Don't confiscate my identity as a human race

Chapter 546 - 514 Countdown to Lanci and Talia’s Mutual Destruction

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The massive kingdom located in the central western part of the South Continent.

Camberra Kingdom is a leading power among the kingdoms of the South Continent, and it has maintained its neutrality for many years.

Both the South Continent Shadow World Management Association and the Magician Card Association Headquarters are situated within Camberra Kingdom.

Its size even surpasses that of Hutton Kingdom, the large country on the central eastern coast of the South Continent, by a significant margin.

Just south of Camberra Royal Capital, the Kingdom Joint Council’s meeting hall stood magnificently as if challenging the very skies.

In the high-ceilinged interior of the towering building, the ceiling was adorned with complex openwork patterns, allowing sunlight to filter through these exquisite openings and casting countless golden lines weaving through the space itself; the walls were inlaid with mosaic paintings that depicted the glorious history of the Kingdom Joint Council.

The topmost room was sealed with barriers and metal gates, and several figures were seated around a round table.

The surface at the center of the round table was as smooth as a mirror, as if embedded with a star-checkerboard, reflecting every ray of light in the room.

"How should we investigate?"

The air was thick with contemplation, and the faces of those seated there bore expressions of seriousness, focus, and even tension.

They included permanent members of the Kingdom Joint Council as well as representatives from associations, churches, and academic societies.

"Regardless, the Cardinal Bishop who came from the Northern Continent has brought real unrest, and the Hutton Kingdom to his south was directly attacked by the Rebirth Church. It’s difficult to say that this Cardinal Bishop isn’t connected to the attack."

"We must understand his conspiracy and any bit of intelligence about him."

The eyes of the councillors moved between each other, as if in silent communication, searching for one another’s positions and thoughts.

The star-checkerboard at the center of the table, an ancient artifact, could resonate with the Papal Authority passed down through the ages by the Rebirth Church and also pinpoint the general whereabouts of all the Cardinal Bishops.

Beyond that, its essence was that of a divination attribute magic device, which could perform divination independently of an astrologer every so often as it reflected the energy gathered by the constellations.

Though its divination results could only present vague sand paintings on the star sand, it could still lock onto more or less information despite the absence of clues.

The accuracy of its predictions for "the future" was uncertain, and the divinations for "the present" could easily be obstructed; only divinations of "the past" were more precise, but they could not span too much time or the accuracy would greatly diminish.

Furthermore, the more complex the question, the more ambiguous the divination result would be.

Today, core members of the Kingdom Joint Council had decided to employ its divinatory power to probe information about the new Cardinal Bishop from the Northern Continent.

Yesterday’s terrorist attack had finally made them ascertain the threat the new Cardinal Bishop posed.

After deliberation, they settled on the direction for the divination—

They wanted to see what had been the most critical moment for the new Cardinal Bishop in the past few days.

Maybe they could find out how the southern part of Hutton Kingdom was attacked!

"Let’s start with the divination; if no one objects, then we’ll try to divine with this."

"There is none,"

everyone replied in response.

Under the chairman’s manipulation, the star sand at the center of the star-checkerboard became a halo of light flowing across the mirrored surface, and the pupils of all core council members were reflected in pure white, as if they were all surrounded by the might of the stars, trying to be the first to glimpse the truth.

Eventually, the pale blue star sand gradually coalesced, forming a vague sand painting.

All the council members stood up.

They looked at the center of the round table with furrowed brows.

"This is..."

"What?"

Displayed on the sand painting of the star-checkerboard appeared to be three individuals tangled up like a braided rope, their true appearances indistinct, with even their actions unclear.

"What exactly are they doing?"

Someone blushed, as if they thought the new Cardinal Bishop was engaged in some indecent activity.

The chairman quickly cleared his throat twice to alleviate the extremely awkward atmosphere in the council hall.

"Regardless, first turn this star sand painting into a regular sand painting, and publicize it through certain channels of media of the Kingdom Joint Council as an art piece. If anyone is informed, please contact us promptly. To avoid causing panic, do not reveal that this painting is actually intelligence related to the new Cardinal Bishop,"

the chairman said with a solemn expression as he looked at the painting.

The lines of the star sand painting could vaguely make out the male figure at the bottom, while both figures riding on top and trapped in the middle were slender women.

After hearing this, the council members nodded one by one, agreeing with the chairman’s idea.

"The new Cardinal Bishop must be a person with a very chaotic relationship with women."

In any case, this was the conclusion they came to.

"We might still need to send professionals to investigate in Hutton Kingdom, as this painting alone is likely not enough to find out the identity of that Cardinal Bishop,"

the chairman said with a firm tone that did not hide his determination to capture the Cardinal Bishop.

The balance had been maintained originally with five Bishops in the South Continent and five in the Northern Continent.

Half a year ago, after the Bishop of Destruction and the Dimensional Bishop’s great battle, the latter vanished from the South Continent for a while, and recently reemerged. Furthermore, a new Cardinal Bishop of unknown identity had arrived from the Northern Continent.

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Now the Southern Continent has a total of six Bishops.

Adding to the movements of the Cerryti Empire, the pressure on the South Continental Kingdom Union Council is immense.

"I’ll go."

At that moment, a figure fully clad in light-gold heavy armor seated at a corner of the round table raised their hand.

Last time, in the high-dimensional observation space during the Church of the Goddess of Destiny’s senior Priest assessment, the Paladin commander was already worried about his dear friend Loren’s mental state. He felt that Loren was in poor condition and had an ominous premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, Loren had faced a fierce battle yesterday.

Because the journey between Camberra Kingdom and Hutton Kingdom is extremely far, with Camberra Kingdom situated in the western part of the South Continent and the Hutton Kingdom in the far east, communication magic between the two nations requires passing through several country nodes, making it difficult to contact each other under normal circumstances.

And if he wanted to visit Loren in person in Hutton Kingdom, the journey was even longer, and it was hard to ask for extended leave. Now, there was an opportunity for an official trip to Hutton Kingdom.

"..."

The chairman stared at the Paladin commander from the Church of the Goddess of Destiny, not expecting the Paladin commander to so resolutely take on such a dangerous mission,

"Then I’ll entrust you with this task."

The chairman earnestly requested of the Paladin commander.

"Understood."

The Paladin commander quietly clenched his fist.

Dear friend, I’m on my way.

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Meanwhile.

Hutton Kingdom, Capital City Ekrite.

At the moment, it wasn’t peak dining time at the Boss Cat Restaurant, and there were few customers.

Pranay stood behind the bar leisurely wiping a glass.

Suddenly.

He clutched his forehead with one hand, as if he were experiencing a sharp pain in his head.

"Big brother, what’s wrong?"

Sinola quickly came over with a glass of water, asking with concern.

She noticed her brother’s complexion had turned somewhat pale, as if he had seen something horrifying.

However, they had just returned from escorting the decayed alchemical beast, that dangerous thing, back from Nanwantina. Pranay had exerted the most effort, and after returning to the Royal Capital, had to pretend like nothing had happened yesterday and continue to work as normal. It was reasonable for Pranay to be tired.

"Intermittent Thousand-Mile Eye, I can’t control this nascent spell right now."

Pranay lightly took the glass of water, shook his head, and indicated through a Magic Sound Transmission audible only to Sinola that he was all right.

Then, Pranay specifically glanced at Antanas.

Fortunately.

Antanas hadn’t noticed him.

In fact, his Thousand-Mile Eye just now seemed to have interfered with a divination spell being cast somewhere unknown, revealing a scene that could potentially change the world’s timeline node.

Yet.

He actually saw the figures of the King, Hugh, and Talia entangled together on the ground!

Pranay wondered for a moment if his Thousand-Mile Eye was broken.

He was still breaking out in a cold sweat.

He couldn’t let anyone know what he knew.

Otherwise, not a single one of his lives would be spared!

Pranay resolved to take this secret to his grave.

Pranay made a decision.

"Phew…"

Following that, he breathed a sigh of relief and continued to tidy up the restaurant, preparing for the noon rush.

Thankfully, Talia didn’t know Mind Reading Technique.

According to ancient Demon World texts he understood, the inborn mind-reading ability of the Demon Race might uncontrollably blurt out the thoughts read during the evolution process, much like his incomplete Thousand-Mile Eye which would intermittently trigger along with some side effects.

Otherwise, if an accident happened, leaving aside whether he, Pranay, could survive, the King might truly die alongside Talia.