Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 3241: Chapter 3242: Importance

Pika Sage rubbed his slightly swollen temples.

After a moment of contemplation, his mood calmed down a bit, and he roughly understood Glaipnir’s thoughts.

Perhaps in the eyes of Glaipnir and others, adding a page is really not a big deal. Almost all the races at the gathering have a page representing themselves in the exhibition, and they want a page too. What’s wrong with that?

Indeed, even the weakest race has its own exhibition page. Glaipnir, as a powerful astrologer, seemingly backed by a great existence, having their own exhibition page is quite normal.

But... it’s just not the right time!

The various races with exhibition pages decided to participate in the gathering about a month before it opened and reserved a spot for their pages.

At that time, even races as weak as fireflies would be given an exhibition page if they were willing to apply.

The wrong person at the right time is also considered right.

But now, the gathering has already started, the exhibition has been distributed, and adding pages is much more difficult.

This is what’s called the wrong time, even if you meet the right person, it still counts as wrong.

Pika Sage sighed helplessly and expressed his grievances.

Luigi: ”According to your logic, aren’t the Singer and the Feather Forest Clan also meeting the wrong person at the wrong time? How do they count as ’right’? This seems like a double standard. Or rather...”

Luigi squinted his eyes: ”Do you look down upon us, thinking our importance is not as great as the Singer and the Feather Forest Clan?”

Pika Sage quickly waved his hand: ”I certainly don’t have such thoughts. Regarding the Singer and the Feather Forest Clan obtaining additional pages, it wasn’t solely my decision.”

”Everyone knows, the Pi Luoxiu Clan has a notorious reputation, and many times we are not in control.” Pika Sage said bitterly: ”Precisely because of our bad reputation, even though we sponsor and support this gathering, the actual authority of the gathering is divided.”

”The Pi Luoxiu Clan provides support, Mirror Sea Scholar hosts it, and the Crystal Eye Clan sets the venue.”

Support, host, venue. Out of these three words, in terms of importance, ’support’ is naturally the weakest and most insignificant.

Likewise, the Pi Luoxiu Clan occupies the least of the ”divided gathering.” If this gathering is worth a hundred points, Pi Luoxiu occupies less than twenty. The remaining portions are divvied up by Mirror Sea Scholar and the Crystal Eye Clan.

Precisely because they occupy the least portion, the Pi Luoxiu Clan also has the weakest voice.

”Even if Pi Luoxiu disagrees, as long as the Crystal Eye Clan and the Mirror Sea Scholar agree, the Singer and the Feather Forest Clan can certainly obtain additional pages.”

”And you all want additional pages, you at least need to get a majority to agree.”

Pika Sage expressed his difficulties, and from a logical perspective, indeed his words were correct.

However, Luigi did not accept this explanation.

Because, officially, it is stated ”Pi Luoxiu provides support,” but Pika Sage did not specify what this ”support” actually is.

Coincidentally, Luigi knows this point.

Pi Luoxiu’s support is precisely ”technology”!

The various functions of the exhibition, including online shopping and online negotiations, are technologies brought by Pi Luoxiu.

This time, why did the Singer and the Feather Forest Clan’s additional pages attract people to queue at Pi Luoxiu’s station? Isn’t it because Pi Luoxiu controls the technology, and if you want additional pages, Pi Luoxiu is the upstream source.

Pika Sage pushed the detailed function onto a macro level and dragged the Crystal Eye Clan and Mirror Sea Scholar down with them. Isn’t this just an excuse?

If Pika Sage really wanted to add pages, he could just do it directly, why bother considering others? After all, the technology to add pages is in Pi Luoxiu’s hands.

After hearing Luigi’s grievances, Pika Sage smiled wryly: ”Technology is indeed in my hands, but we only have technology, not channels. We can add pages, but to make all the races willingly come and add pages, we still rely on the influence of Mirror Sea Scholar and the Crystal Eye Clan.”

In other words, even if he agrees to add pages, if the races don’t come, he can’t do anything.

Luigi: ”You’re still making excuses. If you really want to do it, it can certainly be done...”

”Wait.” Luigi was interrupted by Angel just halfway through.

Luigi looked at Angel in confusion, and Angel calmly said: ”We’ll talk about this later.”

Although Luigi didn’t understand the intention, he still had to listen since Angel spoke.

After Luigi closed his mouth, Angel turned his gaze to Pika Sage, and under the latter’s puzzled gaze, he slowly opened his mouth: ”As I said at the beginning, adding pages is just a minor matter. Whether you agree or not, it doesn’t affect us much.”

Upon hearing Angel’s words, Pika Sage breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems, there are still reasonable people.

However, in the next second, Pika Sage heard Angel say indifferently: ”If you don’t want to add pages, the ones who will regret it won’t be us.”

Pika Sage: ”???” What do you mean?

Angel didn’t explain, just waved his hand lightly and changed the topic: ”Since adding pages is a small matter, let’s talk about other things.”

”Of course, in our view, this matter is also a small one.”

Pika Sage: ”Please go ahead.”

According to Angel’s previous statement, adding pages is the smaller of two small matters, then the matter he is about to discuss should be the larger of the two small matters.

If adding pages is considered small, what other matters could be considered larger?

Under Pika Sage’s gaze, Angel slowly said: ”The second matter is related to the Singer and the Feather Forest Clan. Yes, it’s the two races to whom you actively issued an announcement to let all races add pages.”

Pika Sage: ”...” That last sentence is still an allusion to adding pages, right? He says he’s indifferent, but every word still revolves around adding pages... sigh.

Even though Angel couldn’t hear Pika Sage’s inner monologue, he could guess a bit from his expression.

Angel indeed said it deliberately.

Because what he was about to discuss was precisely the intention behind the Singer and the Feather Forest Clan’s visit this time—silent invasion.

Aren’t you very attentive to the Singer and the Feather Forest Clan? If you knew, the additional pages you gave to the Singer and Feather Forest didn’t lead to prosperity but to decline; not to flourishment but to invasion.

Your action of adding pages became the trigger for the Singer and Feather Forest Clan to invade the Daylight Mirror Domain.

Do you want to talk about macro and perspective? From a macro and perspective point of view, giving additional pages to the Singer and Feather Forest is a betrayal of all beings in the Daylight Mirror Domain!

To raise first, one must suppress.

Angel began discussing this matter from a very calm tone: ”Not long ago, with Pixi’s help, we obtained the exhibition booklet after additional pages.”

While speaking, Angel took the exhibition booklet from Luigi and flipped it to the last two pages—pages representing the Singer and Feather Forest Clan’s products.

”I suppose Pika Sage is already aware of the products from the Singer and Feather Forest Clan.” Angel pointed to the representative products of the Singer Clan: Singer’s Monument and Song Tower.

Pika Sage nodded: ”Their products are very good.”

”Really?” Angel suddenly laughed, but there was no enthusiasm in the laughter, instead it was filled with irony: ”Sage, you seem very fond of the Singer’s Monument and Song Tower? Do you know their true function?”

For the first time, Angel used a formal address in front of the Pika Sage. Whether this ”formal address” was truly respectful or sarcastic was another matter.

Upon hearing Angel’s tone, the Pika Sage vaguely felt something was amiss. He hesitated for a moment and said, ”The Singer’s Monument and Song Tower have hidden functions?”

”Hidden functions? No, these are auxiliary effects. The Singer Clan only listed the auxiliary effects of the Singer’s Monument and Song Tower; their true functions were not recorded.”

The Pika Sage’s expression gradually became solemn.

Because the showcase booklet was created by the Pi Luoxiu Clan, they were also responsible for product registration, and before registration, they would send people to authenticate the products.

This means that if there were problems with the products, the Pi Luoxiu Clan couldn’t escape accountability.

And now, Angel was telling him that the Singer Clan had concealed the true functions of the products, which immediately made the Pika Sage’s heart tighten.

The Pika Sage vaguely felt... perhaps they had been tricked by the Singer Clan.

Angel did not immediately explain, but glanced at Laplace.

The latter immediately understood Angel’s meaning and, with a gentle flick of her finger, a barrier enveloped everyone present.

Angel: ”We are, after all, inside the Giant City Spirit, and to avoid being spied on, proper precautions must be taken.”

The Pika Sage looked at this ”confidentiality” arrangement and his premonition grew stronger.

Angel: ”What I’m going to say next might sound incredible to you, Sage. But I swear by Luigi’s life that everything I say is true.”

Luigi heard his name and instinctively interjected, ”Angel is right.”

But as soon as he spoke, Luigi seemed to realize something, and he turned sharply, looking at Angel with unbelievable eyes: ”Why are you swearing by my life?”

Angel: ”Because it matters.”

”Matters?” Luigi showed a puzzled expression.

Angel: ”To the Pika Sage, I’m just an outsider who suddenly barged into the gathering, hardly more significant than the flowers and grass outside. But not you; compared to someone as inconsequential as me, your significance in the Pika Sage’s mind is undoubtedly heavy.”

”Right?” Angel looked at the Pika Sage.

The Pika Sage had no desire to participate in this topic, but with both Angel and Luigi looking his way, he could only... lower his head, pretending not to hear.

Though the Pika Sage didn’t respond, his silence was actually an acquiescence.

Or rather, it was a consensus.

Be it the Hundred-Dragon Divine Kingdom, Ancient Ruins of Tooth Fairy, Charles Palace, Crystal City, or Pipi Castle, Luigi’s significance far exceeded Angel’s for these groups.

In the eyes of various clans in the Daylight Mirror Domain, compared to Luigi’s illuminating brilliance, Angel didn’t even measure up to a grain of light.

Luigi thought it over and also found this reasoning sound.

Still... using his life for an oath, he couldn’t shake the odd feeling.

Well, the more he thought about it, the more confused he became, so he stopped thinking.

Luigi gave up on pondering, while Angel continued speaking to the Pika Sage: ”You may not believe me, but surely you wouldn’t doubt Luigi, right? Luigi has sworn on his life.”

Pika Sage: ...Are you sure Luigi swore?

The Pika Sage was internally complaining, yet outwardly he still cooperated by saying, ”I believe you won’t lie in what you say next.”

Angel: ”Good to know you believe.”

After a pause, Angel continued: ”The true function of the Singer’s Monument and Song Tower has been concealed by the Singer Clan. Why have they done this? Because they’re not here for business, they’re here... to start a war!”

War?!

The Pika Sage suddenly raised his head, staring at Angel in disbelief.

Angel: ”That’s right, it’s war.”

Then, Angel disclosed the true functions of the Singer’s Monument and Song Tower. Indeed, they could enhance the mirror world in various ways and increase the concentration of Aggregation Energy; yet these enhancements were merely to transform the environment, filling it with ”notes” to create a habitat suitable for the Singers.

Simply put, those who bought the Singer’s Monument were being duped, and those who bought the Song Tower were being doubly duped, spending Crystalline on invasion and helping the enemy fortify their base.

Upon hearing this secret, the Pika Sage felt as if a vase shattered in his mind, his entire brain seemed to explode.

Instantly, he thought of many future possibilities.

Including the Singer Clan’s invasion, the change in the Daylight Mirror Domain’s structure, and... the Pi Luoxiu Clan’s consequence of bearing the extra page burden, leading to inviting wolves into the house and subsequently falling into a state of universal condemnation.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the Pi Luoxiu Clan’s future was bleak.

Stop thinking, stop thinking. None of this has happened yet, and there’s still a way to remedy the situation.

Taking a deep breath, the Pika Sage forcibly calmed his intense turmoil and asked hoarsely: ”Are all these true?”

Angel chuckled lightly: ”Don’t forget, Luigi swore at the beginning.”

Though it wasn’t Luigi who made the oath himself, he hadn’t objected, which means... it was indeed true.

The Pika Sage didn’t know Angel, but he knew Luigi.

At Baba Ragon’s place, he often saw Luigi and was well aware of Luigi’s character. Luigi rarely lied, especially about major matters, he certainly wouldn’t lie.

Since Luigi acknowledged Angel’s words, then Angel was speaking facts!

After confirming the truth of the matter, the Pika Sage reflected on the functions of the Singer’s Monument and Song Tower, pondering the Singer Clan’s shameless act of ”arming themselves with the enemy’s money,” filled with indignation!

Suddenly, the Pika Sage thought of something and flipped to the last page of the showcase booklet.

The Feather Forest Clan’s promoted products: Life Feather Seed, Purification Flower Seed.

These two, in some sense, also pertained to environmental changes. Since the Singer Clan planned to invade the Daylight Mirror Domain, what about the Feather Forest Clan? Were they also planning to seize the advantage with these two seeds?

Facing the Pika Sage’s inquiry, Angel did not hide and nodded: ”Yes, it’s exactly what you think.”

Upon receiving confirmation, the Pika Sage’s eyes flickered with a turbulent light.

The Singer and Feather Forest Clan’s actions were leveraging the information gap, turning invasion into merchandise, placing conspiracy openly!

This was undoubtedly the precursor to war!

An invisible, silent war of invasion!