After choosing to leave, they regretted it.

Chapter 108 Aize's Intention

In the past nearly two years, Christina Karlsade, who followed Aize as an adjutant, achieved extremely great results in battle, and even reversed the negative reputation caused by that great defeat to a large extent.

However, in Aize's view, this is far from enough.

Chris has far greater potential than himself, but he is just a puppet who obeys his orders mechanically and monotonously. This is a waste of talent.

If she could exercise more subjective initiative, make her own judgments based on the battle situation and take some actions beyond the plan, the results of many battles could be even better than the actual results.

But, there is no if.

During this period, Chris almost completely gave up thinking and never thought about Aize's thoughts and intentions.

After all, Aize is a god, and the thoughts of a god should not be guessed.

All these escapes and poor performance have now become retribution, and are reflected in Chris.

Facing the letter in front of her, when she seriously tried to guess Aize's thoughts for the first time, the girl was surprised to find that apart from those pale flatteries such as "Master is awesome, Master is invincible, Master is unbeatable", she knew almost nothing about Aize's thinking mode.

After a fruitless brainstorming session, Chris broke out in a cold sweat and practically curled up in a ball, holding her head.

"Wow, what on earth is Master trying to express..."

Someone behind her looked at her like this and seemed a little helpless:

"You've been with him for so long, shouldn't you know him well? How come you don't have any clue at all? Are you really Christina Karsade? Not an imposter, right?"

"Woo——"

The comment hit the nail on the head, causing Chris to shudder.

The latter continued relentlessly:

"Even I—a so-called supervisor who he'd left in the Holy City for months without even visiting—know that he'd do his best to keep all variables under control and not rely on unstable external factors. Aren't his thoughts and plans all like that?"

"Uh……"

I always feel that this guy is full of resentment. Is it an illusion?

Chris even felt a chill on her back and subconsciously tightened her clothes.

Putting all these aside, the words just now reminded Chris, and she broke free from her tangled thoughts and began to examine the whole thing from the beginning.

The core issue is that Aize knew that the succubus's position was problematic, and knew that the letter would be changed beyond recognition after being handed over to them, but he still wanted to send it.

why?

According to the intelligence chief, Aize is a person who hates uncontrollable variables, and he would never bet on which information the succubus would tamper with and which would not.

That is to say, the content of this letter is irrelevant from the beginning, and what he wants to express cannot be in the body of this letter.

So what's the point of sending a letter?

Fake letter, there was no such thing from the beginning, it was completely fabricated by the succubus to lure me into the trap?

impossible.

The letter began with the secret code agreed upon before the operation to verify the identity.

In fact, because he was afraid that the succubi would accidentally change this thing when tampering with the content, Aize also directly marked it as a "contact code" to help those who exposed the **.

So the sender must be Aize himself, that’s for sure.

So, the real content to be expressed is actually hidden in the letter paper and envelope?

Nor is it possible.

Just like the content, Aize had no way of guaranteeing that the letter sent to Chris was the original, and naturally he would never hide the information in such a place.

Then there is only one possibility left.

Since the letter is meaningless, the act of sending the letter itself is the meaning.

Thinking of something, Chris suddenly raised her head and turned around almost subconsciously with excitement.

Fortunately, I reacted at the last moment, suppressed my actions, and asked in my mind:

"Miss Intelligence Officer, the information you obtained from the demons was also sent by a succubus, right?"

"Yes."

"Is that intelligence authentic?"

"Comparing it with the last report on Lilbas's material reserves collected before the war, and deducting the reasonable consumption from the battles over the past few days, it seems almost certain and can be considered true."

"I see. Now I understand what Master is trying to say!"

Aize gave a piece of real information to the succubus, who divided it into two parts and sent them to Chris and other demon armies respectively.

The intelligence given to Chris greatly exaggerated Lilbas's current critical situation, intending to force Chris and the Empire to take immediate rescue action.

This is a behind-the-scenes operation based on the Succubus's own standpoint.

As an extreme hedonist, the succubus welcomes almost any race, even giants, but the undead are the only exception.

Because low-level undead have no self-awareness.

As for the self-aware middle and high-level undead, their bodies have already decayed and become numb, and they basically have no feelings of being alive, so naturally no happiness can be squeezed out of them.

That alone would be fine, they would just never have any contact with each other again, but the key point is that the undead are particularly cruel.

Whether conquering humans or fighting a civil war among demons, the undead will never leave anyone alive after occupying a place, and will definitely carry out complete extermination and transformation.

If they captured Lierbas, not only would Lierbas become a dead city, but with their further increased strength, they would even burn down half of the empire.

This is an unacceptable loss for the succubus who has been deeply rooted in human society for many years.

So they sent such a letter, hoping that Chris and the Empire would rescue Lilbas as soon as possible at all costs, defend the city, and prevent the undead from gaining power.

Of course, he used a bit too much force, so Chris's first reaction after seeing it was that she couldn't hold on any longer, and she quickly tried to find a way to help Aizerun.

This is consistent with the succubus's position.

Following the same idea, when they convey the message to the demons, they should exaggerate the human combat power of Lilbas as much as possible to scare off the Immortal Dynasty and make them retreat.

But in fact, the intelligence they passed on was so reliable that it went against their own position.

Comparing the two, it shows that someone is forcing the succubi to cooperate with the demon army to attack Krielbas, and the succubi are very reluctant to do so, so they pretend to obey but secretly disobey.

There is only one person in the world who can force a succubus to do things for him unwillingly.

The only being above the thirteen heads, the nominal ruler of the demon clan, the Demon King himself.

"This is what Master wants to express."

Chris breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"He wanted to tell us, through the contrast between the succubus's stances reflected in the two letters, that the real mastermind behind this series of events is the Demon King himself!"

"The Demon King himself... But just knowing that won't help the situation."

Chris vaguely felt that someone seemed to sigh behind her.

"The demon race is inherently mysterious, and this generation's Demon King is even more elusive. We don't have any information about him, not even his name or appearance. What's the point of knowing this?"

Chris glanced around, reconfirming that there were no demons or the prince's spies, and then shook her head slightly.

"No, it's useful, because knowing this will clarify many other doubts."

This battle is centered around the traps set by the Undead and the Immortal Dynasty, and all actions of the rest of the demons revolve around them.

Having said that, the coordination and cooperation among the various tribes was a disaster, leaving countless loopholes, which were exploited by Aize's return.

This is not surprising at all, after all, the cooperation between the demons has always been a mess.

But with the Demon King himself deeply involved and even the succubus being brought in, they still ended up in such a mess. It can only be considered intentional.

"Intentionally? What's the point of doing this? It's not just... Oh, I see. The first target isn't the Empire or Aize, but the Immortal Dynasty, the biggest destabilizing factor within the Demon Clan."

"Yes, that's it."

Everything is the devil's plan.

Even though they knew that the Immortal Dynasty's plan was problematic, they still tried their best to cooperate with its implementation in order to put them on the spot as much as possible.

Force them to fight to the death with Aize and the Empire. No matter which side falls, it will be a win-win for the Demon King as he will have one less major threat.

What if both sides suffer losses?

Even better.

The demon reinforcements that are on their way to Lilbas can just take down both sides at once and win the day.

Aize, who was in the encirclement, thought of this when he saw the arrangement of the demons.

Now, with the succubus's position revealed in a worthless letter as the seventh point, Chris and the intelligence chief finally understood the whole story.

Aize’s expectations were finally fulfilled.

"Really? This is more tiring than fighting a war. Master, you're such a mean-spirited person~"

Chris, feeling relieved, muttered to herself, then smiled.

"Well, anyway, this means I've defeated that arrogant prince once again. Haha, there's no way he could do something like that, right?"

"…What are you talking about? What does this have to do with the prince?"

"It's okay, just a little personal grudge, don't worry about it."

Although it was a bit outrageous, Chris was indeed feeling inexplicably happy now.

The somewhat dumbfounded intelligence director hurriedly urged:

"Stop talking about these useless things and think about what to do next."

"Well, well..."

Chris came back to her senses and started thinking again.

Right now, whether the demons want to break the deadlock or the empire wants to stabilize the front line, Lilbas - also known as Aize, is the key that cannot be avoided.

What kind of action can be taken is directly linked to how long Aize can hold on, and I'm afraid he himself cannot give an accurate figure for this matter.

Because there are too many variables.

If we want to be safe, rescue and relief should be the top priority.

However, Aize conveyed the news of the Demon King's intervention to himself, obviously not just to rescue him, but to give the Demon King, who was in control of the situation, a strategic slap in the face.

Chris has an idea of what to do.

The problem is that--

"Even if we combine all the forces here, we still don't have enough troops. If we force this, the risk is too high and completely unacceptable. The prince will definitely not agree to it."

"As for the military strength, yes."

"……what?"

The intelligence chief's remarks startled Chris.

The former is therefore somewhat helpless:

"What? Why do you think I came to you? It can't be just to let Aize's little fangirl know that he's safe, right? I'm not that free."

"Uh……"

"Aize himself gave the order before, and now that he's lost contact, you're in charge. As we speak, there's a whole group of people waiting for orders to take action. Don't tell me you have no idea, okay?"

For most of the time after becoming a hero, although Aize nominally belonged to the Church of the Supreme God because of his identity as a hero, the reality was more complicated.

With him as the center, a fairly powerful independent force has in fact been formed.

Not to mention the knights who remained in Tafia and were being expanded and trained, there was a large group of people within the kingdom and the church who were willing to cooperate with him in any action at any time.

"The ladies of Team Silver Star, after receiving the intelligence I sent them yesterday morning about Aize being surrounded, almost immediately set off for Lilbas—with an entire group of Crusade Knights in tow."

"The other teams, led by the Kazekage, are currently cooperating with the armies of various regions to fight the demons on their own. The church's forces stationed on the front lines have also begun operations."

"Also, over in the kingdom, a certain novice queen is already arguing with the nobles about sending people to intervene in this situation. Of course, the specific plan hasn't been finalized yet. Not enough troops? Will these be enough?"

Chris's brain briefly froze, and it took several seconds for her to comprehend the meaning:

"...These? Can these also be taken into consideration?"

"As long as you can convince them of your strategy, then why not? Aren't you Aize's agent now? If you are still limited to the empire or even the family, what's the point?"

She wasn't fighting solely as Christina Karsed of the Empire.