Becoming a winner in life starts with becoming a shadow

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After returning to the real world, only a little over a day has passed.

Since the place where Li De left is closer to the Impossible City, Li De plans to go to the Impossible City to see Elizabeth first.

At the top of the black tower, Elizabeth, who had received the notice, was already waiting here.

Since she killed Gagno some time ago, the black tower was quickly taken down by her.

Then, in order to facilitate Li De's coming, Elizabeth occupied the top floor alone.

Li De, who was teleported through the contract positioning, saw Elizabeth, who was wearing a dark red dress, standing on his left.

"Master, it's been a long time since I last saw you!" Seeing Li De coming, Elizabeth immediately bowed and said.

In fact, in the real world, it was not long since she was brought to the Impossible City by Li De.

In addition, even after coming to the Impossible City, Li De would come here from time to time to have a small gathering with her for one or two nights.

But if you count the time that Li De has spent in the mission world, then Li De has indeed not seen her for a while.

"How is that matter handled?" Li De nodded, walked straight to the sofa not far away, and then sat down and asked.

"It's going well so far. After all, the rumors from a thousand years ago have never stopped. After people mention it a little, those who are interested will naturally weigh the pros and cons. When the real blood moon is in the sky, those people will not dare to hinder others from attacking the Crimson Tower." Elizabeth walked behind Li De and answered while pinching his shoulders.

"People are afraid of death. Although the massacre of the Three Kingdoms in Three Days has been over for a thousand years, many people no longer believe it. But no one dares to bet that such a thing will never happen. After all, the painful history of human beings being enslaved by vampires has been preserved in all countries." Li De smiled and said.

"Yes, it is precisely because they know the horror of vampires that those in power will not take the risk to shelter them. After all, they all live within the range of movement in these three days." Elizabeth nodded and said.

After all, she has accepted all the memories of the vampire ancestor, and knows the whole story of the three-day three-kingdom tragedy too well.

In fact, the real massacre a thousand years ago was only three nights when the blood moon was in the sky, and the vampire queen slaughtered a kingdom in one night.

Of course, it is not that she stopped that night after slaughtering a kingdom, but there were only three kingdoms surrounding the resting place at the beginning, otherwise the victims a thousand years ago would have increased.

But now it is different. The kingdoms bordering the lawless city, which was once the resting place, are more than the three kingdoms of the year, and the scope is also larger.

Once the tragedy of a thousand years ago reappears, the casualties and losses caused will be absolutely unimaginable.

It is precisely because of this that Elizabeth prepared to start a little reminder to the forces she dealt with, and then she quickly got a reply.

That is, once the blood moon is in the sky, the vampires in the crimson tower can be wiped out without scruples.

"As long as no one comes out to interfere." Li De nodded.

"Then Master, do we need to clean up the group of ghouls created by the vampires in advance? After all, those ghouls will become extremely crazy during the blood moon." Elizabeth couldn't help asking.

"Don't worry about it. There are no good people in the City of Nowhere anyway, so it doesn't matter if a few more die. If we don't let others see the tragedy of the City of Nowhere and feel the harm brought by vampires, how can our achievements in defeating the Crimson Tower become so important?" Li De shook his head and said.

After all, for Li De, if he wants to make the achievements of defeating the Crimson Tower great, the City of Nowhere must be harmed enough.

Because only in this way, after the riots are completely quelled, this achievement can be dazzling enough.

As for how many people will die during the period, Li De really doesn't care.

For Li De, that is life and death.

If you can escape, it's luck, if you can't escape, it's fate.

And whether the violent ghouls will spread during this period, Li De doesn't care.

Because even if it spreads out, the ghouls are not the bloodthirsty queen and can't cause much damage.

In addition, he has made up his mind to make good use of this blood moon to achieve his goal.

Whether his cheap sister Claire can be knighted at once depends on the upcoming blood moon event.

As for whether Reed will feel any guilt, Reed said he will not.

After all, Sid Kagenor can remove the blood moon state, which does not mean that he Reed can also not be.

In addition, according to the memory obtained by Elizabeth, the previous blood moons only lasted for three days.

In other words, as long as you survive three nights, you can survive this disaster, which is not difficult to say.

After all, when the ghouls are inconvenient to move during the day, they can take the opportunity to run out of the city.

And the borders of various countries will only block ghouls, not living people, so the three blood moon nights without the bloodthirsty queen are not the end of the world, and the chance of survival is completely possible.

In the end, Reed used his own way to stop the riots this time, so what else can he do? After all, he doesn't want to be a savior.

"I understand. After I stopped the Snow Girl from going to the Crimson Tower that night, I organized my men to concentrate their forces for defense." Elizabeth already understood Reed's plan.

"That's it." Li De nodded again. After all, that was his plan.

He believed that as long as Elizabeth withdrew her forces for defense, the Snow Girl would not take the initiative to attack.

At most, they would clean up the ghouls in Happy Street and then set up defenses around Happy Street.

Without the participation of the Pure White Tower and the Black Tower in the elimination of ghouls, the Impossible City would allow the guards led by Claire to accumulate military merits.

In this way, there would be no need to worry about insufficient military merits. After all, military merits are accumulated by human lives.

Otherwise, how could there be a general's success at the cost of thousands of lives, and how could there be words like "killing one is a sin, and killing ten thousand is a hero"?

"Master, about the income of the Black Tower this month," Elizabeth suddenly raised the question.

After all, Li De knew that they had discussed this matter in the group meeting before.

The result at that time was to take a part of Elizabeth's income to support the expansion of the Siyue Chamber of Commerce.

After all, before the Impossible City was taken, the Siyue Chamber of Commerce was the foundation of the Shadow Courtyard.     "No need to continue, I have changed the positioning of the Impossible City, and you can use the funds of the Black Tower reasonably in the future." Li De said slowly.

Because of its special nature, the Impossible City has gathered a large number of lawless elements, people from the dark world, and a large amount of illegal funds, so it is a good source of intelligence and a place to make money.

In addition, if you want to control the Impossible City, you must have a certain military strength, so Li De originally took a fancy to this place, just to increase the overall strength of the Shadow Courtyard and the peripheral military force.

After all, the Shadow Courtyard is currently in the elite mode. Although everyone is strong, the number is small.

If you want to fight against the powerful Diabolos Cult, you can't do without considerable military strength.

So Li De wanted to take over the Impossible City at that time to strengthen the overall power of the Shadow Courtyard.

But now looking back, the original idea was a bit idealistic.

Because one is that if the Impossible City wants to be fully controlled, Li De must pay enough contract personnel.

Another reason is that the city of no city is doomed to be unable to be independent because of its special geographical location, even if it wants to be independent through neutrality, it is impossible to do so.

Of course, this is not absolute. If Li De is willing to let Elizabeth fully expose her strength and suppress her with absolute force, let alone independence, even expansion is completely possible.

But Li De is unwilling to do so, because it will be very troublesome.

Don't forget that the Diabolos Cult has always coveted Aurora's bloodline. Once it is known that the bloodthirsty queen from a thousand years ago has been completely resurrected, the Diabolos Cult will definitely have ideas.

In addition, the blood moon tragedy a thousand years ago is still circulating, and the surrounding kingdoms cannot ignore Elizabeth, a major security risk.

What if the bloodthirsty queen goes berserk again one day? After all, no one stipulates that the bloodthirsty queen must go berserk only when the blood moon is in the sky, right?

Another thing is that the city of no city now involves the interests of the other party. These beneficiaries cannot let Elizabeth turn the city of no city into a peaceful and quiet resting place again.

Therefore, once Elizabeth stands up, a bad thing may even cause a war.

And taking a step back, even if there is no open war, there will definitely be a lot of covert wars. In addition, it is very likely that the city of No City will lose its former vitality because it has a sole owner.

You must know that the prosperity of No City is absolutely inseparable from the support of surrounding forces. Once these people join forces to blockade No City, it will become a dead city, and thus become a tasteless but a pity to abandon.

At that time, what lies before Li De is either to take the initiative to expand towards the scale of the kingdom, or to give up directly.

Then looking back, the shadow world is the world for Li De to repair after the mission. You can play with the strategy, but there is no need to make yourself very tired. After all, Li De's main energy needs to be focused on the mission strategy.

So Li De does not want to make a huge strategy that distracts him. After all, he has not thought about taking the path of domination so far.

In this way, it is necessary to readjust the strategic positioning of No City.

Because the biggest change from before is that Li De is now super rich and does not need funds from the City of Nowhere to support the rapid expansion of the Siyue Chamber of Commerce and the formation of the army of the Shadow Courtyard.

When he was in Iluber, Li De used his free time to deduce.

Then he found that after excluding the funds that were the most lacking before, the role of the City of Nowhere in the plan to enhance the overall strength of the Shadow Courtyard became limited.

After all, with the expansion of the Siyue Chamber of Commerce, the intelligence network of the Shadow Courtyard is also spreading rapidly, and the intelligence from the City of Nowhere has become a supplement.

Who said that the information that the City of Nowhere can collect is mainly from the dark world.

In addition, the two major intelligence networks do not necessarily have to be forcibly merged. It may be better to be independent and complementary to each other.

Another thing is about the army. It can be completely attached to Alexia.

No funds are needed, the intelligence network does not need to be merged, and even the army can be ignored. The dark tower on the City of Nowhere is only a simple peripheral force relationship.

And the relationship with this peripheral force does not necessarily have to be maintained, that is, either give up the Black Tower directly and transfer Elizabeth back.

But this is a bit wasteful, so Elizabeth's only option for the Black Tower force in the Impossible City is to become independent.

"Master, I don't know what you mean?" Li De's sudden change of mind made Elizabeth a little overwhelmed.

"It's very simple, that is, you will be independent from the Shadow Courtyard in the future, and the Black Tower will no longer be a peripheral force of the Shadow Courtyard, but will exist independently as a new force I have developed." Li De set the tone.

"My master, I understand, I will definitely manage the Black Tower well." Elizabeth nodded immediately after hearing this, and then said excitedly.

After all, if the Black Tower is a peripheral force of the Shadow Courtyard, then Elizabeth is only the second to last person at the bottom of the Nine Shadows.

But if the Black Tower becomes independent, then she will be the leader of the new force, and her status will be equal to Alpha of the Shadow Courtyard.

"Elizabeth, can you tell me what the business of the Black Tower is?" Li De was a little curious about this.

"Master, the main business of the Black Tower is the casino, and it also has intelligence trafficking, arms smuggling, and bulk daily necessities trading and other businesses." Elizabeth replied.

"Is that all?" Li De asked with a little surprise.

Because in Li De's opinion, the business scope of the Black Tower is a bit inconsistent with the positioning of the Black Tower.

"Master, in fact, there were a lot of things at the beginning. As long as it could make money, Gagno would do everything, including but not limited to assassination, slave trading, red-light districts, etc. The remaining ones are the result of my stripping off some unnecessary businesses." Elizabeth said slowly.

Li De understood what Elizabeth meant, that is, she implemented the elimination of the original business of the Black Tower.

"So that's the case. In fact, this is also good, but it still lacks the most important business." Li De said after touching his chin.

"Master, I wonder what business it is?" Elizabeth asked curiously.

"Mercenaries! In addition, the assassination business can actually be retained. It depends on how to use assassins. They can also play a big role when used at critical moments." Li De said slowly.

"I understand, Master, I will start the assassination business again, but mercenaries may be a bit troublesome." Elizabeth knows very well what mercenaries are like, but because she knows, she understands the difficulty of establishing mercenaries in the city.

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