My Beautiful Disciples, I'm really not the Main Character!

Chapter 369: Chapter 369: Meeting the Cardinal

Cardinal Triel was at a loss, unable to understand why the ones who had died were the Ministers. As per his instructions, they were supposed to be far away from the place of assassination. So how could they be caught in it?

If anything, it should have be the Royal Guards and the Holy Emperor who should have be hurt which would have caused ough commotion to make the Holy Church interfere.

It would have be understandable if the Ministers had died at random but almost all those who supported him were dead. Unfortunately, those who were not on his side were walking out of the Royal Palace, perfectly fine.

"Greetings, Cardinal." The Ministers who had survived, greeted the cardinal.

"What happed here? How did the Ministers die?" The Cardinal asked the surviving Ministers.

Although the Ministers didn't know that the Holy Church was involved in this matter, they could still not tell the Cardinal everything that they had se.

None of them were courageous ough to tell the Cardinal that the Necromancer Tower had infiltrated the Holy City, highlighting the failure of the Holy Church.

The only person who could say that to the face of a cardinal was a Holy Emperor.

"Please forgive us, Cardinal Triel. But it would be better if you hear this from Your Majesty himself."

The Ministers quickly asked for forgivess as they rushed past the Cardinal who looked at their backs that soon disappeared into the distance.

Cardinal Triel didn't know why but he had a bad feeling about it. Just what happed here? Did something go wrong with the plan that he had formed?

"Just what is happing today? First, the sword simply disappeared. And now, this strange thing?"

Confused, he decided to hear it from the Holy Emperor himself. He wanted to learn everything so he could understand exactly what wt wrong.

He walked to the throne room where the blood of the Ministers was still fresh. The Minister of War was still lying on the g, a chain tied a his neck which was further tied to the feet of the throne as if he was nothing but a dog.

He was just left there with only the Royal Guards placed in the throne room.

"Is this the Minister of War?" Triel's expressions darked. Whether the mission succeeded or failed, the Minister of War should have be dead. So how was he still alive? Was this the reason everything had gone downhill?

Not only did the Minister of War fail, but he was also caught alive? The more Triel thought about it, the more his expressions darked.

He wondered if the Minister of War had already exposed everything. Was this the reason the Ministers loyal to him had died?

'If that's the case, it means the voys from the Demon Sect also know about it?' He didn't ev notice wh he started biting his lips to the point that they started bleeding.

The Cardinal wanted to hear that from the Minister of War himself. Did he already expose everything to save his own skin? If that was the case, th things had already gott out of hand.

He walked closer to the Minister of War, who was lying on the g, unconscious.

"Are you planning to use your healing on that traitor?"

Cardinal Triel had just placed his hand on the man's forehead, prepared to use his healing to wake him up. However, before he could ev use a shred of his divine powers, he heard a voice coming from behind.

The sound of footsteps approaching echoed in the hall. He didn't ev have to turn a to find out the idtity of that person. It was the voice that belonged to the Holy Emperor.

Although there was something differt about the way he talked, it was still the same. Moreover, the aura of the Holy Emperor was completely idtical. There was no doubt about it.

The person who was approaching him was from the Royal Family of the Holy Empire. The Royal Family was inhertly differt from any other family in the Empire.

While the other families received divine blessing from the Goddess as a gift, the Royal Family members were born with it.

Their Divine Essce didn't come from the goddess but it was said to be a condsation of the fortune of the Empire that granted them the blessing.

That was also why the Royal Family was so distinct from the Holy Church.

While the Holy Church received strgth from the faith of its followers, the Holy Emperor and the Royal Family received their strgth from the existce of the Empire and its citizs.

This was also why the Royal Family couldn't tirely be considered the followers of the Holy Church, despite following the Holy Church for the most part.

There was no way to fake this distinct Holy Essce. The person who was approaching was other than the Holy Emperor.

"Traitor? May I ask why you are calling him a traitor?" Cardinal Triel retracted his hand and stood up slowly while the sound of footsteps drew ev closer.

Soon, Er walked past the Cardinal and reached the throne. Ev though the Cardinal hadn't se the face of the Holy Emperor yet, he felt a strange sse of unease in his heart.

The Holy Emperor's physique was still the same but he felt like an tirely differt person.

Er soon turned a and sat on the throne, asking the Cardinal to take a seat as well.

The Cardinal ignored the instructions and the Emperor's courtesy as he noticed another presce in the hall. It belonged to Yu Lin who also walked past him to stand next to the Emperor's throne.

"Also, why is that girl following you?" he asked.

"I can't do anything about it. The two Great Elders said that they needed some private time with each other, so they wt back to their room. They left the girl with me so I could show her a."

Er rubbed his forehead like a troubled uncle. "They are really treating me like a babysitter. But after what happed today, I couldn't dy this small request."