Chapter 1 The Culmination

Lan Qi glanced at the sky outside the rose window.

The conversation today should be drawing to a close. Since the goal had been achieved, staying here to talk with Headmaster Violet for too long might arouse suspicion.

"Also, Headmaster Violet, can you cast divine spells similar to [Purifying Heart Mantra]?"

Before leaving with the cat, Lan Qi asked Violet the final question.

Ice Witch and priests of Loren's level could master the divine spell [Purifying Heart Mantra], which removes negative status effects. It was the supreme divine spell for dispelling negative status effects such as mental, curse, and illusion types.

But it was ultimately an eighth-order spell.

Lashaer's authority, [Blood Mind Control], was a ninth-order authority that transcended the realm of living beings.

If the opponent was an eighth-order War God, it wouldn't be easy for the dispelling spell to fully hit and take effect.

Secondly, if it was a higher-order mental negative status, even the Ice Witch's divine spell couldn't dispel it, but could only reflect the negative status.

Unless there was a more targeted dispelling spell, such as the Moon Goddess's high-ranking priest, who might have a way to dispel the curse.

This was also why the Ice Witch believed that the probability of the Sixth War God, Violet of Aquamarine, being controlled was extremely low. Violet, as the Moon Goddess's high priestess, was likely completely unaffected by mental control magic.

Of course, being controlled by [Blood Mind Control] had a major prerequisite: a mental fracture. If a person's heart was flawless, Lashaer's authority wouldn't be effective. People like Marquis Ryan, the Ninth War God, who obviously had mental trauma, had almost no way to counter Lashaer.

"I can. If we really want to use Elseria Sanctuary's barrier divine spell, [Moon God's Flawless Pure Land], to dispel ninth-order mental control, it's still a bit difficult. First, we have to weaken the caster to a certain extent, greatly reducing their mental power, and I need to personally find the caster, this source of mental pollution. Only then will I be able to briefly disrupt their mental magic interference with other living beings through purification."

Violet thought for a while, then confirmed.

Although it was difficult, it wasn't like she had no way to counter it.

"Since you have countermeasures, I'm relieved. With you in the rear, our chances of winning are greatly increased."

Lan Qi once again thanked Violet, bidding her farewell in the headmaster's office.

With Violet helping them cover the rear, Lan Qi didn't need to worry. He could do his best to destroy Blood Moon City.

As long as the vampires' lair was destroyed, they would no longer be able to obtain a sanctuary to survive in the shadows of eternity.

...

The winter nights in Crestia came early.

After two or three hours, it was completely late at night.

The sky was dyed a layer of black ink, hanging star sand and a white moon in the night sky.

After finishing the private conversation with Headmaster Violet, Lan Qi left Violet's office.

As expected, Secretary Naira was still waiting outside the door.

Since there were no school buses at this time, Professor Landry might have to walk back alone, carrying a large cat. So, Naira had arranged for someone to take him back.

Under Secretary Naira's guidance, they left the main hall's corridor together.

After a brief wait, Secretary Naira had moved the silver magic vehicle to the road, and he got in.

Accompanied by a slight hum, the vehicle drove away from the magnificent main hall of Saint Crestia Monastery, heading towards the monastery's residential area.

"Was Professor Landry's meeting with the headmaster successful?"

Secretary Naira's car carried Lan Qi away from the area where the main hall was located.

"No problem. Headmaster Violet is a very good person."

Lan Qi replied, looking at the night view of the monastery outside the window.

"Of course, so Julius, who offended Headmaster Violet tonight, is extremely heinous. He will definitely regret it."

Naira said with particular resentment, her tone more fierce than Violet herself.

Lan Qi smiled when he heard Naira's words.

She showed her likes and dislikes very directly, not making people guess.

Then, the car was quiet for a while.

Lan Qi stroked the large gray cat in his arms with nothing to do.

"Miss Naira, can you come to my house for a while later?"

Lan Qi looked at Secretary Naira, who was concentrating on driving in the front row, and finally spoke.

He felt it necessary to confirm whether Naira was a true member of the Silver Moon Restoration Society.

If she was related to both Princess Alexia and Headmaster Violet, then he probably had a few candidates in mind.

Secretary Naira was undoubtedly the most suspicious one.

"Don't, Professor Landry. I don't want to become your new fiancée in the rumors."

Naira quickly responded, answering lightly.

"No, that's not what I meant."

Lan Qi said, holding his head.

It's easy to spread rumors, but hard to refute them.

He now felt like he couldn't explain himself clearly.

The Silver Moon Restoration Society was something that couldn't be brought to the table, but it was indeed an extremely important matter that could only be communicated privately.

"Meow."

Talia the cat looked at Lan Qi speechlessly.

Serves you right, meow.

The sins Lan Qi committed in the past were now all coming back.

Lan Qi really didn't spread Loren's scandals before. Lan Qi still didn't know who was spreading Loren's rumors in Iklit Academy.

It was just that he later helped Dean Loren arrange the Juliana bet, plus a few farces later, which may have accidentally verified some scandals, causing the real situation to collide with what was said in the rumors. Finally, there was the accident on the last day of the academy visit, when Loren sat on the referee's seat and wept.

Talia's impression of that day was particularly deep. She felt something was wrong halfway through and ran away.

It was Hyperion who told her about the tragedy at Iklit Academy that day after returning home.

"Professor Landry, don't worry. They don't dare to make fun of me casually. After all, when Headmaster Violet is not around, I am almost the acting headmaster, controlling most of the authority in this monastery. I can arrange them clearly."

Secretary Naira chuckled twice, no longer joking with Lan Qi,

"Besides, we meet so frequently for work needs. If we were really going to spread rumors, we would have spread them long ago."

She said to Lan Qi, her tone implying that she was deliberately teasing Lan Qi just now.

"..."

This made Lan Qi even more uncertain about her thoughts at the moment.

Naira took out a portable soundproof shielding magic device from her coat pocket, unfolded a small barrier, so that the sound in the car could be isolated separately, as if she had been prepared.

"Professor Landry, ask whatever you want. Now only you and I can hear the conversation in the car."

Naira said without looking back.

"I want to ask you a few questions first."

Lan Qi pondered for a moment. Although he already regarded Naira as a friend, he still had to be cautious in this matter.

"Ask."

Naira answered simply.

"Miss Naira, have you had private contact with the Allied forces?"

Lan Qi's expression became much more solemn, asking Naira.

"Of course not."

Naira didn't get angry, answering freely.

"..."

The cat in Lan Qi's arms didn't move at all, lying quietly as he stroked it.

"Excuse my rudeness, Miss Naira, can you guarantee that you are loyal to the Empire?"

Lan Qi continued to ask.

"Of course."

Naira didn't hesitate, nodding,

"What about you?"

She asked Lan Qi in return.

"Me too."

Lan Qi stared at Naira in the front seat for a while, nodding as well.

"You shouldn't have any connection with the Silver Moon Restoration Society either?"

Lan Qi asked the last question, testing Naira.

The first two questions had almost proved that Naira had a trustworthy position, and only the final question remained.

"Professor Landry, such targeted three questions, are you testing my lies?"

In the front row driver's seat, Secretary Naira's azure eye outside the mechanical eye mask stared straight ahead at the road, saying to Lan Qi.

"..."

Lan Qi lowered his head a little embarrassedly.

Secretary Naira's sharp words directly exposed his lie detection.

Without any foreshadowing, she directly sent three questions, and Naira, who was sensitive and intelligent, actually guessed the truth.

Although he could have asked more euphemistically, but things had come to this point, he didn't want to waste any more time, and didn't want to play tricks with friends.

"But since you asked like this, you must have guessed something, are you Seven?"

Naira didn't plan to tease Lan Qi anymore, turning her head slightly, asking him.

"As expected."

Lan Qi and the gray cat in his hands both raised their heads, staring at Naira.

Since Naira asked like this, it meant she was indeed a comrade!

Even just now, she might have been pretending to be confused, deliberately teasing Lan Qi.

"That day, Her Royal Highness asked me to go to the station to cover the new member if I had the spare strength. I happened to be going to pick up the new professor, and when I saw you being targeted by Nicholas, I suspected that you were the newly arrived Seven."

Secretary Naira said, and the hand that put down and changed gears had an extra communication magic card lingering with pink light, briefly showing it to Lan Qi.

[Super Remote Communication Program - 8]

[Category: Spell Card]

[Grade: Pink Sacred]

[Attribute: Link]

[Rank: 6]

[Effect: Compared to ordinary super remote communication magic, the communication distance and anti-interference are stronger.]

[Note: The purity of the Empire protects people's souls from the defilement of sin.]

"So I deliberately told you that I knew the princess when I was alone in the main hall banquet hall this afternoon, to see if you would have any reaction. But you really hid it perfectly, not even a slight change in expression, and you didn't explore this topic with me any further. Fortunately, you took the initiative to confront me now."

Secretary Naira continued to tell Lan Qi.

"So you were so rude to Nicholas that day, mainly to divert his attention from me?"

Lan Qi also said with some understanding.

Now recalling many things that happened in the past, there was almost always a cause and effect.

On the day Landry arrived in Brilda, Alexia asked Nicholas for help for the new member, and also requested Naira's assistance.

Unfortunately, Naira and Nicholas didn't know that the other was trying to save people, and had to perfectly perform their essential work to the end.

"No, I just simply hate that kind of purebred imperial hound. Unlike you, who are mixed, he is the real deal."

Secretary Naira glanced at Lan Qi from the rearview mirror, saying unhappily.

"Uh..."

Lan Qi was speechless.

The people Princess Alexia found were indeed not ordinary.

"Do you know the identities of Four and Nine?"

Lan Qi pressed his hand on the back of the front seat, asking her nervously.

"Her Highness only told me that Four can be regarded as non-existent, because Four's agreement with her is that they will not provide any real-time assistance to the Silver Moon Restoration Society. They will only appear in an irreversible desperate situation."

Naira frowned, recalling,

"And Nine is both the most credible person and the most untrustworthy person. Even the princess felt that handing over the sacred communication magic card to them was a gamble. On the contrary, Six, who you haven't asked about, is extremely trustworthy in the princess's eyes."

Naira said with a slightly apologetic and low voice.

In fact, Alexia didn't reveal the identities of other people to her. The principles established when this organization was founded have always been properly fulfilled.

"No wonder when Three wanted my research data last time, Four was just chatting and didn't intend to intervene at all."

Lan Qi analyzed, holding his chin.

It turned out that they were simply staying out of it.

Four, who was initially recruited by the princess, was more like an extra personnel who was unwilling to get involved. But since the princess would give the Four card to them, it showed the importance of their counterattack against the vampires in the princess's eyes.

As for Nine, it was even more confusing.

The princess didn't seem to trust this person very much, but for some reason, she knew this person, and instinctively wanted to believe them. So in the end, she took the risk and gave the Nine card to this person, in order to increase the chances of winning against the vampires.

"Sorry, even if you found me, I didn't provide you with much substantial help."

Naira apologized to Lan Qi.

"That's not true. Miss Naira, you have always been helping me."

Lan Qi quickly waved his hand at Naira.

Tonight, just getting Violet's promise and successfully finding the missing Eight had already been a great gain. If he could get some information about the identities of the remaining two members from Eight, then the results of working overtime today would be too high.

The current gains had already exceeded his expectations.

"Do you want to meet the other members with me?"

Lan Qi asked Secretary Naira again.

"It's still not necessary. The help I can provide you is limited. It's best not to let me know too much for the time being."

Naira shook her head, concentrating on watching the Saint Crestia Monastery road at night,

"I am so weak, knowing too much information might harm you instead. All I can do is protect you well in Saint Crestia Monastery, try not to let irrelevant personnel approach your residence, and provide you with logistical services at any time. Just treat me as a hotel manager."

Her positioning was very clear. The princess initially approached her because she valued her interpersonal relationships and administrative abilities in Saint Crestia Monastery.

"Okay."

Lan Qi didn't force anything.

Before long, the vehicle slowly ended and stopped on the street next to a familiar courtyard.

What came into view was Professor Landry's two-story residence. The milky white walls glowed softly under the monastery streetlights. The azure tiled roof and slightly dark brown window frames made it look like it had a building history of decades.

"If there is anything you need help with next, you can contact me at any time using the communication magic device."

After Secretary Naira finished speaking, she saluted as always.

"Be sure to come to the celebration banquet that day."

Lan Qi waved to Naira.

"Definitely. I'm also very curious to see what kind of people I will meet at the celebration banquet."

Naira replied affirmatively, revealing a bit of a smile.

She basically couldn't guess the identities of these online friends. The only ones she could currently confirm were Professor Landry and Princess Alexia.

She was also looking forward to seeing who she could meet then.

"Then goodbye."

The two said goodbye.

Lan Qi watched Secretary Naira's car disappear into the night.

Providing him with guidance and information when he first came to Brilda, Secretary Naira, his initial partner in Brilda, had been silently helping him.

Lan Qi turned around and walked into the courtyard, holding the big gray cat.

He didn't have much sense of tension as a spy.

The days he had spent in the Crestia Empire were already much better than when he was in the North Continent.

He had been working hard all day today, and nothing was more important than getting a good rest right now. The Crestia National Celebration Festival, which could change everything and determine everything, was just around the corner, as if it was tomorrow.

He looked up at the residence.

So far, his trip to the Crestia Empire, the long work and running around, had come to a satisfactory end.

But a new job, also his final battle, was about to begin.