arcane stars

Chapter 117
It has been more than a week since the empire and the federation went to war.

The frequent reports of successful battles on the front line seem to tell everyone that even if the empire's strength declines, it is not something the Federation of Radiance can provoke.

In particular, Vera IV came out again and personally supervised the battle. This battle seemed to return to the time when the empire continued to expand under the leadership of Vera IV decades ago.

That period of time is undoubtedly something that many people do not want to recall.

Since talking with Amber last time, Ye Ming has a talking cat in his house.

Amber teaches Xilin how to read and write every day.

Ye Ming also took a rare few days off. In the past few days, he has been improving his arcane level and preparing for promotion to the fourth level.

Therefore, the star coins earned from the previous missions have been almost spent.

There was no other movement in the Snow family these days, and those people did not appear outside his house again.

The people from the Shining Society that Youli mentioned did not come to the door either.

Everything was peaceful, but Ye Ming knew that these were just illusions.

Soon, Ye Ming received the assembly information.

I heard that both Ke Lin and Lin Qihai have woken up.

After Ye Ming came to the activity room, he saw the two of them. Ke Lin and the two looked at Ye Ming with unnatural eyes.

It should be worrying about what happened last time.

"Cesare, thank you for what happened last time. I owe you my life!"

Colin finally spoke.

They had already learned about the day's events from the mouth of the song and the captain. If Ye Ming hadn't rescued them, they might have been purified.

"What happened before was indeed our fault."

Lin Qihai also said.

"You're welcome, we're all teammates! Isn't the purpose of our team never to give up?" Ye Ming smiled.

Naturally, he would not use this kind of favor to do other things.

He wants to make this favor even more precious.

Both Ke Lin felt a little ashamed when they heard this.

"Where's the captain?"

Ye Ming changed the subject. This gathering was initiated by the captain, but now that they have all arrived, there is no sign of the captain.

"do not know."

Jiu Ge and others all said they didn't know.

Since the Xialun people haven't come yet, they have nothing else to do.

"What mission do you think the captain has received this time?"

Yue Ge said suddenly.

"It won't be an easy task anyway."

Colin shook his head.

Their team's missions are rarely simple, and even if they occasionally receive a simpler mission, they will encounter some surprises.

They are used to these things.

Lin Qihai analyzed: "Now is the time of war, the captain may receive a field entrustment. I heard that the current field entrustment pays a lot."

"The captain might really do that."

Hearing this, Jiu Ge felt the same way.

Ye Ming didn't express his opinion, but he hoped that the captain would accept a field commission, not to earn star coins, but to feel that he should also contribute in this kind of war.

"It seems that you are ready!"

Xia Lun walked in from the outside at this time.

Obviously he heard what everyone said just now.

Several people were stunned when they heard this, and Jiu Ge asked with a bitter face: "Captain, have you really accepted any battlefield commission?"

Xia Lun nodded, "The time of war is the best time to make money. If you miss it, you should regret it. I don't think this war will last for a few days. This is the last chance."

"So Captain, what is the commission this time?"

Yue Ge couldn't help asking.

Xia Lun glanced at everyone and said:
"It's very simple. The empire suffered a defeat in Liluoxing, and the culprit of this defeat was a woman. Our task is to investigate the information of this woman. If we have the opportunity, we can directly erase that woman."

"A woman? Let the empire suffer a defeat?"

Everyone was stunned when they heard the words.

In the past few days, the wars on the empire's side have basically been good news. I didn't expect that there would be defeats, but they didn't inform the outside world.

However, it is understandable that Villa IV wanted to reshape the empire's powerful image.

What surprised them wasn't that the empire had suffered a defeat. After all, the Federation had a certain strength, and it was impossible to win it without bloodshed.

Otherwise, the original Villa IV would not have stopped its expansion, and the Federation of Radiance would not exist at this time.

They were really surprised that the defeat was due to a woman!
"Is it a high-level arcanist?"

Ye Ming asked curiously.

It stands to reason that arcanists would not intervene in this kind of war. If arcanists intervene in the war, the nature of the war will change.

Eventually it turned into a war between arcanists.

Others are also curious about the answer to this question. After all, it's hard not to think of an arcanist when one person affects a battle.

Xia Lun shook his head:

"If the Arcanist really intervened in the war, there would be no need to be so troublesome. It's not that there are not as many high-ranking Arcanists in the Empire as there are in the Federation, but that woman is not an Arcanist."

If the federation didn't abide by the rules and let arcanists interfere with the battlefield, there would be no such entrustment, and the war between the two sides would directly escalate into an arcane war.

"You'll know it when you see this."

Xia Lun took out the terminal and played a video.

The video is the frontline scene of the Liluoxing battle.

In the picture, the soldiers on both sides were evenly matched when they were fighting, but when a figure appeared on the battlefield, the situation changed instantly.

It was a woman in a black windbreaker, and she appeared in front of the two armies just like that.

The empire's attacks on the woman were completely ineffective, and all attacks seemed to hit the illusion.

After the woman appeared, the soldiers of the Federation who were defending suddenly started to attack like crazy, and the combat effectiveness of the Federation soldiers seemed to have improved significantly, and they quickly defeated the soldiers of the Empire.

The woman then turned and left the battlefield, and the remaining Federation soldiers fell as well, their bodies quickly decaying and withering.

The screen is gone here.

"what's going on?"

Everyone looked at each other, and it was certain that no arcane spell could have such power, which ruled out the possibility that the woman was an arcane master.

And that woman just stood in the center of the battlefield for a while from the beginning to the end.

"That's what we're looking into."

Xia Lun shrugged, if he knew, he wouldn't have this commission.

"Did any of you see that woman's face clearly?"

Ye Ming asked suddenly.

The state of that woman is very strange. She is clearly in the middle of the battlefield, but it feels very far away, so far away that it is impossible to see everything about her.

"That woman's face...huh?"

Everyone was slightly taken aback by such a statement.

After hearing Ye Ming's words, they subconsciously wanted to answer, but in the end they couldn't remember what the woman looked like at all.

"Can we affect our cognition through the screen?"

Xia Lun frowned, and he only realized this.

In his subconscious mind, he also thought that he knew what that woman looked like, but in fact he didn't see her face clearly at all.

It seemed that he had seen that face before, but he couldn't remember it anyway.

There is only one possibility, that is, their cognition has been affected.

"Shouldn't these things be investigated by a special department?"

Ye Ming was puzzled.

The empire's military system is very mature, and naturally there are special intelligence departments. It is completely unreasonable to entrust these things to them for investigation.

It is even more impossible to say that the intelligence department of the empire does not have this ability. If the intelligence bureau of the empire does not have this capability, the empire today would not be able to expand to such a degree.

Xia Lun nodded and said:
"That's true, but this entrustment is not from the military, it is a private entrustment. The military can naturally find out the information about the woman, but they will never release it."

"Princess?"

Ye Ming tentatively said.

"Yes."

Sharon replied.

"Captain, between you and the eldest princess..."

"This is a secret. Maybe you can exchange one of your secrets with me."

Xia Lun interrupted Ye Ming.

"Captain, you know, I have no secrets."

Ye Ming smiled and shook his head.

"Haha, do you have any other questions now?"

Xia Lun smiled and glanced at the others.

"No problem, but we don't even know what that woman looks like."

Jiu Ge frowned.

"We'll talk about that later." Sharon waved his hand and said, "We can't reveal our identities when we go to the frontline to investigate this time, so I have prepared new identities for you."

With that said, Sharon took out several masks from the drawer.

Seeing those familiar clown masks, several people immediately understood what the captain meant. This time they went to investigate the woman who needed to pretend to be someone from the Protoss sect.

After all, it was a private entrustment of the eldest princess, and their identity as a law enforcement team cannot be used, let alone appear in the military's field of vision.

The Protoss Sect has been relatively active recently, and it happened to be pretending to be in their name.

Looking at those clown masks, Ye Ming felt inexplicably irritable.

Although after he knew his identity, those voices in his head never appeared again.

"Captain, do you have to pretend to be the Star Spirit Sect?"

Ye Ming asked.

Xia Lun glanced at Ye Ming suspiciously, and said, "Yes, the Protoss Sect is indeed very active on the front line recently, and it's reasonable to impersonate them."

It is precisely because they are active on the front lines that I don’t want to go…

Ye Ming thought to himself.

He naturally knew that the Protoss Sect was active on the front line. He asked Emon to help him when he broke up the negotiations last time. Emon felt that this was Master Protoss’ plan, so after the war between the two sides, he brought some members of the Protoss Sect with him. Always active on the front lines.

Not for anything else, just to witness the great war that I started together with Master Protoss.

Then they will tell Ye Ming their experience.

Therefore, Ye Ming still knew a lot about things on the front line, except that the appearance of the woman surprised him a little.

Not even Eamon had mentioned the woman.

And the reason why he didn't want to risk the name of the Star Spirit Sect was because Emon and the others were on the front line. He actually didn't want to come into contact with Emon and the others now.

But the captain said so, there is no way.

Xia Lun said again at this time: "By the way, the entrustment we registered with the Senate is actually to hunt down a fugitive and prevent him from entering the Federation, but the reward is not high."

A low burst means that the priority is not high.

Everyone knows what Sharon means.

In the final analysis, the task of chasing fugitives is just a cover for the commission of the princess. I am afraid that Sharon went to the Senate to register such a person who can justifiably leave Aurora at this time after receiving the commission from the princess. Task.

For tasks that can make the captain complain about the low pay, everyone has no expectations.

If it weren't for special circumstances, Xia Lun would never have accepted these tasks.

"Captain, when are we leaving?"

Qiu Ge asked with little interest.

They were not very interested in this commission. The reward for chasing fugitives was very little, and the other task could not even remember the target's face.

I want to investigate and don't know where to start.

"Leave in the afternoon, and I will give everyone a surprise after the task is completed."

Xia Lun betrayed it.

But everyone was not very interested in this surprise.

"They have all changed and don't respect me as the captain."

Yue Ge and others left, Xia Lun glanced at Xia Lun who hadn't left yet and said.

That's because you, the captain, have also changed...

Ye Ming complained in his heart.

"Captain, don't worry, in fact, everyone still respects you very much."

Ye Ming expressed relief on the surface.

"You never flattered me before." Xia Lun glanced at Ye Ming with a half-smile and asked, "What? Do you want to exchange secrets with me?"

"My secret captain, don't you know a lot?"

Ye Ming smiled.

Xia Lun shook his head and said: "It's different. A lot of them are my own guesses after all. Only hearing what I say can prove its correctness. It's not a good thing."

"But I don't want to talk about that right now."

Ye Ming rejected Xia Lun's proposal.

"You are really cautious. We have created a relationship of war together." Xia Lun said.

"Captain, do you know the cemetery of the gods?"

Ye Ming stopped talking nonsense with Xia Lun and asked about the purpose of staying.

"What do you ask that thing for?"

"I heard this word by chance and wanted to ask the captain if you knew it."

"Hehe, I've only heard of that place, do you have a clue?"

"I have a cat at home."

"You said this last time."

"That cat is actually a member of the Snow family. She possessed a cat with her soul power."

Xia Lun's expression changed when he heard the words:

"So your cat told you?"

"No." Ye Ming shook his head and said, "I just think she should have some secrets, and I plan to protect her temporarily."

"Then let her tell you the secret? It's a good idea, but I suggest you find a human body for her, um, and keep her by your side. She might tell you everything after becoming a family."

"Captain, you have such strong taste."

Ye Ming said expressionlessly.

Xia Lun put away her smile, shrugged and said, "Okay! I know, I will greet the Snow family, so if there is news about the cemetery of the gods, I will tell me, right?"

"of course."

"As expected of the player I fancy."

Sharon nodded with satisfaction.

You were clearly the one who was most dissatisfied at the beginning.

Ye Ming didn't say anything about it. The Snow family's affairs were temporarily guaranteed. During the time he was out, Amber and the others didn't have to worry about it anymore.

Otherwise, he was afraid that by the time he came back, the cat would have disappeared from the house.

Xia Lun left directly, and Ye Ming also returned home.

In the afternoon, Xia Lun said that he had already said hello.

(End of this chapter)