Chapter 133: I Do Have a Conscience
“Wouldn’t it be a bit inappropriate for us to just go to the Xiya Kingdom like this? Shouldn’t we make some preparations beforehand?”
On their way to the Xiya Kingdom, the current Saint Paul couldn’t help but ask.
Quite some time had passed since the ceremony. With a large amount of resources poured into his development, Paul had reached the eighth rank, contributing more attributes to Kailun.
His talent indeed far surpassed Joseph’s. In just a few days, he had engraved several eighth-rank magic circles, further enhancing his strength.
However, due to his lack of knowledge, these magic circles were all engraved for him by the previous Saint, Henry.
This method of engraving magic circles was very intimate, so much so that even Harry felt a pang of jealousy.
Strictly speaking, Paul could utilize the power of these magic circles, but not perfectly.
“No need for excessive preparations. Unlike Saint Chrissy and the others, we only need to sneak into the Xiya Kingdom and gather some necessary information. Besides, even the Temple of the Celestial God’s teleportation formation can only shorten more than half the journey. They have to rely on themselves for the rest.”
Henry, who was setting up a temporary teleportation formation, looked up at Paul.
Unlike Chrissy’s group, using the Temple of the Celestial God’s teleportation formation was a dangerous choice for them.
It was conceivable that as soon as they stepped onto the Temple’s teleportation formation, they would be surrounded by two or three ninth-rank mages.
In order to reach the Xiya Kingdom within three days, they had to continuously set up disposable teleportation formations along the way.
“Gather information? For whom?”
Paul keenly sensed the hidden meaning in Henry’s words.
Henry stopped setting up the teleportation formation, thought for a moment, hesitated, and finally looked at Paul. “You should know that the Temple of the Celestial God, in the true sense, is actually composed of two parts. These two parts are the Celestial Empire and the Holy Temple. To be precise, we belong to the Holy Temple. Of course, as a well-known traitor within the Temple, I certainly wouldn’t gather information for the Pope. So the answer should be obvious.”
Paul: “The Empress! But why? Aren’t they on the same side?”
Paul couldn’t understand. In the rumors he had heard, the Empress and the Pope had a very good relationship.
According to the tradition of the Temple of the Celestial God, they would eventually unite at some point in the future, and their offspring would inherit the Celestial Empire.
For the empire, every emperor was the child of the previous emperor and the Pope.
For the Holy Temple, the next Pope was usually chosen from among the Saints.
If the emperor was male, the Saintess would become the Pope.
If the emperor was female, the Saint would become the Pope…
Paul: “!!!”
Thinking of this, Paul’s eyes widened abruptly. In Joseph’s memories, he found an earth-shattering secret.
Joseph had once overheard a conversation between Chrissy and the Pope. In his memory, the Pope clearly had a pure and pleasant female voice.
If the Pope and the Empress were both women, then there was an irreconcilable conflict between them.
“I also find it strange why the Empress would entrust us with this task. As far as I know, the Pope and the Empress have a very good relationship. It’s really strange.”
Harry patted Paul’s shoulder, a thoughtful look on his face.
“Harry, what do you think would happen if the Pope was also a woman?”
Paul grabbed Harry’s hand and held it in his own.
Harry shook his head. “Impossible. That’s absolutely impossible. If that were the case, either the Pope or the Empress wouldn’t be able to ascend to their position.”
“If that’s truly the case, then something unexpected might happen in the Temple of the Celestial God,” Henry said with a cold laugh.
Paul: “…”
He realized why the Empress would entrust this task to Henry, who had a strained relationship with the Pope. This mysterious Empress had been playing a long game.
Thinking of the various factions within the Temple, Paul suspected that this was the Empress’s doing.
Looking back, in this war against the Abyss, it was almost entirely the Holy Temple’s effort. The empire had remained as steady as a mountain.
Paul couldn’t help but wonder, didn’t the Pope have any other preparations?
“By the way, I heard that the Xiya Kingdom might be connected to the Abyss. They might have ninth-rank mages, so be careful on this mission. If you cause any trouble, don’t blame me for abandoning you. But don’t worry too much. I’ve also contacted a Cardinal named Charles. He will act with us.”
Pouring all the necessary magic crystals onto the teleportation formation, Henry explained again.
He wasn’t worried about this trip to the Xiya Kingdom. After all, including Charles, they now had two ninth-rank mages. With this level of strength, they could walk sideways anywhere.
As long as they didn’t encounter a large force from the Holy Temple, Henry was fearless.
He had not only established a connection with the Abyss but also with the Empress. With so many options, Henry didn’t know how he could lose.
Now he only needed to obtain enough resources to fatten up Paul and then devour him.
“Boom!”
Activating the teleportation formation, Henry stepped in first.
…….
Two days passed quickly. During this time, Kailun spent most of his time studying the parchment scrolls.
It wasn’t that he hadn’t made any progress. He had found traces of Destiny Magic on the second scroll.
Destiny Magic again. Kailun was starting to dislike this term.
Apart from that, he often went to the underground prison and bullied Hilna against the glass wall in front of Vivian. As a result, Hilna’s goodwill had increased to -50.
If he was lucky, he might even encounter the Vivian with a suffix in her name. Then he would spank Vivian’s bottom right in front of Hilna.
Poor Vivian thought she was still pure, but she had already been “filled” by Kailun many times.
On the night before the Chamber of Commerce’s opening ceremony, Kailun brought Hilna bad news.
“I have bad news for you. Shirley has gone missing.”
Kailun sat on Hilna’s bed, his brow slightly furrowed, clearly in a bad mood.
“Shirley is missing? What happened? Did you do something to her?”
Hilna, who had just pulled her panties down to her knees, exclaimed in shock. She pushed Kailun onto the bed and questioned him with an icy expression.
“Don’t think so poorly of me. Shirley is my subordinate after all. I wouldn’t really harm her.”
Looking at Hilna straddling his waist, Kailun sighed. “Although she’s currently missing, her situation isn’t that bad. I’ve already confirmed this with Isabella.”
In addition, Kailun had also confirmed the survival of Shirley and her group by sharing attribute points.
To give Shirley the ability to deal with crises, Kailun had placed a portion of his attribute points on her, temporarily granting her ninth-rank strength.
Because he had distributed too many attribute points, Kailun’s current base attributes were only at the eighth rank, resulting in a significant decrease in his combat power.
“What did you ask her to do?”
Ignoring their ambiguous position, Hilna grabbed Kailun’s collar and asked.
“I asked her to investigate something, and she went missing before she could report back. A group of Silver Moon Knights went missing with her. So, Princess, are you still planning to spend the rest of your life in this luxurious prison?”
Kailun reached out and caressed Hilna’s cheek.
“What princess? I’m just your slave.” Hilna said self-deprecatingly. The slave mark engraved on her tongue was visible every time she opened her mouth.
“So you’re saying we don’t need to care about Shirley’s life or death?” Kailun played with her delicate ear.
“If you don’t want to abandon Shirley, then send someone to rescue her, you bastard!”
Hilna tugged at Kailun’s collar and sat down forcefully, “devouring” him fiercely.
It all happened too fast. Both of them were still unguarded.
However, Hilna no longer cared about such intimate contact. In terms of familiarity with her body, Kailun even surpassed her own understanding.
Feeling the fullness within her, Hilna suppressed the urge to moan and condemned Kailun’s actions.
But because of her swaying movements, her condemnation not only failed to achieve its intended effect but also made Kailun feel comfortable.
“I’m sorry, but I don’t have time to rescue Shirley, unless you’re willing to come with me.”
Kailun placed his hands on Hilna’s slender waist and asked, “So, Princess, will you come with me? I’ll only ask you once.”
“Nonsense, would you go rescue Shirley if I didn’t?”
Hilna pounded Kailun’s chest with her fist.
“Yes, like now.” Kailun answered honestly.
Hilna: “…”
He did “move,” but it wasn’t the kind of “move” she had in mind.
Hilna wanted to get up, but Kailun held her waist tightly, so she could only obediently cater to his needs.
Through their intimate contact over the past few days, her resentment towards Kailun had lessened considerably.
[Mental Pollution deepened. Goodwill +5, Total Goodwill -45]
Perhaps Hilna’s resentment was too deep, so the effect of Mental Pollution wasn’t as obvious on her as it was on others.
Just as Hilna thought it was about to end, Kailun cast a spell on her.
“What are you doing?” Hilna asked, feeling the changes in her body.
“You’ve always been curious about what I did with Vivian, haven’t you? Now I’ll reveal the answer.”
Kailun barely managed to cast the spell. He was currently lacking in attributes.
“Get lost! I don’t want to! It sounds painful. Let go of me!”
Hilna struggled, trying to hold onto her bottom line.
But faced with Kailun’s insistence, she ultimately failed.
Half an hour later, Hilna’s goodwill increased by another five points, reaching a total of -40.
Finally, after having Hilna use her nimble tongue to clean up, Kailun told her to attend the event with him tomorrow.
Before leaving the underground prison, Kailun glanced at Vivian. Tonight, Vivian was still not acting normal.
She smiled at Kailun, her eyes filled with joy and a hint of madness, like a true little devil.
Over the past two days, even when Kailun bullied her severely, she refused to say a word. Her stubbornness was incredibly difficult to deal with.
Looking at Vivian sitting by the wall, Kailun asked with a hint of sympathy, “Don’t you want to change rooms? This room is dirty and has nothing. It’s a terrible place to live.”
“It’s fine. It’s not me who’s suffering, so it doesn’t matter. I know what you want to ask, but I’m sorry, I can’t say anything. My existence is already a mistake.”
Vivian said to Kailun with a smile, but her smile gave him a headache.
“Forget it. I can’t win against you. Come out, I’ll change your room.”
Kailun sighed helplessly and opened the iron door, intending to let Vivian out.
“Hee hee, I knew you couldn’t bear to leave me.”
Vivian jumped out of the room and clung to Kailun, wrapping her short legs around his waist.
Kailun raised an eyebrow. He lifted Vivian by the back of her neck and placed her in the room opposite Hilna’s.
“Go and take a good bath. Look at you, you’ve gotten my clothes dirty. You’re the same person, why are you so different?”
Closing the door, Kailun looked at Vivian through the iron bars.
Vivian’s eyes lit up alarmingly. “You guessed it?!”
Kailun replied with a smile. “No, I don’t know anything. Unless you tell me yourself, I won’t know anything. Go to bed early. Good night.”
Watching Kailun’s figure disappear from the underground prison, Vivian went to the bathtub in the room.
Filling it with hot water, she casually discarded her dirty clothes and stepped into the tub.
Compared to the Kailun from before, he had become more mature, more confident… more trustworthy.
To Vivian, Kailun was always Kailun. There was only one Kailun in the world.
Looking at her fair little hands, she truly realized that her existence was a huge mistake. If it weren’t for the drastic fluctuations in Vivian’s emotions, she wouldn’t exist at all.
The world, as they had predicted, had undergone tremendous changes, far exceeding their initial imagination.
“Swoosh~”
Scooping up hot water with her hands and pouring it over her head, “Vivian” truly felt her own greed.
She wanted to devour the real Vivian and live on through her body.
But she couldn’t do that.
She didn’t want to hurt the Vivian of this world, because she was her.
Closing her eyes, Vivian carefully sensed the world. The fluctuations of Destiny Magic were everywhere.
If she caused any more major impacts, this world would definitely collapse for some reason. Accommodating Kailun was already pushing the limits of magic.
Recalling the past, she was a fallen princess, treated as a bargaining chip for marriage. If she hadn’t met Dean Edlin, she might have really died.
Many things had happened afterward, but the most important thing to her was killing the Pope of the Temple of the Celestial God in a special way under Edlin’s leadership.
Of course, a certain mysterious Empress had played a significant role in this process. Otherwise, with their abilities, it would have been very difficult to kill the ninth-rank Pope.
Apart from the Empress, Carol had made the greatest contribution. She was probably the absolute main force in all the battles, single-handedly carrying the banner of the Abyss.
Recalling the past, Vivian sighed. When she was about to return, she received news of Kailun’s death.
She had missed him after all. She hadn’t made it in time.
This was the biggest regret for “Vivian”.
And that was why she had been brought into this world by the intense emotional fluctuations.
Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes and submerged her consciousness deep within her soul.
“Ugh!”
Not long after, Vivian woke up, choking on the hot water that had filled her mouth.
“Why am I here? What happened to me?”
Looking at the unfamiliar surroundings, Vivian wondered if her young self had developed Alzheimer’s.
Scanning her surroundings, she remembered falling asleep out of boredom. When she had lain down on the bed, Kailun had just started bullying Hilna.
Waking up, Vivian thought she was still on the dirty bed, but unexpectedly, she found herself in a luxurious room, soaking in a hot bath.
The style of the room told Vivian that she was still in Kailun’s prison, opposite her sister.
Just by turning her head, she could see her naked sister lying on the bed, visible red marks on her perky bottom.
“I’m doomed. I must have Alzheimer’s…”
Vivian clutched her head in distress, unaware that another consciousness had entered her soul.
……
Back in his bedroom, Kailun couldn’t fall asleep no matter how hard he tried. He tossed and turned, trying different sleeping positions, but nothing worked.
Whether he held Afra or Anna, it couldn’t extinguish the restlessness in his heart.
When it was past midnight, Kailun quietly left the gentle embrace.
He stepped over Ella’s sleeping form, carefully got out of bed, and put on his shoes and coat.
Then he went to Isabella’s door.
“Knock, knock, knock!”
“Isabella, are you asleep?” Kailun asked, knowing the answer.
After less than two minutes, the petite girl opened the door, wearing pajamas. Isabella looked at Kailun with a sleepy and resentful expression. “You know I’m already asleep, and you still ask that. Are you trying to annoy me to death? So, what’s the matter? It’s so late.”
Isabella yawned tiredly, and one of her white shoulder straps slipped off her smooth shoulder, revealing a large expanse of fair skin.
Unfortunately, she was too flat. Kailun couldn’t see any curves.
Kailun: “It’s nothing much. I just wanted to ask you to do a divination for me. Will Shirley encounter any trouble today?”
Isabella looked at Kailun in surprise. “I didn’t expect you to come to me with this kind of question in the middle of the night. I thought you didn’t have a conscience.”
Kailun explained a little awkwardly. “I’ve said it many times, I do have a conscience, just not much.”
“Okay, I understand, Mr. Kailun, the great philanthropist.”
Isabella casually pulled her shoulder strap back up and walked into the room. “I’m going to get some gold coins. Do you want to come in and sit for a while?”
“Since you’ve sincerely invited me, I naturally won’t refuse.”
Kailun walked into Isabella’s room and subconsciously closed the door behind him.
“Click!”
Hearing the sound of the door closing, Isabella suddenly woke up, realizing that they were now alone.
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