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Chapter 129: Confronting Xue Nuo, Dividing Roy!

Silence.

The silence was the sound of the 康桥 (Kang Qiao) tonight.

In this oppressive stillness, Leanna was the first to crack, suddenly slamming her coffee cup down.

“Having you take care of him? Don’t worry? What does this Xue Nuo Andervith even mean?!”

“If losing memories requires someone close to accompany, it shouldn’t be her, right?!”

By the end, Leanna’s voice shook in anger, her face a stormy cloud.

She was starting to believe Charlotte’s words more and more.

Having never experienced anything like this, Leanna was completely unprepared. Just seeing that expressionless white-haired girl lay her hands on her junior caused her blood to boil.

“No, no, no! Maybe she’s just really caring for Roy? I think we shouldn’t be so rash…”

The elven girl forced a smile, trying to lighten the mood with optimistic speculation, but before she knew it, she was clutching her head, wailing, her long elven ears perked up.

“Being cared for by a beautiful lady during a memory loss? That’s dangerous no matter how you slice it! Why is it always these troublesome women eyeing my Roy?!”

As for Alice, she looked like a burnt-out ember, her gaze vacant, muttering in a daze.

“Ah, there’s another new girl around the master.”

“We need to prepare a room for her…”

Watching the anxious and chaotic expressions of the girls, only the red-haired princess maintained her poise, letting out a small sigh.

One after another, and they were shaken up by just this little bit.

If it were left to you guys, poor Roy would probably have been completely devoured by those outside homewreckers!

No choice, it looks like I, having weathered countless storms, the rightful main wife, have to step in personally!

“Everyone, calm down!”

With a thump on the table, Charlotte’s authoritative voice quelled the crowd.

“As I suspected, that damn emotionless imperial girl has ulterior motives for our Roy!”

“But can we let her have her way?”

“Not a chance!”

“We’re out of time to waste! Let’s head to Calm Wind City and show that damn homewrecker who Roy’s true lover is!”

Charlotte’s fiery words ignited the girls’ anger and their resolve to defend Roy at all costs.

“Everyone, lend me your strength for Roy!” Charlotte extended her palm, issuing an alliance invitation.

Three girls placed their hands on hers, exchanged glances, and cheered out loud.

“She won’t get her way!”

To put a stop to the evil Xue Nuo Andervith’s scheming against Roy, the girls laid down their usual disputes and officially banded together today!

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Year-end summary.

This is an essential activity for every organization.

Counting the gains and losses of the year while also looking forward to motivate the members to push forward towards a bright future.

From just this one activity, one can see the cohesion of an organization.

And the cohesion of a cult is often ridiculously strong.

When you’re mentally unstable, have nothing to attach to, don’t even care for your own life, and willingly act as a disposable tool for the organization, then of course, the cohesion would be sky-high.

The 【Necromancy Sect】, which always regarded death as home, had maintained extremely high morale and cohesion.

Until this year.

Due to being hunted by authorities, the year-end summary was not only postponed to early next year but also suffered from terrible content, throwing the troops into confusion.

In the dark lair, under row upon row of pale candlelight, the stark white round table was utterly empty, with a full half of the ten seats meant for priests missing.

And the remaining priests had long lost the desire to look ahead and instead were just lamenting to one another.

There’s no helping it; this year has truly been a disaster.

First, the Academy City.

Priest Kalman intended to lure a tiger from its den but ran into a holy light maid out of nowhere, making a mess of things and losing the death god’s holy blessing made from Titan bones.

To pursue the demigod’s legacy, Priest Ivan went to negotiate with the Cassandra Family, only to fall into the hands of adventurers and wanted criminals.

In the end, even the Cassandra Family, which acted as an inside source, was outed, causing them to lose their base in the Academy and suffer heavy losses.

With their strength dwindling, the 【Necromancy Sect】 wanted to recuperate, but unexpectedly, the 【Cult of the Evil Dragon】 came to invite them for a hunt for the False King’s blood.

The corpse of a False King’s blood is a priceless offering comparable to that of a demigod.

With a well-planned strategy and joint effort, it should have been a sure win!

However, that damn 【Cult of the Evil Dragon】 didn’t even do their homework, resulting in them losing yet another formidable priest!

Fine, they can count that as their bad luck for believing the words of a dragon’s servant!

Let’s not let trouble pile up; staying low should be fine, right?

The conspiracy with the Empire and the Demon Race had been in the works for nearly a decade. If successful at stirring up turmoil in the Empire, they would gain a massive number of undead. Not only would that make up for their losses, but they could even hope to expand their power!

Of course, summoning the undead requires a lot of low-ranking personnel. But other than that, they wouldn’t need to do much else, making them the easiest side in the whole plan.

Especially since they sent one of the two high priests from the western continent, the 【Warlock】 with Lich blood.

Not to say it was a 100% success, but it should be a safe bet, right?

But what shocked them was that just as the plan was beginning, before the demon race could even capture Snow Wind Fortress, the Warlock’s soul fire was extinguished, announcing its demise.

The most absurd part was that the killer of the 【Warlock】 high priest was none other than the False King’s blood!

I mean, how is it that a mere student, skipping home for a break, is running all over the place?

Going to the Golden Sands Kingdom for the winter is one thing, but what’s he doing in the Empire during the dead of winter?!

“A mere maid, daring to attack us noble followers of the Death God just because she has the Holy Light!”

“And that 【Sword Demon】! If he hadn’t died in the assault on the Cassandra Family, I would have fed him to the ghouls myself!”

“No! If we’re assigning blame, the most damned should be that False King’s blood! He should be counting his lucky stars after narrowly escaping, yet he still dares to come all the way to the Empire to thwart our plans! Is he tired of living?!”

“I heard that holy light maid is also one of his people! This bastard must have been eyeing us for a long time!”

The priests cursed and raged, jumping up and down.

Originally, the 【Necromancy Sect】 moved to the western continent because they couldn’t compete with the church on the eastern continent.

Who knew after over a decade of groundwork, just when they made some progress, they ended up back to square one in just one year!

The most ridiculous part is that, unlike the 【Cult of the Evil Dragon】, who faced suppression for clashing with local forces.

They were cooperating with the imperial royal family and the Demon Race!

Who knew the royal family and the Demon Race would be so unreliable, especially after their plan failed, the royal family distanced themselves from them and ended up sending troops to annihilate quite a few of their strongholds.

Incompetent Demons! Shameless mortals! None of them are decent!

In summary, after a year of looking like they didn’t have massive conflicts with official powers, they still got slashed in the east and west, losing bit by bit like a dull knife cutting through flesh, just thinking about it is painful.

But just when everyone was furious and frustrated, the bald mage at the round table raised his staff and struck it heavily.

“Everyone!”

“With the blessings of the Death God, how can we falter for just a little setback?”

“Those foolish mortals dare to repeatedly insult us; we should double down and send them back into eternal silence!”

 

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