Nabistin Imperial Palace, Witch Confidential Room.
This place had originally only been Annan's temporary office for reviewing confidential documents on the empress's behalf. As First Witch, Annan's proper workplace should have been the newly established Witch Construction Bureau in Nabistin, while the place where the Empress Isu worked and received foreign officials was the Sound Palace. When Lysithea was on the throne, it had been Di Yin Palace—the Sound Palace stood firm, while empresses came and went.
For the past seven hundred years, the Sound Palace had always been the highest symbol of power for the Yisu Royal Family, but people seldom paid attention to it, because the Yisu Royal Family had always held few meetings and rarely interfered in politics. There had even been one empress who did not issue a single policy in fifty years. Many ordinary people who did not follow politics even thought the Yisu Royal Family was just a mascot, and that the financial magnates were the true masters of this country.
But as the Witch Construction Bureau reformed the Gospel's various systems step by step, disobedient governors were dismissed and had their homes confiscated one after another, and the major Conglomerate Families all cut off pieces of themselves and submitted. The Yisu Royal Family, which had never directly interfered in the workings of society and instead relied on the "invisible Gospel" to regulate the nation's economy and politics, completed centralization of power in only a few months under the ambitious Annan's management.
Or rather, the various Conglomerate Families had thought they shared the realm with the Yisu Royal Family, but that was nothing more than an illusion granted by the Yisu Royal Family. In this world where Miracles existed, the entire Gospel society's operation was built on the support of the Gospel God. With