Chapter 424: Big News
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Hao Ren and the rest of them did not spend too much time in the outer city because the daytime of Cadeceus would be ended in eight hours, so they sped off to the inner town of Cadessar after they got some news.
Compared with the bustling but slightly chaotic outer city, the inner city of Cadessar appeared orderly. The buildings here were more beautiful and upscale. Most of the houses were multi-storey buildings built of white stones. The glimmering magic towers spread out between neat streets to support the giant shield that enveloped the entire city. This city had a wide variety of functional facilities. There were not only municipal facilities to maintain the functioning of the city, but also the various sectors that were unique to the 'Throat of the World', including the largest registry of mercenaries, the largest diplomatic building, and the largest library, 'Court of Scholars', which was said to have all knowledge of the entire world.
The inner city was inhabited by local residents of Cadessar. Although it was open to the outside, it would close the gate after nightfall.
"The little old man had a wish that his research manuscript could be included in the library of Cadessar," Y'zaks said, looked at the distant golden roof of the 'Court of Scholars' and sighed. "Unfortunately, until he died, the theory of space bubble zone was still classified as a fallacy. Even the knowledge-opening Cadeceus also just began to study the space vesicle model based on mathematics not long ago. Before that, their understanding of space vesicles was based on fantasy and philosophy."
"How does the world accept the theory of space bubble zone and macrocosm?" Hao Ren asked curiously.
Y'zaks gave him a sarcastic smile and said, "Because they were beaten badly. They did not believe that the 'world' they had always known was just a small part of the universe, so they had to deny the little old man's claim, that was, denying that the law of teleportation between space vesicles could be calculated by mathematical formulas. Because this formula is the key to the calculation of the boundary of the bubble zone, this foolish insistence on tradition lead them to lag far behind my legions in exploring new planes. The efficiency of exploration of all realms of the human world was not as good as my empire. This is the secret of why the demon king's legions are so strong, and this is an open secret."
"An open secret?" Hao Ren was surprised.
"The manuscripts left by the scholars were scattered in the human world. He had many students. And those students had already passed the formula for calculating space vesicles to different countries," Lanina explained, "but over hundreds of years no one believed in the manuscripts, even though there would be a wise man once in a while guessed that the secret reason of why the demon king's legions were so strong was that they mastered the method of calculating space vesicles, the man would immediately be denounced as heresy, even as a dangerous man who studied the demonic knowledge. The human race has been restricting themselves in this way and beaten by us. They didn't accept this fact until recently."
"And they don't completely understand it," Y'zaks laughed and said, "There are still people believe that the power of demon king comes from something magical. Knowledge is power. How can they not understand such a simple truth?"
Hao Ren did not know what to say. He understood that what Y'zaks said was reasonable but how could a normal person believe that the demon king's power really just came from exercising, eating well, reading more books...
They reached the destination of the trip. It was a square, large building with white facades and neat stained-glass windows. The three-storey wall was covered with various kinds of signboards written by different languages, most of which were the names of some offices, and some were small signboards such as 'XX Mercenary Agency, 'XX Real Estate Agency' and 'XX Marriage Counseling Center'. Hao Ren found it interesting and said, "Your world also has this kind of old office building..."
"This is the distribution hall," Lanina said and laughed, "In the beginning, this place is actually only a place for mercenaries to exchange intelligence and for the intelligence dealers to do business, but in Cadessar this kind of special place, it greatly developed and became such a messy intelligence, personnel, and authorization distribution center. When the coalition force was established, it was also focused on supporting this facility. Here was an important platform for the early recruitment of soldiers for the seven heroes. A few of the most famous folk heroes of the ten years of war, such as Saintess of Light and Gordon, the Dragon Slayer, came out from here. The information we are looking for is readily available here: The information from the Demonic Plane is free to circulate here. The intelligence dealers are righteous only at this point."
"You know the world very well." Hao Ren glanced at Lanina in surprise.
"Don't forget what I used to be," Lanina said and wagged her tail proudly. "I heard that there's a clever man in your world who knows everything under the sun without stepping out of the house. It's too bad I can't compete with him…"
Hao Ren remembered that he seemed to have said this before…
"Lanina, don't talk much when you're inside, just stay behind Hao Ren and pretend to be a low-level demon. There are all sorts of people inside, a magician with a low-level demon will not attract attention as long as not deliberately high-profile. But we also have to be careful not to be targeted by the Holy See," Y'zaks reminded them and then walked into the distribution hall.
As soon as Hao Ren walked into the building, he felt a rush of blast-- a real blast of 'noise'!
The first floor of the three-storey building was a super hall supported by a few rows of square columns. The hall was strewn with small partitions that looked like counters or reception points but was mostly decorated with desks and chairs and open spaces that allowed people to communicate. Countless adventurers and businessmen made this place so noisy. There were all sorts of people there including ordinary man, military personnel, and uniformed staff.
The scene really made Hao Ren feel like the talent market on Earth. But in terms of noise and chaos, this place was a bit like a wet market—anyway, it was noisy and crowded, and it was easy to get lost by walking alone.
Although Lanina had a good knowledge of the human world, this was also her first time to visit this place. Also, she needed to pay attention to hide her identity, so she walked behind Ho Ren as soon as she went in and disguised as an obedient domestic demon as soon as she went in. She just gently poked Hao Ren's in the back with the tip of her tail and said, "First look for those who wear uniforms ..."
By this time Lily had already acted. As soon as she arrived at the lively place, she was so excited and ran to a man who looked like a staff member there and asked, "Hi! We're mercenaries! We want to work in the Demonic Plane! Where can we find the news of the demon world?"
Hao Ren hurriedly ran to Lily to prevent this silly girl actually said the name 'No Good Names Left' out loud... The silly name could still be accepted in the Plane of Dreams but it was useless in this place.
The man was startled by Lily and then pointed to a corner. Lily immediately dragged Hao ren and ran. Hao Ren thought while running: One really needed some skill when walking a husky, not only one had to have the mentality of walking the dog, but also have to be mentally prepared for switching role. Lily ran like a lightning bolt while dragging Hao Ren along…
Information about the Demonic Plane was posted on a wall, arranged by date. They looked at it for a while and found that the human world did pay an extraordinary close attention to the Demonic Plane. Perhaps because the war of ten years just ended, the information about the Demonic Plane was not only detailed but also exceptionally timely.
Which place had a new demon lord; which demon lord was slain; which Demonic Plane had an abnormal multiplication; which Demonic Plane teleportation portal suddenly opened... News like these was all over the wall!
"The heck… How did they find these out?" Hao Ren looked at the information in dismay. And all of a sudden he had an illusion that the entire Demonic Plane was completely exposed to the human world.
"Most of them come from warlocks, and a small part comes from scouts," Lanina whispered. She was not surprised by this. "Warlocks can summon demons, and they can force their consciousness into a demon on the Demonic Plane. In this way, the human world will be able to grasp the trend of the demon world. But this also applies to the human world: higher-order demons often lure warlocks, and even directly place a spy into the upper echelons of the human kingdom. And how to interfere with this kind of mutual exploration of the mind is the question that will be studied by both the human world and the demon world."
"Oh," Hao Ren said and read through the wall of information with Y'zaks. This information might not mean much to the people there, but for Y'zaks, it was very easy for him to find out some important new below the surface.
"It looks as if Serathon has already won the second plane..." Y'zaks said while touching his chin, "the old guy of the second plane should have secretly reached a surrender agreement with Serathon, but I reckon there will still be a big war soon. This is how things work among demons. The final form of all diplomatic mediation is to defeat each other."
"But there's no news about that 'last testament'," Vivian looked at Y'zaks and said, "and it looks like the Holy See coalition forces have blocked this intelligence."
"Of course they did. Nobody wants this kind of rumors that will turn the world upside down spreading everywhere," Y'zaks grinned and continued, "The seven heroes used to be close like brothers, I wonder if they feel awkward when they see each other now… Haha, you never know."
Lily twitched her mouth with a bit of regret and said, "We have a wasted trip."
Others were disappointed too. But just then, a soldier in light armor suddenly came up and posted a new piece of information with a church seal on the wall.
Hao Ren glanced at it and knew that something bad was going to happen.
Lily read it out, "... a phantom of the Helcrown has once appeared over the Broken Plain of the second Demonic Plane. Remnants of defeated troops of the demon king's legion are found around the Broken Plain…"