Chapter 311 Long Live the Tree King
Chapter 311 Long Live the Tree King
Bai Mu chatted with Naxida for a while longer, and from Naxida, Bai Mu learned that the process of dealing with Azhar went exceptionally smoothly.
According to Nasita, Hazard seemed to be cooperating with them the whole time.
Upon hearing Naxida's words, Bai Mu immediately sensed that things might not be so simple.
Logically, the reason Hazard was so easily arrested can only be one thing.
He's brewing something big.
Thinking of this, Bai Mu asked Naxida about Azar's current location, planning to go and check on him later.
...
Hazard was imprisoned in a secret room.
After all, Hazard still has many followers remaining in the Cleric, and if he is directly imprisoned, who knows what might happen.
When Bai Mu entered the secret room, he found that Azar's complexion was not what one would expect from a prisoner.
He looked very relaxed.
In this state, Hazard gave Shiraki the feeling that he was waiting for something.
Seeing Hazard's performance, Shiraki frowned slightly.
He appeared silently behind Hazard and asked:
"what are you waiting for?"
The sudden sound from behind startled Hazard.
Although this secret room was used to imprison Hazard, Hazard knew it better than anyone else.
Rather than saying Hazard was imprisoned in this secret room, it would be more accurate to say that Hazard chose to stay in this secret room for a period of time.
After all, he can go out anytime he wants.
And just then, a voice that Hazard had never heard before and had never expected suddenly appeared in the secret room.
After realizing what was happening, Hazard felt a sudden jolt and turned his head sharply.
What came into view was a seemingly harmless young man.
Hazard felt a sense of familiarity upon seeing that face.
He felt like he had seen that person's face before.
A sudden inspiration struck Hazard, and as if he had just thought of something, his tense body deflated, and he slowly slumped against the wall behind him.
"Ok?"
"It seems you recognize me."
Seeing that Hazard seemed to recognize him, Bai Mu was surprised, but upon closer reflection, it made sense.
His appearance is no secret. Generally, unless it's a country that's completely isolated from the world, people will try to find out more or less about him after hearing about him.
Shiraki never interfered with these matters.
"I've always felt that there's a powerful force pulling the strings behind all of this; otherwise, Elhesen wouldn't have been able to get into that position."
"I thought the mastermind behind all this was Little Lucky Grass King, but I never expected..."
"Oh, a true ancient god who wields great power! How wonderful it would be if you were the god of my Sumeru! How wonderful it would be if my Sumeru also had a god who wields great power!"
Hazard murmured to himself as he leaned against the wall behind him, almost collapsing to the ground.
"Looks like you've resigned yourself to your fate and aren't planning to use your backup plan?"
"If it were the Lesser Auspicious Grass King, a backup plan might work, but facing such a great being as you, I, a mere mortal, don't know how..."
At this point, Hazard's voice suddenly stopped.
Shiraki watched the other party with an expression of anticipation, as if watching a good show.
"Why don't you speak?"
"Ugh..."
"When I first met you, I already overestimated your strength as much as possible."
"But mortals are mortals after all. No matter how much mortals speculate, they can never understand what kind of great power an ancient being like you possesses."
Hazard sighed; at this moment, a faint aura of death was emanating from his body.
That was the backlash from the Void Terminal.
On the surface, Hazard appears to have given up, but while talking to Shiraki, he was secretly using his consciousness to connect with the void, trying to transfer his consciousness out.
The point where his consciousness landed was also very familiar to Bai Mu, and that was the God of Righteousness.
Shiraki knew that the Order of the Church was involved in the construction of the God of the Righteous Machine.
Having participated in the construction of the God of the Righteous Machine, as the supreme ruler of the Order of the Church, Azar must have left some contingency plans.
His backup plan was to imprint his consciousness into the God of the Righteous Machine through the void terminal, hoping to have the opportunity to "seize" the God of the Righteous Machine and ascend to godhood himself in the future.
This is why Hazard didn't care about his situation at all after being imprisoned.
After all, in the extraordinary world, powerful forces can control everything.
However, Hazard miscalculated this time.
Even if Bai Mu didn't intervene, Hazard's plan to possess someone would not succeed.
After all, the creator of the God of the Machines was the Doctor, and the Doctor had also noticed some of the tricks left behind by Hazard. Compared to the Doctor, Hazard was still somewhat inferior.
Moreover, even if Hazard did manage to deceive the Doctor, the current God of the Machines is still beyond his control.
The God of the Righteous Machine contains the flesh and blood of a true demon god, and the remnants of that demon god are enough to drive Azar mad many times over.
Looking at Azar lying on the ground in front of him, emanating an aura of death that was imperceptible to ordinary people, Bai Mu shook his head.
After Hazard died, the mess in Sumeru became even more troublesome.
However, Shiraki wasn't too worried.
As the saying goes, in the extraordinary world, true power can indeed control everything.
Bai Mu possessed the ability to stabilize Sumeru, so he was not worried about Sumeru's chaos at all.
Moreover, if there really is no other way, then we can simply let the Great Compassion Tree King make an appearance in Sumeru.
Bai Mu believed that as soon as the Great Compassion Tree King appeared, all factions within the Sumeru faction would kneel down and shout:
"Long live the Tree King!"
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