Even Rococo herself never imagined that the mission she had taken to purify the Plague Knight in order to accumulate the faith points needed to enter the inner sanctum of the Templar would be of such great help to her.

First, the warning incident in Gegri Village led to this diversion and rescue mission, and then, because the purification mission was not completed, the magic ring that could summon the soul of the dead was retained, but it happened to be the key prop to crack Bekaz's provocative conspiracy at a critical moment.

After the follow-up reinforcements from the Federal Border Fortress arrived in the open space outside the village, in front of the officer who replaced the deceased lieutenant of the fortress as the head of the army, Rococo used the magic ring to summon the soul of the dead lieutenant, and through the testimony of the lieutenant's soul, it was confirmed that the murderers who killed the vanguard of the federal reinforcements were not the Imperial soldiers and their accomplices who were lined up with their corpses, but the sudden plague undead army.

The misunderstanding on the side of the Federation Army was almost completely eliminated, and on the other side, after receiving the message of the soul crystal made by Rococo in the original fairy state brought by Mu Yun, the Imperial Border Army was finally able to ensure that they could face the negotiations from the Federation side in a more normal state of mind.

In this case, when Rococo came to the God of War Pass as a messenger again, but what he brought was not the news about the village (the defenders of the God of War Pass had already known about the village) from Mu Yun, but when they relayed the news of the deaths of the group of officers who had disappeared before the defenders of the God of War Pass, although the Imperial defenders seemed very sad and indignant, they finally controlled their emotions and did not anger the Federation. He even expressed his willingness to reach a temporary truce with the Federation during Bekaz's rebellion, which completely ruined Bekaz's plan to instigate war between the two sides.

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Beccaz didn't know how much crucial work Rococo had done in Player Mode to stop his plans.

However, when he waited two days to find that the Federation and the Empire were not fighting as he had hoped, but instead seemed to have a tendency to put aside their grievances and join forces for the first time in a hundred years under the coordination of the Cult of the Goddess of Creation, Bekaz was not too surprised. Yes, he really still didn't know about the existence of Rococo's player mode, but the previous encounter with Rococo in Primal Goblin mode had already given him a certain degree of psychological anticipation of the failure of his plan.

A strong aboriginal man with the same fragment of the creation godhead as him, although judging from the experience of the two battles, the strength of the other party may not necessarily be stronger than his own - after all, both times were not one-on-one head-to-head duels, but both were sneak attacks launched without him expecting, but even so, it still made him retreat - but with such a person, it is not surprising that his plan was discovered and stopped.

In fact, after Bekaz realized that his plan to provoke a scuffle between the Federation and the Empire had completely failed, the plague mage was no longer thinking about how to continue to set up a situation to turn the situation in his favor, but whether he should continue to launch this long-planned attack on the Holy City.

His goal in attacking the Holy City of Aryaval was to obtain the Divine Fragment inside the Holy City. At the time of the first collapse of this world, Bekaz discovered the existence of the Godhead when he happened to pass by the Holy City of Arya Val, although he didn't know why Oranado, the master of the Holy City, didn't take the ownerless Godhead for himself, but in any case, he thought it was his chance.

In the face of the fully integrated guide Oranado, he may not even have the idea of fighting against him, but dealing with an Oranado who has almost lost all of his self due to the collapse of the world, and not to defeat the other party, but to take the fragment of the godhead that is guarded as a treasure from the other party's guard, this is completely within Beccaz's opinion...... Unfortunately, there is now an unknown in this matter that makes him jealous.

Although he still didn't know the true motives of the fairy girl who was also clearly the owner of the Godhead Shard, at least Bekaz could see that the other party was not his ally but an antagonist. The other party is now on the border of the mainland, and it is impossible for her to detect such a loud momentum as the plague undead army attacking the holy city of Arya Val, once the fairy girl comes out like before when she finally deals with the guide Oranardo, whether he can escape safely this time, Bekaz is really unsure.

After all...... Although the first two encounters were not reflected, in fact, Bekaz knew very well in his heart that the spirit attack ability of the goblins was actually quite restrained by their necromancers, because whether it was a plague mage or a necromancer, the undead slaves around them were an important part of their own combat power, and the goblin's soul attack ability could seal this part of the necromancer's combat power in minutes, and only rely on their own ability to fight against enemies who were almost as powerful as themselves. This is tantamount to a catastrophe for any necromancer.

Bekaz was ambitious, but he wasn't a madman gambler, so he began to retreat after feeling that the situation in the Holy City was gradually getting out of his hands.

This may not have even been something that even Rococo had ever thought of, because in the game of his previous life, Beccaz's impression of making trouble everywhere in the early game was too deep, and Rococo did not associate the word caution with Beccaz at all. If Bekaz really gave up attacking the Holy City because Rococo revealed the identity of the original goblin in advance this time, I'm afraid that Rococo was really self-defeating this time - she and Orlanardo had already designed a position in the Holy City to wait for Bekaz to throw himself into the net, and the periphery also destroyed Bekaz's plan to try to provoke a war between the Federation and the Empire and profit from it, but at this moment, Bekaz's big fish slipped away, which is not a result that Rococo can accept now.

However, just as Bekaz's train of thought gradually shifted in the direction of temporary retreat without Rococo's knowledge, the appearance of a visitor that Bekaz did not expect caused the balance in Bekaz's mind to turn back to its original direction.

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“…… Who are you? ”

In the dense forest, Bekaz looked at the middle-aged man in front of him vigilantly.

The man in front of him was wearing a brown high-legged gentleman's hat, and the trench coat on his body was the same brown, apparently matching, with a single eye on the left eye of his face, and two handfuls of mustaches with slightly upturned tails under his nose.

"Please don't worry so much, Honorable Plague Mage, I have no ill intentions, my name is Conte, and as you can see, I'm just a merchant from Nopra County in the northern part of the Federation."

If they had met on another occasion, Beccaz might have believed him, after all, this man at first glance gave the impression of not knowing whether to say shrewd or cunning, just as the popular impression of the famous Nopra merchants in the Southern Free Federation was that in front of the "money vampires" who seem to have their calculations and tricks imprinted in their blood from birth, you will fall into their carefully designed and unsolvable money trap.

However, it is obviously impossible for an ordinary Nopra merchant to have the ability to save himself in this collapsed world, let alone appear in the vicinity of Bekaz silently, and he has also dodged a series of killing moves used by Bekaz in a fit of rage.

Beccaz admits that the tricks he used in his desperation weren't his most powerful and threatening tricks, but that wasn't to say that anyone could avoid them as easily as the man in front of him who called himself Conte. This person is obviously very dangerous, Bekaz even feels that if the other party really has malicious intentions towards him, maybe he will not be able to find him at all, as long as this man hides in the shadows and suddenly attacks, even if he does not die, he will definitely be seriously injured.

Although Bekaz felt very unhappy to realize this, he had to admit that according to this logic, the other party might really be as he said...... "not malicious"?

“…… What did the famous Nopra merchant do to me? I don't think I've got anything strange to live in. ”

Although deep down he was full of jealousy of the man named Conte in front of him, on the surface, Bekaz quickly made a proud appearance...... He couldn't let the other party see his cowardice.

"Of course Mr. Bekaz has it, and it's the thing in the world right now that is worthy of the word 'odd goods.'"

Conte smiled with a shrewd smile that was full of merchant flattery, but the words that came out made Bekaz's heart pass a chill.

This guy's purpose is to snatch the Godhead fragment from his body?

However, before Bekaz could react aggressively, Conte seemed to realize something, and went on.

"No, no, no, please don't get me wrong, I believe you can also see that in this collapsed world, I am the same existence as you, and because of this, I know as well as you what that 'thing' means to an existence like ours. As I said from the beginning, I have no ill intentions, so Mr. Bekaz need not worry about any excessive intentions. ”

Bekaz sneered, and although he didn't speak, the meaning was obvious, and this kind of thing had no credibility at all.

Conte didn't mind Bekaz's attitude, and seeing that Bekaz finally had no intention of attacking immediately, Conte continued.

"I'm here to make a deal with you, the deal is very simple, when you attack the Holy City, I will find a way to help you hold back the Guiding Oranado, correspondingly, after you get the Godhead Fragment in the Holy City, I want you to completely destroy the Holy City of Arya Val and establish your own undead nation here, and then ......"

At this, Conte smiled a somewhat grimly.

“…… Start a war. ”

Bekaz did not immediately reply to Conte, not because of his surprise by his words, but because of the eagerness to allow him to use his identity and means as a necromancer to cause war on the continent, and he felt that it was not the first time he had heard it.

Conte seemed to have guessed what Bekaz was thinking at the moment, and after saying his trading terms, Conte continued to speak.

"I know that Mr. Bekaz must lack trust in me when he suddenly appeared, but you can actually trust me, because my master has worked with you back in Lancarros."

As he said this, Conte's mouth immediately spat out a person's name, and after hearing this name, Bekaz's eyes really widened this time.

“…… Are you really his subordinate? ”