A giant nation situated in the west-central part of the Southern Continent.

The Canberra Kingdom is a leader in overall national strength among the kingdoms of the Southern Continent, and it is also a kingdom that has maintained its neutrality for many years.

Both the Southern Continent Shadow World Management Association and the headquarters of the Card Maker Association are located in the Canberra Kingdom.

Its scale is even larger than that of the Hutton Kingdom, a major power on the east coast of the south-central Southern Continent.

The Canberra Royal Capital South, where the Kingdom United Council Chamber is located, is so magnificent that it seems to challenge the sky itself.

Inside the tower building, the ceiling is high, decorated with intricate openwork patterns. Sunlight streams through these delicate openings, turning into countless golden lines weaving through the space itself. The walls are inlaid with mosaic paintings depicting the glorious history of the Kingdom United Council.

In a sealed space on the top floor, filled with barriers and metal gates, several figures are sitting around a round table.

The surface of the round table's center is as smooth as a mirror, as if inlaid with a star chessboard, reflecting every ray of light in the room.

"How should we investigate?"

The air is thick with contemplation, and each person sitting here wears a serious, focused, and even tense expression.

They include permanent members of the Kingdom United Council, as well as representatives from associations, churches, and learned societies.

"In any case, the Cardinal from the Northern Continent has already brought true unrest. The southern part of the Hutton Kingdom, where he is located, has been directly attacked by the Rebirth Church. It's hard to say that this Cardinal is not connected to this attack."

"We must understand what his conspiracy is, and even the slightest bit of information about him."

The council members' eyes shift between each other, as if searching for each other's positions and thoughts in silent communication.

The star chessboard in the very center of the table is an ancient artifact that can sense the Papal Authority passed down from ancient times by the Rebirth Church, and at the same time determine the approximate location of every Cardinal.

In addition, its essence is a magical device with astrological attributes. Every year or so, it reflects the energy gathered by the stars, and can perform a divination without an astrologer.

Although the divination results themselves can only present a vague sand painting on the star sand, it can ultimately lock in more or less information when there are no clues.

Its divination effect on the "future" may not be accurate, and its divination on the "present" is easily deceived, only the divination on the "past" will be more accurate, but the time difference should not be too long, otherwise the accuracy will be greatly reduced.

In addition, the more complex the question itself, the more blurred the divination results will be.

Today, the core members of the Kingdom United Council have decided to use its divination ability to investigate information about the new Cardinal from the Northern Continent.

Yesterday's terrorist attack finally convinced them of the harm of the new Cardinal.

After discussion, they determined the direction of the divination—

They wanted to see the most crucial scene for the new Cardinal in the past few days.

Perhaps they could find out the whole story of the attack on the south of the Hutton Kingdom!

"Let's start the divination first. If everyone has no objection, let's try to divine with this."

"No."

Everyone responded.

Under the manipulation of the Speaker, the flowing light halo formed by the star sand in the center of the star chessboard flowed on the mirror surface. The pupils of all the core members were reflected in pure white, as if they were surrounded by the power of the stars, trying to be the first to witness the truth.

Eventually, the light blue star sand gradually condensed into shape, turning into a vague sand painting.

All the council members stood up.

Frowning, they looked at the center of the round table.

"This is..."

"Huh?"

In the sand painting presented by the star chessboard, there seemed to be three people. They were intertwined like three strands of rope twisted together, and they couldn't see their true faces at all. They didn't even know what they were doing.

"What on earth are they doing?"

Some people's faces turned red as they watched, as if they felt that the new Cardinal was doing something shameless.

The Speaker quickly coughed twice to ease the extremely embarrassing atmosphere in the council hall.

"In any case, let's reproduce this star sand painting into an ordinary sand painting and publish it to some media channels of the Kingdom United Council as an art painting. If there are any informants, please contact us in time. In order not to cause panic, don't reveal that this painting is actually related to the new Cardinal."

The Speaker looked at the painting with a solemn expression and said.

The lines on the star sand painting could roughly distinguish that the figure at the bottom was male, while the figures riding on top and sandwiched in the middle were slender female figures.

After hearing this, the council members gradually nodded and agreed with the Speaker's idea.

"The new Cardinal must be a person with very chaotic relationships between men and women."

In short, they still came to such a conclusion.

"We may also need to send professionals to the Hutton Kingdom to investigate. I'm afraid we still won't be able to find the identity of that Cardinal with just the clues from this painting."

The Speaker's firm tone did not hide his determination to capture the Cardinal.

Originally, the five bishops of the Southern Continent and the five bishops of the Northern Continent were able to maintain a balance.

Half a year ago, after the Destruction Bishop and the Dimensional Bishop fought, the Dimensional Bishop disappeared in the Southern Continent for a period of time. He returned again some time ago. Not only that, but an unknown Cardinal also came from the Northern Continent.

Now there are as many as six bishops in the Southern Continent.

Coupled with the movements of the Creete Empire, the pressure on the Kingdom United Council of the Southern Continent is now enormous.

"I'll go."

At this moment, a figure sitting in the corner of the round table, whose whole body was covered in light gold heavy armor, raised his hand.

During the high-dimensional observation space of the last examination for high-ranking priests of the Goddess of Destiny Church, the Paladin Commander was very worried about the mental state of his close friend, Loren. He felt that his state was very bad, and there was always an ominous premonition in his heart.

Sure enough, Loren encountered a fierce battle yesterday.

Because the Canberra Kingdom and the Hutton Kingdom are extremely far apart, the Canberra Kingdom is in the western part of the Southern Continent, while the Hutton Kingdom is in the easternmost part of the Southern Continent. Therefore, ultra-long-distance communication magic between the two countries requires conversion through several countries' stations, which is usually very difficult to contact.

And if you want to personally go to the Hutton Kingdom to see Loren, the journey is even more distant, and it is difficult to ask for a long vacation. Now there is such an opportunity for a business trip to the Hutton Kingdom.

"..."

The Speaker looked at the Paladin Commander of the Goddess of Destiny Church in a daze. He didn't expect the Paladin Commander to take on such a dangerous task so firmly.

"Then I'll have to trouble you."

The Speaker solemnly entrusted the Paladin Commander.

"Yes."

The Paladin Commander clenched his fist secretly.

My close friend, I'm coming.

……

At the same time.

Hutton Kingdom, Royal Capital, Ikeryte.

At this time, the Cat Boss Restaurant is not at its peak dining hours, and there are few customers.

Prana is standing behind the bar leisurely wiping glasses.

Suddenly.

He covered his eyes with one hand, seemingly with a stabbing headache.

"Brother, what's wrong?"

Sinora quickly came over and handed him a glass of water, asking with concern.

She felt that her brother's face was a little pale, as if he had seen something terrible.

However, this morning they had just escorted the Corroded Alchemy Beast, that dangerous thing, from the South Wantina Territory. Prana had done the most work. After returning to the Royal Capital, he had to pretend that nothing had happened yesterday and continue to work normally. It was normal for Prana to be tired.

"Intermittent clairvoyance, I can't control this fledgling magic yet."

Prana gently took the glass of water, shook his head, and used magic sound transmission that only Sinora could hear, indicating that he was fine.

After that, Prana specially observed Antanas.

Thankfully.

Antanas didn't notice him.

In fact, his clairvoyance seemed to have interfered with a divination spell cast somewhere just now, allowing him to see a scene that might change the node of the world line.

However.

He actually—

The three figures of King, Hyberia, and Talia were entangled together on the ground!

Prana suspected for a moment that his clairvoyance was broken.

He is still sweating profusely now.

He must not let anyone know that he knows.

Otherwise, he wouldn't survive with ten thousand lives!

Prana will take this matter to the tombstone.

Prana secretly made up his mind.

"Phew..."

Then he breathed a sigh of relief, continued to tidy up the restaurant, and prepared to usher in the peak period at noon.

Fortunately, Talia doesn't have mind-reading skills.

According to the ancient books of the Demon Realm he knows, the demon's talent for mind reading may uncontrollably say out what they read during the evolution process, just like his unfinished clairvoyance, which will be accompanied by some side effects when triggered intermittently.

Otherwise, if an accident happens, not to mention whether he, Prana, can live, the King may really die with Talia.

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(End of this chapter)