2402 Additional Price!
The Goddess of Mercy had mentally prepared herself for the worst-case scenario. She considered the possibility of everything failing and being forced to seek refuge with Lin Yuan in the Radiance Federation. If it came to that, she believed Lin Yuan would empathize with her after she took all the blame.
As long as Tower Canon couldn’t produce incriminating evidence within a short period, the God of Fools and Mirror God would hesitate to take action against her. This uncertainty gave her enough time to leave the Freedom Federation and make the necessary preparations.
In fact, it was the Freedom Federation that faced the current threat and couldn’t afford to lose a powerful combatant like her. The Goddess of Mercy’s emotions were evident as she looked at the silent God of Fools and Mirror God.
After Third Page Eternal Sin finished speaking, the members of Tower Canon expressed their agreement and support, further backing Third Page Eternal Sin.
There was no reason for the God of Fools and Mirror God not to support the Goddess of Mercy, just as Tower Canon had supported Third Page Eternal Sin.
Having mentally prepared herself for the worst, the Goddess of Mercy’s concerns faded away.
However, to her surprise, the God of Fools and Mirror God remained silent and instead scrutinized her with their gazes.
The Mirror God was aware that the Goddess of Mercy hadn’t returned to the Freedom Federation for some time after being injured by him.
For the past few years, the Mirror God had been closely observing every member of the Freedom Federation’s royal family.
If the God of Fools hadn’t shown signs of emerging from seclusion, the Mirror God would have personally investigated what the Goddess of Mercy had been up to since leaving the Freedom Federation. He could easily track her from a distance using his sacred source lifeform’s ability.
The Goddess of Mercy had sufficient time to attack Fifth Page Truth.
Furthermore, besides the Goddess of Mercy, it would be difficult to come up with another candidate who could take on Fifth Page Truth and also possessed the mermaid bloodline.
The Goddess of Mercy’s claims that the culprit was a mermaid was even more of an impossibility! He and his brother had long killed all the mermaids in this world. There were not even mermaids to be found in Vast Sea Labyrinth. Thus, the Goddess of Mercy was just trying to enforce unreasonable logic!
There might still be other beings with the mermaid bloodline in their bodies in this world, and the Goddess of Mercy would be the one who knew best if there were.
However, their conflict with Tower Canon had not halted. If the death of Fifth Page Truth was really pinned on the Goddess of Mercy, the entire Freedom Federation would have to pay the price along with the Goddess of Mercy.
The Mirror God was unwilling to do anything that harmed his own profits.
The Mirror God did not immediately express his opinion. Instead, he looked at his brother, the God of Fools, to await his instructions.
The God of Fools also had his brow deeply furrowed.
The God of Fools could no longer suppress his displeasure with the Goddess of Mercy. But to protect his and the Freedom Federation’s profits, he could only pretend to be on her side for now and act as a mediator between her and Tower Canon.
Just as the God of Fools was about to speak, one of the army commanders arrived and hastily reported, “Your majesties, waves of marshes are suddenly pouring out from the Class 6 marsh dimensional rift that has been silent for the past month! The marshes have completely changed Fresh City’s environment. I suspect that the dimensional lifeforms from the marsh world are launching a counterattack!”
The army commander seemed certain of his assessment.
He believed that if he was wrong, there would be no point in pouring so much of the marshes into the main world.
The experts from the marsh world had exhibited exceptional intelligence, and there was no reason for them to perform useless tasks.
The Goddess of Mercy could not help but smile when she heard the army commander’s report. His report was extremely timely!
The invasion from the marsh world was still ongoing.
Regardless of whether Tower Canon really wanted an explanation from her or if the God of Fools and Mirror God suspected her, everything had to be set aside for now to address the current crisis.
Frankly, Tower Canon did not care about this matter at all.
Fourth Page Instant Extinguishment, Seventh Page War, and Eight Page Apoptosis believed that Third Page Eternal Sin had cooked this story out of nothing. Thus, their attention had been fully diverted.
The only one who was still looking at the Goddess of Mercy was Third Page Eternal Sin.
Third Page Eternal Sin winked when she saw the Goddess of Mercy looking back at her. When she saw the deadly killing intent in the Goddess of Mercy’s eyes, Third Page Eternal Sin became even more certain that her guess was right.
The Mirror God and God of Fools instructed the army commander to return to his position. Next, they intended to dispatch the members of Tower Canon to help them with this threat.
But before the Mirror God spoke, an extremely unpleasant voice said, “We have wasted almost a month here because of the Freedom Federation. We could have accomplished many tasks during that time. We might have even managed to achieve a breakthrough!
“Our previously agreed price was to help the Freedom Federation take on the dimensional lifeforms from the marsh world. The Freedom Federation has to compensate us for the time wasted! Tower Canon is not free labor.”
Previously, Third Page Eternal Sin, Seventh Page War, and Eight Page Apoptosis detested Fourth Page Instant Extinguishment’s greed. But now that his greed was aimed elsewhere, he became much more appealing to them.
They could afford to wait but not the Freedom Federation.
This was the best time to raise the price.
Seventh Page War was infuriated by the month of waiting, feeling that it could have been spent comfortably in the Dark Continent.
During this time, the Goddess of Mercy had frequently targeted her, blaming her for the slaughter of the mermaids orchestrated by the God of Fools and Mirror God. Unable to confront her displeasure directly at the God of Fools and Mirror God, the Goddess of Mercy vented it all on Seventh Page War, which was truly terrible.
However, they all knew that speaking out now would likely tick off the God of Fools and Mirror God. There was no need to offend those who were stronger than them and extremely vengeful.
They could let Fourth Page Instant Extinguishment do all of the offending.
There was nothing better in this world than a free lunch!
The Mirror God and God of Fools had already expected such words to come from Fourth Page Instant Extinguishment.
Fourth Page Instant Extinguishment had not held back from taking advantage of them when they worked with him in the past.
However, that was also the time when the God of Fools and Mirror God needed the most help.
If Fourth Page Instant Extinguishment needed help from them, they would not budge unless he made an exorbitant offer.
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