Chapter 224: A Colossal Conspiracy Against the Queen

In the end, Queen Sailina was laid upon an altar in the center of the cavern, and soon after, Weisite took a black cloak from one of the robed figures and donned it himself.

A group of people began to chant incantations around the altar. The incantations were obscure and difficult to understand, grating on the nerves, and the voices of those chanting were all aged and hoarse, making the experience deeply unpleasant.

The hoarseness of their voices certainly wasn't due to fanatical screaming for some dark god; Xie Yaoyao did not believe these people were the kind of mindless, fanatical dark believers.

Although they were suppressing excitement and agitation—especially when they saw the blood-red light flickering on the runes at the edge of the altar as they chanted—

their excitement seemed more like the anticipation of a goal about to be achieved, and the hoarseness of their voices was simply a result of their advanced age.

As a demigod of the flesh domain, Xie Yaoyao had no doubt about this.

The youngest person in this group was actually Weisite, who had just driven the carriage in.

The red runes around the altar proved some aspect of the Queen's identity, which made everyone in this cavern overjoyed.

They stopped chanting, and all the robed figures gathered in twos and threes to whisper, their suppressed excitement spreading through the cavern.

This scattered, casual scene further confirmed Xie Yaoyao's suspicion—these people were definitely not mindless cultists of some evil god.

No evil god would let such impious believers go; their ends would not be pleasant.

At least Xie Yaoyao felt that if he were to establish some evil cult to worship himself, he would not accept such believers.

Hmm, he possessed divinity and could perform minor blessings; it seemed... perhaps... maybe... he could be an evil god! Connecting this to his authority over flesh, that was it—he was a proper evil god, no doubt about it!

Relying on 【Gaze of the Faceless】, Xie Yaoyao wandered brazenly through the cavern, standing beside the robed figures to eavesdrop on their whispers, and within moments, he had figured out the whole story.

These people were all nobles of the Lain Kingdom.

Or rather, the aging heads of the noble houses of the Lain Kingdom.

These men were almost the most powerful people in the country, but the erosion of time was a gift no mortal could resist.

Since ancient times, the miserable have not feared death, but these nobles, who had stood above commoners since birth, feared nothing more than losing their ability to enjoy power.

Thus, when a rumor began to circulate among the nobility, these people quickly gathered.

"Have you heard of the Blood Clan? Vampires—legend says they can live for hundreds or even thousands of years!"

"Powerful strength, eternal youth, a nearly everlasting life! That is the state a noble should be in!"

"The power of the Blood Clan stems from their ancient blood contracts; the older the Blood Clan member, the stronger their power, even capable of manipulating time and shadows."

Every noble longed to become a noble and powerful member of the Blood Clan to extend their decaying lives and souls.

So, how could one become a member of the Blood Clan?

You only need to receive the Embrace from a high-ranking Blood Clan member, and you can become one yourself.

So, how could one find a member of the Blood Clan?

Our great, noble, and beautiful Queen is a powerful member of the Blood Clan.

So, how could one get the noble Queen to grant them the Embrace?

Don't dream of it; the Queen would angrily drain your blood, tear your body apart, and curse your soul.

True despair is letting you see hope first, only to ruthlessly snatch it away.

And so, those who have had their hope snatched away fall into the most hysterical madness, and at such times, as long as a powerful figure stands up to say they will lead everyone to take back that hope, everyone will follow blindly.

If this powerful figure can make people see the hope of victory, then he is the god of them all.

These decaying, elderly nobles had waited for such a figure: the great and noble King of the Lain Kingdom.

Yes, that's right!

The King also faced the same pain, for he, too, had graying temples.

Yes, that's right!

The King would surely lead them to success, for he was the Queen's husband by law and her closest companion by affection.

Yes, that's right!

The King promised that once he became a member of the Blood Clan, he would grant the great Embrace to all the nobles.

Heavens! What a beautiful future!

And thus, a conspiracy against Queen Sailina was officially launched.

For the sake of the King and the vital interests of more than half the kingdom's nobility, even Princess Snow White had become bait, without her ever knowing it.

"Thump, thump, thump, thump!"

The sound of noisy footsteps echoed through the cavern, immediately drawing everyone's attention.

A Queen in magnificent attire, accompanied by three robed figures, walked in from a small passage.

From the very beginning, Xie Yaoyao had discovered that this massive cavern had many small passages leading to various places, and Xie Yaoyao even sensed a familiar feeling from most of these passages.

Hmm, these passages must all be connected.

To have excavated such a massive network of caverns beneath the royal castle—the sheer cost in human labor must have been astronomical.

Xie Yaoyao immediately understood the origin of the mountains of corpses in the Ghoul Cavern.

People were brought here alive into the dark underground to dig these caverns and passages, and once they were too weak to work, their essence and spirit were drained for evil magical rituals, and even their corpses were used as fodder for the ghouls.

Xie Yaoyao gained a deeper understanding of the word "drained."

Ugh! It seemed that the ghouls and the mountains of corpses had all undergone terrifying mutations due to the overflow of his divinity during his seclusion; given that he could control them, it seemed, perhaps, maybe, he had also become a part of this "draining" industrial chain—the final link.

Regardless of Xie Yaoyao's internal grumbling, the gorgeously dressed, charming new Queen had walked up to the altar where the old Queen lay, the smile on her face practically overflowing from her body.

She reached out to gently stroke the sleeping face on the altar that was identical to her own, murmuring to herself.

"Hehehehe! My dear sister, finally, finally this bloodline of yours shall belong to me! The old fool always said I wasn't as good as you, but look—who is the one lying here now, waiting to be slaughtered?!"

Xie Yaoyao, the King of Gossip, naturally wouldn't miss such an opportunity. He had followed the new Queen as soon as she stepped onto the altar. With her Tier 5 strength displayed clearly above her head, Xie Yaoyao had no fear that she would discover him.

That's right, this new Queen was the very same Queen—the 【Black Alchemist】—who had captured Vito and Salvatore in the dungeon.