Chapter 769 Aleister: Am I also a red-faced person?
"——Something terrible has happened, Your Highness!"
Prince Szijjártó's trusted astrologer, Fenrir, suddenly stumbled from one end of the corridor to the other, his voice trembling with fear: "Something happened—are you asleep, Your Highness?"
It was almost dawn. Aleister had drunk some wine and was about to go to bed when he heard Fenrir's terrified shouting outside.
...What happened?
Fenrir should be doing some astrologing at this time. Could it be that he has found some important information?
She frowned slightly, feeling a little anxious about her plan being unexpectedly interrupted...
It was the uncontrollable rage inherent in the Moon Child's body. Aleister suppressed the urge to destroy something, changed out of his pajamas, and put on presentable clothes.
Just in case, Aleister held the little crow in his arms as well.
When Aleister went out, the well-dressed honey badger was standing quietly at the door, and Aleister was unaware of it.
The honey badger nodded slightly to Aleister, and the two of them walked side by side to Prince Szijjártó's bedroom.
The bedroom door was open, but there was no sound inside. When the two of them reached the door, Aleister knocked symbolically to indicate that he had arrived.
Prince Szijjártó had already changed his clothes and was sitting at the table, pouring himself a cup of hot milk. Fenrir, beside him, was fidgeting—physically. He sat down, then stood up and paced back and forth, as if waiting for someone.
Fenrir didn't breathe a sigh of relief until Aleister and the others arrived.
"You two have arrived," Fenrir said urgently. "Can I speak now, Your Highness?"
"Go ahead, Mr. Fenrir."
Prince Szijjártó nodded slightly, turned back to Aleister, and explained, "I think you'll definitely be here too, so why not explain everything all at once? That way there won't be any misunderstandings."
"Something truly terrible has happened—I was doing my usual stargazing tonight, and suddenly, out of nowhere, I saw a terrible omen!"
Fenrir's lips were pale and his fingertips were trembling.
He emphasized as much as possible, "This is a bad omen I have never seen before—the entire planet will be plunged into war!"
"What did you see?"
Prince Szijjártó asked patiently, "Tell me everything in detail."
"I saw that the Moon Children in the Red Keep have gone mad. They murdered Earl Dawn and lifted the feast master into the air through a sacred ritual. Now they have begun to carry out a terrible reckoning on all those who try to attack the Moon Children!"
Fenrir said with effort.
At this moment, Aleister's expression was strange for a moment.
……What's the meaning?
Did Hong Xiang take the blame on his own initiative?
No, to be honest...didn't I do both of these things?
Aleister touched the crow awkwardly.
...I'm also a popular person? When did that happen?
However, this astrologer, who could see part of the future, didn't understand Aleister's expression. Instead, he tried to describe the horrific future he saw, trying to create an atmosphere that would be taken seriously. "I also saw that our king will die in this chaos!"
"What?"
Prince Szijjártó was stunned for a moment, then suddenly became serious: "What did you see?"
"It was the Red Prime Minister—he personally killed His Majesty the King, then gave a speech and mobilized the Moon Children across the country to start a civil war!"
Fenrir's pupils trembled slightly. "The Society and the Association are joining forces to resist, but in reality, they are plotting to usurp power. At this critical moment, the Spirit Tower and the Black Phase remain motionless!"
"I also saw that the entire planet was plunged into an unprecedented civil war. It was like the former Helasar Empire crumbling.
The civil war initiated by Narcissus Territory ceased instantly. The rebel group and the entire principality joined the Red Prime Minister's camp, followed by the entire Black Eagle Territory. In fact, the controller of Black Eagle Territory had long been infiltrated by the Red Prime Minister's Moon Son. The previous slow progress in suppressing the rebellion was simply because they were playing along with Narcissus Territory!
"Soon after, even the Theocracy intervened in this chaotic war.
"Those priests led the unemployed civilians and joined forces with the Black Hawk's roving mercenaries to attack banks and strangle goblins.
"Pushed to their limits by the alchemists, the botanists flocked to the Moon Children, hoping for their help in revenge against the Royal Alchemist Association. With the botanists' request, the Moon Children, who controlled the security forces, launched a coordinated attack with the fortress and the Moon Children.
"And those alchemists were completely spineless, with no unity at all. Faced with the overwhelmingly dominant Red Phase forces, they collapsed at the first blow. They surrendered almost the moment the battle began, and many alchemists were even defeated before the battle even began..."
Fenrir, wearing helmet-shaped glasses with many lenses, muttered in a dreamlike manner about the horrific future he had seen.
At the beginning, Prince Szijjártó was still frowning, actively facing the difficulties and trying hard to think of solutions.
But as he listened, his scalp tingled, and he gave up completely. If the situation in Xingti really reached this level of chaos, human power alone would be insufficient to turn the situation around. Even Szijjártó, a prince, couldn't guarantee his own safety...
There is no doubt that if the Red Prime Minister succeeds in seizing power... just in case, they will definitely consider eliminating all of Valentine VII's children.
The only person who might have survived was probably Queen Louise's third son, Lucien, Szijjártó's younger brother.
Lucien was Queen Louise's offspring after she had been resurrected by the Red Phase as the Moon Child. Undoubtedly, his relationship with the Red Phase would be even closer... If the Red Phase had attempted to establish itself as king, even Lucien wouldn't have survived.
But there is actually another possibility, that is, the red minister will not stand in front of the stage.
After all, the Moon Child's fiery nature made them unsuitable for a monarch. In other words, if a Moon Child became a monarch, they would inevitably be a tyrant... That was the influence of the Pillar Gods and the Celestial Officials, and it couldn't be countered by individual reason and will alone.
——After all, this is how the rule of the former Narcissus Principality collapsed.
Even though there were rational and intelligent mages as the core power, they did not like to deal with those complicated government affairs. To them, research and thinking were much more interesting than politics and power...so in the end, power fell into the hands of the Children of the Moon.
The result was that these willful Sons of the Moon easily brought the country to its knees. In the early days of the split of the Helasar Empire, the Narcissus Duchy had allied with its neighboring Black Hawk Duchy.
And because Lord Narcissus was assassinated by a killer mercenary from the Black Hawk Principality, the other party did not hurt him at all, but simply cut his clothes with a sword in front of everyone.
So, Narcissus Prince was so angry that he declared war on the entire Black Hawk Principality.
But the problem is, although that person is from Black Hawk... his actions have nothing to do with the Black Hawk Principality.
The entire Black Hawk Principality is nestled among mountains, deserts, and cliffs. Poverty and lacking resources, the nation is almost entirely made up of mercenaries, who survive by fighting or acting as bodyguards in other countries. Some also travel to other countries to sell their bodies or engage in other illegal activities, such as kidnapping, trafficking, fraud, robbery, and murder.
In Black Hawk, as long as the passerby is rich and weak, every village that is welcoming during the day may turn into a bandit den at any time at night.
Faced with this kind of atmosphere, the Black Hawk Principality had no way of suppressing bandits. If they couldn't even allow people to be bandits, then they simply couldn't let people live.
Therefore, the Black Eagle Duchy had the most lenient laws among the Helasar states—so lenient that you didn't even need to understand them. Murder here wasn't punishable by death; at most, it would result in exile. Even minor crimes like theft were likely punishable by exile, with the only difference being the type of troops and the intensity of the combat.
If you challenge your opponent to a public duel with your life at stake in front of everyone, you will not be arrested even if you kill him - because the weak are guilty.
The entire Black Hawk Principality is characterized by one theme: "Fight! Awesome!"
In this situation, everyone knew—perhaps even Narcissus himself—that his attack by the Black Hawks had nothing to do with the Black Hawk Principality. Yet, he couldn't control his rage and directly led a nation into war.
If the Red Prime Minister had considered this situation, Lucien Valentine would have been elected as the eighth generation Valentine.
In this case, Prince Szijjártó would most likely not be killed... but he would definitely be captured and turned into a blood slave.
At this point, no matter what Prince Szijjártó did, it would be of no avail.
After all, the Red Phase and the Black Phase are both supreme beings who transcend the world. Their power is comparable to that of Meg, the Great Arbitrator of Avalon. They are both supreme beings who stand at the top of the material world on this path.
Perhaps someone could confront Hong Xiang head-on, but it was basically impossible to protect another person from him.
This matter is also within the rules allowed by the Church.
According to the rules of the Theocracy since its founding, the Theocracy has no right and is unwilling to interfere in any internal power changes within the same nationality.
Because that would undoubtedly be a move towards authoritarianism, a departure from the Theocracy's established principles.
Once the Theocracy begins to judge the justice of a regime based on its own will, it means that they are on the path of secretly manipulating the world.
Whether a new regime is good or bad, without the influence of external interference, whether it becomes better and accepted, or becomes worse and overthrown, it is the future of the people of this country and should be chosen by them.
In other words, Szijjártó couldn't even ask for help from the outside world.
Even if he asked for reinforcements from Avalon or Iris, those reinforcements would be driven out by the Theocracy!
"Why didn't you tell me before?"
Prince Szijjártó had to become serious and whispered a reprimand to Fenrir.
"I, the future I saw before was clearly not this..."
Fenrir raised his helmet slightly, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and quickly defended himself, "Just a few days ago, I saw the demonologists and alchemists clashing with each other, while the Moon Child was gathering strength in the dark.
"Our main enemies at that time should be the Society and the Rosicrucian Society, because I see that they are about to hold a very dangerous ceremony, and this ceremony may endanger the safety of the entire Star Antimony..."
"——What do you mean? Can you be more precise, Mr. Fenrir? Can the future be changed so suddenly and easily?"
"No, how would I know..."
Fenrir opened his mouth, but was unable to argue.
While the future may occasionally change, the magnitude is usually small, much like a weather forecast that says tomorrow will be sunny and warm, but at least it won't suddenly turn into a blizzard.
Fenrir was a "prophetic retainer" who helped his master avoid danger by predicting the future, but it was too late when he gave the warning.
It's like a bodyguard who, after discovering a gangster has broken into his house at night, calls his boss and says, "Boss, a bad guy is coming in."
In fact, when the boss answered the phone, the gangster had been sitting next to him for a while.
——Then what’s the use of you?
Only Aleister roughly knew what was going on.
If things had developed according to the previous "script", then everything would have headed towards the future that Aiwas was familiar with - the power within the Star Antimony would still be entangled, but until the demonologists completed the Ring of Tail ritual, their civil war would never break out.
But Aleister had obviously inherited the unique characteristics of Aiwass... There were too many causes and effects entangled in her, which resulted in any plan directly targeting her being bound to encounter accidents, and all predictions pointing to her would become inaccurate.
The predetermined fate seemed like a powerless curse to her—and Aleister was immune to all curses.
“…How could this happen?”
Aleister fell into deep thought.
At first, she was just angry for no apparent reason, so she went to find out if someone had performed an evil ritual to attack her.
As a result, Aleister was like a dump truck drawn into hatred.
Following those scattered clues, they found Viscount Conley, who was killed off; they then found Earl Dawn, who was killed off even though it wasn't him; and then they found Alphonse - this one wasn't killed off easily, but he was killed off easily anyway.
As a result, after a series of chain reactions, the host of the banquet was unexpectedly promoted!
In Aiwas's memory, the Banquet Master never became a Heavenly Feast Master until the very end... Otherwise, he would have remembered such an important event. At least, the Banquet Master in his memory should be "the future Heavenly Feast Master" rather than "Hengwo's Apostle."
Count Dawn's ritual most likely consumed the Fool's Liver. However, at least after the Fallen Angels arrived, there wasn't a boss named "Count Dawn" in the Star Antimony instance.
So this rare material was wasted by him. Of course, it's also possible that he realized that Hong Xiang knew he had this thing... and he didn't want to give it to Hong Xiang, and was also worried about being harmed, so he deliberately destroyed it or took action to save his life.
——From this perspective, the current favorable situation of the Red Phase is really related to Aleister!
When Aleister realized this, he couldn't hold it in any longer.
What's going on? Am I really a popular person?!
(End of this chapter)
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