Card Apprentice Daily Log

Chapter 2647: Pope’s Conspiracy And The Runway Saintess

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Southern Capital, Heatsend Royal Palace

”Mother, what did City Lord Malvin say?” the Southern Princess asked her mother impatiently.

The reason the princess hadn’t contacted the City Lord of the Border City herself and had instead asked the queen to do so was simple: the latter hated her with a passion but got along excellently with her mother. The reason for that was equally simple. She was a diplomat, while her mother was the soldier queen. What was more unsettling was that they had once been friends, but everything changed between them the moment she became a diplomat. However, considering the history of the Unstoppable Aurculean family in the Southern Region, this was hardly surprising.

”She said this might be related to the Saintess of Demigod Michel Angelo Godson’s church, who was responsible for protecting the broken runes of Demigod Michel Angelo and was supposedly assassinated last month during the church’s explosion.

Now, there’s chatter among the Empire’s citizens that the Saintess isn’t dead, but deliberately faked her death to steal the relics and broken runes of Demigod Michel Angelo.

Because of that, the Pope of Demigod Michel Angelo’s church has just announced the absorption of their church into the Emissary of Light’s church acknowledging him as the true son of the heaven and publicly begging the Emissary of Light to help them find the traitorous Saintess and retrieve their relics.

She believes this is why the Emissary of Light’s followers are in Sky Blossom City, and possibly other cities as well, trying to track down the Saintess,” Colleen answered, her eyes still glued to the live stream, envying her grandson-in-law’s celestial rule domain. Right now, he looked more like a demigod than she ever had. Subduing more than a dozen demigods with a single word. Who wouldn’t be drawn to such power?

”I see. What does she think about this info? Did the Saintess who had been guarding the relics and broken runes of Demigod Michel Angelo for millennia now, actually steal them, or is there more to it?” the Southern Princess asked, even though she had already guessed what was going on.

After all, she had been monitoring the political shifts within the Empire even before becoming the Southern Region’s diplomat. After noticing that worshippers of the first demigods were steadily decreasing, switching instead to follow the Emissary of Light.

By now, the Emissary of Light’s church had completely absorbed the other churches and held absolute dominion over the Empire far sooner than it had in Clown Mask’s future vision, where the Saintess had actually died in the church explosion and Demigod Michel Angelo’s relics and broken runes were formally offered to the Emissary of Light by the Pope of Michel Angelo’s church.

”Well, she believes that the Pope has been conspiring with the Emissary of Light for quite some time now. He hired an assassin from the Five Regions to kill the Saintess.

That way, he could offer the relics and broken runes of Demigod Michel Angelo to the Emissary of Light in exchange for a higher rank and greater authority within the new parish. Secondly, it would give Michel Angelo a reason to start a crusade against the Five Regions and rake in faith through a battle framed as good versus evil.

However, the Saintess miraculously not only survived but also escaped the Empire, completely ruining their conspiracy. Therefore, they cooked up the story about the Saintess faking her death, betraying the Michel Angelo church, and stealing the relics and broken runes of Demigod Michel Angelo.

This way, no one would believe her if she dared to foolishly come out of hiding and confess the truth to the citizens of the Empire. This was also why they hurriedly absorbed the Michel Angelo church into the Emissary of Light’s church, despite strong resistance from the older generation. They even executed them publicly just last night, labeling them as heretic sympathizers,” Colleen revealed, relaying everything she had learned from the City Lord of the Border City.

Colleen actually marveled at how accurate City Lord Malvin’s deductions were. Having seen Clown Mask’s future vision, they were no strangers to the conspiracy between the Pope of the Michel Angelo Church and the Emissary of Light. What they hadn’t anticipated was that, due to the anomaly in the timeline, matters within the Empire had already developed to this extent.

The fact that most trusted members of the Royal Family knew about Clown Mask, while the City Lord of the Border City had no knowledge of it, spoke volumes about the Royal Family’s opinion of the Unstoppable Aurcelean Family. They believed the other side harbored too many grievances and dissatisfactions toward the Royal Family to be trusted.

That wasn’t to say they hadn’t attempted to mend the relationship between the two families. The Royal Family had once assigned the current City Lord Malvin as the Southern Princess’s royal guard, but she left when the Southern Princess chose to become a diplomat, stating that her duty lay with the Southern Region’s royal family and its citizens, not with the damned ministers who lined their pockets by cheating their Ruler and tormenting the citizens they were supposed to serve.

”It seems the time anomaly that originated with Wyatt didn’t spare anyone. Everyone has fallen prey to it,” the Southern Princess muttered. Having thoroughly seen Clown Mask’s future vision, it wasn’t hard for her to figure out that the variations in the timeline all stemmed from Wyatt and were now slowly affecting the entire Card World. So far, it had brought more good than bad to the Southern Region, but she worried that their reckoning might not be far off. Hoefully, they could survive it and shine brighter.

From the corner of her eye, she noticed a change in the live stream, causing her to frown. Seeing the golden radiance bloom in the guard captain’s eyes as he defied her son-in-law’s celestial rule domain and stood firmly on his feet, she instantly knew that the Emissary of Light himself had arrived.