Chapter 899 - 466
When Ivita rebounded the curse, Henry VII and Jalen were not in the main hall, the bedroom study of Arthas Palace, but in a dark chamber below an interlayer.
Besides the two of them, there was also Mr. Pativart Channi, the court supervisor and a confidant raised by Henry VII, along with Albyreo Salgado, the King’s chief advisor and Minister of Finance.
Albyreo Salgado, Henry VII’s son-in-law, had been supported by Henry from being a mine owner to the Minister of Finance of the kingdom. Over the years, Albyreo had devoured a significant amount of the kingdom’s tax revenue, a fact well known but unchallenged due to his relation to Henry VII.
And Pativart was a childhood friend of Henry VII, which is why he had been heavily favored.
The important positions of the Alsace Kingdom were always occupied by these related and acquainted individuals, hence the kingdom was becoming increasingly corrupt, and the army was utterly ineffectual.
At that moment, the four of them were observing a group of people in black robes manipulating some mysterious symbols, mystical instruments, and a pile of animal skulls on the ground, but three things were particularly eye-catching.
The massive deer skull assembled from different animals’ bones was placed at the front of the altar on the wall, appearing as if the Demon King himself had descended there.
On the floor, there was a double ringed pentagram drawn with black sheep’s blood, with a big-horned sheep’s head at the very center of the pentagram.
A cup made of sheep bones, called the Bone Holy Grail, was placed on this eerie pattern, continuously seeping sheep’s blood.
Henry VII, looking at this chilling scene, felt rather sinister. "Can this curse strike at Ivita? Will it be successful? He is the master of the three Laws after all."
"If The Church finds out that we have the Devil Followers curse other monarchs, it won’t be just excommunication we face."
"If you ask me, even if Ivita creates the Soul of Darkness, it doesn’t matter much. A single person’s strength doesn’t influence the battlefront that significantly. We can fully use this time he is unable to leave, to resolve the Subspace invasions occurring in our territories, to rebuild our image with The Church, and to address the observing empires within and the Lower Burgundian near our borders," Jalen said.