Chapter 1115
The Newly Born Sixth Tier
Even with deliberate holding back, Eivass couldn’t delay much longer.
On June 5th, Eivass finally took Isabel and Sherlock to the Iris Kingdom and stayed at the Vendome mansion.
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to stall further, nor was it that he softened his heart upon seeing the Children of the Moon of Iris Flower being relentlessly pursued by the Blood Heavenly Envoy.
It was mainly because the Blood Heavenly Envoy killed too quickly; in less than five days, he had wiped them all out from top to bottom.
This fellow seemed to have no product manager dictating requirements, yet he voluntarily worked overtime, pulling a continuous hundred-hour shift and finishing the job in four major night cycles.
It was terrifying. When Eivass heard this news, he almost burst out laughing.
Now, all the Children of the Moon of Iris Flower in the Iris Kingdom, except for those hiding in obscure corners that would be a waste of time to search for, had been found and killed by the Blood Heavenly Envoy.
Their proud hidden abilities were completely useless in front of their own ancestor. As for their immortality, after their blood was drained, they turned into white stone statues. The power of those Children of the Moon – their accumulated “blood energy” – became scarce sustenance, which the Blood Heavenly Envoy also drained.
…And besides that, the Blood Heavenly Envoy surprisingly did not do anything too excessive.
It wasn’t like the descent of the Fallen Heavenly Envoy, where he reigned supreme and brought the entire country to the brink of collapse; nor was it like the Shadow Heavenly Envoy in another timeline, who permeated the entire land with his domain, transforming the Material Realm into a domain suitable for him.
Even Eivass couldn’t help but wonder – this guy seemed to have decent character.
What the Blood Heavenly Envoy did after that is now unknown. Because after he finished killing, he quietly disappeared into the crowd, and no one could find him.
—Since the original summoners of the Blood Heavenly Envoy were all dead, the Blood Heavenly Envoy had now broken off contact with everyone. No one knew where the Blood Heavenly Envoy had gone, nor if he was secretly plotting something big.
And after all, the Iris Kingdom was now completely engulfed in a chaotic struggle for power.
Everyone was too busy to even care about the Blood Heavenly Envoy who had vanished into thin air… With so many Children of the Moon of Iris Flower killed by the Blood Heavenly Envoy, the political landscape of the entire Iris Kingdom had undergone a seismic shift.
“The Iris Kingdom is in complete disarray,” Arcen sighed sadly. “Even Eagle Eye is on the verge of splitting up… They invited me to attend their meeting not long ago. I really couldn’t stand them anymore. Fortunately, I quit Eagle Eye long ago, otherwise my brain would have exploded from anger.”
“After all, essentially, it’s just a gang composed of deadbeats, swindlers, bandits, thugs, human traffickers, and rapists – scum.” Sherlock commented calmly and snidely. “Their average education level is roughly preschool dropout; the people they’ve killed probably exceed the words they can spell – if you consider their own names as a word. I mean… I think, at least on average, they’ve each killed at least one person.”
“You might be underestimating them. I’m not talking about words, but something else,” Arcen complained. “You Avalon people are too cultured. I’m not cultured, so I never beat around the bush when I curse. For example, I’ve always felt their brains were soaked in pig dung and turned into intestines—as a colleague, I don’t want to curse too harshly. But this time, it’s just too outrageous…”
“Let me guess…” Isabel pondered before asking, “Is it that a group of people wants to transition into a professional assassin organization, a group wants to hunt Children of the Moon of Iris Flower abroad, and a group plans to try and imitate the Children of the Moon of Iris Flower to seize power by force?”
“And another group wants to extort protection fees from companies nationwide… Hah.” Arcen sighed powerlessly. “The Blood Heavenly Envoy hasn’t even been dealt with yet, and they’re already starting to split up. They don’t even think, if the Children of the Moon of Iris Flower are gone, what value does Eagle Eye even have? These cowards who cower and cancel kill orders when they encounter targets that are too strong and cannot be killed, have no possibility of going to the battlefield.”
“The newly established Hrasal Empire is right next door… I’m telling you, even if one of them said, ‘Let’s defect to Hrasal,’ I wouldn’t feel so bad.”
“That’s normal,” Eivass said leisurely. “After all, they don’t know that their own boss is the Speaker—or rather, this is probably why the Speaker never disclosed his true information within the Eagle Eye organization.”
He asked Arcen, “Can I see the newspapers?”
“Here you go,” Arcen patted the frame beside him. “As a precaution… I collect the top five best-selling newspapers every day. Take your time. I’ve already sorted them by date…”
“Tsk, what a sight,” Eivass marveled, holding the diary-like ledger. “The organizational structure of the Health Party has been directly halved, with none of the mid-level or above remaining. It will be difficult for them to rise again.”
Even other parties had many high-ranking leaders whose identities as Children of the Moon of Iris Flower, replaced long ago, were exposed by the Blood Heavenly Envoy, and they were suddenly killed.
Even within several ducal families, like Vendome’s, a few deeply hidden Children of the Moon of Iris Flower were found. This earned the praise of the old dukes—it was difficult for them to catch internal traitors themselves.
Some families lost only four or five people, while others were almost wiped out—except for a very small number of minors who had not yet been transformed, all the Children of the Moon of Iris Flower had been killed by the Blood Heavenly Envoy.
At this point, it was clear who had truly resisted the Children of the Moon of Iris Flower and who had long since surrendered.
Even the protective barriers of several universities in the Iris Kingdom were easily bypassed by the Blood Heavenly Envoy, without even triggering an early warning.
The barriers and rituals placed inside those universities couldn’t stop an enraged Heavenly Envoy who had almost reached the Sixth Tier. With a mere flick of his hand from afar, he could publicly perform an implosion, polluting the ceiling while turning into a wisp of pure blood energy absorbed by the Blood Heavenly Envoy. These were the Children of the Moon of Iris Flower hidden within the schools, and no one had discovered this before.
It’s important to note that in the Iris Kingdom, university admissions usually required identity verification.
This was to prevent the Children of the Moon of Iris Flower from infiltrating. Those who had already infiltrated would try to have their classmates act as actors to evade the Blood Heavenly Envoy’s pursuit.
After all, in a relatively enclosed environment like a school, any self-replicating epidemic would become troublesome—difficult to find and impossible to catch.
This idea was actually good, but the execution was different.
Because a considerable number of local Iris people stated they didn’t care about such people and wanted to flee overseas; another portion felt their talents were insufficient and their income too low, at best they could just muddle by… and even after graduation, they wouldn’t become rare High-Tier Extraordinary.
It was better to just give up happily!
At the very least, the time saved during breaks was real.
Moreover, some Children of the Moon of Iris Flower within the universities were likely deliberately placed there—they wished to become Children of the Moon of Iris Flower themselves. And each of them believed that if they were successfully transformed, they would definitely become formidable powerhouses… just like the two other Brave Ones in legend.
Thus, a very strange situation occurred in the Iris Kingdom: the lower classes were largely unaware of what had happened, but “upper-class individuals” were almost two-thirds wiped out. Each family lost several members, over a third of company executives were killed without exception, and nearly half of the officials, ministers, and lower-level civil servants in various departments “disappeared.”
This number was terrifyingly high—it meant that half of the ruling class of the Iris Kingdom had been silently transformed into Children of the Moon of Iris Flower.
This was the case even though the Prime Minister himself was the leader of the Eagle Eye organization.
“This is probably also a cycle of karma,” Sherlock sneered. “When the Iris people launched the first rebellion war back then, they didn’t kill all the nobles in this place, which left future trouble. Since they’re going to do it, they might as well see it through to the end… If even one is left alive, isn’t that a cycle of hatred? Now it’s finally truly clean.”
“From this perspective, I quite admire the Blood Heavenly Envoy. If you’re going to kill, kill thoroughly; otherwise, don’t do it. Using all sorts of clumsy methods to escape blame is simply lacking responsibility…”
Sherlock clearly disagreed with those who used their intelligence to evade responsibility.
Having a wise mind was indeed a good thing.
But if this excellent intellect was only used to adapt to society, to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and to be smooth in all dealings, then this wisdom was too void.
It was not only utilitarian but also impure.
Recalling Eivass’s teachings on the theory of “void,” Sherlock pieced together a new set of voids in his mind:
Wisdom and Adaptation.
“But, where did the Blood Heavenly Envoy go?” Isabel asked worriedly. “He wouldn’t… try to sacrifice the entire land, would he? Is there any way to stop him?”
“Those Children of the Moon of Iris Flower are not worth pity, but the Blood Heavenly Envoy is a Child of the Moon of Iris Flower after all. He needs to suck blood too… So, those civilians…”
Although she was the Queen of Avalon and now a part of the Hrasal Empire, the land and people of the Iris Kingdom were clearly irrelevant to her… But ever since she learned that the material of the ring in her hand came from the last Mad King of the Iris Kingdom, Isabel had developed a certain earnest concern for the Iris Kingdom.
Eivass found this somewhat strange… but understandable.
It was probably that feeling of “I took your most important thing, so please give me all your obsessions as well.”
“To be honest,” Eivass shook his head, “just being bled by the Blood Heavenly Envoy is much better than being toyed with by those beasts.”
He hadn’t described the tragic events in the mansions of the Children of the Moon of Iris Flower to Isabel in detail—they weren’t the kind of things that could be casually discussed as gossip.
“However, if the Blood Heavenly Envoy is hiding somewhere… I think he might be underground.”
Eivass happened to know an entrance to a ruin.
If the Blood Heavenly Envoy wanted to get away from the Material Realm, he could only go there.
Although it was a bit unsightly to chase after him when he was planning to escape…
As they were discussing the Blood Heavenly Envoy, the room door was knocked on from the outside. After a pause of about two to three seconds, it opened on its own.
Old Duke Aragon de Vendome, Eivass’s nominal grandfather, stood at the entrance.
Arcen immediately straightened his back, “Father, I was just telling Eivass about Eagle Eye…”
“—We can discuss that later,” Old Aragon waved his hand, interrupting Arcen.
He looked at Eivass, his tone heavy yet tinged with excitement, and handed Eivass a letter: “Our family’s spy in Anxi reported that… The Lord of Holy Spring City, Aimel Nour, successfully ascended to the Sixth Tier a few days ago. Do you want to go see him? He sent an invitation to the family, wanting to invite you to witness the ‘Nest Sacred Chant.’ This is a true Sixth Tier, unlike the Sixth Tier of the Eternal Pope who just barely made it. And he stated that he can reach the threshold of the Seventh Tier within a month…”
The Old Duke paused here, “Did you anticipate this? Do you know?”
Eivass didn’t need to answer.
Just by looking at Eivass’s expression and eyes, the Old Duke had already gotten his answer. “Is it… the Ouroboros Ring ritual? Did it start from the descent of the Fallen Heavenly Envoy, or from when the Fallen Heavenly Envoy was hunted down?”
“…Naturally, from the hunting down.” Eivass sighed and replied.
The Old Duke was indeed astute. He immediately guessed everything, “The Ouroboros Ring can lift the suppression of the Wall of Balance?! Then, following this order… is it to unseal the Path of Love next?”
The Old Duke’s expression became solemn, his gaze even turning cold and fierce. “Ah… Very important information, I understand.”
He no longer spoke and turned to leave.
Arcen looked at Eivass in confusion and asked, “What’s wrong with my dad?”
“I guess he’s planning to find someone to kill the witches,” Eivass said casually while looking at the letter. “To prevent the birth of a Sixth Tier enemy.”
He narrowed his eyes slightly. His Power of Transcendence had already almost filled the river of his innate Path—his “experience bar.” Once Eivass dealt with the Blood Heavenly Envoy, it would definitely be full.
This meant… after Eivass defeated the Blood Heavenly Envoy, he could prepare to ascend to the Sixth Tier. At that time, since everyone would be at the Sixth Tier, what would there be to fear?
However…
The true purpose of the Ouroboros Ring would probably be deciphered once the Blood Heavenly Envoy graduated. After all, there were many capable individuals in the world. If they no longer thought of complaining to their parents like the Children of the Moon of Iris Flower and instead devised strategies and traps before bringing down a Heavenly Envoy, there was a considerable chance of killing them directly.
This meant that if they knew the purpose of bringing down a Heavenly Envoy was to kill them, then Eivass wouldn’t be the only one capable of killing a Heavenly Envoy. It would be normal for a Heavenly Envoy Fragment to cycle through the Dream Realm and Material Realm for two to three rounds within three months—obtaining a Heavenly Envoy Fragment and ascending to become a Heavenly Envoy, then being easily targeted due to lack of background and immediately pulled down and killed. The one who killed him would then ascend, and be pulled down and killed again…
—At that time, Heavenly Envoy dumplings were about to start cooking.
