I! Cleaner!

"Not a bloodline transformation?"

Seeing that this greatest possibility was denied by Director Taurus, Leon couldn't help but frown and said:

"Then what do you mean..."

"I mean, this might really be a bloodline exchange ritual."

"???"

Amid Leon's somewhat astonished expression, Director Taurus closed her eyes slightly, and then said with a face full of remorse:

"Under normal circumstances, this kind of thing is impossible to achieve, but the Ophiuchus Palace's abnormal transformation secret technique is an exception... Now I strongly suspect that the Ophiuchus Director didn't die in the Thirteen Ant Nests back then, but managed to save his life successfully.

If he really did this, then he probably used something to temporarily replace the vacant '120 million materials' and forcibly activated this bloodline exchange ritual, preparing to gradually exchange the bloodlines of the two countries, but I haven't figured out what he wants to do..."

Director Ophiuchus?

After hearing this name that he had heard many times in the past from Director Taurus, Leon couldn't help but ponder and asked:

"What exactly did he want to do during the Ophiuchus Eclipse incident back then? If this low-grade fever is really behind him, is it possible that he wants to do it again?"

"Back then..."

After hesitating slightly, Director Taurus said with a somewhat complicated expression:

"The cause and effect are very complicated to explain... Now the Bureau's internal statement is that he launched a rebellion, preparing to sacrifice all the citizens of East Kalevan Kingdom in order to ascend to godhood, and also wanted to turn half the world into his divine kingdom.

But this is not the truth, just a statement to avoid causing chaos. There are actually many hidden secrets in that matter, and only the directors who participated in the decision at the time and Olivia, who was responsible for taking action, know the whole situation."

As expected, what the Director had told me in the past was not the truth, but only the superficial statement disclosed internally.

After a look of understanding appeared in his eyes, Leon stared at Director Taurus's eyes, listening to her continue to reveal:

"Director Ophiuchus is actually Olivia's cousin. Because of the close relationship between the Twin Kingdoms, although he was born in East Kalevan Kingdom, he grew up in the court of West Kalevan Kingdom and was very familiar with Olivia since childhood... Oh, right."

Speaking of this, Director Taurus hesitated again, then looked at Leon and said softly:

"He's a bit like you."

"???"

Director Ophiuchus is a bit like me?

Leon couldn't help but touch his face subconsciously when he heard this, with a strong look of astonishment in his eyes.

"What I mean by similar is not in appearance, but in the feeling he gives people."

After glancing at Leon, who looked strange, Director Taurus shook her head and explained:

"You two are the kind of people who are particularly 'motivated', very dissatisfied with the status quo and various problems, and always try to change something when you have the opportunity.

And you are both very confident in yourselves, believing that your judgment must be correct and believing that you can definitely completely change everything... That's probably the feeling.

Besides that, he became a director at a young age just like you, and his attitude towards the outside world was also quite tough, but his personality was much more extreme than yours, and his methods were even more... um..."

Speaking of this, Director Taurus paused slightly, couldn't help but glanced at Leon, and then said somewhat unconfidently:

"In terms of methods, you are still more excessive. He still can't compare with you in this regard, but compared to you, who still knows how to clean up after yourself, he is more inconsiderate of the consequences."

"..."

Amid Leon's somewhat speechless expression, Director Taurus said with a sigh:

"Although he was a branch of the East Kalevan Kingdom's royal family, his parents died very early, so his life was quite difficult, and he witnessed many bad things since he was a child.

Even after joining the Bureau, he didn't meet a Director like Olivia like you did, but encountered... some cleaners with not very good styles, so he also deeply hated many situations in the Bureau.

So after becoming a director, he tried many reforms, large and small, just like you are now. For example, the several reviews you suffered because of accidentally injuring a large number of nobles were the rules he set back then."

Laine Blood Night? That wasn't actually accidental injury... But it doesn't matter.

After blinking slightly, Leon asked with some incomprehension:

"Listening to this, he doesn't seem like a bad person?"

"He's not a bad person, but he's really too impatient."

Looking at Leon, who was younger, more motivated, and more talented than Director Ophiuchus back then, but seemed to be even more ruthless when he took action, Director Taurus couldn't help but feel guilty and said:

"His starting point was good, but many measures were a bit ill-considered, and our Bureau only needs to move a little bit, and it will affect hundreds or thousands of times more ordinary people, thus causing a lot of chaos and even deaths and injuries.

So after discovering this, several of our more conservative old men and women began to intermittently reject his proposals, hoping that his actions could be slower and avoid those overly radical changes, at least after trying them locally and confirming that there were no major flaws before promoting them.

But after rejecting them too many times, he probably felt restrained and had some complaints about us, and even became disappointed with the Bureau, so he began to try to find other ways."

Other ways?

Leon couldn't help but feel a stir in his heart when he heard this, and asked with some disbelief:

"He chose to sacrifice the citizens of East Kalevan Kingdom to ascend to godhood, and then forcibly promote his ideas with absolute power? Is he that crazy?"

"Almost..."

Director Taurus sighed and said:

"He did want to implement his will with absolute power, but the means he used were actually slightly better than sacrifice. The method he chose was closer to transformation."

"Transformation?"

"That is to use the Ophiuchus Branch's abnormal transformation secret technique to connect the entire East Kalevan Kingdom through bloodlines, and combine himself with the stolen [Crimson Blood], using the combination of himself and the [Crimson Blood] to replace the blood of all the citizens of East Kalevan Kingdom.

At that time, the entire East Kalevan Kingdom's citizens, wealth, society, land... and even the existence of this country itself, will become a living anomaly, and he, who is about the same level as Olivia now, will most likely be able to use this to gain power beyond the Pillar Gods in one fell swoop."

"..."

Fusing himself with a bunch of blood and becoming the blood of a country with hundreds of millions of people in order to achieve his goals... Cleaners are indeed quite crazy.

After hissing, Leon hesitated slightly, then tentatively asked:

"Although his methods are too extreme, he seems to be on the side of the Bureau? If that's the case, the Bureau wouldn't have used the Thirteen Ant Nests to wipe him out along with all the citizens of East Kalevan Kingdom, right?"

"Yes, it wouldn't have been if that was the case."

After closing her eyes slightly, Director Taurus replied with a face full of pain:

"The key is the bottle of blood he used... That was the blood drawn by the predecessors from the corpse of the Crimson Sovereign, one of the Supreme Four Pillar Gods. After all, only the truth of this 'King of Red' has the supreme power to connect 120 million red bloodlines with just will.

But Pillar Gods will not truly die, but human lifespan is limited, and will and soul can also be worn away. Even the souls of those who ascend to the Watch Palace will be gradually worn away over a long period of time.

Even if Ophiuchus's self is strong enough to suppress the will remaining in a bottle of blood, sooner or later he will completely lose his way with the passage of time and the impact of countless different wills.

And at that time, the Crimson Sovereign, who has lost his restraint, will be able to revive from the bodies of these 120 million humans and more humans who have their blood flowing through them!

Even if he firmly believes that he can always maintain his self and repeatedly assures us that there will never be a problem, we can never bet the future of the entire human race with him!"