871 Arrangemen (1/2)

”That's not a problem. You are free to do what you want.” Arnold observed Douglas up and down again, not covering his surprise. He seemed to have never known the archmage who was hundreds of years younger than him until now.

At this moment, Priscilla walked over as attractively as a blooming tulip. She said to Douglas with a smile, ”You… How should I put it? You have an amazing perspective in the way you think. It's true that we are as used to certain phenomena in our life as we are to our hands and eyes, to the extent that we forget to ask why.

”After five hundred years, I've sensed the shock when I first touched magic again.”

Douglas could not nod at the warm lady's praise. ”One can never cease to explore magic or the world.”

”Alright, let's not delay.” Without further ado, Priscilla looked at everybody else with a smile. ”The most important thing right now is to kill Alfonsol. Let's stick to our plan after we are back.”

Plan? Fernando's lips twitched. Those old guys already made a plan when they talked in private?

Nielson, who was morbidly fat, looked at Douglas with his ruby eyes and sniffed. ”Are those the questions that the sorcerers of Antiffler have been working on? No wonder the Church vanquished you…”

Douglas did not argue with him. He remembered clearly that the remnant of the Asso Empire was best at bloodline melting and body modification.

”Sometimes, I wonder what the power of shadows is, and where it is from…” Amanata said in an unpredictable voice, before he vanished in the shadow of the room.

Congus, on the other hand, stared at Arnold and spoke in his usual creepy and coarse tone. ”Old fox, I'll do what you asked, but if anything goes wrong with your plan, hehe…”

After seeing the leaders of the organizations off, Arnold picked his nose, not caring about his image. ”It's much more exhausting to communicate with those guys than to fight them.”

”There isn't any foundation of trust. We can only go one step at a time.” Douglas smiled.

”This operation will be the first step to build trust. We must thank the Blue Demon. Regardless of whether or not he really wants Alfonsol dead, he's giving us a chance for a joint operation. It will be much easier to plan more operations if there's a first one.” Arnold resumed his look of a kind old man.

Fernando said, not in a good mood, ”But we have to succeed! If we fail, there won't be a second operation, unless one party is close to doom! Old man, what exactly is your plan?”

Only Arnold and Douglas were here, so he simply called the president old man.

Arnold did not criticize Fernando's lack of respect. He replied with a smile, ”It's simple. As I said before, Tower of Destroyers will attract Alfonsol, and the other organizations will cover and cooperate with us in the attack. The Church does not know that we have reached an agreement.”

”How is he going to be attracted? Are you not scared that the Church would see through it and send out 'Heart of Time'? He has been capturing sorcerers of late.” Fernando was not satisfied with the plan. Even if the Church did not know that so many magic organizations had secretly forged an alliance, the decoy might be easily seen through.

Arnold looked at Fernando with a smile. ”You are only a seventh-circle sorcerer, and you are of little value in such a battle. Why do you care about the plan?”

As Arnold expected, Fernando, who had been overlooked, said angrily, ”I… I will become an archmage very soon!”

”Haha.” Arnold chuckled. ”It's good to be young. However, this operation does need you. Nobody controls storms better than you do. Rest assured. Alfonsol will see nothing wrong.”

Fernando glared at the president, feeling that he had been teased. ”How exactly are we going to allure Alfonsol to leave Rentato? I won't take part in the operation if I'm not certain about it!”

”Hehe. That's what I've been expecting you to say. Then, you'd better not take part in it. I was scared that you would want to join in your rashness,” Arnold said with a cunning smile. He then went on before Fernando roared, ”Alright, it's just a joke. The specific way of allurement can only be decided after we figure out Alfonsol's personality, hobbies, styles, and habits, but the core will be the same. The traitor within the Tower of Destroyers will tell the secret to the Inquisition.”

”Traitor within? They are aware of the traitor?” Fernando asked in shock. In the meantime, he thought to himself that the old man was truly a natural-born old fox!

Arnold shook his head. ”Fernando, you are too young and too naive. We dare not say that we know all the hiding traitors, but we do know some of them, and we have put them in positions that will not cause great losses. Now, it's time for them to make contributions.”

He then added, ”Sometimes, the traitors are more valuable to us than they are to our enemy.”

Douglas listened with a smile, finding it odd that the president explained it in such great detail. Had he always communicated with Fernando in such a way?

Fernando thought for a moment and basically understood what Arnold meant. He cursed again, old fox!