Chapter 1063 - Mastermind
Time instantly stopped!
The mechanical heart beating in Vanessa’s chest wildly pulsated and put out energy beyond her control. Violent and ferocious magical energy gathered quickly in her cold, stiff metal body. In the blink of an eye, it had reached the threshold of self-destruction.
There were unconcealable hatred and wild madness in Vanessa’s eyes.
Even though the project she had been planning for forty years had been shattered, she would be able to make that evil adept who dared to invade the Goblin Plane feel a trace of regret by killing this wicked woman before her.
It wouldn’t be much regret, and it didn’t need to be. Vanessa would be happy as long as that demon-like man could feel a trace of regret!
Sadly, while wild light flickered in her eyes, the entire world paused for a moment beyond the senses of her consciousness.
In truth, the world did not stop, and neither did the universe pause.
“How is it? What did you find?” Mary asked.
“Lady Mary, even though we do not have direct evidence, the memory fragments extracted from Vanessa’s soul reveal that that thing has indeed participated in the goblin rebellion. The large numbers of second-generation machines in the rebel army are reinforcements sent by that thing!” Deserra said as he gritted his teeth.
“Moreover, we have captured a few of the leaders of the rebellion. We have discovered signs of mental intrusion on all of them,” Snorlax added.
Mary tapped the table with her slender fingers. Her crimson eyes appeared to be rooted in thought. Finally, she spoke.
“The purpose? Can someone tell me what his purpose is? Is it to rely on these incapable goblin rebels to overthrow the Crimson Clan’s rule? I’m sure that fellow isn’t so foolish, is he?! What exactly is he planning by spending so much effort to aid these goblin rebels? Is he not afraid of infuriating Greem? Is he not afraid Greem will confront him?”
“My lady…” Deserra hesitated for a moment, but finally decided to speak the truth as it was. “I checked our inventory earlier. The losses of the central tower aren’t severe, but the sixty tons of Queyras alloy stored in our treasury…have vanished!”
Mary’s finger stopped in mid-air.
As one of the real leaders of the Crimson Clan, Mary knew quite well that the Queyras alloy was a core resource of the clan, used to forge the magic generator furnaces. Every magic generator furnace was a battleship or an army of high-grade magical machines for the clan.
They were of utmost importance to the Crimson Clan!
“Good, very good. It seems like that guy has made up his mind to challenge the clan’s bottom line. Good. That is simply delightful. I want to see how far he wants to take this!”
The vampire adepts quickly exterminated the rebels in the City of Machines.
Meanwhile, Deserra also took the opportunity to deal with conservative factions among the goblins, taking back into his hands full control of the magical machine military of the City of Machines.
Mary left Soros and the vampires in the City of Machines to help Deserra maintain control. She returned to the World of Adepts and quickly found Greem in Fire Throne.
Naturally, no one knew what went down between the two of them.
However, when the furious Mary relayed news of what had happened to Greem, nothing else seemed to occur next. It was like a massive stone had been thrown into an ocean, only for it to sink silently.
After leaving Fire Throne, Mary returned to the Crimson Clan’s new headquarters and stopped speaking about the matter entirely. Greem remained hidden in Fire Throne, secluded in his room.
The entire clan took no further action after quelling the rebellion as if they had no intention of pursuing the real mastermind.
As such, the days passed, just like that.