Lord of the Mysteries: The Benevolent Witch
Chapter 916

A visit

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At that moment, Angel felt Anne's mark on her hand grow hot. It seemed that, at the other end, Anne's determination to prevent a new Black Emperor from emerging and cutting off the former Black Emperor Roselle's last chance of survival had traveled here through their contract.

This was a genuine angel, and one who existed in the form of a ghost ship, with powerful firepower and mobility. Angel remembered that one of the mausoleums Katarina had revealed was on a remote island in Desi Bay!

Calming herself, she continued reading the letter. She learned that, after discussing it, Klein and Bernadette had decided to choose between disrupting the ritual and directly assassinating George III. Naturally, their precise course of action would have to wait until the situation developed further.

Rather than assassinating George III, who was most likely already a sequence 1, Angel preferred to disrupt the King's apotheosis ritual. After all, the assassination target would certainly be heavily guarded, while there were nine mausoleums in total. Even with multiple angels and saints, the royal family and the military were unlikely to be able to protect every one of them adequately.

Of course, they would have to time their attack carefully. If they destroyed a mausoleum beforehand, George III could simply postpone his advancement and repair it or build a replacement. That would not cause him much trouble. They had to attack and destroy the mausoleums at a critical moment in his advancement, shaking the foundations of his ritual.

Angel estimated that destroying one or two mausoleums at a crucial moment in George III's promotion ritual—or, most importantly, the one housing his actual body—would have a high probability of causing the ritual to fail. Failure during the process of becoming a sequence 0 would inevitably cause this sequence 1

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