Chapter 175 - Value of zero

The elder from the Hall of Heroic Spirits easily opened the secret mail of his rival group. However, there wasn't the slightest bit of surprise in his eyes. He believed that the Dark Council would be able to sell out this method of infiltrating their opponents. However, just like how he was unable to obtain the information regarding the highest authority from the Dark Council's Cabinet, it was impossible for the other party to obtain all the important information from the Heroic Spirit Hall.

On the contrary, they who were in power had to distinguish the truth from the opponent's information. There had been no lack of false information from the enemy's spies in the thirty years of peace, which had led to miscalculations.

However, the order letter that the old man had seen did not seem to contain any fraud.

He picked up the phone on his desk, pressed a call button, and said, "Ask Valkyrie to come to my study."

On the other end of the line, a gentle female voice said, "As you command, Sir Douglas."

The old man put down the phone. He stood up and faced the huge French windows. His gaze passed through them and rested on the white world outside. The snow reflected off the natural light onto his face. It was a wrinkled face with a rosy, alcoholic nose. If it weren't for the pair of eyes that were glinting with a cold light, he would be like an ordinary old man.

But more importantly, he was the drunkard and monster hunter that Zero had seen in Remter … Ben!

While Ben was thinking about something, the door to the study knocked three times. Then, the door to the study was pushed open, and a blue-haired woman in a long Victorian dress walked in.

Under her long blue hair was an exquisite face, as if it was the work of a top painter. Her facial features were as beautiful as a painting. Although the woman was beautiful, she was not weak. On the contrary, she carried a heroic spirit that was neutral.

She came to the desk and respectfully asked: "Father, you were looking for me?"

Ben turned his computer screen in the woman's direction. "Awqilie, look at this."

"This is …" After the woman named Valkyrie read through it carefully, a hint of a smile appeared on her lips. "The Dark Council actually sent Levin, the ninth Knight, to kill a wild mercenary. Isn't this making a big deal out of nothing?"

"Those old fellows never do anything useless." Ben smiled and said, "This mercenary called Zero has already confirmed that he killed a blood-colored Knight from the Dark Council. To them, this is an act of provocation towards authority. In order to uphold the inviolable authority of the council and to prove to the world that the council had absolute power, it was completely reasonable that those old guys would send Levin out. Only by using overwhelming force to extinguish any provocative acts could the terrifying military might of the Assembly be manifested. Have they not done much like this in the past many years? "

Valkyrie lowered his head and asked, "What do you mean, father?"

"Stop the ninth Knight Laine and extradite him to our Heroic Spirit Hall." His eyes fell on the photo of the target attached to the email.

In the picture, Zero's right eye was glowing with a golden light, like a ball of golden flames!

In the study, Valkyrie kept his head down. Ben looked at her. "Do you have any questions?"

Raising his head, Valkyrie looked directly at his father and said, "For the sake of a wilderness mercenary, we are going to clash with the Dark Council. Father, is this worth it? "

Ben laughed. "Valkyrie, your military prowess isn't inferior to your brother Tyre. But in terms of scheming, you are still inferior."

"Speaking of conspiracy, don't you think Loki has a talent for it?" said Valkyrie.

"Loki is a smart little guy. He doesn't have much power." Ben muttered to himself, "Our conversation seems to have drifted off. We extradited zero to our Holy Spirit Palace. Firstly, it's because he's a warrior with potential, and secondly, it's a competition between their relationship and the Dark Council. "

"The old fogey from the Dark Council sent the ninth Knight, Laine. Other than sending a signal to the world that the authority of the Dark Council cannot be provoked, he is also hinting that our Heroic Spirit Hall will be wiped away from this continent with absolute force as well. The contents of that email are not false, but those old guys intentionally leaked it to me. Otherwise, how do you think that information similar to those in the upper echelons of the council would be so easily intercepted by our people? " Ben snorted. "After that war thirty years ago, even though we didn't have any more large-scale armed conflicts, how could there be less secret battles? To keep conflicts to a minimum is to ensure a relatively peaceful environment in which most of the strength and resources are invested in the development of the organization itself. But peace will not last. Whether it is our Hall of Heroic Spirits or the Dark Council, once we have achieved a breakthrough in the study of the sacred scriptures. That is when the war will begin again. "

"Therefore, we must fight for every single talent. Just like that mercenary Zero, since the Dark Council wants to kill him, from another perspective, he has the value of asking us to help. "

"With all due respect, my dear father. No matter how much potential a sniper has, it doesn't seem to be worth it. There is no shortage of such talents in our army. " "Besides, if he is to be extradited, he will have to clash head-on with the Dark Council," he insisted. But one of the "third party restrictions" in the Peace Treaty that you and they signed contains provisions for us not to interfere in the fighting between each other and our enemies. I think that's why the Dark Council dared to deliberately leak this email to you. If we insist on zero extradition, it will give them an excuse to start a dispute, won't it, Father? "

Ben laughed. "My Valkyrie, when I found you fifteen years ago, you were a tramp hiding in an abandoned supermarket. But right now, aren't you an important member of the Twelve Sovereigns' Hall, with the title of Valkyrie? How do you know that Zero doesn't have the potential to become another member of the Sovereign's Office? It must be understood that of the people in the Sovereign's Hall, including you, there are only six. Moreover, on the body of zero, there was also the same wave energy as the Creation's. Although it is still very weak, this alone is enough for us to extradite him at all costs. "

Valkyrie's pupils shrank, "The same wave energy as the Creation? Could it be that he had something to do with that plan? But father, how do you know all this? "

"My dear daughter, did you not notice that I was missing something when I returned from my search for the new holy scripture?" Ben smiled.