Great! I'm surrounded by villains!-Chapter 392 - 311: Conspiracy

This speculation within the Witch Council, which had many different opinions, began to vaguely take form the moment A’jing encountered Duan Mingyuan.

Perhaps, on some unremarkable evening, a host coalesced with a symbiotic entity and met a high school student carrying a backpack, and from that moment on, the brother of the Void Demon completely lost all contact.

Although this may sound unbelievable, in Yunlong City, many evil spirits disappeared in exactly this manner.

Duan Mingyuan’s notebook contained very detailed records, and A’jing suspected that without referring to them, he himself would hardly remember how many evil spirits he actually killed—just as people often say, you won’t remember how many slices of bread you’ve eaten.

And according to the records in the notebook, before Duan Mingyuan wrote down the first case, he had hunted many evil spirits.

"I had prepared for two possibilities. If you missed this academic summit, I would never tell you about the Witch Council, and you wouldn’t have any dealings with the wizards in the future," A’jing said to Jiuyue after collecting herself.

However, fate seemed as though it had always been predetermined, not to be shifted by an individual’s will.

She sighed helplessly, "This isn’t an action against you or him; you’ve once again been ’accidentally’ dragged into this."

When "accidents" occur too frequently, perhaps they can hardly be considered coincidental events anymore.

A few months ago, A’jing could never have imagined that Jiuyue would leave Blue Star and come to the site of the Life Science Department, located more than a dozen Star Zones away from there.

"It’s time to be frank with us about the Witch Council’s goals," Jiuyue said with an impassive face, unmoved.

From the current situation, not only had they saved A’jing’s life, but she had also become their captive.

Out of consideration for their past friendship, she did not tie A’jing up and resort to interrogation techniques to force a confession out of her.

"This academic summit represents a shift in power within the Saintfield family. The sixth Saintfield is too old and too conservative, and the Witch Ancestor is gradually losing patience with him. She needs a puppet that can be absolutely controlled to stay in the position of Family Head," A’jing revealed the information she had.

Whether or not Duan Mingyuan and Jiuyue participated, this academic summit would become the funeral of the sixth Saintfield.

Only their arrival made the situation somewhat more complicated.

The Shan Clan People habitually regarded Duan Mingyuan as the main culprit.

"On the project of merging the Chamber of Commerce with the company, the sixth Saintfield became an obstacle instead. He was overly cautious in many situations, fearing to attract warfare upon himself. Up until his death, he advocated for a strategy of peaceful evolution, proposing a plan to hollow out the other Consortiums with wealth and power. It sounded like a fantasy, and whether it was successful or not, it would take decades to achieve this plan," A’jing conveyed the news she had heard.

She felt that this might just be the sixth Saintfield’s goal. Compared to the ambitious Shan Clan People, he merely wanted to stay alive.

If he could become the essential leader of a significant project, it meant he could at least live securely until the project was finished. It seemed he had heard the secret of the Witch Council’s eternal life, and he had always hoped to obtain the true "recipe" from the wizards.

Unfortunately, this time he miscalculated.

The sixth Saintfield was not as important as he believed he was, and he had also misjudged the reason the Witch Council was assisting the Shan Clan People.

Duan Mingyuan saw this and asked, "Why would the Witch Council want to get involved in the affairs of the Shan Clan People?"

This was bizarre.

He had originally thought that the Witch Council had reached some sort of deal with the Shan Clan People, but now it seemed that their Witch Ancestor was more eager to push forward this plan than the Shan Clan People, with even the conservative sixth Saintfield being discarded.

"Because it will bring war,"

Amirror said, "Real and total war, by then, the Ashen, Iron Guard, and Granite will not be able to stay out of it."

And this, precisely, is the Witch Ancestor’s revenge on corporations.

Given the size of the Witch Council, they simply couldn’t confront the corporations head-on, so they had no choice but to use Shan Clan People as the vanguard. freewёbnoνel.com

The good news is that this has always been the ambition of the Shan Clan People.

"This is the modus operandi of the Witch Council, and the domain we excel in most."

Wizards are more adept at manipulating everything from behind the scenes than on the frontal battlefield, often needing only one or two simple spells to make people go through fire and water for them.

Ironically, despite a hundred-year campaign by the Ashen Church in every Star Zone they could reach to hunt witches and kill a vast number of people suspected of being involved with wizards, they neglected the "inspection" within, which might also confirm the old saying about the darkest place being under the candlestick.

Wizards can fulfill your wishes.

These wishes are often beyond what wealth and power can buy.

Poor people don’t need it, but the high-ups in corporations will flock to it.

Although they were tired of hearing the Church’s cries to exterminate all wizards, they were convinced that the church’s falcons would not find them.

The corporate dogs could only hunt down defenseless wild rabbits, not those who possessed real power.

"Did you deliberately lure the Ashen Church’s fleet here?"

Duan Mingyuan gradually understood everything.

The death of Saintfield VI and the Falcons was the catalyst.

In the near future, the Ashen Church’s fleet would encircle the Eco-Ship, and as negotiations broke down, religious zealots might not hesitate to bombard the Eco-Ship, or even the entire Space Station.

This was precisely the scenario the Witch Council wanted to see, for it not only signified that the Mandala Consortium and the Ashen Consortium had formally gone to war, but it also dragged the planets behind every scholar into the battlefield.

As Fu Ling said, these scholars are invaluable treasures to the planets they belong to.

Bombarding the Eco-Ship where the scholars reside is tantamount to declaring war on multiple civilizations simultaneously.

History has proven countless times that every large-scale war needs someone to fire the first shot.

Over the past few months, the Shan Clan People have turned the entire universe into a powder keg, ready to ignite at the first spark and cause a chain reaction in a short time.

Amirror neither confirmed nor denied Duan Mingyuan’s questioning.

This was also the reason why she was so eager to meet with Duan Mingyuan and Jiuyue in the Reverse World.

The gears of war had begun to turn, and the strength of one person was not enough to stop them.

The experience on the Prison Planet made her realize that this was exactly the scenario the Void Demons wanted to see. The scale of this war would be unprecedented, perhaps lasting for decades or even a century, until the spark of civilization was completely extinguished.

"Mr. Mingyuan, at this moment, perhaps only you can prevent the coming of this war."

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