Chapter 1621: Showdown?

"This is Lord Li Ang, a Prince."

As if he didn't notice the strangeness of the two priests at all, after casually introducing Li Ang's name and status, "Prince Vernon" took him through a special passage and walked quickly toward the main building of the Anointing Chapel.

Although the two priests wanted to stop them, after looking at the guards who followed Prince Vernon, they didn't speak in the end, but stomped their feet and followed, saying pointedly:

"Your Highness! It's the Anointing Ceremony soon, there are many people in the chapel, look..."

"I think it's quite good."

"No... we mean, the Deep Sanctuary is currently undergoing 'Color Purification' for the ceremony in advance. People whose hair color is not clean enough, should they stay..."

"What is not clean enough?"

Hearing the nervous dissuasion of the two priests, "Prince Vernon" paused, looked at the two white-haired priests, and then asked expressionlessly:

"Is there anyone in Lily City whose hair color is completely 'clean' now?"

"Your Highness, we didn't mean that..."

"Then what do you mean?"

Suddenly raising his right hand, he somewhat rudely tore off the hoods on the two priests' heads, revealing their black-and-white mixed hair, and "Prince Vernon" hummed:

"If according to your requirements, as long as the hair color is 'not clean' you can't enter, then what's going on with you two? Does the Deep Patriarch have to be kicked out of the sanctuary by you?"

"..."

"Your Highness Vernon."

When the two priests were speechless, Li Ang, who was thoughtful, first looked at Prince Vernon, who had an angry face, and then said calmly:

"I don't have to go over to visit. Since the Deep Church has a 'Color Purification' requirement, I can wait for you outside."

"No, you can come with me."

"It's better not to."

After blinking subconsciously, Li Ang stared at "Prince Vernon" and said without blinking:

"Don't make exceptions for me. Isn't the most important thing in your Calevin Kingdom the rules?"

"Hehe, you don't have to worry about this."

Prince Vernon smiled, and while walking forward, he answered:

"The rules of the church are set by themselves, and are only effective for believers who are willing to follow them. They are not laws recognized by the official kingdom. Their only power is to expel people who are not willing to follow the rules... Are you going to kick me out?"

"..."

"Since they didn't speak, that means they won't kick anyone out."

After glancing at the two priests who didn't know what to say, "Prince Vernon" completely ignored them, turned to continue pulling Li Ang toward the central Anointing Chapel, and introduced enthusiastically while walking:

"Lord Li Ang, this Anointing Chapel is one of the few buildings in Lily City that has colors other than pure white... Look at this!"

Taking Li Ang to turn a little to the side and standing under the spire on the left side of the main entrance of the chapel, "Prince Vernon" rubbed the seams of the white stone, revealing the large pieces of gold foil embedded horizontally inside.

"These gold foils embedded in the seams of the white sandstone, besides symbolizing the reconciliation of divinity to the mortal world, are also polished into very smooth mirrors. At noon, they can refract sunlight back onto the flat roof above the chapel, reflecting an image of the Mother of No-Light." After pointing his hand somewhat perfunctorily at the image slowly disappearing on the flat roof of the chapel, Prince Vernon entered the chapel and pointed to the rose windows high up and continued to introduce:

"As for those high up in the chapel, they are rose windows cast in layers like rose petals, inlaid with cobalt blue, gilded, and pearlescent white glass. When there is a heavy downpour, a small portion of the rainwater accumulates inside the glass, condensing into the core scriptures of the Profound Church and the Lumen Church."

"And the flying buttresses corresponding to the windows, the reliefs under these flying buttress pillars record the scene of our Calevin Kingdom's ancestors, relying on the support of some 'friendly forces,' establishing two Calevin Kingdoms on both sides of the Calevin River... You should know about this, right?"

Hmm? Not planning to pretend anymore?

Looking at Prince Vernon, who suddenly changed his aura and turned his head to ask him directly, Li Ang had to sigh, stopped hanging illusions around him, and prepared to cover his perception at any time.

And besides that, even the actions of secretly invading "Prince Vernon's" Heart Lake, setting up labels sent directly to the Dead World around his soul, and preparing to urge the Scarlet Heart to sneak attack, all paused.

"I know a little bit."

Secretly directing the sheep miscellaneous to place the 【Scarlet Heart】 in the mirror world, and urging it to drain all the blood from "Prince Vernon's" body as soon as there is any abnormality, Li Ang said with a blank face:

"Your two ancestors of the East and West Calevin Kingdoms, upholding the wish to watch over the entire human race, became the Palace Sitters of the 【Watch Palace】 together."

"And the Bureau of Cleanup also fulfilled its promise, helping their descendants gather nearby city-states and settlements according to their wishes, and established a kingdom on both sides of the Calevin River... But now there is only one left."

"It's not that there is only one left, but that both are gone."

!

After correcting Li Ang's statement, "Prince Vernon" tilted his head slightly, avoiding the 【Pseudo-Illusion】 power that tried to erode his hearing, and said coldly:

"The Kingdom of Heroism and the Kingdom of Justice in the ancestors' expectations once existed for a few hundred years, but later they gradually grew rotten flesh, and finally even rotted and festered, slowly becoming what they are today."

"Oh..."

Looking at his ears regretfully, Li Ang blinked and asked:

"So? What do you want to do? Cut off the rotten flesh in your mouth?"

"Cutting off the rotten flesh is meaningless."

After shaking his head and denying Li Ang's statement, "Prince Vernon" said with burning eyes:

"If I have learned anything in the process of trying to change all this... it is that everything related to humans, as long as it exists for too long, will definitely slowly rot!"

"So?"

Hearing this, Li Ang raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"Humans have limits? You don't plan to be a human anymore?"

"???"

No... how did you come to this conclusion?

Being severely stretched by Li Ang's jumping thinking, "Prince Vernon," who had just raised his momentum, withered. After holding back for a while, he could only force himself to pretend he didn't hear it, and continued to say with a stiff face:

"The Thirteen Kingdoms are like this, and the Bureau of Cleanup that created the Thirteen Kingdoms is also like this!"

"They should have quietly moved toward extinction when they were rotten beyond repair, but they relied on their own power to escape all this, forcibly keeping their corpses that had long been rotten... This is wrong!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 1622 =====