Chapter 921: Chapter 286: Thorny Snake Corps, Cage, Jar
The battle at Gold-digging Dock saw the death of the seventh-tier Legion Commander, the red-haired Ron of the Venomous Bee Vanguard Legion, causing a great shock to the morale of the Lionheart Legion.
At the same time, the “Surrender faction” within the Federation also suffered a heavy blow.
Although most of those wholluded with the enemy to infiltrate Gold-digging Dockmmitted suicide after their plot was uvered, a few were eventually caught alive.
Moreover, the White Family used Secret Skills to extract a wealth of information from Ron’srpse.
When the two sources of informationnfirmed each other, it was divered that the Capen Family, one of the five great Senators, was the traitor, and some smaller families were also implicated.
No one had expected that Harold Capen, a top Federal elite, would surrender before the war even began.
He had even offered up defense plans and most of the city-state maps of the Federation to the enemy.
Once the news was released, all the major newspapers carried the story.
The whole Federation was in an uproar instantly.
The news ignited everyone’s anger, stirring up intense public sentiment.
With the other four Senators’vert instigation and leading troops to crusade, even the powerful and prestigious Capen Familyllapsed virtually overnight.
The Capen Family was thus erased from history.
The two-hundred-year-old Federal Senator system also came to an end.
But the chaosntinued to spread, even showing signs of reaching the other Senators.
With the Senators leading the betrayal, themmoner class instantly lost all trust in the Federal upper echelons.
At this time, however, voices in support of restoring the Orlan Royal Court started to emerge from nowhere, and quietly multiplied.
The New King of Orlan also appeared in the public eye for the first time, with the slogan “Overthrow the decaying parliament.”
Leonard Churchill wasn’t interested in politics.
So when he heard the news from Catherine Carter, he wasn’t particularly surprised.
Moreover, Noah Wright had previously predicted that under the current situation, it was highly likely that the Orlan Royal Court would successfully be restored.
Having personally experienced these significant events that would be rrded in history, Leonard Churchill came to more profoundly understand the meaning in Noah Wright’s words: If you look far enough ahead, you will see that the change of dynasties is nothing more than history repeating itself time after time.
Just like a classic stage play, with batch after batch of new actors, there plot of the script still only has those “thirty-six situations”: revenge, revolution, ambition, disaster…
While the East Continent was in tumult, the Lionheart Family in Gold-digging Dock remained wholly unaffected by the negative influence.
On thentrary, due to the Capen Family’s betrayal, everyone learned the truth of the war. Those Neutral forces that lost trust in the Federal power have also joined the Pro-War Faction.
Gold-digging Dock was busier than ever.
….
With themmunicator, Leonard Churchilluld almost always be informed about the situation in the Federation.
Those messages were also like strings of cause and effect.
Understanding them allowed him to bettermprehend “the world.”
However, the small squad he was embedded in was not having such an easy time.
These people hadmpletely lost their previous arrogance from slaughtering and plundering; they hid and scurried about, not daring to show their faces wherever people appeared.
This hideout lasted for more than a month.
On this particular day.
In a dark and dilapidated relic.
It was less than a hundred kilometers from Gold-digging Dock.
A group of more than thirty members of a Vanguard squad was hiding in a shabby cluster of buildings.
The campfire lit up a series of weary faces.
“It’s time to change the guard.”
“Joel, you go take my place on guard duty.”
“Oh.”
Hearing this, Leonard Churchill emotionlessly got up.
The “Joel” he was impersonating was an outcast, a quiet person that was usually given the dirty and tiring jobs, so he often had the most guard shifts in a day.
But this was just fine for Leonard Churchill.
He had only recently advanced to the Fourth Tier and needed a lot of time to integrate the new abilities gained from the advancement, and tomprehend the Demon God Secret Skills…
Standing guard gave him ample time to train.
Thanks to Shadow, not only has his tier been stabilized, but the progress of his training in various Secret Skills was visibly skyrocketing every day.
Moreso, this period of adjustment had also made his “impersonation” less and less flawed.
This was advice Leonard Churchill had previously sought from Noah Wright.
After all, Mushroomhead had experience successfully infiltrating the X Bureau.
He said that to disguise oneself effectively, one needs not just a disguise but to truly “replace an identity.”
You have to truly bme the person to avoid detection even by Mysterious Type perception methods.
For the past month, Leonard Churchill had been doing exactly that.
He had fully integrated into his current identity.
He felt that he was now “Joel,” and Joel was him.
The fate line had been entirely replaced.
Leonard Churchill wasnfident that even the closest person would not be able to tell the difference.
At least the Sixth Tier deputy Legion Commander Kuro, who arrived in the unit a few days earlier, had no clue there was a spy amongst them.
Moreover, as time passed, the impersonation would bme even more profound. Even when facing Card Masters above the Seventh Tier, the likelihood of him being seen through would decrease further.
With this false identity, Leonard Churchilluld also gather information without sneaking around.
In the past month, he had obtained much intelligence from thenversations of those people.
The Ariel Empire gradually unveiled its mysteries.
The Card Masters of that empire had received all the traditions from the Taren Dynasty three thousand years ago, possessing various Spells, Martial Skills, and Cards that had been lost in the Federation.
Even many of the fifty-two Card Master Sequence lost to the Federation were still passed down within that empire.
Leonard Churchill’s Enlightenment was now extremely extraordinary. Nearly all the abilities displayed by those people, with a little reflection, heuld mostly understand.
In this time of various explorations, he had also grasped a great deal of new knowledge.
