Isara, the royal palace of Lenburg.
Prince Alex, who looked to be in his sixties, had made his usual inspection of the capital and was preparing to rest.
He was the Lenburg Royal Family's only Sequence 3 Chaos Hunter. Because the seven Orthodox Churches had agreed that a king could be no higher than Sequence 5, the palace housed not only a king who handled state affairs, but also a demigod prince.
All of Isara was Prince Alex's territory. Through certain powers of the Arbiter Pathway, he could learn many of the secrets within it.
He was the capital's true ruler.
Just as Prince Alex was about to return to his bedroom, he spun around. A woman with a commanding air had appeared in the sitting room, which had been empty a moment ago.
She watched him quietly, as though he were already dead.
Prince Alex immediately opened the iron case he carried and took out the Level 0 Sealed Artifact held by the Lenburg Royal Family. "You still have a chance to flee before the Church's angels arrive."
"They won't be coming," Bernadette said coldly. "The Lenburg Royal Family was abandoned long ago."
Prince Alex's eyes widened. "You dare slander the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom!"
Bernadette wasted no more words. She raised a hand, and the floor beneath Prince Alex turned into a mass of information.
The mass surged upward, threatening to swallow him whole.
The prince immediately used the Sealed Artifact to distort his position, but he was a fraction too slow. His shoes became streams of information, leaving him barefoot on the floor.
The artifact in his hand corresponded to Sequence 2, Duke of Entropy, of the Lawyer Pathway. Unfortunately, the Lenburg Royal Family was not an Angel Family. They had never seen