Chapter 686: Alternate Speaker |
Void Venerable said gloomily, "I don't know either. It feels like those six old fogies have been keeping me in the dark!"
The ten Void Speakers exchanged glances, all looking speechless.
"Think about your actions carefully in the Secluded Ancient Domain!"
The First Void Speaker directly sent Void Venerable into the Secluded Ancient Domain, effectively placing him under house arrest.
"You can't do this to me!" Void Venerable was thrown in, his voice echoing from the Secluded Ancient Domain but growing fainter by the moment.
A Void Speaker remarked, "Could he actually be a spy?"
The First Void Speaker shook his head and said, "I don't think so. He's just too stupid. He actually sent his own avatar to gather intelligence, and got caught red-handed by a Chaos Dominator. No wonder he was swayed so easily to join our Nothingness Dominator ranks. What an absolute fool!"
"It's not the godlike enemy you fear, but the piglike teammate. What a venomous scheme. No wonder they knew Tian Mu was problematic yet never exposed him. They were waiting for him to come to us intact and screw us over!"
The Void Speakers' expressions shifted dramatically.
"Truly a brilliant plan. I didn't even detect a single trace of it!"
Everyone's faces darkened with fury.
The Second Void Speaker sighed and said, "Thank goodness the First Speaker had keen insight and spotted the problem immediately."
The First Void Speaker said calmly, "I know Ying Wenzheng and the others. Their personalities aren't like this, and they couldn't have come up with such a scheme. There must be a strategist behind this. We must find him! As long as that man lives, I cannot rest easy!"
"How about we just deal with him?" the Third Void Speaker suggested.
"No!" The First Void Speaker sighed. "That's exactly what makes this strategist so vicious. We can't deal with him. If we do, Ying Wenzheng will use it against us, and no one will ever defect to our Nothingness Dominator side again! This eliminates a future threat for the Chaos Alliance once and for all!"
"And on top of that, they used our hands to take care of a traitor without needing to exact revenge themselves. We've become the villains, caught in a no-win situation!"
Everyone frowned deeply upon hearing this, finally realizing just how insidious this strategist was.
(Su Yuan: ?)
Back at the Seven Stars Residence inside No. 77 Mansion, Su Yuan sensed ten thick strands of thought and was utterly baffled: I'm a strategist? Since when? Weren't you all just making this up yourselves?
Using the Power of Fame (fusing true name and false name into the Dao of Fame), Su Yuan eavesdropped on the ten's discussion. He then secretly listened in on their tactical debate about launching a concentrated assault on a specific section of the city wall to completely shatter its defenses.
Ten Nothingness Dominators conversed in secret, unaware that everything had already fallen into Su Yuan's ears.
On the other side.
Under pressure from the six Speakers, the Chaos Stone Eagle reluctantly said, "I actually received a tip-off from Seven Stars, which is how I caught that Void Venerable's avatar. I have no idea how he saw through Void Venerable's identity!"
Upon hearing this, Xie Tingfeng said thoughtfully, "He's the Director of the Military Artifactory Headquarters now, so he's probably keeping an eye on all artificers. This guy didn't attend Su Yuan's lectures yet managed to leap several tiers in rank. That's really too abnormal. He might have followed the clues and uncovered the man's secret."
He offered an explanation for Su Yuan, implying that everyone should stop digging into the matter.
"Seven Stars is our lucky star!" Ying Wenzheng set the tone. "We've all seen his contributions. They can't be buried."
He looked at everyone and said, "I think giving him the status of Alternate Speaker shouldn't be a problem."
"Oh?" Everyone was startled.
Alternate Speaker was an incredibly important position. Those who obtained this status usually had already met the contribution requirements to become a full Speaker, only lacking in strength. Once their power reached the necessary level, they would qualify as a full Speaker.
The Fifth Speaker hesitated and said, "Promoting him to Alternate Speaker so quickly... isn't that a bit too hasty?"
"Let's vote!" Ying Wenzheng announced.
Everyone nodded.
Then, the First Speaker, Third Speaker, and Sixth Speaker voted in favor, while the Second Speaker, Fourth Speaker, and Sixth Speaker abstained.
The vote passed.
Everyone proposed elevating Su Yuan's authority to that of Alternate Speaker.
The order was issued immediately.
Su Yuan was still eavesdropping on intelligence when a notification materialized before him out of thin air.
Su Yuan glanced at it casually.
[Speaker Seven Stars, you have rendered extraordinary merits:
- Contributed nearly one billion top-quality Dominator Artifacts, filling a huge gap in logistics
- Trained a large number of Artificers, including over a thousand high-level master-level artifact crafters
- Exposed the spy leader hiding in the Second Frontline, making outstanding contributions to gravely wounding the Void Speaker and purging the spies in the Second Frontline
After review by the Supreme Council of the Second Frontline, you are hereby promoted to Alternate Speaker. Once you advance to the Seventy-Two Rank, you may be elevated to full Speaker. This order takes effect immediately.]
Su Yuan stared at the notice in shock. He had never imagined he would become an Alternate Speaker. Wasn't this position a little too conspicuous?
As for the first contribution, he had just wanted to make some money while spreading Dominator Artifacts to enhance his True Name Power.
As for the second contribution, he had only wanted to slack off by training people to handle the work, freeing himself to focus on his own affairs.
As for the third contribution, he found it utterly speechless. He had only felt that the guy might pose a threat to him, so he reported him on a whim. He had even told the Chaos Stone Eagle not to expose him and just take all the credit himself.
Who would have thought the Chaos Stone Eagle would still expose him? Useless!
Su Yuan sighed. "At least I'm only an Alternate Speaker. As long as I don't reveal my Seventy-Two Rank strength, they won't think I'm qualified to be a full Speaker."
Though becoming a Speaker would help advance the Dao of Fame, it was indeed too high-profile.
"But since I'm already an Alternate Speaker, making a few more contributions won't matter."
Su Yuan recalled the intelligence he had just overheard and felt he could do something with it.
With a thought, his figure appeared inside the military camp, arriving at the logistics warehouse.
A guard soldier initially wanted to question Su Yuan about why he had suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
But the military system immediately notified him that Su Yuan was an Alternate Speaker, and his expression instantly turned solemn.
"Zhang Jinzhong, Logistics Warehouse Supervisor, greets Alternate Speaker Seven Stars!"
Su Yuan said calmly, "I noticed there are many broken and obsolete Dominator Artifacts in the logistics warehouse. Where are they stored?"
Zhang Jinzhong was startled but still replied, "At the very back of the warehouse."
"Take me there."
"Yes!"
Zhang Jinzhong immediately led Su Yuan to the deepest part of the warehouse, opened a door, and entered a space of Chaos.
Su Yuan looked out and saw countless trillions of Dominator Artifact remains piled up in this stretch of Chaos.
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