Chapter 185: Light and Shadow (2)

Hearing the very simple answers of several subordinates, Ryan leaned back in his chair without saying a word, judging from the whole incident, Shadow's plan was undoubtedly successful, but it is a pity that this success is only at the tactical level, because Cassano's looming strife is not important to Ryan at all, as long as he is a little cold-blooded, he can settle the matter by killing alone, but the secret of the ruins of the Temple of Apocalypse is enough to affect the survival of the entire continent, once it triggers its internal seal, the consequences are absolutely unimaginable.

It's just that Ryan can't blame these young men and women, because the secrets of the Temple of the Apocalypse are strictly guarded, and they don't know about it, and the only threat near Cassano is the Cursed Swamp, and they basically don't have much choice, so if it's to blame, Ryan himself has to bear part of the responsibility first, his move to transfer Christina is too hasty, and there is no follow-up personnel arrangement, so that Shadow Death lacks a leader who is strong enough and high enough to talk to Ryan directly and know many of the important secrets。

"Alright, that's the end of it. After pondering for a moment, Ryan decided not to pursue this already happened, at least from the perspective of these shadow bosses in front of him, they just did what they had to do, Ryan not only did not blame but also rewarded him greatly, so he quickly threw out some gifts: "You work hard, of course I will not treat everyone badly, think about what you need when you go back, report a list to me tomorrow, and I will personally tailor a magic item for you." ”

Hearing Ryan's promise, the eyes of several young men and women present immediately lit up, Ryan was good at enchanting things they already knew, Barbara's snake kiss, Adela's full-body armor, as well as Vivien's leather armor and weapons, and even including the eponymous short sword of Sophie, the first leader of the Shadow Death, and the two-handed greatsword of the second leader, Christina, all of them are the best of the best, although they don't know that the Shadow Death Shortsword and Andrew's two-handed greatsword are not Lane's works, but as long as the magic items rewarded by Ryan can have half the power of this weapon, it is enough for them to gain a foothold on the entire continent and have enough force protection, coupled with excellent planning, these Shadow Ringleaders are confident that they will do even better in the future.

After sending these subordinates away, Ryan leaned back in his chair and began to think about how the organization of Shadow Death that wandered in the shadows and darkness should develop in the future, not that Ryan had any special ambitions, but that he lacked the manpower and strength to use on hand, and the development of the Netherworld must be dragged along with all allies, and until now he has not completely controlled the entire plane, so he will transfer Christina over.

Compared with the new Elfa Province of the other world, Ryan can easily find the difference, he doesn't need to meddle in the daily affairs of the territory over there, Senita and the Hrudian family have done everything properly, but in such a small place as Cassano, there have been two internal disputes before and after, which has to show that in the Eslar Continent, Ryan lacks a strong helper, since Sophie and Christina have laid the corresponding foundation, Ryan must of course make good use of it.

It's just how to manage the shadow in the future, but it makes Ryan a little nerve-wracking, according to his plan, this organization wants to integrate the power of the entire plane of the Eslar Continent and even the Netherworld Region for Ryan, and it is inevitable that it will become a terrifying behemoth, Christina's way can only ensure that the scale is small, and once the strength is expanded, there will definitely be various hidden dangers, which requires Ryan to come up with a way to make up for it in advance, and after thinking about it, he found that there were actually two choices in front of him.

The first is, of course, to turn all the important members of the organization into his own believers, and Ryan gives strength according to the piety of these believers, so that there is no need to worry about betrayal among his subordinates. Fall and other problems, with the strength of the powerhouses in the Lane realm, this can still be done reluctantly, after all, the scope of the impact is only limited to a part of the territory in one plane, and the development of believers must also have certain limitations, it is impossible to exceed the scale of the Church of Light, but Lane is not very interested in developing voters and believers.

According to the camp system about the gods that Cyrius once described, Ryan feels that although he controls the power of chaos, of course, this power must be very mixed and weak compared to the real gods, but he still acts according to his own conscience when he does things, he believes in goodness and justice, but he will not follow the rules set by others' expectations and rules, Ryan has his own set of rules in his heart, as long as he does not touch his bottom line, Ryan can be close to the righteous holy knights, or he can venture with the evil dark elves。

This kind of criterion certainly makes Ryan not erect mortal enemies because of his beliefs, such as the Church of Light completely targeting evil creatures, but it is also difficult for him to have the idea of developing a large team of believers, if it is only a few important characters, such as Senitea, Ryan will not refuse, but because he can't get strength from the devotion of believers like the God of Light or the goddess Rose, this kind of large-scale development of believers is equivalent to losing his own power in vain, and Ryan has not yet reached this point of selfless fraternity。

Since this one was vetoed, then Ryan naturally had only a second way to go, he remembered the unique way of inheritance of the blood clan, after being initially embraced by the blood clan of his father, although the newly born blood clan has the right to think and act independently, it will hardly disobey the orders of the blood clan of their father, because that is the source of their strength and life, and the blood clan believes in "hiding in the sun, wandering in the dark" The code of conduct is also very similar to that of the Shadow Death organization, and if the Shadow Death is managed in a bloodline way, it may be possible to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

After thinking of this, Ryan made up his mind decisively, he now has a bloodline Emilia of the last Kavi family of the blood clan on hand, at the beginning, Ryan was not strong enough, so he naturally refused to let this blood girl develop the clan wantonly, but now Ryan asked himself that even if he had the strength to fight in the face of the entire blood family, he would not care too much about these small things, so it was definitely a good idea to let her return from the front line to take over the shadow of the dead. It's just that Ryan also takes into account that Barbara and Red in the expeditionary force have been rotated back to the Eslar continent, and if Emilia who is in charge of scout affairs is also recalled, Adela as the commander will inevitably fall into an embarrassing situation, and it is easy for outsiders to contact her cousin about this matter in a senseless way, thinking that Ryan is punishing the other party, thus causing unnecessary trouble.

Moreover, Ryan also has another concern, the inheritance of the blood clan is effective, but once a stronger blood clan powerhouse appears, will Emilia, who commands the shadows, succumb to this tradition of the blood clan, even if she and her subordinates are trustworthy in terms of thought, but the secret method of the blood clan can suppress personal beliefs, otherwise there will be no tradition of the child blood clan almost unconditionally obeying the more powerful paternal blood clan, if Ryan can't solve this hidden danger, wouldn't it be in vain to expand his power for not knowing which blood lord is expanding?

"Alas, there are still too many things! there is still not enough time!" Thinking of this, Ryan suddenly missed the strange space in the ruins of the Temple of the Apocalypse, where there was no passage of time and no distractions from foreign affairs, and Ryan could study his favorite magic to his heart's content, without worrying about being affected by all kinds of messy things. However, although there are many things at hand, they must be dealt with personally, such as creating puppet bodies for the souls of Templars, can Ryan still pretend to others, and even if Ryan is willing to let others do it, who can create vehicles for these souls to live?

"Soul Vehicle, Blood of the Black Dragon...... Hey, the inheritance foundation of the blood clan is also blood, if I replace the inheritance blood of the Mokawi family with the blood of the black dragon, wouldn't it be possible to solve this hidden danger?" Ryan suddenly thought of something from Emma's puppet body, and his mood immediately became excited, if this idea can really be done, Ryan is not only as simple as solving a hidden danger, but also more likely to develop a powerful force that can grow rapidly, so that he can master more help in future wars.

The excited Ryan quickly flashed through countless pictures in his mind, and finally froze on the eye-catching sarcophagi of the Ashmai tribe's lair in the misty cave, this family uses the blood of the demonic beast to enhance the power of the clan, obviously indicating that the blood clan must have similar secret techniques to learn from, since the blood of those legendary or domain demonic beasts is useful, then now that Ryan is replacing it with fresh blood from the primeval black dragon, the effect should be more obvious.

If you use a method similar to Senitea to make her a trusted companion, and then use the secret technique similar to the Ashamai clan to quickly increase her strength to a clone equivalent to the peak level of the legendary peak, you can work together with Vivien, who is the lord of Cassano, and at that time, everything on this side will be taken care of properly, and Ryan believes that he will no longer need to worry about trivial matters on Cassano's side in the future." Sure enough, if you want to become a qualified ruler, you still have to do both! Is this the wisdom of 'light and shadow' that those emperors favor the most?" Ryan couldn't help but pout, he found that this kind of thing seemed to be self-taught, as long as he grasped the power and sat in that position, even if he hated politics very much, he still unknowingly inherited the mantle of those emperors in human history.