Chapter 119: The Unforgivable Sin of Pope Selina
Chapter 119: The Unforgivable Sin of Pope Selina
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"Oh... Well, he certainly did write quite a lot."
With a flick of his wrist, Lin Wei cast a freezing spell. The corpse before him turned to ice, saving him the trouble of dealing with the mess for now.
He picked up the handwritten letter, studying it with a glimmer of reluctant admiration in his eyes.
Truth be told, Fred may have been an assassin, but he had an unwavering loyalty to the Holy See. In just a few concise lines, he catalogued a staggering number of Duke Ous’s crimes, even listing out the assassinations he had carried out in the Duke’s name—leaving nothing unremembered or unsaid.
It was a shame there was no time to press for more. Had he fallen into the hands of the Holy See, who knew what else he might have revealed under their methods?
But when it comes to evidence and intelligence, quantity doesn’t trump sufficiency. If your goal isn’t to annihilate an entire noble lineage, there’s no point in loading up the dossier with every sin. If I were to fabricate something truly outrageous—like ‘secret, unspeakable liaisons with that male demon sculpture’—the moment the words were uttered, they’d be marked as heresy, and the Inquisition would descend.
No, all this is just laying groundwork. It’s insurance, in case any of it proves useful in the future.