Ayanokouji Kiyotaka 172

Title: Sanctuary Strategy Successful, What’s Next?

“Alright, I’ll follow your orders for now.”

Garfiel didn’t hesitate long before making his decision. The conditions given left him with no other choice.

This was a common tactic used by Ayanokouji. It seemed like he always gave the other party a choice, but in reality, they had no choice at all.

He nodded slightly, the first step of his plan had been successfully executed.

He now had Echidna and Garfiel under his control, the Ryuzu clone would also obey his commands, and the entire Sanctuary was back in his hands.

Just like the scene in the reproduced video.

Soon, Ayanokouji began the second step of his plan.

He wasn’t in a hurry to remove the Sanctuary barrier, but instead chose to develop the Sanctuary first.

Although the Sanctuary had been isolated from the outside world for a long time, there were abundant materials within. He could fully utilize these materials to establish production lines.

The forest in the sanctuary was vast and rich in resources. He quickly used the resources to produce many daily necessities that were unavailable in the sanctuary, such as soap, spices, fuel, etc.

Not only that, he also used his modern knowledge to improve the farming methods of the villagers in the sanctuary, and also modified the farming equipment, making the villagers’ work more efficient.

Although he hadn’t stayed in the Sanctuary for long, he had already brought about significant changes to the Sanctuary environment.

Due to these various changes and his previous words that aligned with them, the inhabitants of the Sanctuary quickly viewed him with a new perspective. Many people also changed from their previous suspicions.

Ayanokouji had also been thinking about the future plan during this time.

Considering that the Witch Cult would definitely attack in the future, his previous deception would no longer be useful. To face these people in the future, it wasn’t enough to rely solely on his current strength, he needed as many strong people as possible.

The most important among them was Reinhard.

With Reinhard’s chivalry, he wouldn’t blame Ayanokouji for what hadn’t happened yet, but now Reinhard should be wary of him and not believe his own words.

And Reinhard had acknowledged Felt as his master. It would be very difficult to win him back to his camp – unless Felt was excluded.

However, Ayanokouji also knew that he couldn’t kill Felt directly, because with Reinhard’s protection, even if he sent Elsa to do it, she might not succeed, and such an action would easily make him break with Reinhard.

Reinhard had great utilization value, and Ayanokouji certainly wouldn’t give up on him so easily.

If he wanted Reinhard to become his tool, he had to find a way for Felt to step down from the royal family, and he also needed to regain her trust.

Before this, Ayanokouji still needed to clear his reputation.

Because of the illusion, many people were very afraid of him and considered him a threat to the kingdom. This was the reason that limited his actions.

These people regarded the illusion as a revelation from the dragon, so they believed it deeply.

But on the other hand, perhaps he could utilize this.

So during this period of time, Ayanokouji had sent several teams to sneak into the royal capital and spread rumors about the illusion.

They claimed that this illusion wasn’t a revelation from the dragon, but was deliberately done by the Witch Cult, who wanted to use the Kingdom’s hand to eliminate him.

Ayanokouji also asked these people to create some identities, claiming that he was the savior chosen by the dragon to change the current situation of the kingdom. The people from the Witch Cult also knew about this, so they chose to deliberately interfere, making others think that Ayanokouji was a morally corrupt person.

Such rumors couldn’t convince the public, of course, but the goal wasn’t to make the public completely believe him, but to make them have some doubts in their hearts about the content of the illusion.

As long as there was one crack, the entire dam could collapse in an instant.

Rumors would spread among the crowd and then gradually develop.

Then he could reverse everything by letting the flood grow larger.

Not only that, Ayanokouji also secretly contacted Anastasia. Although the other party was Emilia’s competitor, among the current throne selection, only Anastasia was most likely to cooperate with him.

The scene changed. After a few days, Ayanokouji finally received a reply from Anastasia.

“This is the letter just received at the mansion.” Ram placed Anastasia’s letter in front of Ayanokouji. There was no change in expression on her face, but there seemed to be a sense of disgust in her eyes.

Judging from Ayanokouji’s various appearances in the Sanctuary, he wasn’t as bad as in the illusion, but had made the living conditions of the inhabitants in the Sanctuary better.

“Mm, I’ll be back as well.” Ayanokouji nodded.

The scene changed. He returned to the mansion with Otto and Beatrice. Otto was responsible for driving the dragon carriage, while Beatrice had to follow every moment.

After returning to the mansion, Ayanokouji found that Anastasia also arrived at the mansion door at the same time as expected.

“This is the first time we’ve met, Ayanokouji Kiyotaka.” Anastasia had a petite body and a cute face, but her eyes were like those of a hawk.

“You must be Anastasia-sama.” Ayanokouji bowed deeply, pretending to see her for the first time.

Besides Anastasia, there were several Iron Fang mercenaries, looking at him with hostile gazes.

Ayanokouji knew that the reason why they were so hostile was because he had, in the illusion, lured many members of the Iron Fang to the Sin Archbishop, which was equivalent to sending them to hell with his own hands.

Although it hadn’t happened yet, these people already considered him their enemy.

And Julius didn’t come. This was something that Ayanokouji specifically asked Anastasia in the letter, because with his character, if he knew about his whereabouts, even though he wouldn’t do anything to him as something that hadn’t happened yet, but it would most likely also hinder Anastasia from meeting him.

“Oh?” Anastasia was slightly surprised by his reaction.

After all, Ayanokouji wasn’t from this world, and might not have seen the content of the illusion. Anastasia knew this, but she wasn’t sure, so she carefully observed his words and actions, and wanted to find his flaws.

“Have you never seen the vision?” Anastasia asked.

“Sorry, I’ve heard it many times from others, but I really don’t know what the so-called sky illusion is. However, I heard the content from Emilia, and after coming to this world, I did some research, so I know something about Anastasia-sama, so I chose to contact Anastasia-sama.” Ayanokouji replied, although it sounded like a very ordinary answer, but it didn’t show any flaws.

“That’s all.” Anastasia nodded, but she still didn’t believe the statement. She turned to her subordinates and said, “Everyone, please patrol the surrounding area. There are other matters that bother us.”

“As you command, young lady!” The group of mercenaries beside her immediately began to take action.

“Let’s discuss specific matters when we go inside.” Ayanokouji said to Anastasia, then led her to the living room of the mansion.

“You can be said to be famous now!” Anastasia sat on the sofa, and Rem handed tea.

Ayanokouji deliberately didn’t let Meili and Frederica appear, to reduce the leakage of his own intelligence.

“Is it because of the illusion?” Ayanokouji also picked up a cup of tea, took a sip, and asked knowingly.

“That’s right. I heard that you were surrounded by guards when you first came to this world. You just escaped because of the Bowel Hunter. Although it’s not possible to search openly, there are still many forces hunting you, but they haven’t found your trace.” Anastasia said, “Don’t worry, our whereabouts definitely haven’t been exposed on the way here.”

As Ayanokouji expected, although in the eyes of those tracking him, he was rescued by the Elsa, many of them must still doubt Emilia and Roswaal, so people would be sent to monitor – but Ayanokouji was already prepared and brought Emilia to the Sanctuary first, so these people couldn’t find his whereabouts.

”Thank you for your hard work.”

“I thought you would say something like you in the illusion is different from your true self.”

“It’s unreasonable to say so. People always have prejudices. Even if I really have a different personality from my other self in the illusion, no one would believe it.”

“That’s true, but... If I tell you what happened here, it should be considered a great achievement.” Anastasia said, looking very curious about his reaction.

“That’s not necessarily true. After all, for the people in the palace, tracking me might not be something they can do. The previous commotion was already very big. There’s no point in continuing to develop, especially the recent news, the knightly spirit of the members of the Knights Guard will no longer agree to do this.” Facing the threat in Anastasia’s words, Ayanokouji always maintained a calm expression.

”Oh?”

“And in this case, you would also lose a great business opportunity. As a great entrepreneur, Anastasia-sama certainly understands this, so you chose to come to the appointment, didn’t you?” Ayanokouji looked at her, “After all, you know that the commercial value I can provide should be more than what you saw in the illusion.”

After Anastasia witnessed the content of the illusion, she immediately learned his manufacturing technology in the illusion, and soon expanded it to all her production chains, making her business scale even larger.

Ayanokouji mentioned this matter in his letter and wrote a detailed business plan in the letter.

He provided technical support to her, and Anastasia provided productivity and funds to him.

This was the same as in the illusion, but on a larger scale.

“Oh? Why should I cooperate with you?” Anastasia raised her chin slightly. As an entrepreneur, the more initiative she gained during negotiations, the more benefits she could get for herself.

She knew this very well, so she needed to put more pressure on him.

“Otto, bring those things in.” Ayanokouji shouted towards the door.

“Okay, Ayanokouji-sama!” Otto immediately pushed a cart in. These were all products that Ayanokouji found in the Sanctuary.

“These are very common things.” Anastasia was slightly disappointed when she saw the things that Ayanokouji showed. Things like soap were already very common in this world, but not many people used them in the Sanctuary.

“These things are indeed very common, but what if I tell you that I can reduce the production cost by more than half and at the same time improve the quality?” Ayanokouji asked rhetorically.

“Oh?” Anastasia’s eyes lit up with interest.