Chapter 156 The Truth
"Don't be sad, brother. I brought a mistress with me this time. How about coming together?"
Darles was startled, but then he didn't care. Instead, he pulled City Lord Xiao's right arm and said happily, "Besides, he is also a soul master."
"Humph, you still remember my past kindness to me, brother!"
City Lord Xiao was on the left and Darles was on the right, their arms around each other's shoulders, their backs disappearing in the sunset.
"Is Sisi actually dead?"
Not far away, Su Yuntao heard the entire conversation between the two people -
He thought he had let go of Sisi, but after so many years of unrequited love, he would unconsciously walk to the vicinity of Xiao Mansion in his free time...
Su Yuntao hadn't seen Sisi in the past few days. He thought she was hiding from him, but he didn't expect that she had passed away on the day when the Xiao Mansion was attacked...
[Noble! Xiao Lang! Darles! ]
His fists were clenched so tightly that they made cracking sounds. The sharp claws pierced the skin on his palms, and red blood seeped out from between his fingers and dripped to the ground.
After a while, Su Yuntao sighed slightly, dragged his lonely body, and went to the Notting Guild.
The guild was naturally bustling with activity.
Zhou Qing and his companions won the first match of the first round and held a banquet here. The other adventurers in the guild were free and easy-going and also celebrated together.
Su Yuntao felt that he was out of place in the atmosphere here, so he could only walk to the counter and ask Miss Alice for a glass of strong liquor.
But Alice still served fruit wine.
"What I want is strong liquor!" Su Yuntao said in a firm tone.
"The liquor has been sold out. Only fruit wine is left." Alice did not lie this time. The liquor stored in the guild had been cleared out by the excited adventurers.
"Is the heaven against me? It's really hard to be a civilian soul master."
Su Yuntao picked up the fruit wine and drank it all. He then looked at Zhou Qing and the others who were celebrating. His eyes were blurred, as if he had returned to his childhood. "When I was a child, I liked sweet food, but now I don't like it anymore."
"Civilian Spirit Master? Who here is not a civilian Spirit Master?"
Alice saw Su Yuntao's worries, but she didn't know how to comfort him, so she could only smile and said, "You, the Master of the Battle Soul, are the only candidate for the next Master of the Notting Martial Soul Branch Hall in the eyes of the soul masters in the entire Notting City."
“This is indeed something to be happy about…”
Su Yuntao drank the fruit wine in the glass, forced a smile, and suddenly asked Alice a question, "I have a problem now, can you give me some advice?"
Before Alice could agree, Su Yuntao asked, "Someone took something I once treasured and toyed with it recklessly. It broke, and then he used up its final value and threw it away. No one knew about it... What do you think I should do? Should I take revenge?"
Alice stared into Su Yuntao's eyes and could sense the anger in them. She was silent for a long time before she said, "Are the things you regard as treasures your parents?"
Su Yuntao was stunned, then slapped himself.
Snapped!
The crisp sound spread throughout the Notting Guild, but because of the loud cheers in the guild at that time, no one paid attention except Zhou Qing, who noticed Su Yuntao when he came in. It seemed that only the red slap on Su Yuntao's cheek proved that this incident had happened.
"Thank you, Miss Alice." Su Yuntao took a deep breath, his face sincere, "You always make me understand what is most important."
But Alice didn't think so, because she could see that Su Yuntao's inner resentment was not vented, but was suppressed by a heavier responsibility.
But what can she do?
This is the helplessness of civilian soul masters, and the martial soul branch hall of Notting City does not have that much power. If they encounter trouble, they will endure it.
Report to Zidian?
How much time and energy will that take?
Moreover, as the receptionist of the Adventure Guild, Alice can be said to be the most well-informed person in the entire Notting City: since the current Pope took office, Wuhun City's management of the main halls, sub-hallways, and branch halls in other cities on the continent has been downgraded to a lower level, and even a small number of main hall masters have begun to make huge profits in public.
Of course, this is not a big problem in the eyes of the major forces. Similar things happened in the years when the Pope of the Spirit Hall changed.
Moreover, during the succession of emperors in the Tiandou Empire and the Xingluo Empire, the mayors and officials of major cities also did the same, seeking profits for themselves.
But as long as the new emperor consolidates his position and rule, things will return to their previous stable state.
Now is the time for the new Pope of the Spirit Hall to consolidate her rule. Moreover, the Spirit Hall is different from other forces in that it respects soul masters. In addition to handling affairs, the new Pope will definitely spend most of his time on cultivation. This will inevitably lead to the new Pope taking longer time to consolidate her rule after the handover between the old and new Popes of the Spirit Hall.
Therefore, during this period of time, when grassroots personnel of the Wuhun Branch Hall, including the branch hall masters, encounter problems, they will report them to the sub-hall, and the sub-hall will do its best to suppress them and let them find ways to solve the problems themselves.
Unless there is someone or some force that openly wants to go against the Notting City's Wuhun Branch Hall, the Branch Hall will send people down to deal with it. Otherwise, no matter how great the injustice is, as long as it is of a personal nature, you have to bear it yourself.
Therefore, Alice could only persuade Su Yuntao to be strong. After all, for most civilian soul masters, living is easier than being a real civilian. There is no need to think about things that make them upset...
"Brother Tao!"
Zhou Qing pushed through the crowd, walked to his side, and asked Alice for a glass of fruit wine.
"Congratulations on winning the first team match." Su Yuntao forced a smile and wished Zhou Qing could advance to the second round.
"Well, I just rely on my cleverness." Zhou Qing waved his hand casually, modestly, and asked, "Why is Brother Tao so sad? Is it because of Sisi again?"
"She's gone..."
In front of Zhou Qing, Su Yuntao dared to truly reveal his true feelings, because he knew Zhou Qing's intelligence and sense of propriety. And because the other party was young, he, as an adult, could be a little "unbridled" to express the resentment in his heart, "Tell me, is the status of a noble really that noble? Even spirit masters have to cling to them, find ways to obtain it, and even become their vassal."
Zhou Qing was silent for a while, then asked, "Perhaps, you can try to change?"
"Change?"
Su Yuntao was puzzled at first, then shook his head, "Change the world? I don't have that ability."
"But the Spirit Hall has it, doesn't it?"
Although in Zhou Qing's eyes, the political form of the Spirit Hall that respects spirit masters and equates spirit masters' strength with aristocratic status, once it really comes into being, will make this spirit world where "dragons, phoenixes, and mice all have their own species" and "ordinary people can only rely on mutations" even more depressing.
But at least in the short term, it is in the interests of the vast majority of civilian soul masters.
Therefore, the Spirit Hall is one of the forces that can overthrow the existing aristocratic systems of the two empires...
(End of this chapter)
