcile.

"Let's sit down and talk,"

Lan Qi elegantly and calmly gestured for them both to take a seat.

Sigrid and Hyperion, who had almost made eye contact and wanted to argue about who should sit next to Lan Qi, immediately suppressed their words and each found a seat at one end of the sofa.

At this time, whoever provoked trouble would be at a disadvantage.

Gloria quickly made way, waiting beside them like a servant.

So Lan Qi didn't intend to sit on the sofa. He turned and walked to the magic crystal screen embedded in the wall, put the backup video crystal into the magic projector on the cabinet, and then turned off the lights in the room.

Sound and images began to be projected onto the dark wall facing the sofa.

Although Hyperion was puzzled, she watched seriously.

The perspective seemed to be Lan Qi's, he was in a heavily guarded city-state, seemingly in the north of the Empire, the outside of the city-state was surrounded by frozen earth and snow-capped mountains.

The clear war song composed of strings and drums, coupled with the deserted city-state, gave a creepy sense of eerie.

In the picture, the cameraman stepped into the upper layer of the city-state through the corridor of the city gate, he occasionally talked to Sid beside the screen, and the voices of the two interspersed in the picture.

Until the two stood on the staggered pillars of the city-state's upper level, the perspective turned to the side, and saw on this wide suspension bridge, snowflakes in the sky fluttered down, and it took a long time to fall into the lower pillar layer which was tens of meters deep. Obviously, as long as you go to the lower residential area, you can find out the reason why the residents of this city-state are sparse.

However,

Just then, the picture suddenly became blurred, as if everything in the cameraman's field of vision was accelerating in an instant, and the cameraman himself was taken to the sky.

In the high altitude, the picture perspective finally gradually saw the whole picture of this northern border city-state in the clouds.

Only the entrance that had been passed before was still performing peace, but the depths had long been shrouded in a solar eclipse-like darkness.

Under the black mist, it seemed to be devouring scattered limbs and broken arms. Whether it was children, women, or old people, their corpses were filled into the earthen pit...

At this point, Lan Qi turned off the projection magic device.

After that, it was the appearance of Ascsan, the Bishop of Nihility, and Sigrid's battle with him using the true strength of the Overlord Sect.

Lan Qi knew that Sigrid didn't want anyone to know her true identity now.

The room was completely occupied by darkness, the only bright source was the quietly running projection magic device.

Hyperion sat on the sofa with wide eyes, as if watching a secret documentary late at night.

And Gloria was also seeing this shocking picture for the first time, and was surprised to the point of being unable to speak. She could probably imagine the situation the Bishop and the Holy Son encountered in the north.

Lan Qi remained silent, giving Hyperion plenty of time to think, and he turned on the light again.

"I can't force you two to cooperate. I can only act as an intermediary to help you achieve some mutually beneficial transactions as much as possible,"

Lan Qi said, looking at Hyperion and Sigrid on the sofa. He avoided the word "cooperation" and tried to treat it as a "transaction" as much as possible.

"The current goal of the Overlord branch is to deal with the Nihility branch. For the Church of the Goddess of Fate, no one should want the Bishop of Nihility to be elected as the speaker of the Protos Empire, right?"

Lan Qi looked at Hyperion again.

Hyperion nodded.

According to what she had heard, the Overlord branch had never done anything particularly bad in the Protos Empire, and the unspeakable sins committed by the Nihility branch, no matter what conspiracy was behind them, once completed, would definitely be an irreversible disaster.

The Bishop of Nihility must not be allowed to become the speaker of the Protos Empire.

"As long as it is something that hits the Nihility branch, the Church of the Goddess of Fate will also do it spontaneously,"

Hyperion clenched her fists and assured Lan Qi.

As a priest, for the sake of righteousness, even if she has to temporarily trade with the Resurrection Church next, the Goddess will definitely understand her.

Confirming Hyperion's attitude, Lan Qi met Sigrid's eyes.

Regarding the prison break, they needed Hyperion to go to the prison in person, which was very dangerous, so it was possible that they would let Hyperion suffer.

But Sigrid obviously didn't want to owe the Church of the Goddess of Fate any favors.

She will definitely give more rewards.

"Let's talk about your needs first,"

Sigrid said to Hyperion.

She decided to listen to Hyperion's needs first, so as to judge how to adjust the price that the Overlord branch should pay.

Hyperion pondered.

She felt that since the Overlord branch was going to deal with the Nihility branch, what they needed must be powerful combat power.

"Give me some information about Helrom Prison, and I can help you get a high-ranking demon to help in the battle, so that if you need to fight Ascsan, the chances of winning will be greater,"

Hyperion proposed the content of the transaction.

She believed that her sincerity was great enough, and only needed as much information as possible to exchange for the help of an eighth-order high-ranking demon at a critical moment.

This transaction is definitely not a loss for the other party.

However,

Lan Qi and Sigrid looked at each other, and their expressions were very strange.

Gradually, Sigrid became extremely embarrassed and lowered her head.

"Is it not possible?"

Hyperion asked.

"..."

Lan Qi didn't know how to speak.

He remembered that these two people had just sworn in the name of the Goddess, not to talk about any personal feelings, and the other said they would let them see who was in charge of this house.

As a result, everyone quarreled, but what they wanted to do was the same thing.

"We are also going to break into the prison,"

Gloria hurriedly added.

Suddenly, Hyperion seemed to understand Sigrid's expression at this moment, and her cheeks also began to turn red.

The living room was eerily quiet.

Both felt a little socially awkward.

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