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Chapter 185
Chapter 185: The Beginning of Chaos
Leia, who was thoroughly familiar with the route back to the royal palace, first returned to her own residence and found the boxed compass at the bottom of her suitcase. But the moment she stepped out, she ran straight into Frank.
“Did I not tell you to invite the Archbishop? What are you doing back at your chambers?”
Leia clicked her tongue and said irritably, “I already invited him.”
“Mm. Then go help me organize the documents first. Once the banquet ends, I have to deal with them immediately.”
Еňǔ m̃а̇
After saying this, Frank, whose spirits were high from the happy occasion, hummed a tune and left on his own, leaving behind only a poor, hard-working laborer.
Why was this guy wandering around behind the royal palace instead of going to the banquet hall?
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Although Leia had expected this long ago, she still felt inexplicably irritated.
She had been running around before and after this banquet, and once the banquet began, wonderful—she had become a voluntary overtime worker.
Hmph. Just wait. One day, I will defect to the Northern Territory and live a happy life with Lord Paul.
After making that fierce declaration in her heart, Leia still had to obediently head to the empty study. She thought that aside from Archbishop John, there was probably no one who would care whether she was present or not.
W ë b̈nо v̂ е̇l̇ Ĕnŭ_m̌а̂
At the same time, the banquet hall in the front palace of the royal palace had already been arranged. As a banquet celebrating the birth of a prince, a new problem followed.
That was: should the person seated beside the King be Queen Barbara, or the Royal Consort who had given birth to the prince?
Opinions soon became unified. Everyone hoped Queen Barbara would take the initiative to step back, so as to avoid making the atmosphere awkward.
Times had changed. Regiment Commander Benjamin, who supported Queen Barbara in the army, had now become the prince’s uncle. Duke Dale, who held power locally, was also overwhelmed by the Northern Army’s invasion.
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The glamour of the social scene was, in the end, only a fleeting bloom.
Barbara, who had appeared at the banquet hall early, naturally noticed the shift in the wind. After greeting the members of her faction with an expression as composed as usual, she sat down in the high seat without the slightest hesitation.
W̆е́ b ñ о̇vė l̈ Е nǔ m̊а
The moment John entered, he noticed the strange atmosphere in the venue.
Everyone’s whispers were always so open and aboveboard, but John did not care about those things. He would only find it amusing that Leia had failed to appear.
Back then, those two solitary little girls—one had led armies and slaughtered in every direction, while the other had busied herself with political affairs and worked diligently. They had lived far more splendidly than others their age.
When the time for the banquet to begin arrived, John repeatedly glanced toward the entrance, but he failed to discover any trace of Frank.
Light music drifted through the hall, and the invited nuns began singing hymns.
Barbara sat in place, but her expression grew increasingly unpleasant. For such an important banquet, she was actually the only royal family member present—and it was a banquet celebrating another woman giving birth to the King’s prince!
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At first, everyone paid no attention to the King’s tardiness, merely treating it as his way of expressing dissatisfaction toward the Queen.
The grandly dressed guests held wine cups and chatted with one another about their visions for the future.
Until a young man suddenly barged in and drove the atmosphere of the banquet to its highest point.
“I am Elfins, an infiltrator from the Kingdom Library. The person I serve is Luna Charles.”
Elfins came before John and quickly introduced his identity. Then he lowered his voice and whispered into John’s ear, “Archbishop, please do not make this public. The assassins sent by the Great Sage have already infiltrated the royal palace...”
With a thunderous crash, John stood frozen in place as if struck by lightning, and the pastry in his hand fell with it.
Е n u m̊ ȧ
Using the crowd as cover, the two left the banquet hall. The moment they left the front palace, they sped up and swiftly headed toward the royal palace’s main hall.
On the way, Elfins was still explaining the cause and effect.
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“We were among the first batch of intelligence agents who received the Young Lady’s funding and were admitted into the Royal Capital Library.”
John frowned. “You?”
“Yes, Archbishop. I am the only surviving member. Even so, I have been cut off from contact with the outside for nearly a year.”
“Oswald laid out his plans this early?” John sighed. It seemed they were more than just one step behind. Oswald’s scheming was truly terrifyingly deep.
Е ǹǔm ā
Elfins nodded. If he were given another chance, he...
Casting aside the grief in his heart, Elfins quickly shared the intelligence he had obtained with John.
“Our mission was to investigate the Great Sage’s intelligence for the Northern Territory. Unfortunately, although I came into contact with some secrets, I never once saw the Great Sage’s true body.”
“It was only because of this assassination operation that I was released. The target of the attack is the Princess of the Kingdom—Diana.”
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Recalling that life like a gutter rat, Elfins found it difficult to describe to others how moved he had felt when he saw the sunlight.
How many times had he thought about simply leaving, about staying far away from this group of lunatics who thought they managed the world?
Е̂ nu m a
But he could not let those companions die without meaning. At the very least, he had to let the Young Lady know that they had never betrayed her. They had only been quietly dying.
John was puzzled. By now, he already believed this young man. Having read countless people, he could see the pain Elfins had endured.
“Tell me, child, why Diana?”
Elfins shook his head. “I do not know. They always have countless plans, and killing Diana serves a purpose similar to cleansing for them. They want to use her to sweep away every obstacle.”
As he spoke, the two unexpectedly ran into a squad of Royal Capital Guards. When the leader saw John, he said in surprise, “Archbishop, I was just about to look for you!”
“Charles!”
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The person who had come was none other than Charles, the Divine Archer who had served as the royal family guard’s representative during the giant slime subjugation battle.
At the same time, he had also contributed the famous scene of archers fighting undead.
John grabbed his thick arm and urgently pressed him, “Tell me, how is His Majesty right now?!”
“His Majesty is fine. The killers came for Princess Diana. Our guard unit suffered heavy losses. His Majesty asked me to tell you that he hopes you can use that thing... to help us find the other killers.”
That thing?
John, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, frowned again. What did he mean by this thing or that thing? Was he not just talking about candle-shadow deathsworn?
W̃еb̌ ṅ о v ê l Ẽ ň ùḿ ӑ
“I understand. I will go back and prepare right away. You must ensure His Majesty and the princess’s safety.”
John had just turned around and was about to leave when Elfins grabbed his arm. He had lurked inside the devil’s lair and had also witnessed the devil’s methods.
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“Archbishop, I can tell you responsibly that among everyone present, you are the only one who absolutely cannot leave the royal palace. Only you can truly protect...”
With a SPLAT, Elfins’s eyeball bounced against John’s face, and a chunk of ruptured brain matter was caught by Charles in astonishment.
What had he just seen? A perfectly fine person had suddenly died right in front of him?
John was still blankly holding Elfins’s hand. He had known this child for only twenty minutes.
Е nū m̈ä .і̃d̊_
He could not leave the royal palace. Only he could protect...
John slowly laid Elfins, whose head had been shattered in half, on the ground. Just now, an extremely faint trace of goddess magic had dissipated from Elfins’s eyeball.
In terms of killing methods, undead magic was probably far inferior to goddess magic, whose source was life.
His eyes lowered, John’s gaze swept across the surroundings. If his guess was correct, this should be a very ancient blessing magic.
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But all things bestowed by the goddess came with a price.
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