Chapter 333 The Saintess's Mission
"Your Highness Heatherine, your words are an insult to me, and an insult to the entire Lionheart Knights, totaling twelve hundred warriors!" Upon hearing Saint Heatherine's accusations, Prince William's face twisted in anger, his yellow beard standing on end, clearly furious to the extreme.
"Insult you?...Want to duel?" Heather didn't even lift her eyelids, and just threw out a question.
"Well....."
Prince William was dumbfounded. In the Western Continent, if a noble felt insulted, he should take up his sword to defend his dignity. But even if William had eight lives, he wouldn't dare to duel Heatherine. Heatherine was known for her uprightness and ruthlessness; if she could kill you, she would never let you die half-dead.
“Heatherine, Prince William has brought the Lionheart Knights to help us resist the orcs. Let’s not bring up the old stories.” Elder Ryan could no longer remain silent and spoke up to persuade her. Only he could convince Heatherine.
"Elder Ryan, when Saint Qin Lan first came to the Western Continent, he killed two orc kings and more than ten orc warlords in just six months, and defeated the Great Witch Fenris. Isn't such a record respectable enough? What did they just say? As the supreme commander present, shouldn't you have stopped them?"
Saintess Heatherine bombarded Ryan with questions without any politeness, giving him a headache. He hadn't expected Heatherine to be so disrespectful. Although Heatherine's combat strength was inferior to his, her prestige among the temple's believers was far greater, and he couldn't force her to submit.
“Your Highness Heatherine, my brother died in battle that year. If Qin Lan hadn’t suddenly left the front lines, how could Connor have been ambushed by the orcs? His Highness Qin Lan did indeed have merit, but he also brought great losses to our Lionheart Knights. I’m telling the truth.”
Seeing that Elder Rhine was being cornered and speechless, Prince William had no choice but to step in and argue. After all, he was the one who started the trouble. Elder Rhine was embarrassed, but he would make things even more difficult for him later.
"In the early stages of the war, you did whatever you wanted under the protection of Saint Qin Lan. In the end, you arrogantly allowed your brother to lead troops deep into enemy territory to plunder. With less than a thousand men, you dared to 'approach' St. Petersburg. Does our battle plan include St. Petersburg?" Saint Heatherine did not hesitate to expose Prince William's wounds, displaying them bloodily to everyone.
"oh!...."
Heatherine's words shocked Wei Tao, and many others present were clearly unaware of this secret. In an instant, the hall erupted in chaos as everyone whispered among themselves, their gazes towards Prince William filled with schadenfreude.
“Your Highness Heatherine…you…” Prince William was filled with regret. If he had known that the Holy Maiden would stand up for the Great Xia people, he would never have spoken so arrogantly to the commander of the Great Xia reinforcements. Now, the reputation of the entire Lionheart Knights has been greatly damaged because of him, and it seems that his time as commander is over.
"Bang bang bang!"
"Everyone is clear about their mission, right? If there are no questions, then the meeting can be adjourned! Heatherine, please stay behind, I have something to say."
Elder Rhine slammed his fist on the table in anger, expelling the group of troublemaking nobles from the council chamber, leaving Heatherine alone.
“Heatherine, your honesty is a respectable virtue, but there are many things you don’t know. There’s a reason I’ve let William go,” Rhine said seriously, gesturing for Heatherine to calm down.
“…” Heather remained silent, waiting for Rhine to continue.
“A year ago, the Temple envoy stationed in the capital of the Great Xia Empire sent a secret letter. The Great Xia Empire’s army had won a great victory in the war against the orcs in the north. In this great war, a new type of weapon of the Great Xia Empire played a decisive role.”
"The Temple immediately dispatched a secret envoy to Great Xia, hoping to obtain this weapon to deal with our common enemy, but the people of Great Xia... refused."
Elder Rhine glanced at the silent, cold-faced saintess and said again, "Our envoys proposed numerous compensation conditions, but received no response from Great Xia. However, they obtained an important piece of intelligence in Great Xia: this weapon does not belong to the Great Xia Imperial Family, but was invented by a Great Xia prince."
Saintess Heather raised an eyebrow, her eyes flashing with a sharp light as she stared intently at Elder Rhine.
"You guessed right, it is Prince Heng, Qin Mo. He is currently cultivating in your inner palace."
Heather finally spoke, her icy tone sending chills down your spine: "What do you want to do?"
“There’s nothing we can do, since the aid from Great Xia every year is something we desperately need. But we can make Qin Mo feel guilty or grateful towards our temple, and then… get him to hand over the weapons to our temple on his own initiative.”
Elder Rhine ignored Heather's murderous glare and continued, "Qin Lan did indeed leave the eastern front defense zone without permission, that's undeniable. I originally wanted to use this to test him, but I didn't expect it to turn out like this. Now, let alone making Qin Mo feel guilty towards us, he probably wants to kill William."
"Lord Rhine, if you want to use the Temple's atonement methods on Qin Mo, I advise you not to play with fire. He's not one of those ignorant believers, hehehe!"
Saintess Heatherine was well-versed in the trick of declaring to the temple that all people are sinful, and then atoning for it. According to her observation, Qin Mo seemed to know this routine even better than she did. Now, seeing Elder Rhine trying to play this trick, she couldn't help but let out a series of cold laughs.
"Do you think I wanted to do this?" Elder Rhine looked at Heather with pity. "This was the order given to you and me by the Grand Elder. I originally wanted to help you this once, but you messed it up yourself. Heh!"
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