“Grey Beard Bar … This should be it!” Looking at the low tavern in front of him, Qin Lun vigilantly sized up his surroundings and walked slowly with his hands in his pockets.

The tavern is not large and is located in a remote corner of Devil’s horn’s entertainment district. The upper and lower floors had a wooden structure, and the overall shape was like a wooden bowl that was fastened to the ground. At the door was a butterfly wooden door that was as tall as a chest. Qin Lun couldn’t help but think of the local Dwarves Taverns in Toril World.

In fact, this tavern was indeed the property of Dwarves’s closest relative, the dwarf race. The Blacksmith Race’s weapon forging was not inferior to Dwarves’s. It was like the Blacksmith Master Francis who had forged Qin Lun’s Light and Dark Funeral Armory and Ayala’s Weapon Box was a dwarf. But when it came to wine-making techniques, the dwarves were more than a street away from Dwarves.

The tavern, as the industry of the five major management races, was not pushed into such a remote location. However, at the beginning of the construction, the proud dwarves insisted on selling their own drinks in the tavern, and there were no other beauties from other races to entertain them. As a result, the tavern’s business was getting worse and worse, so it was moved to the most deserted corner of the entertainment district.

However, it was precisely because of this loneliness that Kelly called Qin Lun over to discuss some important matters.

Pushing open the butterfly door of the tavern, Qin Lun glanced at the lobby roughly, but did not find Kelly’s figure. To accommodate the apostles’ day-and-night habits, all industries in the Devil’s horn Entertainment District were open 24 hours a day, no distinction between day and night.

Of course, similar to the current evening hours, it was also the golden hours of the day. However, business in this tavern was not good. At this time, there were only a few guests sitting in the lobby. Moreover, looking at their attire, they were all unhappy apostles who were getting drunk here.

“Your Excellency, would you like something to drink?” When the dwarf bartender behind the bar saw Qin Lun enter, his big green eyes lit up. He could tell from Qin Lun’s appearance and state of mind that he was a well-stocked guest.

“Give him a glass of Dragon Blood Wheat!” Just as Qin Lun was about to speak, a hoarse voice sounded beside him.

Qin Lun turned around and saw a moustached man in a large felt hat leaning against the bar and leaning against him.

Qin Lun couldn’t help but chuckle when he saw that his beard was dressed in a hippie outfit, but his delicate face and bright peach blossom eyes were clearly not the same as a man’s. No wonder he hadn’t seen Kelly in the tavern before. If he didn’t look carefully at this sinful disguise, he really wouldn’t recognize her.

“What the hell are you laughing at!” Kelly threw him a sanitary eye and grabbed Qin Lun’s wrist. She pulled him to a dimly lit wooden table in the lobby and sat down. Before leaving, she didn’t forget to remind Qin Lun to bring the dragonblood ale.

“Even if you’re tempted, you don’t have to find such a hidden place to date me, do you?” After being taught by several mature women, Qin Lun had learned a lot about teasing women and could not help but tease Kelly.

‘”Tsk, you’re heartless and ruthless. Who would have liked you? I heard Little Rice say that you hooked up with a super human lady in the last world and left her behind after you finished … She’s simply a beast!” Little Rice said. Kelly looked at him with contempt. “I really have something to ask of you!”

“Les … this bug elf is too bastard!” Qin Lun smiled wryly and asked helplessly, “What can’t be said in the projector when it comes to this kind of place?”

‘”No, Devil’s horn is different now. It’s not convenient to talk to your villa with a projector. My goal is too big. I can’t even bring you to the headquarters of the Lost Plane. I can only choose this kind of place!” Kelly glanced at the lobby of the tavern and whispered, “Add me to your guild channel.”

Qin Lun raised his eyebrows and quietly invited Kelly to join the team. The reason why Kelly had to meet Qin Lun was that the apostle team could only invite new members face-to-face unless they received their own apostle numbers.

“Is there a problem with the loss?” After adding Kelly to the team, Qin Lun immediately asked.

“Nothing has happened to Lost. It’s just that a storm is about to arrive in Devil’s horn!” Kelly’s expression darkened as she looked bitter. She pointed at the Dragonblood ale on the table and said, “Aren’t you going to drink it? This wine is not bad. The reason I like this tavern is because of this wine.”

Qin Lun glanced at the wine glass, but just after taking a sip, he put it down with a frown. This wine was too spicy. It was only a small mouthful, and his entire throat was burning with pain. It was not suitable for him.

He usually drank a little wine, but it was mostly low-concentration fruit wine with a little sweetness. This was the effect he suffered in Moonlight Forest. Elves taught him the basics of survival, leaving him Elves etiquette and certain tastes. Not only him, but every Apostle who first came into contact with the intelligent race would leave behind deep traces.

“Stop drinking? Those who don’t know how to appreciate it, don’t waste it, give it to me!” Kelly muttered discontentedly. She snatched the glass from his hand and took a big sip. She put down the glass and burped. Her cheeks flushed with innocence as she introduced it.

‘”This is a high-quality Dwarves liquor. There are no other bars in the Horn of Devils. Because the dwarves are friendly to the Dwarves race, there are only a small number of drinkers in this place every month. Most of the drunkards found are jinx. They won’t tell anyone else. You should keep it a secret for me, okay?”

“Got it, Big Sister, you better hurry up and tell me something!” Qin Lun didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. He had known Kelly for a long time, and he slowly discovered that the female Tyrannosaurus rex’s brain sometimes had a bit off-line.

“Oh, where did I go?” Kelly pouted and regained her composure. Her expression became serious again and she began to explain in a low voice on the guild channel.

The source of the storm that Kelly was talking about was actually the invasion of the shattered starry sky by the superstring space. According to the female martial artist’s intelligence, the invasion of the superstring space into the shattered starry sky had roughly crossed two waves. The climax had already passed, and the two sides would slowly disengage from each other, consolidate their resources, and calculate the benefits of the war.

From the looks of it, the shattered starry sky had suffered a huge loss in this war, especially in terms of human resources. Similar to the Divine Comedy World that Qin Lun had just crossed, there weren’t many battles that Apostle had won. Most of the other mission worlds, especially the Middle and High Demon worlds, had suffered heavy losses at the high level of the Broken Universe, and many large Apostle teams had suffered heavy losses.

Qin Lun’s pupils narrowed as he listened to Kelly’s explanation. He began to understand what the woman meant by storm.

When he entered the Divine Comedy World, he had once guessed that if a large Apostle guild like Lost was involved in a war, if they were severely injured, then perhaps the current balance of the Horn of the Abyss would be upset. The entire pyramids of Apostle were about to begin to be reorganized, and it was inevitable that they would undergo a great purge.

The Apostle team had no desire for power in the native world of the Shattered Stars, but there was a fierce competition for resources for the Horn of the Abyss. Such resources include both half-planes and Apostle items, as well as the Apostle itself.

With high-level Apostle at the core, Apostle’s demand for human resources would be endless after forming a large team. The larger the Apostle base, the easier it would be for high-level Apostle to appear, and the more stable the team would be. The more high-ranking members received reinforcements, the harder it would be for them to perish.

That was why Qin Lun had received the attention of both Primordial Chaos and Loss, and even the higher-ups of his guild didn’t hesitate to personally invite him.

“If it’s okay to lose, then which large guild was severely injured?” Qin Lun’s eyes lit up and he asked unhurriedly.

“You should ask which guild didn’t suffer any losses!” Kelly shook her head solemnly. “Actually, it’s fine to be disappointed. It’s just for the other large teams in the Horn of the Devil.”

As Kelly continued to explain, much information that was originally impossible to obtain at Qin Lun’s level also appeared in front of him.

The Horn of the Abyss had a total of three ambassadors and disciples alliances. In the eyes of ordinary Apostle, each alliance had roughly 2,000 professional Apostle and over a hundred guilds of various sizes. But from what Kelly said now, Qin Lun knew that there was a difference between the strength of the Three Ambassadors-Apostle Alliance.

Chaos Alliance upholds the rule of survival of the fittest and has a low moral bottom line, but this unscrupulous approach also attracts most of Apostle. However, it was precisely because they followed the law of the jungle that Chaos Alliance, a professional that could join Apostle, was stronger than the other two alliances.

To the outside world, Chaos Alliance only had one large team, and that was Chaos Team. However, internally, Chaos Team was actually a joint team of five core divisions, and its high-tier Apostle accounted for more than 40% of Devil’s horn’s total. Only advocating martial arts and the laws of the jungle meant that there was no monolithic structure within. The five divisions of primordial chaos often had conflicts of interest.

The Apostle Tombstone Alliance, which is in the neutral camp, is equally loose, but more united than Chaos Alliance. It was made up of three large teams, one of which was the Sky Floating Team that Qin Lun had come into contact with.

The last Apostle Alliance was Qin Lun’s current Orderly Front. There were only two large guilds on the order-keeping front. One was Lost, and the other was called the Light Guild. However, perhaps because they knew that they were the weakest, the two large teams were very united. It is not only the unity of the internal members, but also the watchfulness of each other. There are frequent exchanges and cooperation between the higher-ups.

In fact, this was the key reason why Chaos Alliance had such a high proportion of high-ranking members, yet was unable to annex the other two alliances. First, Apostle was not allowed to engage in a large-scale civil war in the shattered starry sky. Second, high-level Apostle had no mission burden in the starry sky and had too many means to escape. They simply could not be killed.

Therefore, the final battle location of the high-tier Apostle could only be in the Middle-High Demon World, where there was a burden from the world mission, so they could not escape at will.

However, any large-scale team had at least five high-level Apostle, and two large-scale teams could form a ten-member high-level team. This ten-member high-level guild’s combat strength was extremely terrifying. Even the Broken Universe could only send two of these guilds into the mission world at once. Moreover, they had to be at the peak of the Middle Demon realm or the High Demon realm. Otherwise, they would not be able to accommodate this kind of strength of Laws.

In other words, if the Chaos Alliance wanted to defeat the other two Apostle Alliances, they would have to fight a war of attrition in equal numbers. Only high-level apostles would be willing to fight a war of attrition like cannon fodder. Thus, even though the Chaos Alliance had a large number of people, there was nothing they could do about the other two alliances.

However, after this invasion of superstring space, the Devil’s horn pyramid in Apostle underwent a major change.

One of them was a high-ranking member of the Three Ambassadors-Apprentice Alliance. A large portion of them had encountered foreign battles, and many of them had perished in the second wave of attacks. Kelly didn’t know about the losses of the other two alliances, but the order-keeping front was already clear, and there was a strange twin heavens of fire and water.

The Lost Party was very lucky this time. None of the high-ranking members died, only a batch of equipment items that were used as trump cards were lost. However, their ally, Team Light, was annihilated, and not even a single core member was able to escape. I really don’t know what kind of opponent they encountered.

After Kelly and the others returned, they learned of this situation and were momentarily speechless. This was the situation that the large guild feared the most. It was like a burly man who was suddenly beheaded. He had a huge body in the air, but he had no choice but to collapse.

From the bottom of his heart, the Lost Party would rather suffer some losses than destroy the entire army of the Light Party. This meant that the Light Guild was no longer able to control their subordinates, and the entire order-keeping front was missing a corner, threatening to collapse.

The news of the annihilation of the entire Radiance Core Army could not be concealed for too long. Once the other two Apostle Alliances learned of it, there would immediately be a feast of gluttony. Especially now that the other two alliances had suffered heavy losses, they urgently needed to replenish their blood.

After the Lost Party had no allies, they could no longer stop the other alliances from poaching the Light. Otherwise, the two alliances would not mind fighting against Lost, because a single Lost Team would no longer be able to form a ten-man high-level team.

The more serious problem was that it was impossible for Lost to maintain an orderly front on his own. Should he join one of the two great alliances or leave Devil’s horn?

“It’s impossible to leave Devil’s horn. Other cities in Apostle are willing to accept any Apostle, but they won’t accept the entire large-scale guild!” Kelly smiled bitterly. “But we are also unwilling to disband the order-keeping front and join the Apostle Monument!”

Kelly did not mention joining the Chaos Alliance. Chaos’s style and loss were extremely opposed. They would only choose the Apostle Filling Tombstone in the neutral camp.

“Then what do you want to do?” Qin Lun frowned slightly and asked with a serious expression.

With his intelligence, he naturally understood what the general trend was. Even though he had repeatedly rained heaven and earth in the mission world, he had all borrowed the opportunity to do so. The so-called heaven-defying actions of a gentleman without standing under a wall of danger were often paradoxical, and being able to truly go against the heavens was not the general trend.

“It’s hard to hide the news of the annihilation of the light. The other two great alliances will find out in the next few days, so we have to take the last resort!” Kelly suddenly changed her serious expression and smiled sweetly at Qin Lun, “You’re so smart, guess what?”

“What’s so hard to guess? The general trend is irreversible. However, the general trend we see is only based on Devil’s horn. If we enlarge the pattern and leave Devil’s horn, the general trend will no longer be the general trend!” After pondering for a while, Qin Lun suddenly sighed, “However, by doing this, you are gambling on the entire loss. As a lost subordinate member, I advise you to cancel this plan.”

Kelly didn’t say anything else. She looked at Qin Lun’s beautiful eyes and said, “You guessed it, and it’s exactly the same as what Chen Xing said. It’s just that you’re not us, and you don’t understand the ideals we’ve always adhered to!”

Qin Lun fell silent and subconsciously picked up the wine glass. Only when the pungent smell of the wine reached his nose did he regain his senses. He frowned and put down the wine glass. After a long time, he said indifferently, “Is it worth dying for?”

“Since we have become Apostle, we will perish sooner or later. We will not let go of our faith for the sake of a mere moment of safety!” Kelly smiled calmly. “Originally, I wanted to drag you in, but it looks like you won’t risk your life with us.”

“Let me think about it!” Qin Lun originally wanted to refuse, but when he looked at Kelly, who was smiling like a flower, he suddenly felt his throat become somewhat dry.

After leaving the tavern, the night was already very late. A gust of cold wind blew over, causing Qin Lun to subconsciously clamp his collar tightly. His warm mind quickly regained consciousness, exhaled a long breath, and walked into the night.

He knew what the Lost Party would do next and why they would do it, but he didn’t understand the meaning behind it. Obviously, in order to prevent the order-keeping front from collapsing, the Lost Party chose to seek support from outside Devil’s horn. They wanted to bring in other high-level teams from other cities in Apostle.

After the foreign war with the Samsara, there should be many high-level guilds that could not stay in Apostle City. As long as the camp stands on the same side, Lost does have a chance of finding such foreign aid.

If outsiders could take the place of the Light Guild, then the order-keeping front would not collapse. After all, most of the mid-and low-level Apostle that entered the alliance would not join other alliances as long as the familiar alliance could still be used as a protection umbrella.

However, in this way, the Lost Party that was searching for foreign aid would definitely be regarded as traitors by Chaos Alliance and the Apostle Monument, and a great war was inevitable. If they were to lose and join forces with an outsider team and win the first two battles, perhaps the outsider team would be able to gain a firm foothold and completely merge with Devil’s horn.

If you lose, don’t mention anything. Lost guilds were either chased out of Devil’s horn, or their entire army was annihilated. They stepped into the trail of the Light Guild and even lost the chance to join the other two alliances.

Qin Lun could understand that the Lost Team wanted to preserve Apostle’s ideal of being the sole orderly faction for their 2,000 plus subordinates, but he couldn’t understand the meaning of their sacrifices.

In Qin Lun’s opinion, only those without power needed order, and Apostle had great power and was born a creature that could subvert order. Perhaps every Apostle has its own principles and wants to protect people, but it is stubborn and pedantic to insist on the path of order and provide a warm home and shelter for others.

…

“Qin Lun, what’s wrong with you?” Shepherd Hill frowned slightly as he looked at Qin Lun and asked curiously.

After the secret conversation with Kelly that day, Qin Lun was in a trance for the next few days, as if he had reappeared from his previous hallucinations. There were many thoughts in his mind, but when he came back to his senses, he couldn’t remember anything. Until today, the trading party with Hill and the others was still in a dazed state.

“Oh, I remember something!” Qin Lun’s expression was uncertain. In the end, he decided to confess to the other murderers. “There are some things I want to ask for your opinion on.”