Chapter 421: Chapter 421
After Soro placed the two Earth Mother Goddess statues, Lin Rui felt more confident. Setting up these two resource points successfully, and adding the Territorial Essence later, the accelerated cycle alone can provide a large amount of materials for the territory.
And if the Taboo Object: Devil’s Golden Balance can be resolved, then Lin Rui can further enhance the Territorial Essence without worry.
Therefore, after a simple enhancement of a few items, Lin Rui temporarily stopped the sacrificial offerings and went directly to Wutong.
However, when Lin Rui arrived at the manor, he found that Wutong no longer lived there.
He was slightly surprised to find Wutong’s maid, Lei, in the tavern, drinking generously and enjoying a big meal.
This Super-Tier Mage, as usual, was carefree. The rose-colored wine dripped from her slender chin, flowing down the bottomless crevice into the magnificent valley between.
Lin Rui sat across from her and asked, "I asked you to take care of the Empress, where is she?"
"Ah~" Lei heavily placed her wine glass on the table and shrugged, causing a violent aftershock that made Lin Rui a little dizzy. She said with a voice full of ease and joy: "The Empress has moved into the palace. I can’t get in, so I can only wander outside."
This kind of leisurely life, where she could earn a salary without doing any work, she fancied it a lot!
"Palace?" Lin Rui thought for a moment. The only Epic Wonder palace in the territory was the Holy Grail Champion Divine Hall. "Isn’t that a place only the knights can enter for assessment? How did she get in?"
Lei rolled her eyes at him: "Are you kidding me? The rules don’t apply to her. Can this rule restrain her? She said it was quite good inside, capable of interrogating every visitor’s heart, and could isolate all treacherous individuals. If such an institution existed back when she had her palace, many regrets might have been avoided. So she’ll live there from now on."
"Huh? Are you two so close that she would reveal so much of her past to you?" Lin Rui looked at her in surprise.
Lei heavily slapped the table and glared at Lin Rui.
After a while, she weakly lay on the table, sighing: "The more I get in touch with Wutong, the more I feel she’s really a flawless woman. I deeply regret my lack of ability to help her recover from past regrets. You know? Don’t be fooled by her strength; she’s actually always felt lost." Check latest chapters at novelꞁire.net
"Lost?" Lin Rui asked in surprise. He always thought that such a graceful, coldly beautiful, noble, and strong Empress had a very firm heart, with a gaze that had already traversed the vast river of history and seen through everything.
Apparently, Lei had the same thought as Lin Rui initially, immediately noticing Lin Rui’s confusion, and said without good grace: "She wants to leave! She has almost paid back what she owed you, right? She said saints won’t die, but the thieves won’t stop. According to her thinking, she should have left a long time ago and developed her own forces. But the territory is entangled by this Taboo Object, and she doesn’t want to see the territory fall into the hands of demons months later, so she asked you to find her after you return."
It fits the inner gentle nature of this Empress, so she’s waiting for herself to return and solve the Taboo Object issue before leaving?
Lin Rui stood up directly: "Stop sighing. Even an Empress as powerful as Wutong couldn’t reclaim her regrets; we certainly don’t have the ability to intervene. Now, even if you wallow in self-pity for a whole day, it won’t help the situation a bit. Strengthening our power is the key. Once our strength can crush the old God of Light, perhaps we can help Wutong save something."
Lei rolled her eyes at her: "I dislike capitalists like you the most. Your motivational tactics are so clever, one after another, that it’s impossible to refuse. Damn it, even knowing I’m being exploited by you, I still have to muster my own fighting spirit."
Lin Rui left behind a hearty laugh, then turned around and left, heading towards the Holy Grail Champion Divine Hall.
At the entrance of the Divine Hall, Lin Rui happened to encounter the Knight "Redbeard Roland Falken" coming out from inside.
This Catastrophe-level Great Knight, just completed his trial and was promoted to Holy Grail Knight, was using the boldest language to say the most cowardly words.
The new Holy Grail Knight, whose power had swelled, walked with his shoulders broad, like a proud rooster returning home.
Lin Rui glanced at him and asked, "Did you meet a woman in there?"
Falken glared in anger: "Lord, how dare you desecrate the Goddess! That is the greatest Goddess on the Path of the Holy Grail! She is the supreme holy Divine Spirit eternally followed by knights. Her form is so perfect and flawless, her voice so sage and wise, that with just one piece of guidance, I felt the whole world opened up, entering into an unprecedented realm of light. Such a perfect Divine Spirit, the most perfect Goddess one can encounter on the Path of the Holy Grail, the pure symbol that can exist only in the Celestial Divine Kingdom, and you actually dismissively called such a noble Goddess a woman? This is blasphemy! Blasphemy against the purest faith of all of us knights. Lord, please allow me to overstep, I have to correct your wrong view."
"Tsk~" Facing this fanatic, Lin Rui hesitated for a moment before asking, "Could it be that you also grew stronger by drinking her foot-washing water?"
"Hmm? Foot-washing water? Why drink foot-washing water?" Falken said with regret: "If she had stepped on the surface of the lake to enlighten me, I could have drunk three hundred cups of the lake water. Alas, she only sat quietly by the lakeside, looking into the distance."
"Then how did she enlighten you? Allowing you to complete the Path of the Holy Grail so quickly?"