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Chapter 504: The One Who Died Instead

As soon as the words were spoken, a woman walked in. She was wearing a snow-white dress, and her face was covered by a thin layer of cloth.

Although the cloth covering her face was very thin, no one could see through it. On the contrary, even though they couldn’t see her face, everyone could feel that she was very beautiful.

Extremely beautiful, so beautiful that she didn’t look inferior to Queen Catheryne.

"Pope of the Lumiere Church, Lumiana..." Catheryne spoke up at this moment: "You came at the right time. However, today, you have no right to stop me from judging this brat."

Lumiana raised her head to look at Catheryne and said softly, "Your Majesty, even if our Holy Son committed a crime, he is still a Holy Son. His status is far more noble than anyone else here."

"You cannot judge him the way you judge ordinary people."

"Ah!" Catheryne replied coldly, "Are you testing my limits, Lumiana?"

Lumiana did not falter at this moment; the murderous auras both of them emitted were like two waves of gravity, causing the entire space to condense and become cold as if everything were frozen.

Lathel felt the terrifying killing intent and frowned. He didn’t think those two would dare to fight here. After all, there were many people here. Whoever dared to start a fight would suffer a great loss.

Even though this place is the Karol Empire, Pope Lumiana dared to come here, which means that she has the ability to take the Holy Son away safely.

The atmosphere was so tense that it was suffocating; even a low-class person like Lathel could not breathe. He even felt like Lumiana and Catheryne’s murderous intent was about to crush him.

Suddenly, a stream of energy suddenly appeared and surrounded his body, protecting him from Catheryne and Lumiana’s killing intent.

Lathel was startled, and he looked around, then he found out that Catheryne was also looking at him.

Her eyes carried a strange emotion that puzzled him, but he could be sure that the energy protecting him was coming from her.

Catheryne was indeed protecting Lathel; however, that action did not escape Lumiana’s eyes.

She frowned, glanced at Catheryne, then looked back at Lathel; no one knew what she was thinking.

"Enough!" Lumiana sighed, waved her hand, and the two streams of murderous aura immediately turned into a hurricane and disappeared.

"Catheryne... If you give me a reasonable reason, I can sit by and watch." Lumiana said, "If you don’t have any reason, then you are provoking the Church."

"You... will pay a heavy price for that action."

Catheryne looked at Lumiana, her eyes filled with arrogance and contempt: "You probably know what your Holy Son did."

"Not only is he the culprit of this competition, but he almost broke the Demon Lord’s seal reinforcement."

"Fortunately, Lathel fought bravely; otherwise, I’m afraid the consequences would be too unpredictable. At that time, he would have become the sinner of all humanity."

"Is that not enough for me to judge him, Lumiana?"

"Don’t think that your church is a giant monster that everyone must fear."

"You must know that... no matter how strong a tiger is, it is no match for a pack of wolves."

Lumiana was silent for a moment, then she sighed and walked over to Lathel, took out a chair from her space bag, and sat right next to him.

Lathel: "..."

’Oy! Can you sit somewhere else? Why are you sitting next to me?’

"I’m sitting here; what do you think, Hero?" Lumiana said, her voice carrying a hint of teasing that made Lathel shiver.

Hearing this, the crowd frowned, their anger rising to a peak. Although there were many people who did not like Catheryne ruling this empire, what Ikarys said was not only an insult to Catheryne but also an insult to all of them.

Ikarys’ meaning could be understood as... this entire Empire wouldn’t dare kill him because he was the Holy Son.

Suddenly, Boka stepped forward and knelt down, bowed his head, and respectfully said: "Your Majesty, I feel we should release the Holy Son."

Catheryne frowned, looking towards Boka; the terrifying murderous aura emanating from her made the entire space cold: "Give me a reasonable reason; otherwise, you die with him."

Boka’s body trembled violently, but at this moment, he glanced at the Pope; she didn’t look at him, but he still decided to continue speaking.

"Your Majesty... We have no enmity with the Church anyway, and besides, what happened inside the ’trial space’ does not violate the laws of the Empire."

"Entering that space, the life or death of the geniuses depends on the geniuses who enter that place."

"Although the Holy Son’s actions were wrong, what he did was appropriate given the situation at the time."

"Instead... why don’t we use this opportunity to create a relationship between us and the church?"

Catheryne frowned but did not rush to speak, continuing to listen to Boka speak.

Boka saw that she did not stop him and continued: "Your Majesty, I have an idea, but... if I say it, I’m afraid you won’t accept it."

Catheryne showed a lazy expression: "Speak!"

"Your Majesty, I feel that we should not create a conflict between us and the Church because of a commoner." Boka said with a smile: "After all, the Empire and the Church have no conflicts, nor do they have any significant relationship."

"That is why I think... We can cooperate with the church; from there, both sides can develop together, together towards a glorious future."

"To do that, we just need to throw away an ordinary person."

Lathel frowned upon hearing that; he naturally understood what Boka was saying. What he meant was to turn Lathel into a chess piece and give up this chess piece but still win the whole game.

Boka wanted to use him as a substitute for Ikarys to please the Church, thereby creating a premise for the Empire to cooperate with the Church.

At this moment, Lathel realised... none of the people here were good people. Whether they wanted Catheryne to continue ruling this empire or not, they all wanted to maximise the benefits they needed.

’It seems... humans are the same no matter what world they are in.’

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Hello everyone.

In the past time, too many things have happened that have made it impossible for me to focus on writing this book, so I have to stop suddenly like this.

Besides, the income from the book has decreased significantly, maybe... I will stop writing this book or continue writing but the number of chapters will not be as many.

I really thank everyone who has supported me until now.

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Through this book, I feel that my writing ability has improved but not much.

The beginning was quite good, but then I could not control the development of the plot.

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