In Teyvat, it all begins with rescuing the grass god.

The voice just fell.

Farusan swept all the scrap paper she had used for deduction and the model parts on the table into a box, then decisively picked up the box and left, leaving the two who clearly had something to say to each other.

After she left.

Rhodes chuckled, "You knew I deliberately lured you here, yet you still dared to come alone. Looks like you really care about Kavi."

“Before I came here, I registered with the Order of the Church and informed them of my whereabouts. If anything happens to me during this time, the Order of the Church will naturally send someone to handle it.”

“There’s also a group of thirty people I’ve hired outside the village. If I don’t go out within an hour, they’ll come and demand my presence.”

Elhesen remained calm as always, showing no sign of being moved by Rhodes's slightly threatening and teasing words.

Just like Sino said.

Unlike other intelligent people, Al Heysen never puts himself in danger and always has the ability to control the situation and turn danger into safety.

The reason he dared to come alone is because he had enough confidence.

"alright."

"Then I'll make it short."

Rhodes cut straight to the point, first briefly explaining the blasphemous things the Church Council was currently doing, and then bringing up his desire to seek Elhesen's intelligence to help rescue Narcida.

Having said this.

He even showed Elhesen the divine power originating from the grass god to prove that he was not lying.

"The Grass God has been imprisoned by the Great Sage."

After hearing this, El-Hysen's expression immediately turned serious.

He didn't care about the other things Rod said, nor did he want to waste time verifying their truthfulness.

He knows.

It is true that Rhodes possesses the power of the Grass God, which has been lost for a long time.

that's enough.

That's enough for Al-Hysen to conduct his own investigation into the matter.

However, he did not immediately agree to help Rhodes intercept the intelligence of the Church Council. Instead, he continued to ask, "You and I have no connection, and Kavi would not have mentioned me to you. Someone must have sent you to find me. Who was it?"

“Senior Disciplinary Officer Seno, he is my senior, and can be trusted.”

Rod readily admitted it.

It's not a good thing to be secretive and act like a riddle-maker in front of a smart person.

"okay, I get it."

"I will keep an eye on the information within the academy for you. If anything happens, I will try to contact you or Seno."

El-Hysen agreed very readily.

With just a few words, a cooperation agreement to jointly rescue Nasita was reached.

very smooth.

Rhodes himself could hardly believe how smoothly it went.

He originally thought he would have to waste more breath and talk about some grand principles, but he didn't expect that Elhesen would agree to the cooperation request so easily.

After the cooperation agreement was reached.

Elhesen wasted no time, exchanged a few more words with Rhodes, and then left.

Rod did not see him off.

Instead, he stayed in the room, slowly savoring the two sentences the two had said to each other before he left.

"You don't need to use the Kavi thing to lure me in anymore."

"I don't care how his life is."

"I was only able to come here this time because I saw someone supporting his unrealistic ideal. There won't be a next time."

This is what El-Hysen said.

That's very rational.

This also aligns perfectly with Elhesen's assessment of Kavi.

Rhodes, in turn, gave him a few words of advice.

"If all ideals had to conform to reality, would they still be called ideals?"

"If everyone lacks unrealistic ideals and only argues and debates from a realistic perspective, how can the world progress? Will we forever live in the same reality?"

Regarding his words.

Unlike Kave, Elhesen did not insist on arguing with Rhodes to prove who was right.

He simply nodded and left.

However, as he left, Rhodes saw him smile briefly. The smile was fleeting, but he did smile. It was unclear whether he was smiling because of Rhodes' words or because he had seen another fool like Kavi.

(End of this chapter)

141. Please take one more day off.

Please take another day off

Everything at home is done. I'll adjust my sleep schedule today and be fully recharged tomorrow. (These past few days I've been sleeping at 2 or 3 AM and waking up at 7 AM, sometimes without even having time for a midday nap. I need to adjust my sleep schedule. I won't be taking any more days off this month.)

(End of this chapter)

142. Chapter 137 Help or not?

Chapter 137 Help or not?

Not long after Elhesen left.

The fanatical followers of the Red King that Rhodes had been longing for had finally arrived.

Perhaps out of fear of Candice, they came, but didn't enter Aru Village at all. Instead, they sent a representative to "invite" Rhodes through Dixia, who was also a mercenary.

Rahman.

It's another very familiar name.

Although he wasn't a particularly powerful mercenary, his name still carried weight within the Red King's followers, and his mercenary group was quite influential in the desert.

This person is exactly the kind of fanatical and radical Red King follower that Rhodes was looking for.

And while this guy is fanatical, he hasn't lost his mind.

After Rhodes went to keep his promise, he also demonstrated his inherited sacred rites.

He neither blindly acknowledged Rhodes' identity, nor did he immediately label him with a big accusation, intending to use the name of the Red King's envoy in his hands to expand his power in the desert with a single call to arms, nor did he curse Rhodes simply because he was now a scholar of the Order of the Church.

In fact.

Upon receiving news that the Red King's messenger had appeared in Aru Village, Rahman immediately set off and arrived in Aru Village before Elhesen arrived.

Make use of these two days of free time.

He found out everything that Rod had done in Aru Village.

Therefore, their conversation went fairly smoothly, albeit barely.

In Rahman's words, based solely on what Rhodes had done for the desert, even if he had sided with the Council of the Church and become a lackey of the Grass God, he would be magnanimous and temporarily overlook Rhodes's betrayal of the Red King.

However, this fanatical and radical follower of the Red King ultimately refused Rhodes' invitation, saying only, "I can overlook your act of siding with the Tree King, but that doesn't mean I will cooperate with someone who has become a lackey of the Grass God, even if you are nominally called the Red King's messenger."

Rahman is a very stubborn person.

So stubborn was he that even with Desia, who was very familiar with him, acting as a go-between, he still called Rhodes a lackey and a traitor, claiming that he hadn't taken action because Rhodes was genuinely helping the desert people; otherwise, it would have been his scimitar that was speaking to Rhodes.

"These radicals are completely out of their minds."

This is Rod's assessment of Rahman after the negotiations failed.

Actually, if you think about it carefully...

Such fervor is not entirely due to their own actions.

The Red King civilization has been gone for a long time, and many of its ancient texts were completely lost to the annals of history during the disasters of that time. In addition, the Council of the Order has been stirring up trouble between the rainforest people and the desert people ever since the fall of the Tree King.

Today it is today.

Even Seno, a desert person from a priestly lineage, believed that the Red King and the Tree King were enemies and was completely unaware of the Three Gods' Covenant from back then.

Not to mention the Red King's followers who were completely unaware of the inside story.

In their eyes.

The death of the Red King and the destruction of the Red King civilization were all due to the arrival of the Great Compassion Tree King. Moreover, she betrayed the Red King when the desert was suffering a calamity, which led to the decline of the once prosperous Red King civilization to its current state.

This understanding exists.

As time went on, their hatred for the Great Tree King gradually developed to the point that they would blindly resist anything even remotely related to the Great Tree King.

Rahman was deeply influenced by the idea that 'the Red King was killed by the Tree King'.

Rhodes was not going to continue trying to reason with him or appeal to his emotions.

They didn't plan to take him to find the ruins that recorded the truth about the Red King's death, since there were countless ruins of the Red King in the desert, and who knew which one was the real one.

As for the priests who know the truth, given Rahman's disdainful attitude towards them, it would probably be pointless for them to go. This obsessed guy would definitely think that the priests were also deceiving him with lies.

So there's not much to say.

To deal with a person who is obsessed, you have to use some unconventional methods.

So Rod immediately tied up Rahman and all his men and took them to Aru village, showing him what Kavi and Farusan, these legitimate rainforest people, were doing.

It took a day.

After forcing Rahman to tour the entire village of New Aru, Rhodes sat down with him and said face to face:

"As a fellow follower of the Red King, what have you been doing all these years?"