Chapter 359 - 242: I Have a Dream (1)
Malin sat on the field for half an hour, during which no one came down to trouble him. The presence of the World Tree Sapling caused many people a great deal of headache—whether to enter the field to prove their innocence or to seek their own death was a very serious proposition.
Ultimately, Malin had no choice but to get off the field. Logan and Cohen looked listless, and upon asking, it was revealed that Malin’s first opponent had come too quickly, and as soon as an opponent entered, the betting pool would refuse further bets, allowing only those who had already wagered to raise their bets.
Thus, they failed to grasp the opportunity to win big, and as soon as the nature of Malin’s weapon was exposed, no one was willing to enter the field anymore.
It was said that the Eastern Kingdom’s prince had at least nine pieces of damning evidence against him, half of which were provided by the Church of the Lord of Justice, which greatly satisfied Malin—true to the Lord of Justice, when it was time to act, there was no hesitation.
"But it’s strange, if they knew what the prince was up to, why didn’t they just kill him with one strike?" Logan looked at Malin with some puzzlement. He had already felt something odd when the Church’s people came over.
"The relationship between the Church of the Lord of Justice and the Eastern Kingdom has been bad; over the past fifty years, they’ve had seven dukes, two princes, and a king fall to our Order of Purification," Matilda joined in.
The young lady had changed back into her Paladin’s uniform. Although she had not recovered her abilities, at Malin’s request, the Lord of Justice had still granted this little fox a decision that made her happy.
"Then shouldn’t you have already had his black material and neatly gotten rid of him?" Cohen asked the little fox.
"The problem is that we have a very good relationship with the Sydney Union. We can’t just casually kill the guy in a friend’s house; we’d then have to engage in a war of words. Those Eastern Kingdom nobles would then slag us in the newspapers. Our Church of the Lord of Justice cares a great deal about its image. There’s a large number of pan-believers in many areas of the Eastern Kingdom, and we can’t give the nobles the chance to smear us. But this time, with Malin using the World Tree Sapling to kill him, it fundamentally solved a big problem for us."
Malin blinked, finding such an answer somewhat exasperating, but, in any case, the World Tree Sapling did not kill the innocent, something universally acknowledged in this world. And with the World Tree Sapling having chopped down the prince in full view of at least a hundred witnesses, with the Church of the Lord of Justice and various victims supporting him, Malin wasn’t subjected to any repercussions.