Coleman’s character was not bad. Previously, during his conflict with the Direct Vision Association, Coleman had wholeheartedly stood on his side, and it was only because its strength was insufficient that it could only watch helplessly as the True God’s Envoy was captured by the Great Sage.

Because of that, he could not bring himself to cut off Coleman’s heartfelt outpouring, and could only silently watch the cutscene one more time.

[Coleman sees you standing there expressionless and silent for a long time, yet still refusing to grant its dull mind enlightenment…]

[It slaps its forehead with its massive refined copper arm and suddenly realizes that the great True God’s Envoy has arrived, yet it has not even given you a welcome gift and is already greedily seeking enlightenment. This is truly lacking in social sense and unbelievably foolish.]

[With a grand wave of its hand, a line of various refined copper devices appears before you.]

[Extreme Frost Hell Trap Device (mythic grade item): …]

[Lava Purgatory Trap Device (mythic grade item): …]

[Supernova Eruption Trap Device (mythic grade item): …]

[Endless Flood of Knowledge Trap Device (mythic+ grade item): …]

[Apostle, which device will you choose as your welcome gift?]

Previously, Lin Xun had felt that these gifted refined copper devices were quite valuable, but his strength now had advanced tremendously compared to last time. After all, he himself was now a mythic+ grade Great Sage.

These refined copper trap devices still had some use, but they were not what he wanted most.

[You set down the Starlight Cage painting you are carrying on your shoulder, take out the related Teleportation Trap Device, and ask Coleman whether this device came from its workshop.]

[Coleman sees you not choosing a gift and assumes that the Envoy is not very satisfied with the welcome gifts. As it hesitates, pondering how to satisfy you, it sees you take out a refined copper device that looks familiar.]

[It takes the device and examines it carefully, then says that this device was made by its own hand. The serial number engraved on it has been erased, but it left a special mark and knows who ordered this device.]

[As it speaks, Coleman takes out a small notebook and flips through it carefully, apparently cross-checking the mark to find out who ordered the device…]

Lin Xun had originally planned to have Coleman refill the device’s energy and by the way ask whether the trap device could be strengthened, but instead he seemed to have triggered an unexpected storyline.

[Coleman pores over the records for a long time before its eyes suddenly light up. It declares that it has found it! This device order came from the Multivision Association, not the local Branch Association, but the Multivision Central Association in the Imperial Capital.]

[At the time, the Multivision Central Association ordered a large batch of Teleportation Trap Devices from the workshop. This device was one from that batch.]

Lin Xun stared wide-eyed.

The Multivision Association?

This thing had clearly come from the Polar Star Society, so how could the purchaser be the Multivision Association?

“Damn… it can’t be this outrageous, right?”

“Could the Multivision Association secretly be colluding with the evil star gods?”

His next stop was supposed to be the Multivision Association to seek aid, ideally to turn the Multivision Association into his own side, borrowing a few Great Sages or even Prophets to explore the Abyss together.

The worst case scenario would have been that the Multivision Association harbored ill will toward the True God’s Envoy, and the two sides went to war…

But he had never imagined that the Multivision Association might actually be in cahoots with the Polar Star Society…

“That is impossible, absolutely impossible.”

“If some individual Multivision scholar secretly pledged themselves to the stars, that might be possible, but if the entire Multivision Association threw in with the stars and became believers of evil god heretics… would the Servant of Knowledge tolerate such a thing? It would have blasted the Multivision Association into rubble with a single strike long ago.”

“Moreover, according to the information obtained before, most scholars of the Multivision Association are thoroughgoing devout believers in every sense and could even be called zealots. How could they possibly all defect and betray the faith?”

Lin Xun leaned more toward the idea that some scholar in the Central Association had secretly sold the Teleportation Trap Devices, which had then passed through several hands before finally ending up in the Polar Star Society’s possession.

[Coleman checks the records and continues, saying that the person who ordered the devices at the time left a name. It was a Great Sage of the Multivision Central Association named Rona.]

[Oh, it remembers now!]

[That Great Sage Rona had even personally traveled from the Imperial Capital to the auxiliary capital in order to place the order, proposing a series of customization requirements.]

[Its memory of this is very deep, because Great Sage Rona was simply too young and beautiful. The Multivision Association rarely produced a beauty who was not covered all over with eyes, and she was even a Great Sage in a high position.]

[It had wondered at the time where this Great Sage Rona had hidden all her extra eyes…]

Lin Xun was stunned.

Great Sage Rona. Rona had already grown from Grand Scholar into Great Sage?

He then frowned. Based on information obtained in previous storylines, the big shot behind Bennett had fallen from power for secretly pledging allegiance to the stars, and even Bennett himself had been implicated and thrown in prison.

At the time, he had guessed that the big shot behind Bennett might be Rona. Now, combined with what Coleman had said, Lin Xun was finally certain that the person had to be the former Grand Scholar Rona. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

But why had Rona pledged herself to the stars?

Back in the fourth major volume, Rona was still a devout believer in Omniscient True Knowledge, without the slightest sign of leaning toward the stars…

Had someone deliberately framed Rona, or was there another hidden story?

[Coleman sees that your expression has turned strange and also realizes that something is wrong with this refined copper trap device. It rubs its palms together and dismantles the refined copper casing, examining the complex magic formation carved within.]

[Coleman has little mastery over magic formations and usually manufactures the refined copper devices first before having knowledge scholars carve the formations, which is why the workshop has maintained such a good cooperative relationship with the Direct Vision Association.]

[Although its magic formation attainment is not high, experience has allowed it to barely understand a small part. As Coleman continues looking, its gaze shifts to the Starlight Cage painting you just took off your shoulder.]

[The endpoint indicated by the magic formation in this Teleportation Trap Device is, barring any accidents, that very heretical painting filled with stars…]

[Coleman is shocked, quickly waving its hands in panic and saying that you must not misunderstand, True God’s Envoy. It did not know that this device would be used by star heretics… It simply handed the device over to Great Sage Rona of the Multivision Association. How Rona used the device and what magic formation she carved on it was not something it could control.]

[Its heart of devotion toward Omniscient True Knowledge has never wavered. If it had known earlier that this device would end up in the hands of star heretics, it would never have handed the device over to Great Sage Rona no matter what!]

[You shake your head and ask Coleman whether it knows any more about Great Sage Rona, such as whether she died after being discovered as a star heretic…]

[Coleman shakes its head like a rattle drum, saying that it has devoted itself to studying device crafting techniques and has not gone outside in a very long time, so it knows very little about matters in the outside world. If you, True God’s Envoy, had not mentioned that Great Sage Rona was discovered to be a star heretic, it would not even know such things had happened…]

“What a shut-in old man…”

Lin Xun secretly groused. It looked like only by going to the Multivision Branch Association could he obtain more information about Rona.

[You point at the Teleportation Trap Device and say that now that this device has fallen into your hands, you will use it to punish the heretic that has betrayed the will of the true Lord.]

[You need Coleman to strengthen and modify the device for you…]