Chapter 137 - Farewell to Caesar

Chapter 137: Chapter 132: Farewell to CaesarCaesar shook his head, "Yesterday, I had the guys at the potion store try it, and my soup does have a taste, it’s just that ordinary people can’t smell it."

"Can’t smell it?" Lu Hong moved closer to the soup basin and took a deep sniff, "Does that mean I’m not the protagonist?"

Caesar laughed, "You, my boy, are certainly just an ordinary person. The main issue is that the flavor is too strong; before your brain can even react, your sense of smell is already knocked out."

Okay, no wonder Caesar wanted Nono to sniff the Zire Grass earlier; it was to see if Lu Hong’s sense of smell was out of commission.

The poison is still Caesar’s poison, after all!

"Then, can this sense of smell be restored?" Lu Hong asked with some concern.

"Of course, it’s only temporary." Saying so, Caesar sat down, his fingers moved slightly, and he locked the inn’s door from across the room.

"Spill it, what exactly happened in the wasteland? And why did you bring people from the Black Guards here?" Caesar’s tone suddenly turned icy cold, moving from the initial joking to the main topic.

"Um, are you sure these two won’t wake up?" Lu Hong pointed at the two guys lying on the ground. Times had changed, unlike before when Lu Hong’s classmates were just First Transition weaklings, naturally unable to resist Caesar’s dark cuisine. But after advancing to the Second Transition, they could cultivate resistances, and poison resistance was naturally among them.

"Of course, I’m quite confident in that," Caesar gestured to the empty seat in front of him, "Come on, sit down and tell me about it. I heard that a Heavenly God descended in the wasteland at the end, didn’t they?"

Confronted with Caesar’s curiosity, Lu Hong narrated his experiences in the wasteland one by one. Particularly when speaking of the saints’ resurrection and the descent of two great Heavenly Gods, Caesar was beside himself with excitement.

To be honest, even when stealing the Divine Power from the Soul God, Caesar had never seen a Heavenly God in the flesh. Although Caesar’s thousand years of experience dwarfed Lu Hong’s by who knows how many times, in this one regard, Caesar truly couldn’t compare.

"Did you ask about how to become a god?" Caesar asked with a hint of anticipation.

"Uh... I forgot." Lu Hong truly hadn’t thought to ask such a thing since it seemed too remote from himself, though asking would indeed have been a profitable thing to do.

"You idiot! Moron!" Caesar had been struggling to achieve godhood for hundreds of years and had just watched such a golden opportunity slip by, how could he not be infuriated.

"Stop, stop, calm down, old man. Next time I see a Heavenly God, I’ll make sure to ask on your behalf," Lu Hong said, trying to appease Caesar’s anger.

"Next time? Do you think a Heavenly God is so easy to encounter? I’ve stepped foot in how many realms? I’ve lived this long and have yet to see a Heavenly God! For you to have met one already was a stroke of great luck, and yet you’re still hoping for a next time?"

Seeing his promise was ineffective, Lu Hong pointed at his own eye, "Then... how about this? This right eye was bestowed by the Soul God and it definitely contains Divine Power. Maybe you could study it; who knows what you might find."

"Study my ass," Caesar didn’t even glance at Lu Hong’s right eye, "I’ve come into contact with so many divine artifacts and never made any discoveries."

Alright, there was nothing Lu Hong could do about it then. Caesar also saw the difficulty Lu Hong was in and finally let out a sigh, "Okay then, next time if, if you can talk to a Heavenly God again, please ask about how to become one!"

Lu Hong hurried to offer an ingratiating smile, "Yes, yes, I’ve got it!"

"Good," Caesar hummed dissatisfiedly, then pointed at the Black Guard lying on the ground, eyes rolled back and foaming at the mouth, "This guy is the deputy chief of the Black Guard’s intelligence department and ranks third in command. How did you bring him to me?"

It seemed that Caesar’s unhappy tone when he first sat down was entirely directed at Black Guard.

"This man was assigned to me by Konstantin," Lu Hong explained, repeating Konstantin’s words to Caesar.

"Better not bring him next time," Caesar frowned even more deeply after hearing Lu Hong’s explanation, "The Gold Family is the most powerful of the Eight Great Families. No matter what, Nono should not be involved in a crusade against the Gold Family. There must be something fishy going on."

"Yeah, I also feel something’s off, but I can’t quite pinpoint why."

"That’s because you know too little about the Eight Great Families," Caesar scoffed, "How much do you even know about them?"

Alright, Lu Hong had no rebuttal to Caesar’s contempt; he knew very little about the Eight Great Families. He didn’t even have full knowledge of which eight they were, let alone the specific circumstances of each family.

"I won’t say too much more; anyway, more than half of the Eight Great Families have already fallen," Caesar poured himself a cup of tea to moisten his throat and continued, "Take the Gold Family, which you’ll soon have to deal with, for example. The Gold Family is the only one that wasn’t incorporated through imperial conquest. Of course, the empire did reach the realms occupied by the Gold Family, but in truth, the empire only had minor friction with them. Back then, against all advice, the Clan Leader of the Gold Family proposed to pledge allegiance to the empire, and just like that, they retained their absolute strength, becoming the foremost of the Eight Great Families."

"I think the Gold Family has been secretly amassing power all these years, and they must have exerted themselves in the recent rebellion among the Eight Great Families." Lu Hong made an after-the-fact criticism.

"Of course, the empire had already considered this at the beginning, secretly placing hidden teleportation points throughout the Gold Family’s realms. If not for this, how could the empire have been able to dominate the sudden uprising among the Eight Great Families? You should know that after pledging allegiance, the Gold Family undertook a series of expansion actions, their power is not to be underestimated," Caesar took another sip of tea and finally assessed Lu Hong, "Don’t think that everyone else is a fool, and only you are clever."