Chapter 248 Too Many Coincidences
Kenneth gave a wry smile. "Ice King, please don't make things difficult for me. Taking out the pre-quest scroll for the Blessing of the Gods without a suitable task is a big taboo."
"Then please come up with a task for me," Alan said.
Kenneth's expression turned slightly grim. "Ice King, aren't you being a bit too overbearing?"
Alan said, "I can be even more overbearing if you want to try."
Kenneth took a deep breath and looked at Finley.
Finley quickly waved his hand. "Kenneth, don't look at me. This is your issue; you decide."
Kenneth pondered for a moment, even considering confronting Alan directly.
"I've got it." Kenneth smiled and handed the pre-quest scroll for the Blessing of the Gods to Alan.
[The Sea God is sealed on Sea God Island. This is a perfect opportunity to obtain the artifact.]
[Task requirement: After Sea God Island opens, go there and obtain the Sea God's weapon, the Sea God Trident.]
[Task penalty: Unknown.]
[Task reward: Blessing of the Gods +1.]
Alan stared at Kenneth. "I'll take the task, but you must lock it. That way, even if you die, the quest scroll won't disappear."
Kenneth looked at Finley again.
"It's your item. Why do you keep looking at him?" Alan scolded.
Kenneth gritted his teeth and nodded. "Fine, I'll lock the task."
Once Kenneth locked the task, Alan's expression softened a bit."Finley, Kenneth, don't let me find out that Cassius's death is related to you." Saying this, Alan waved the locked quest scroll in his hand. "Otherwise, I'll make sure you understand the consequences of messing with me!"
Although Alan sensed something was off, he couldn't be sure yet. Moreover, Finley and Kenneth's responses seemed fine. At least, he hadn't found any issues yet. But Kenneth's presence here was too suspicious.
Kenneth and Finley escorted Alan out of the Sinclair Manor.
Only after Alan left did Kenneth breathe a sigh of relief. "Ice King is terrifying. I could feel that if we had shown even a hint of collusion with Oberon, he would have wiped us out without hesitation."
Finley took a deep breath, his expression serious, and scolded, "How did he find out?"
Kenneth was at a loss. "I didn't leave any clues. I don't know how he discovered me. It's so strange. At his level, he shouldn't have developed divine sense."
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Kenneth's guess was correct. Alan indeed didn't have divine sense. But he had the God of the Undead.
Kenneth said, "Let's be more cautious. Ice King is already suspicious. If he finds any evidence, our Chaos Territory is doomed!"
After Alan left, he went straight to the God of the Undead. "God of the Undead, is there a way to enslave conscious souls?"
Although Alan could enslave souls, they were all mindless, only knowing how to fight.
The God of the Undead pondered for a moment. "Master, you can't do it currently. I can, but if I act personally, other gods will sense it."
Alan frowned, understanding what the God of the Undead meant. In name, he was already dead.
Last time, he helped Alan with the Heart of Origin because he had just died, and the surrounding undead divine power fluctuations were intense. Acting then wouldn't attract other gods' attention. But if he used undead divine power now, especially if he acted personally, it would definitely alert other gods.
A dead god might revive over endless ages, but not so quickly. Doing so would put all the newly revived gods on high alert, possibly even triggering special actions.
"Let's leave it for now." Alan wasn't in a hurry because he had found something unusual on Cassius.
Alan flipped his hand, and a letter appeared in his palm.
Alan opened the letter, which was written by Lucien, the former head of the Sterling Family, to Cassius.
Lucien should be Cressida's father. Previously, when Alan helped Cressida, he learned that her father had gone missing, which was why the Ashbourne Family bullied them.
[Cassius, some things can't be stopped. I don't want to stop them. I want to take the family to Chaos Territory. Would you like to come with us?]
The content was simple.
As for the unstoppable thing mentioned in the letter, Alan's first thought was himself.
His intuition told him that someone, or some god, was trying to stop him from obtaining the tenth blessing of the Jinse Empire gods.
This god was most likely the Sea God. Because Alan remembered the three pre-quest scrolls for the Blessing of the Gods he got from Eulalia.
The first one was fine; Alan got the Triple Projection of the Guardian of Time. But the second and third were both for the Sea God's blessing.
At the time, Alan didn't find it strange. But after arriving in Chaos Territory, he realized that someone had been plotting against him from the start.
Or rather, even before that, a god had noticed his intention to gather the blessings of the ten Jinse Empire gods to revive the ancient Jinse Empire. Thus, they began to plot to prevent him from obtaining the pre-quest scrolls for the Blessing of the Gods.
They couldn't make it too obvious and needed to lead him step by step into their trap. Since it was a plot, there would inevitably be oversights. For example, they would definitely overlook his ability to enslave an army of a million undead because this ability came from the Godslayer Mark, which even gods couldn't detect.
Following their plan, he could roughly figure out what he needed to do to bring Cassius to level 500.
Initially, Alan thought of destroying Chaos Territory, but now he realized he was wrong. The gods behind the plot knew he had killed the God of the Undead, so they naturally guided him towards the idea of godslaying.
Before that, he had coincidentally learned about the Sea God in Siren City and obtained the Sea God Key.Then he took on the task of bringing Cassius to level 500.
Everything was just right, as if everything had been meticulously planned.
Following this line of thought, reflecting on his arrival in Chaos Territory, he coincidentally encountered Ophelia, who happened to mention her grandfather's pre-quest scroll for the Blessing of the Gods.
Coincidentally, Percival needed four job changes, and even more coincidentally, the materials for his job changes were related to the God of the Undead, whom Alan had recently killed.
When too many coincidences come together, it meant someone was orchestrating it from behind.
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