Chapter 1814: Chapter 570: The Spy with No Bright Future (6k)_3

"What? They want to use our Carli Empire as a puppet, as a cover? How is that acceptable!"

The captain of the guard couldn’t help blurting it out.

"Do you really think we still have the option to refuse?"

The Emperor of Che Li’s bitterly smiling retort made the captain freeze, not knowing how to answer.

"You saw it just now too—the entire planet has already been almost completely sealed off, we’ve been totally cut off from the outside...

The war is a complete defeat as well; we practically have no bargaining power left."

The captain of the guard was struck dumb, but suddenly caught the wording the Emperor had just used.

Almost...

Right! There’s still...

"Your Majesty! The State Preceptor has returned!"

The thought hadn’t even surfaced fully in the captain’s mind when this title was already shouted by one of his men.

The captain immediately half-crouched up, looking along the direction the man pointed. In the sky, a figure was streaking toward them at high speed, trailing a sonic boom.

"Your Majesty! It really is the State Preceptor!"

"The State Preceptor?" A hint of a smile finally appeared on the Emperor of Che Li’s face—there was hope. "Excellent! He’s finally back!"

"As long as the State Preceptor is back, what do these Insect Swarms even amount to right now?"

"The State Preceptor has come back to save us!"

The soldiers nearby, who had likewise been desperately resisting the Insect Swarm, couldn’t help exclaiming. The joy they could no longer suppress was practically spilling off their faces.

As a high-tier Magician, the State Preceptor’s Strength could absolutely suppress these Insect Swarms with ease.

If it were in the Starry Sky, facing a full formation of Insect Swarms, Ximu might actually suffer losses—but on the planet’s surface, as a high-tier, Ximu was practically invincible!

But their men’s joy was theirs; when the Emperor of Che Li looked up at the figure in the sky for a few seconds, he immediately realized something was off.

Ximu was flying straight in from high altitude, which meant either his ship had docked some distance away, or he had broken through the Swarm’s blockade directly in space.

Yet the way Ximu looked now...

Was too clean...

The Insect Swarms on the ground were completely ignoring his existence, and in the sky there had been no sense at all of any high-tier energy fluctuations—sure, he hadn’t been carefully focusing his Perception earlier, but a high-tier battle never went unnoticed.

And right now, Ximu hadn’t cast even a single Spell against them.

And it wasn’t just him—the Insect Swarms themselves also seemed to completely overlook his presence.

Normally they’d be desperate to tear any person apart, yet at this moment it was as if they were treating Ximu like air!

Even if the Swarm already knew Ximu was undefeatable, Ximu still shouldn’t be allowing the Swarm to do as it pleased.

Especially now, when they were practically skimming the ground as they flew...

Ruling out countless possibilities, Ximu...

The Emperor of Che Li let out a long sigh, completely ignoring the fact that he was exposing himself within the Swarm’s Attack range, and simply stood up.

The captain of the guard had still been tense, wanting to grab the Emperor of Che Li back, when a Spell spear rammed straight into the cover in front of them.

Surging Magic Power instantly blew the cover apart, and along with it flung the soldiers hiding behind it.

Only then did Ximu land as leisurely as a gentleman.

"State Preceptor!"

"It’s the State Preceptor!"

Hearing the commotion here, the soldiers who had still been on alert around the perimeter turned and saw Ximu, joy flashing across their faces.

But the Emperor of Che Li’s expression was dark. Looking at his old friend, he drew in a deep breath and let it out again.

"On the Swarm’s side... you’re the one negotiating for them?"

The Emperor’s words made the surrounding guards freeze for a moment. After a few seconds they reacted, hurrying anxiously to the Emperor of Che Li’s side and forming a tight ring around him.

They stared at Ximu in disbelief, their hands clutching weapons trembling slightly.

"Ha, since you’ve already guessed, then I can save myself a lot of trouble.

I don’t know how much you’ve realized already."

"There’s someone behind the Insect Swarms who wants to take control of the Che Li Civilization, to use the Che Li Civilization as a cover."

The Emperor of Che Li was surprised by how calm he sounded. He had thought that, facing betrayal, his emotions would be far more violent.

"His Highness asked me to bring a message: he hopes you can lead the Che Li Civilization and become one of us.

His Highness promises that the Carli Empire will still resume normal operations, and on the surface everything will seem unchanged."

Ximu gave the introduction politely, while the surrounding Insect Swarms didn’t bother to hide themselves at all. They buzzed their wings and flew over, but didn’t Attack; instead they sprawled over the nearby buildings, occupying practically every vantage point around them.

The guards around them were so frightened they raised their weapons nervously, the tremors in their bodies clearly visible.

Looking at the scene around him, the Emperor of Che Li let out a helpless, bitter laugh.

"Do I even have any other choice? What do I need to do?"

"Congratulations on making the right choice. Come with me.

Our people will be fully taking over everything that follows. After this, Your Majesty, all you need to do is wait for arrangements. Once you’ve become one of us, get ready to return to your original position.

Oh, right, I almost forgot."

Ximu was just about to walk straight toward a certain direction inside the original Imperial Palace when he suddenly halted.

He raised his right hand and snapped his fingers. In the next instant, a surging tide of Magic Power, bypassing the Emperor of Che Li and the guards present, swept through everything around them.

The massive Light-and-Shadow effect would absolutely be visible from thousands of meters away.

When the surrounding guards forced their eyes open again against the raging Wind, the Insect Swarms around them had already been entirely swept clean.

And in their place, when their gaze dropped, they saw that at some unknown point a pitch-black, giant hole had appeared in the ground.

Even though the sky wasn’t exactly clear, a pit that large shouldn’t be completely black—and those black Shadows seemed to be seeping outward?

No, that wasn’t Shadow!

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