Absolute Divine Weapon · Undying Heart
In the underground hall, all seven Sword Bearers had collapsed from exhaustion and fallen unconscious. The five death warriors stood guard around them like corpses, while the two most extraordinary humans in Radiance faced each other.
One was the ruler of a continent thousands of miles away, the pope of the Necromancer Cult, a foreigner with golden hair and blue eyes—Ming Jiejin.
The other was a man of mysterious origins, the Sword Bearer of the Holy Sword Huiyao, and the curator of the White Box Library of the Imperial Academy—Cha Shiyin.
Though the two should have been separated by the ends of the earth, they were now less than five meters apart. Le Yu could faintly tell that Ming Jiejin had crossed thousands of miles to come to Radiance precisely to seek out Cha Shiyin!
"So, are you representing the Necromancer Cult in declaring war on Radiance?"
"That was indeed my father's idea." Ming Jiejin did not deny it. "But after a brief investigation, Father quickly abandoned the notion. With the Four Barbarians watching us from all sides, Radiance's weapon development is faster than the Western Continent's, fast enough to crush the Western Continent through a generational gap. Aside from maritime technology, there is no technology on the Western Continent that surpasses Radiance."
"Even though Radiance suffers from severe land annexation and intense class conflict, it is still a powerful empire—so powerful that even if it were to perish, it would perish because it was too powerful."
"Therefore, after I succeeded to the position of pope, I changed my mind. In the end, invading Radiance was not our ultimate goal, but merely a shortcut leading to it. Since the shortcut was impassable, I had no choice but to take the long way around."
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