Ethan used just one sentence to throw everyone into confusion.
Silver Fox is Ethan’s brother?
The puppets looked at each other, thinking for a long time but unable to decipher any deeper meaning from the sentence. The host puppet turned back in shock to look at Silver Fox on the witness stand; before this "puppet meeting" commenced, he had already given Silver Fox many instructions, including how to convince the Divine Attendants that Ethan was the projection of the Old Gods.
After Palansi’s death, he originally planned to take tough measures but was beaten back by a mysterious octopus at the manor on the other side. He felt an unprecedented threat from that octopus and thus could only retreat for the time being, to devise a long-term plan.
Kadela almost immediately probed the puppet infused with Silver Fox’s soul.
Indeed, it was the Silver Fox himself.
Could it be that Silver Fox has gone completely mad due to the immense mental shock he received in such a short time?
How could Ethan possibly be his brother?
A few months ago, he was sent to the hospital because of a magic scroll brought by a noble young lady, which also made him the laughing stock of the Mage Tower; and during Ethan’s visit to the Mage Tower this time, Silver Fox failed to frame him and was himself confined, accused of assassinating the scholar, awaiting nothing but a dead end.
Silver Fox was mentally near collapse, and the Vice Chairman took advantage, using a magic potion to deceive him into handing over all his manuscripts.
There is probably no one in this world who hates Ethan more than Silver Fox, and it was when he was in a state of mental chaos that Kadela easily manipulated his mind.
Logically, Silver Fox should now be doing everything possible to shift the blame for assassinating the scholar onto Ethan.
Under the gaze of everyone, Ethan also felt immense pressure; the room had been silent for a long time, with all the puppets waiting for him to explain what this "brotherhood" was all about.
"What I mean is, does no one find that all this has come too easily?"
"Silver Fox, this is your last chance, hope you treat it cautiously."
The hosting puppet glared at him, threateningly.
Clearly, the puppets didn’t want to hear more absurd remarks from him, especially Kadela, who, if there weren’t so many watching, would crush Silver Fox’s soul directly. He noticed that the Divine Attendants were intrigued by Silver Fox’s previous nonsensical statement.
"If Ethan assassinated the scholar, then why would he visit the Mage Tower at this time?"
Ethan posed the question, "If he wished, he could use many means to quietly eliminate the scholar and plunge the Mage Tower into chaos, having no need to put himself on the forefront."
"Are you... defending him?"
Kadela was dumbfounded, having prepared to immediately interrupt the meeting, using the excuse... claiming Silver Fox’s body had been endangered, and Ethan had killed him from the other side.
After all, from the beginning, the entire explanation rights of the "puppet meeting" were in his hands.
"No, I believe this is the best breakthrough to understand his behavior." Ethan said, "He didn’t leave immediately after the scholar was murdered; instead, he stayed at the Mage Tower under the pretext of investigating the case. He now has access to the scholar’s lab and roams freely around the Mage Tower, which might just be his real aim."
This time, the host puppet didn’t interrupt.
The puppets on the circular seats were attentive, waiting for the witness’s continuation.
This wasn’t the content Kadela had dictated to Silver Fox in the echo. Silver Fox was then on the brink of mental breakdown, merely a marionette repeating the dictated testimony. Yet now, Silver Fox seemed to be thinking, appearing smarter than his past self, and his testimony being much more compelling than the emotionless repetition.
Now, this was like a true follower of the God of Trickery!
Even Kadela was curious how Silver Fox would pin the crime on Ethan.
"I think this precisely illustrates that even at the risk of being seen as the perpetrator, Ethan had an indispensable reason for coming to the Mage Tower; he seems to be searching for something there."
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Someone on the circular seats almost blurted out immediately.
The Mage Tower was built by the God of Trickery, a place filled with divine brilliance. The top layer of the Mage Tower, called the Star Observatory, still today harbors the gray-white magic power, with believers convinced their god spent his final days there.
But this predestined not a peaceful death; the God of Trickery was the wisest deity in the pantheon; he must have left something for his followers in the Star Observatory.
Regarding the thoughts on the day of destruction and the decay period, along with his endless knowledge.
It was a treasure waiting to be inherited.
Every puppet grew wary, for if Ethan were the Old God’s projection, and his journey was for the treasure, the consequences would be unimaginable.
The God of Trickery was the one who proposed the sealing plan; no one understood the details of this plan better than him.
Once he gained this knowledge, perhaps it wouldn’t be long before he broke the seal!
As for the host of the "puppet meeting," the self-proclaimed Saint Kadela, he was merely a mortal using the name of the God of Trickery. The Divine Attendants knew this, as Kadela had never denied it, and as for the reason for using the God of Trickery’s name, it was an internal matter among his followers, in which they had no stance to interfere.