Chapter 66
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“I—I didn’t know anything! I swear!”
When we searched the priest’s robe, we found professional tools used to easily destroy Kyolister ore.
“I just... just brought them because Lady Nesha said she needed them... She said it’d be fine to bring them in and out!”
And the priest immediately dropped to his knees in front of Theo.
“Please, please don’t tell Her Majesty the Empress Dowager. Please? If Her Majesty finds out that a priest she sent helped damage her tribute gift, she’ll be absolutely furious!”
“What are you talking about?”
I blinked and said to the priest.
“Just report it as is. You were just doing a favor for Nesha in exchange for money, right?”
Just like the priest said, there was no way someone sent by the Empress Dowager personally destroyed the tribute gift.
He clearly just received a large payment, brought the tools, and then used divine power—Nesha would have smashed the [Sky Pocket] in an instant.
And once the deed was done, it was in the priest’s best interest to follow Nesha’s lead and pin the blame on me. That was the more advantageous strategy.