Am I a Healer? You'd Better Think So!-Chapter 68: They Failed

The two of them already had two rings and could take on some pretty profitable missions — if they weren't afraid of dying, of course. He was part of a major clan. She had a super useful blessing and belonged to the rare Mystic class; she could've joined any big clan and gotten loads of missions.

So, they focused on stacking up resources.

Eventually, using the underworld, they bought an artifact from another planet — the kind banned by all empires.

Someone from the New Arcadia Empire wanted to escape to the Solar Federation Empire. So, they switched identities, pretending to be each other.

It was insanely risky. Obviously, they didn't look alike physically, and their blessings and classes didn't match either. So he'd have to live in hiding to avoid being exposed.

The only upside was that the person he was replacing was weak and unknown — barely anyone had seen his real face. And the few who had? They'd just died during a mission.

Long story short, the Empire would be the biggest threat. But they understood how the system worked. The powerful were arrogant and didn't give a damn about nobodies. As long as he kept his head down, he'd be fine.

At first, he stayed in the shadows, tying up every loose end. The long-term solution? Start a clan and become its leader.

If that clan got accepted and its members completed a set number of missions each year, the leadership wasn't forced to go out on missions or expose themselves. They could stick to admin work and live off the radar.

The connection with the Divine Protection Universe didn't change anything, not even their earnings. So they spent nearly a century gathering resources until they finally managed to found the clan.

A few years later, they were living a hectic life — but a very happy one. Their two kids were born and raised with lots of love and care.

But one day... everything changed.

A new artifact was discovered during a mission in the Solar Federation Empire. No one knew exactly what it did, but it was probably a one-of-a-kind supreme artifact — the kind that shows up once in a miracle.

Luckily, the two of them had way stronger ties to the underworld than even the empire they were living in... and they got the inside scoop before the Empire did.

A spy from the New Arcadia Empire had been caught in the Solar Federation. Rhea had a bad feeling and paid the underworld to dig deeper...

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That spy was the one pretending to be her husband.

When they found out, everything started to fall apart. So, he decided to go back to his homeland. That way, when New Arcadia came investigating, they wouldn't find him missing.

Rhea would just say that her husband did, in fact, use his blessing to gather intel from other empires. He'd recently gone on a trip and hadn't returned yet...

Sure, regular people weren't allowed to cross empires. But important folks broke the rules all the time. Unless they had solid proof he was betraying his homeland, all he'd get was a punishment.

Over time, the two of them had shown that her husband was actually getting valuable info — stuff that helped their clan and could benefit all of New Arcadia.

In the past, multiple times, he'd revealed secrets about the enemy empire, and the military higher-ups gained a lot from it. Of course, he'd been thoroughly investigated — before and after — but they never found a shred of proof he was a traitor.

It had been many years since the identity swap, and Rhea and him had already cleaned up all the mess. In the end, people just assumed he had spies on the other side working for him — no one knew he was the one doing it all personally.

A spy like that was incredibly valuable. He constantly provided info that only someone important — someone living there — could know: clans, rules, people with powerful blessings. All that was top-secret, but he knew it because he'd lived there for years, and had been in a major clan.

But no one could've predicted that a supreme artifact capable of spotting spies would suddenly appear.

And just like that... in the New Arcadia Empire, there was one person who'd helped their people — and ended up falling for it.

Rhea raised her kids and kept the clan going all by herself, hoping that one day, her husband might return.

Not even in the Divine Protection Universe could she find him. It was obvious he'd been captured and was going through hell. But she stayed calm — they wouldn't kill him. He had too much valuable intel.

Using artifacts to read memories only worked for recent or fragmented stuff. After that, the person would die, and everything else would be lost. It was better to keep the prisoner alive and extract things little by little.

A few years passed...

And then, word of something huge started spreading secretly among the highest ranks of New Arcadia.

Rhea used her contacts and paid everything she had to find out what it was... that day ended up being the most painful one of her life.

A secret mission had been successfully completed.

They managed to break into the Solar Federation Empire and completely wipe out its most secret prison. All the informants, all the spies, and some key stuff — all taken out in one go.

They used the Red River Pact clan's supreme artifact, causing massive destruction with no chance of defense. The mission was called: Honor of the Heroes.

Those people from the New Arcadia Empire who had been captured were now finally free from the pain and torture.

And among the confirmed dead... was that poor man she loved — a guy who just wanted to live in peace with his family.

Everyone in the room, except Leander of course, was hearing this for the first time — and they were shocked. The Empires weren't open enemies, didn't fight face to face or try to wipe each other out. But greed and the thirst to be the biggest still existed.

Espionage, thefts, and massive shadow ops happened all the time. But none of it ever made it to the public, and it didn't affect regular humans — even among the High Humans, only a few knew about these things.

When Rhea found out, Damon had just awakened, and Leander was still a kid. She swallowed her rage and grief against the Empire. Not just that one — all of them.

How could everyone be so damn stupid?

They never wanted to hurt anyone. They just wanted to live together.

Why did life have to be so unfair?

No one escapes pain and suffering — no matter who they are.

But... she didn't want revenge. She just didn't want anyone else to go through what she did.

That's when her second son awakened. Damon took over the leadership of the clan, and she felt like it was time to tell them both the full story.

Leander only knew things up to that point. His mother had told him back then that everything was over and that his dad just wanted them to live in peace without stirring things up. But secretly, she and her eldest son started moving the pieces.

Her husband didn't actually have a blessing related to investigation — the guy whose identity he stole did. That had just been a convenient cover story at the time.

But Damon did have that kind of blessing — and a super powerful one at that. He learned it without even knowing the truth, like fate was pushing him down that path.

So everything started coming together little by little. They gathered info on all the empires and managed to plant people inside each of the six.

New Arcadia still hadn't figured it out, but the other six empires had all failed their missions in recent months. It was all planned by Rhea and her son, behind the scenes.

They carefully picked cruel people from the biggest clans in each empire. Then they made a "deal" with them. As payment, they handed over a powerful artifact — with a little hidden gift inside.

That group was made up of individuals with deep, well-researched backgrounds — every one of them totally deserved the worst death possible. Once all six were picked for missions near each other, the plan went into action.

When they used the artifact, they had no idea they were poisoning everyone around them. So they died — and failed their missions.

Rhea's goal was to make sure every empire got hit with its first penalty. That way, she could use the contacts she still had from other planets, and they could take advantage of the situation.

She wanted to slowly bring down all the Earth empires.

Yeah, the truth is, she was betraying all of Earth too.

Her goal was to force everyone on Earth to unite — if they actually wanted to survive. Faced with an enemy from outside the planet, all the rules and schemes between empires would have to change. The major clans from different empires would be forced to work together to complete missions.

That would naturally lead to closer ties and stronger relationships. The empires wouldn't be able to keep things the way they were, and what happened to her wouldn't happen again to someone else.

Everything seemed to be going smoothly.

But what she — and nobody but the Empire — knew... was that the Red River Pact clan had two supreme artifacts, not just one.

The second one had this terrifying investigative power. It could trace connections between people through their souls. All the key members of the clan were linked to the artifact.

It was like a piece of their souls was stored in it, ready to be used in emergencies. And when the failure happened, they burned through a ton of resources fast to figure out what had gone wrong — and whether something shady had happened.

It was like an invisible string appeared, linking to another person or place. Only strong soul bonds made during this life would show up — even if they couldn't tell exactly what or how.

And they saw that Rhea and Damon were tied to the soul of the group leader who'd died.

Then they captured both of them and used the artifact again. This time, they saw connections to other empires too.

The evidence was solid and undeniable — even if the details were still fuzzy. They just had to buy a few favors from the other empires, use those soul links to dig deeper into who was connected to them... and everything became obvious real quick, with mountains of proof.

Honestly, the fact they just got executed was lucky — if the empires had realized they were betraying all of Earth, and not just one empire, things would've blown up even worse.

Yeah, they took risks. They broke the rules and went against the powerful. But they failed.

Rhea had a pure karma and had lived a long time — long enough to see how rotten Earth's leaders really were. What she did went way beyond anything personal.

With the empires all trying to stay as far apart as possible, and people kept from forming real connections, the constant heated rivalries were just gonna keep escalating.

It wouldn't be long before the empires started looking for allies off Earth — which, yeah, had already been happening.

Or even started pulling strings in the training universe to wipe each other out — something Darian already knew was going on, at least on other planets.

In the end, she wanted unity for Earth, even if only partially. Her intentions were pure and real — just like the kind of person she was.

Darian let out a heavy sigh. Wasn't he trying to do something almost the same — just a billion times bigger?