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Chapter 127
Chapter 127: Letter from the North
At the end of February, the news that the Southern Territory had secretly hidden an army of more than a hundred thousand undead spread throughout the Kingdom without warning. The war then fell into a stalemate, and to this day, neither side had taken the next step.
One month ago, the allied army led by the Central Army had swiftly surrounded Silver City from three sides. One month later, the moat outside Silver City was still so clear that one could see the bottom.
Among the new battle reports currently received by the Royal Capital, only the Northern Army was still continuously capturing towns. It was just that their troops were moving farther and farther away from the core region.
After Kate and Lady Luna discussed it, they still informed the Central Army of the intelligence regarding the army of undead.
Ẇ е̃ b̆ ñ о̆ve ĺ E num̄ а̊
The Central Army was thrown into panic. It quickly split off ten thousand Central Royal Capital Guard to go to the military stronghold and sent out large numbers of scouts to investigate the situation.
Adhering to the strategic intention of “if you come, I leave,” the Northern Army simply greeted the Royal Capital Guard, then went off on its own and began the plundering plan they had prepared long ago.
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The southern climate was warm. Perhaps by now, Luna was already sunning herself on some beach.
After a busy day, Janice, who could not sleep that night, thought this to herself.
The corridors of the Church were empty and deep. Janice carried an oil lamp and walked through them quietly. Soon, her gaze was drawn to the moonlight shining in through the window.
The moonlight was holy, scattering over her emerald-green hair. Janice’s eyes trembled slightly. According to her agreement with the Duke, she should have set off back to the Northern Territory in January...
W е̊b̈ǹ о v̄ӗl Ѐ nū m a
Regrettably, she had not done as the Duke hoped and used her identity as Saintess to bring everyone together in unity.
So she had made her own decision to stay behind. Perhaps it was to keep trying. Or perhaps it was to escape something else.
“If you want to see the starry sky, I know a good place.”
Wrapped in a bearskin coat, John walked over at a measured pace. His insomnia was even more severe than Janice’s, and his addiction to smoking had grown heavier and heavier. Every time his office door was pushed open, thick smoke poured out, as if one were entering a fairyland.
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Janice shook her head. Her voice was cold and clear. “I only wanted to take a walk.”
“If you had walked a few more steps, you could have personally received this letter from the Northern Territory’s messenger.”
Ѐn̊ ǔ m̃ a
After placing the letter in Janice’s hand, John no longer looked at her. He walked forward alone and pushed open the glass window. The night breeze was gentle, and there were no excessive words between the two of them.
Janice solemnly put the letter away. She did not want to disturb the messenger’s rest, even though she very much wanted to know the current situation in the Northern Territory.
Moreover, if her guess was correct, the messenger’s main mission was to continue south and find their young lady.
After all, such a major event had occurred in the Southern Territory. Luna could not possibly fail to notify the Duke and seek his opinion.
Like some old object, John gazed toward the distant Royal Capital, barely moving for a long while before slowly saying, “I am very sorry about Saut, but I hope you can understand his pain at losing his daughter.”
“It is fine. I will show mercy.”
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Janice responded without the slightest concern. Compared to something like the pain of losing a daughter, she had simply been worried that defeating the commander of the Western Territory’s knight order would create a bad political impact.
Otherwise, Saut would not have gotten off so easily with merely lying in bed for one week.
Besides, in the end, she had come to the Church to help provide support for His Grace’s plan. As for her personally, heaven knew how badly she wanted to take off this complicated Saintess robe.
Recalling the scene of Janice instantly defeating Saut, John still could not help curling the corner of his mouth.
All he could say was that she was indeed worthy of being a nun who had dared to travel alone through the frontier lands. If not for the limitations of her physical constitution, Janice might have become an extraordinary Holy Knight as well.
He smiled, then continued asking, “Are you not going to see what Oswald wrote?”
Ē nù m̃a..і̊ ḋ
“He is probably urging me to go back again...” After saying this, Janice suddenly smiled. In the Duke’s previous letter, the first sentence had been: Recently, I have been lacking inspiration for my bishop short stories. Minister of the medical department, please return quickly and provide material.
John, who knew nothing about this, sighed with emotion. “Going back would also be good. Letting people regain hope is not an easy matter. One could say that making promises and fulfilling wishes is the eternal proposition of those in power.”
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John had seen all the new Saintess’ efforts. Recently, more and more people had completed spiritual salvation through the Church and regained the courage to continue living.
But even if the Kingdom had no natural disasters, it still had man-made calamities.
In the more than one month since the Central Army set out against the Southern Territory, even grain prices in the Royal Capital had risen in a bizarre manner. As for who the hidden instigators behind it were, everyone knew full well.
The Royal Capital, as the political center, was precisely such a wondrous place where everyone knew and no one spoke.
W̊е b̂ n̆ оv̄.е l̃ _Е n u m̂ а.
John was afraid that Saintess Janice would go and resist again. The matter of the Southern Territory’s more than one hundred thousand undead was already enough to leave the King utterly overwhelmed... Recently, it would be best not to provoke that trouble.
After the two once again had nothing to say, each of them thought about their own concerns and remained silent for a long time.
Noticing that the oil lamp was about to go out, Janice sighed softly, saluted, and took her leave, returning to her room.
After locking the door, she immediately took out the envelope impatiently. First, she checked whether the seal was intact. Then, beneath the oil lamp, she quickly unfolded the letter.
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What entered her sight was His Grace’s flowing handwriting. Just by glancing at the opening, Janice cried out in shock and hurriedly covered her mouth.
Oswald had only one order: before March, she had to release the news that Hero Thorne had suffered torture in the Northern Territory, and she had to ensure that this information reached Lilith, stopping her from going south.
Е n̂_u m̊ а
...
Janice once again could not sleep all night. She tossed and turned on the bed, using the Mana glowing in her hand to read His Grace’s letter again and again.
In the Duke’s speculation, the goddess’ power was like the two sides of a coin. One side represented life, and the other represented death.
This was also why so many calamities in this life were related to the undead.
Compared to the Blood-Robed Saintess’ contamination and control of people, the wish Lilith had made, which involved the resurrection of the dead, was probably closer to the essence of death.
Or rather, pure death.
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When the curse manifested in an individual, what it displayed was often not strength, but a concept that ignored power.
In terms of pure combat power, the Blood-Robed Saintess Maria back then probably could not even have taken a single step out of the Royal Capital in front of Archmage Medivh.
But Janice knew full well how terrifying the concept of death was, even if the Duke had not said it.
Once Lilith became an incarnation of the curse on the Day of Wishing, the only ones in the entire Kingdom who could resist her would be Paul and Oswald after he had completely become undead.
Paul, who was carrying out a more important mission, was absent. Oswald, meanwhile, was even more worried that Lilith might possess the ability to control the undead...
There were still too many “great minds” in the Kingdom. If Lilith became the curse and went south, releasing the Southern Territory’s more than one hundred thousand undead, the consequences would be unimaginable.
W̄ е́ b n̊.о̊vеl̊ Еňǔṁ а
Originally, Oswald had intended to observe the situation before taking action. Even if Lilith turned the Royal Capital upside down, he would not have cared.
But the news Luna sent back to the Northern Territory was too absurd. It was so absurd that Oswald practically wanted to say to Frank: hurry up and go guard the northern border. I am going south to slaughter those sons of bitches.
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The Royal Capital was quiet. Tonight, Janice was far from the only one who could not sleep.
Frank had also received Oswald’s warning letter.
At first, when he heard that Duke Oswald had written him a letter, Frank almost immediately jumped out of bed and snatched the letter from the attendant’s hands with bare feet.
It was not easy. The Duke had finally taken the initiative to contact him. This had to be the beautiful beginning of a legendary tale between ruler and minister!
Еn ûm̃ а
But after he finished reading the letter, Frank felt as if he had fallen into an icy cavern. He paid no attention even to the Royal Consort’s repeated calls.
When he finally reacted, the first thing he did was rush out of the bedchamber and coldly order the attendants who had caught up with him.
“Summon them! Summon Medivh, the Archbishop, and Regiment Commander Robert to the palace immediately!”
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