Chapter 654 Isabel: That’s Abominable
On the morning of March 1st.
Avalon, the Isle of Glass, the House of Silver and Tin.
Isabel had finished breakfast early and was sitting in the study, looking through something with a focused look on her face.
But she wasn't working on the documents; she was secretly reading a novel.
It was a "banned book" that had recently become popular in Avalon - it described the political struggles and office romance between Minister without Portfolio Aiwass and Queen Isabelle.
This was mainly because both Isabel and Iwasser were young, beautiful, and successful. Coupled with the previous scandal between Iwasser and Miss Aleister, this young Minister without Portfolio, who was appointed by the previous Queen as an exception, became a kind of enemy and friend to the young Queen in people's minds.
Generally speaking, things involving the royal family will definitely be discovered and investigated immediately.
There is a high probability that the author will become a piece of dried bacon in the hanging square.
But when people bought and collected it with trepidation and the feeling of "I have finally caught up with the legendary out-of-print banned book being published today", they unexpectedly discovered that it was not banned.
Not only has it not been banned, it is even still being serialized!
So people thought of the news that "Miss Aleister was driven out of Avalon" and immediately understood what Her Majesty the Queen meant - oh, this is what she meant.
It turns out that this is a legitimate cause that is tacitly accepted and even supported by the royal family!
Suddenly, similar jokes and novels popped up like mushrooms after rain. Some were printed and sold independently, some were serialized in newspapers, and some artists received orders to create similar paintings.
In other words, people still maintain their rationality, so no operas on related themes have been written - the above can be said to be personal actions of the people, but operas must be reviewed by the Inspectorate. Now that the young minister is not in Avalon, if he returns and finds out about this and gets angry and wants to settle accounts, then things will get out of hand.
——So Isabel decided to come by herself.
She gave herself a pen name, "Rose Kelly".
She planned to write an opera herself, from the libretto to the music, and then secretly pass it through the censorship. Once people saw it performed, they would probably know the royal family's attitude on the matter.
But it's just an idea.
Isabel had no writing experience - so in order to get material, Isabel planned to first look at how novels on the market were written to see if there were any plots that could be borrowed.
So she had the Queen's guards secretly buy a few books from the black market. It just so happened that Aiwass had been busy the past few days and couldn't meet him at night. Isabel even read a novel until after four in the morning last night - to stay energetic, she usually went to bed at twelve o'clock at night.
As a result, Isabel was so sleepy that she could not do anything else. She made up her mind:
It’s already this late, and I haven’t gotten enough sleep anyway, so I might as well not sleep.
So Isabel drank the sobering potion, and then used the harp that Aiwass gave her to treat herself and forcibly remove the negative effects of the potion.
After having breakfast early and practicing singing and playing, Isabel sat in the study and planned to continue reading.
When she was reading those books last night, she blushed at first when she saw the heroine's name - but then she gradually felt a wonderful feeling. It was as if she had personally experienced a mysterious adventure and spent a wonderful time with Aiwass.
Last night's sleepless night had been meaningful: Isabelle felt a resonance with the path of beauty. This wonderful experience of seeing herself as a "character in a novel," and even having to create new fictional art herself, had indeed visibly increased her strength.
...But this book is a little different.
It was said to be the hottest, most highly reviewed, and lowest-stocked book on the black market. Isabel's personal guard had to work hard to acquire it. Isabel, always saving the best for last, decided to read this book last, lest her taste buds become too picky to handle anything else.
As a result, it made Isabel blush.
Half shame, half anger.
Because this book contains a lot of discordant descriptions that are not suitable for children.
But what made Isabel most angry was that these stories were not about herself - but about Aiwass and "Miss Aleister", and even the sensational stories of Aiwass and the female agent Star Antimony, and Aiwass and the female spy Iris.
The story of Aiwass and Isabel is reduced to a wonderful story of "how they tacitly work together to fight their common enemy, and how they fight each other for their own power and interests", a story of mutual cooperation and backstabbing.
The author of this book tried hard to create an atmosphere where "Aiswas and Miss Aleister were lovers, while he and Queen Isabel were enemies who loved and hated each other but recognized each other", in an attempt to use this method to rationalize why there was no plot about Her Majesty the Queen - but Isabel knew that the real reason was that the author must not dare to write it.
That's indeed reasonable.
Because if this author dared to write some stories that blasphemed the monarch, Isabel would contact the Arbitration Hall to arrest him immediately; but on the other hand, although this author was very cautious and did not write nonsense, Isabel still planned to arrest him - it's not that she herself didn't like to read, but this thing definitely couldn't be read by others.
——But what you wrote makes me angry!
Although I don't know whether the author is a man or a woman, or what his background is, judging by the rather detailed political descriptions, he was most likely someone with access to the Round Table. At least his description of the atmosphere there is quite accurate.
"--His Majesty."
Just then, there was a knock on the study door.
It was a familiar voice that Isabel hadn't heard in some time—the solemn voice of the Grand Guardian.
Isabel frantically tried to wrap the thin booklet inside Elven Diplomacy: Food, Etiquette, and Culture, which sat on the corner of the table. Seeing a blank section in the middle, she reached out and tried to flatten it, but failed. So she simply picked up the vase from the table, pressed it onto the book, and then pushed it back to the corner.
She finally breathed a sigh of relief and signaled the guards to open the door.
As a result, when I opened the door, I unexpectedly saw a large group of people walking in together.
Except for the Grand Inquisitor who has taken leave, the three highest-level transcendents in Avalon, Grand Justice Arius, Grand Arbitrator Ligeia, and Grand Guardian George, are all here.
This immediately perked up Isabel.
For even Ligeia was grave: she had not drunk!
Since Ligeia had become a familiar face on the Glass Island, she had been openly visiting the bars she had loved as "Meg," resuming her usual leisurely lifestyle of beer and fried chicken. Especially after the arrival of the Queen's Guard, she even found time to go fishing in Pastoral Bay, returning home to stew the fish and share it with Isabel.
"...Lord Barton, shouldn't you be at Xingti?"
Isabel looked at the Great Guardian, whose face was serious and even a little guilty, with some surprise, and said with some worry: "Could it be... an ambush in the Griffin Legion?"
——But why would the Great Guardian bring his own son?
"No, everything is going well on the front line, Your Majesty."
The Great Guardian shook his head. "I just rushed back. The Griffin Legion is still stationed in Xingti. I have ordered them to temporarily enter a stationed state. If I don't return, I will not continue the military operation..."
After he finished speaking, he knelt on one knee and bowed his head to apologize: "I have come to apologize to Your Majesty."
"……What?"
Isabel was a little surprised. She looked at the serious expressions of the Grand Chancellor and Ligeia, and then she became nervous: "Why?"
"Because my son, David Barton—he left the path of authority last night."
The Great Guardian said seriously, "This is undoubtedly a betrayal to Your Majesty, so I brought David to you immediately to apologize."
"...Wait, off the path? What's going on?"
Isabel still didn't understand the situation.
——Can the path be escaped?
"Is the child okay?"
She asked subconsciously.
The Great Guardian patted David on the shoulder and motioned for him to speak for himself.
David's expression seemed a little timid, but he did not regret it - his eyes were quite firm.
"It is like this, Your Majesty..."
David quickly told his dream from last night.
"Last night, flames suddenly burst out of his body."
The Great Guardian added, "Nadia was terrified at the time—but she quickly realized it was the influence of some mysterious force and didn't dare intervene. So she immediately contacted me... I was in Star Antimony at the time, and my phone couldn't get through. It was all thanks to a supernatural prop that gave me a warning—it was something I had left behind for her and David to use in case they were in danger.
"I immediately rushed back with Philip. Philip flies very fast, so I arrived in less than half an hour. When I arrived, we both noticed that David's Dao power was disintegrating... but his body was being reshaped into another form."
The Great Guardian said solemnly, "We quickly woke David up. After checking, we discovered that he had acquired a new profession, the Warrior, which was adapted to the Dao! However, his original professional power from the Authoritarian Path was lost..."
"You should remember where the power of a 'warrior' comes from, Your Majesty."
The taciturn Grand Justice reminded.
(End of this chapter)
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