Chapter 724: Ploy (2/2)

William finally said, “The great warlock of the demonkin race.”

Twilight was astonished. “The Warlock of Calamity?”

“Yes.”

Twilight regained her calm as she said, “If it’s him, then it’s fairly doable. How did you even get in touch with him?”

William replied calmly, “The demonkin have always been quite enthusiastic about weakening the vampire race.”

Twilight gave it some thought and said, “This won’t do! You must’ve gained huge benefits from this deal, I’m losing out here.”

William shot her a glance. “This is something that will greatly weaken your vampire race, don’t you have anything to say about that?”

Twilight said calmly, “This is nothing. Didn’t we also betray the demonkin in our plot? Besides, even the Warlock of Calamity will have to pay a certain price to take that old man’s life. Most importantly, I’ll only dare go over to the Lightless Medanzo’s side after the old man is dead.”

At this point, one patrol squad after the other appeared and passed them by. Seeing the mounted patrols gone, Twilight retracted the disguise and left hurriedly with William.

Wei Potian eventually woke up after the duo had left the human defensive zone and felt as though he was in a different world. The location was clearly the same as before, but he was surrounded by deceased dark race members, including a demonkin. Judging from the distribution of the corpses, it looked as though Wei Potian had suddenly encountered these soldiers and fought a huge battle, wiping out the enemy forces before falling unconscious in the end. Yet, he didn’t remember fighting anyone before he was knocked out.

As for that ancient tree from his nightmares, it was nowhere to be found.

Wei Potian jumped up with a loud cry, but this movement exacerbated the sharp pain from his buttocks. He was rather puzzled—he remembered vaguely about the pain behind his head, but why was his buttock also in pain?

Wei Potian rubbed his butt and found that it was fortunately still whole. He was rather thick-skinned and the pain subsided quickly after circulating the Thousand Mountain a couple of times, so he paid no more attention to it. He walked over to where the old tree was and looked around carefully. However, there wasn’t the slightest trace of this tree having ever existed—not to mention the huge trunk, there wasn’t even a splinter on the ground.

Dissatisfied, he drew his sword and dug a huge pit, but there wasn’t even half a root left in the earth. This time, Wei Potian even started to doubt his own memories. Add to that the appearance of that female face, the entire process was eerie and almost unreal.

Wei Potian looked back and spied the leather cylinder Twilight had intentionally left behind. The object wasn’t just beautiful but was also emitting a continuous stream of origin power, almost as though it was hoping to be found out.

Wei Potian picked up the cylinder and fished out a paper capable of storing origin power. He was greatly astonished the moment he unfurled this scroll because the detailed intelligence of a demonkin marquis’ warzone was depicted on it!

The special paper could store energy and project a three-dimensional map of the warzone once activated. Be it in the empire or Evernight, this kind of map was the highest level of its kind, and no one below the rank of lieutenant general could even lay eyes on it.

If the intelligence here was true, its value would be significant. The empire could use this to their advantage to utterly route the enemies in this warzone, just like how the dark races were beating down on the military’s battlefront. In the hands of a marshal like Lin Xitang, the humans could even formulate a plan to lure out and kill the marquis overseeing this area.

Wei Potian felt giddy about the meat pie that had dropped into his lap, and a huge one at that. Merely handing in this warzone map was enough for him to be promoted to a lieutenant general. Even if he couldn’t be given the actual rank due to the lack of combat strength, actual authority and clearance could be granted in advance.

What Wei Potian was actually thinking was, “Haha, no more house-arrest!”

Fortunately, he wasn’t a complete idiot. Knowing that these corpses had appeared so mysteriously, how could he not search them? After the investigation, however, he found nothing valuable apart from a viscount’s proof of rank.

He didn’t need anything else, either. The demonkin viscount himself was the best proof of the map’s origins.

Not wanting to linger too long in this eerie place, Wei Potian picked up the demonkin’s corpse and marched toward Indomitable.

The return journey went rather smoothly, and he arrived back at the Wei clan courtyard without alerting anyone.

After jumping over the wall, Wei Potian was immediately flabbergasted. He gazed at that inherently impressive middle-aged man and finally squeezed out a single word, “Dad.”

Marquis Bowang snorted. “You dare run about even during confinement. It seems the family rules are now useless.”

His words sounded quite calm, but it was suffused with a deep chill as well as disappointment. Realizing the abnormality in his father’s tone, Wei Potian could no longer care about his suspicions regarding his undeserved reward. He quickly passed the map over and said, “I wasn’t running about. I went out and reaped a huge contribution.”

Marquis Bowang was clearly skeptical as he took the map and gave it a glance. However, his expression changed drastically upon seeing the contents. He observed the map for a good while before saying, “T-This… is this real?”

“You just need to match the information with the frontline reports.”

Marquis Bowang took a deep breath and said, “No need, it’s definitely genuine.”

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