742 Righteous Lucien (2/2)
”You…” Lucien was slightly stunned. The guy who was spying on him was indeed complicit with Viken.
From Lucien's face and emotional fluctuations, Viken noticed his shock. Thinking that Lucien was surprised because the successful and unattractive thing had been learned by him, Viken smiled. ”Don't worry. With my teaching, you will be able to steal Heit's power of faith from your own altar. How does it sound?”
He was not truly bothered by the disproportion of cost and return. It was already the greatest success of the Congress of Magic that could be divided.
”As I have said many times, I am not interested in stealing and utilizing the power of faith. After I figure out its essence and arcana significance, I will create a flawless method, instead of turning into a half human and half monster like you.” Lucien smiled and scorned Viken's way, showing his ”confidence” and ”vision”.
Viken was briefly silent, as if he did not expect that Lucien would really refuse it. Had he made any breakthroughs in his research? Was the observer effect really the nature of the power of faith?
”Two demigods have emerged on this path, and they are the only two demigods who are not natural-born demigods. So, you will eventually return to this path at some point. If you miss the opportunity today, you will barely get the files in the future.” Viken sighed, as if he were feeling sorry for Lucien.
Lucien smiled warmly, but he still said firmly, ”I believe in myself.”
That was the confidence as expected of a distinguished arcanist at such a young age. So, Viken was not surprised at all.
He smiled, and the dwarf narrowed his eyes. ”I hope that you will not regret it in the future.”
The strange air was gone, and the dwarf collapsed as if he had lost all his strength.
Looking at the air before him, Lucien smiled casually. ”I was speaking nothing but the truth. Why couldn't you believe me? Do you only believe me when I tell you lies?”
Seeing that the dwarf was gradually back to himself, Lucien disappeared from Rentato after one step.
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”Viken came to you?” In the Land of Truth, Douglas frowned at Lucien.
Lucien did not hide the matter and told it to his teacher and Mr. President quickly.
”He allured me with the way to become a demigod in exchange for the complete structure of artificial planets,” said Lucien briefly.
Thinking about what they discussed before, Douglas asked, ”Did you agree?”
That was a good thing. They were planning to give the Church the intelligence in that regard in the first place so that they would compete with the Congress in the field that the Congress was best at. As it turned out, the pope had personally delivered the mysteries of demigods here for the intelligence. That was an unexpected trophy! Although Douglas, Fernando, and Lucien did not need such a path, it would serve well as a reference and research materials. After all, it was the only successful path of demigods right now.
”I turned him down.” Lucien acted as if it were not a big deal.
”It also makes sense. If you agreed with the exchange, Viken might take advantage of it whatever reasons you had. Even if we are going to make the deal, you shouldn't take part in it in person.” Douglas immediately understood why Lucien refused it.
Lucien nodded. That was indeed one of the reasons. More importantly, it was an opportunity as he had always wanted to show Viken his attitude. Supposedly, he could only look for indirect opportunities to do so, but Viken had come to tempt him in person out of his expectation. He would've regretted it if he did not make use of the great chance.
”We were also planning to fish up the sorcerers that were associating with Viken. But Viken's operation…” Douglas wondered which they should choose.
Lucien smiled. ”There are twenty sorcerers who know the secrets of the artificial planets, and dozens more who can construct it on their own with the mechanism. Together with Viken's devil projection, it is barely possible for us to decide who it is exactly. We can only narrow the range. Therefore, I have temporarily added certain special structures to the files of artificial planets. In such a way, we will be able to tell whether they reached out to each other before or later.”
”Are we not going to carry out the exchange?” asked Douglas.
Lucien pointed at the north. ”What we are missing is just the part to steal and utilize the power of faith, and we don't have to ask Viken for that. Since he has secretly released the ways to become a demigod to sorcerers, elves, demons, devils, and other races to mess up the situation and divide us, we can also make the situation even more chaotic.”