Chapter 533: The Guilty-Conscience Cherub

Just as the Home Witch and the Loli Pope were engaging in their "benevolent master and filial disciple" routine, inside the Central Cathedral not far away, the Pure White Witch was listening to the work reports of the subordinates she had sent to the Magitech Republic to execute the chaos plan.

"Apologies, Your Majesty, my proselytizing here has not been very smooth."

"Please, Your Majesty, you must believe that I have truly tried my best to proselytize, but the strength of the Mechanical Sect here is simply too deeply rooted and difficult to shake."

"Your Majesty, I was almost successful, but that group of Armed Heroic Spirits and Magitech Knights have no sense of martial virtue; they actually launched a surprise attack."

Well, the plan was not progressing very smoothly. The angels sent to spread evil cult ideologies and create chaos in the Magitech Republic had tried their best, but they still hadn't achieved much success. Many angels would often just have a small breakthrough before being wiped out in one fell swoop by the local law enforcement teams.

However, Sophie Liya didn't find this situation strange at all. After all, the opponent was her own Eldest Miss. Given the Eldest Miss's abilities, she would only be surprised—and even suspicious of a trap—if these angels could easily create chaos.

Therefore, these failure reports were the norm.

Sophie Liya was not disappointed by this. After all, she hadn't placed much expectation on these chaos plans to begin with; they were merely a casual move in a game of chess. If they were effective, great; if not, that was also normal.

However, just as the Pure White Angel was preparing to turn the page and listen to the reports from other project teams, an anomaly suddenly emerged among this group of failed angels.

"Ah, this... isn't proselytizing something anyone can do with their hands? Why are you all so pathetic? Things are going quite smoothly on my end; I am rapidly growing and strengthening. Your Majesty, within a year, this Magitech Republic will definitely be in chaos."

An angel suddenly popped up and said this triumphantly.

Her boastful behavior naturally earned her glares from the projections of the other angels. If it weren't for the fact that Her Majesty was watching, this show-off angel would likely have been beaten up by a mob.

Sophie Liya also looked at this angel with some curiosity, her expression becoming slightly more serious.

"Ji Luobo, are you certain everything is going smoothly?"

The Pure White Angel still had a strong impression of this angel. After all, she was the number two figure in this angelic delegation, second only to the Seraph Michael—the Cherub Ji Luobo. At the same time, she was also the most skilled among all the angels at managing proselytizing.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, it was reasonable for Ji Luobo's proselytizing to have achieved some results.

However, Sophie Liya still felt a faint sense of unease in her heart. If she were a normal person, she might think she was overthinking it, but the Pure White Angel never doubted her intuition. After all, the intuition of a prophecy-type transcendent was often a warning from fate and could not be easily ignored.

So, even though she had some understanding of Ji Luobo's strength, she still confirmed it once more.

After all, all the other angels had failed in their proselytizing, and she was the only one who had succeeded—and not just a small win, but a massive one. This kind of thing seemed suspicious no matter how one looked at it.

However, the Cherub lady on the other side wasn't a fool. After all, she was a Cherub. As the main management class of Heaven, almost no Cherub was truly stupid; ordinary Cherubs all possessed divine rights that increased wisdom.

And as a standout among Cherubs, Ji Luobo could definitely be considered a model of high intelligence.

"Yes, Your Majesty. I also feel that everything seems to be going a bit too smoothly. But no matter how I look at it, these believers are truly loyal to me. Their fanaticism for the afterlife has even reached the level of zealots. This level of faith absolutely cannot be faked."

Upon hearing Her Majesty's question, this six-winged Cherub lady with blue twin tails also became serious. She reported, feeling that something was strange as well.

Not to mention Her Majesty being worried, Ji Luobo herself felt uneasy. She always felt as if she were being played, but every time she saw her subordinates—each more fanatical and radical than the last—she really didn't know how to doubt them.

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"I even watched with my own eyes as they killed a group of Magitech Republic residents right in front of me, and then cruelly transformed their corpses into mechanical bodies. Even I found the methods cruel. Those guys are undoubtedly qualified cultists."

The Cherub lady recalled a sacrificial activity that the Eternal Jingtu had just held not long ago. She really didn't know how to doubt that group of vicious villains.

Such brutality couldn't possibly be all acting, right? That acting would be too good. And how could undercover official law enforcers possibly commit such acts of sacrificing civilians?

Hearing Ji Luobo's report, Sophie Liya frowned. Although she still felt uneasy, looking at the report alone, there didn't seem to be any problems.

The Pure White Angel knew her own Eldest Miss; she was a good person in the true sense. If she had sent undercover agents, it would be absolutely impossible for them to commit such bloody sacrifices. Even if the undercover agent were truly that ruthless, the Eldest Miss would not allow them to do so.

The Eldest Miss was kind-hearted and could not bear to see such things.

So, was there really no problem, and was it simply because Ji Luobo's ideas about the afterlife happened to cater to the needs of the Magitech Republic's populace?

Sophie Liya was unable to make a decision for a moment.

Light flickered in her golden eyes, which shone like gold. As a prophecy-type transcendent, she chose to divine whenever she was indecisive. Now, she was activating her Fate Magic Eye, wanting to observe the flow of fate.

"Is the matter of the Eternal Jingtu related to the Eldest Miss?"

She subconsciously wanted to divine this.

However, after divining nothing, she shook her head.

She had stayed in this Witch Night for too long and had almost forgotten that her Eldest Miss was a fate insulator; all divination pointing to her was ineffective.

Then...

"Do the believers of the Eternal Jingtu truly believe in the afterlife?"

The Pure White Witch changed her question. She couldn't divine her Eldest Miss, but divining those ordinary people of the Eternal Jingtu shouldn't be a problem.

And this time, Sophie Liya's divination succeeded. Fate gave her an affirmative answer: those believers truly and piously believed in the doctrine that the afterlife would be more beautiful.

However, this result made the Pure White Angel even more uneasy, so she took out a stack of Witch Cards from her pocket, preparing to try a different method of divination.

And Witch Cards were also the most common divination method for witches.

"Will the Eternal Jingtu destroy the Magitech Republic?"

Holding this question, she began to shuffle and draw a card, randomly pulling one from the deck.

It was a card of a skeleton wearing a black robe, holding a giant scythe, sitting on a bottomless boat.

This was the Lord of the Netherworld—the Death card.

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After briefly analyzing the meaning of this card, the Pure White Angel fell silent again.

This Eternal Jingtu not only wanted to destroy the Magitech Republic, they even wanted to kill all living things and let all things return to deathly silence.

Good heavens, this was a real evil cult—the kind that couldn't be more evil.

But Sophie Liya still wasn't at ease. She took out her crystal ball, pendulum necklace, and so on, but the results after multiple divinations were very consistent.

This Eternal Jingtu was truly sinister; it was a cult organization that couldn't be more real, and couldn't be more insane.

"Your Majesty, what is the result?"

Seeing that Sophie Liya had not responded for a long time after the divination, Ji Luobo's projection below asked with some trepidation.

This blue-haired, twin-tailed Cherub lady was also truly worried that her subordinates might really be undercover agents from the other side.

"The result of the divination is fine, but I still suggest you be careful, Ji Luobo. The group of people under you might truly be lunatics who worship death. Such people are the best necromancers, and the Necromancy Sect is well-known to be very deep.

I'm not sure if you can handle it, after all, you don't truly worship death."

Sophie Liya thought for a long time, and in the end, she could only remind her subordinate like this. Although she still felt uneasy, she could not erase her subordinate's credit based solely on a feeling without evidence.

After all, the Pure White Witch was used to being sincere. Even though her subordinates were now a group of angels, she remained cold on the surface but was actually exchanging sincerity for sincerity.

Just as the Eldest Miss evaluated her, she was someone who couldn't truly harden her heart.

Of course, doing this had its pros and cons. The downside was that it lacked sufficient majesty, making it easy for ambitious subordinates to harbor inappropriate thoughts, while the upside was that it was easier to win people's hearts.

However, Sophie Liya had the Lord of Radiance behind her, and besides, this was just a game. Who would be bored enough to play power-grabbing tricks in such a game?

Therefore, this downside could be ignored.

Anyway, after five hundred years of operation, Sophie Liya was now the true leader of the angelic delegation. Her prestige had long surpassed Michael's, and the angels were thoroughly convinced by her.

Although she wouldn't dare say she had made these angels completely loyal to her in reality, at least in this game, their loyalty was acceptable.

Therefore, facing Her Majesty's warning, Ji Luobo's expression also became serious.

"Understood, Your Majesty. I will be careful. Thank you for your guidance."

On the other side, in the basement of the Pan Duola satellite city's resettlement area.

A figure in a black robe opened their eyes and shook their head. A hint of intelligent blue could vaguely be seen from the shadow of the hood.

"The water is too deep?"

Recalling Her Majesty's warning, Ji Luobo felt somewhat depressed.

For this Her Majesty Sophie Liya, the Cherub lady was now convinced from the bottom of her heart.

Even though at the beginning, when she was first summoned to this Witch Night, she was actually a staunch oppositionist.

After all, at that time, she only recognized Seraph Michael as her leader. Who was this daughter of the Lord of Radiance who suddenly popped up? She didn't know her.

Besides, she was a hybrid of an angel and a witch. Even the angel dogs of Heaven would look down on her.

The rejection of disaster-hybrid children wasn't unique to the Witch race; the old-school Three Great Disasters also looked down on them. Not to mention angels and dragons, even demons, who were always indiscriminate and accustomed to betrayal, didn't particularly like demon hybrids.

However, in the past five hundred years, too many things had happened, and the diligence and strength of Her Majesty Sophie Liya were seen by all the angels.

That kind of discrimination and disgust based purely on the other party's bloodline origin was never tenable. In the face of truly powerful personal charisma, such negative emotions were actually very easy to resolve.

Ji Luobo didn't know how other angels viewed Her Majesty Sophie Liya, but anyway, she was now a loyalist to Her Majesty.

She even hoped that Her Majesty Sophie Liya could truly return to Heaven with the Lord of Radiance after the Witch Night ended. If that were the case, she, who had originally planned to follow Seraph Michael in the future, would definitely switch to Her Majesty Sophie Liya's command without a second thought.

After all, in Heaven, which seemed beautiful but was actually cold, the sincerity in Her Majesty Sophie Liya was simply too dazzling. It really made people unable to resist wanting to get close.

Everyone was a wage earner; who would refuse a good boss? Compared to other cold-blooded angels, such a powerful angel full of charm like Her Majesty Sophie Liya was undoubtedly more worth following.

Therefore, Ji Luobo also took Her Majesty Sophie Liya's warning very seriously.

Moreover, what Her Majesty said made a lot of sense. Sometimes, even she, the initiator of this cult, felt that the group of cultists under her command were truly a bit too crazy.

"Tsk, those who truly worship death, aren't they about the same as that group of Death-Announcing Angels? Damn, they really are a bunch of lunatics. I must be careful. If someone finds out that I, the Patriarch, don't truly worship death, maybe the next sacrificial offering

will be me."

Thinking of that group of Death-Announcing Angels in Heaven whom everyone hated, Ji Luobo shuddered.

Although she, as an angel, possessed power far exceeding that of the mortals under her, and even if her subordinates jumped ship and mobbed her, she should be able to hold her own, but this didn't prevent a chill from rising in her heart.

After all, she was just shouting the slogan of worshipping death casually. People always said that the person who believes in God the least is often the Pope; this sentence was true for her.

She truly didn't believe in any afterlife. A mature Netherworld was generally something only a Great World possessed. What kind of Netherworld could a small world that had just upgraded to a medium world have?

Anyway, the Patriarch who didn't believe in death was truly a husky mixed into a wolf pack as the wolf king among her death-worshipping subordinates, carrying a bit of a guilty conscience.

"Patriarch, the new round of sacrifice is ready. Please come to preside over it. We are about to liberate another fellow who has suffered much."

Just as the Cherub lady was feeling guilty, a knock came from outside the door, and a fanatical voice sounded.

Ji Luobo: "..."

"That, actually, the sacrifice doesn't need to be so urgent. I think we can be appropriately steady."

And when the Cherub lady arrived at the sacrificial hall and saw the few sacrificial offerings already tied up, she tentatively suggested this cautiously.

Then...

Stare...

The gazes of all the black-robed people in the venue snapped onto her, filled with suspicion.

Ji Luobo: "..."

"Ah, this... it's getting late, let us begin the sacrifice."

The stressed-out Miss Angel tried hard to keep a straight face as she corrected herself.

"Hehehe... You scared me. I thought you, Patriarch, were no longer loyal to death."

"Wahaha... That's right, it seems it was a false alarm. After all, the faith of death was spread by you, Patriarch."

"Sissala... Patriarch, please be cautious with your words in the future. You wouldn't want us to doubt your faith, would you?"

In the sacrificial hall, three black-robed people who were higher-ranking than ordinary believers but slightly lower than the black robe on Ji Luobo emitted chilling evil laughs, their cold tones making one's goosebumps explode.

Ji Luobo: "..."

Her Majesty Sophie Liya, I'm scared. I might really not be able to handle the evil of this group of guys.

... Cherub shivering...