Li Aili looked at Arthur sitting opposite her.

At the other end of the banquet table, Arthur calmly finished his fruit and vegetable juice, looked up and asked, "What's wrong?"

Joanna was very perceptive; after bowing, she said, "I'll wait for you in the living room."

Li Aili nodded.

After Joanna left, Li Aili asked, "Speaking of which, it took Joshua less than two years to be promoted to Cardinal Archbishop, right?"

A glass of fruit and vegetable juice is enough to make Prince Arthur wear a mask of pain.

Arthur waved his hand, indicating that he needed a moment to calm down before speaking.

Li Aili's lips twitched slightly.

Those who know the truth will understand that this is just giving him a glass of fruit and vegetable juice; those who don't will think he's been given poison.

Arthur composed himself and asked, "My dear, what do you want to know?"

"Have you been in contact with Joshua before?"

Arthur thought for a moment, "Not entirely."

Li Aili raised an eyebrow slightly, "I thought you had some contact back at Neuschwanstein Castle."

Arthur poured himself a glass of mint tea to wash away the lingering effects of the fruit and vegetable juice in his mouth.

“My people in the Church of Light are not Joshua.”

Who is that?

Arthur downed his mint tea in one gulp. "You've seen those three who were captured and taken to the dungeons of Constantinople."

Li Aili has an impression of him.

Those three people were the ones Arthur asked her to mix the "truth potion" when she first arrived.

“That Joshua is someone who knows how to seize opportunities.”

Li Aili then asked, "What do you think of his sudden appearance in Emerald City?"

"You'll know once you meet them."

"Want to come together?" Li Aili asked.

Arthur said meaningfully, "If he sees me, he might not dare to talk to you."

...

The meeting place was not chosen to be the Emerald City Hall, which had cost a huge sum of money to build.

A pure white carriage stopped in front of Li Aili and Arthur's temporary residence.

Paladins clad in platinum-gold temple armor stood guard around the pure white carriage.

A bishop walked up to the carriage and opened the carriage door.

Before he could speak, a suffocating dragon aura emanated from the villa behind Li Aili, forcing the paladins to kneel on one knee.

Of course, Li Aili didn't sense anything.

All she saw was that the bishop knelt down as soon as he finished speaking…

Without even thinking, she knew who did it.

Looking back, sure enough, the tall man was standing by the second-floor window, looking down at them.

A soft sigh came from inside the carriage.

Cardinal Joshua, with his silver eyes, stepped out of the carriage.

He was holding something that looked like a crystal ball.

Li Aili sensed a very pure power of light from above.

"Long time no see, Miss Li Aili," Joshua greeted Li Aili first.

“It’s been a long time, Your Excellency Cardinal Archbishop.” Li Aili nodded slightly.

Joshua, dressed in an elaborately embroidered 'saint's robe,' glanced at the bishop who was trembling uncontrollably, and the Templar Knights who were gritting their teeth and enduring the dragon's might.

“Miss, they had no intention of offending you.”

Li Aili turned her head and glanced at Arthur in front of the window.

Soon, the unusual dragon's might slowly dissipated.

The Templar Knights stood up nimbly.

The helmets obscured their expressions.

Joshua personally helped the bishop, who was still panting heavily as if he had just been pulled out of the water, to his feet. "This is the pressure of the Platinum Dragon King."

"It's perfectly normal for you to lose to it."

Although these words were spoken to the Bishop of Light.

But Li Aili could clearly sense that the Templar Knights breathed a sigh of relief.

Joshua turned to Li Aili and said, "I would like to ask you to get into the carriage before we talk."

“If you don’t mind, we can walk along this tree-lined path and talk as we go.”

Li Aili glanced at the bishop, who was bent over and still gagging, and nodded. "No problem."

The two walked along the tree-lined path, with a pure white carriage slowly moving behind them, along with Cardinal Joshua's Knights Templar.

But Joshua must have used some means to block out their conversation.

“I very much hope to communicate with you in a proper and gradual manner.”

"But obviously, time and other factors do not allow us to do so."

Between her and the cardinal archbishop draped in a saint's robe, there could still be two more people walking side by side.

Li Aili felt that this 'some factors' mostly referred to her husband.

“I like efficient communication methods,” Li Aili said with a slight smile.

Joshua turned his head and glanced at her with his unusually silver eyes.

Step, step, step.

For the next few minutes, Li Aili could only hear footsteps, neither fast nor slow.

"Ms. Li Aili, what are your ideals or life goals?"

Li Aili: "..."

She really didn't expect that 'effective communication' would start with 'life goals'.

“Let me start by talking about myself,” Joshua began.

"I was overjoyed when I was first diagnosed with 'brightness'."

"My childhood dream was to become a kind and upright bishop of light."

"Because I possess the bloodline of Asmo, my talent for light is exceptional."

Li Aili remembered that someone had said before that the 'new elite' of the Holy Light Court might be an 'Asmo'.

She was quite surprised that the person involved had revealed this herself.

"Therefore, I was quickly chosen by the saint and became one of his many disciples."

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