Chapter 693: Section 481: Follow-up (Part 2)
The Noble God’s messenger arrived tardily, half a month later, purportedly journeying from the Northern Kingdom. Malin was quite curious about this—half a month, regardless of the travel distance, in this age, even those less tolerant of transport should have arrived within a week through a transfer gateway.
In that half-month, the marquis had already admitted to lying in a confrontation overseen by the Church of Justice with Linz, subtly influencing Linz’s thoughts—not with spell formations, but with highly practical rhetoric. He leveraged Linz’s resolve to protect the royal family, exaggerating Malin’s ambitions and pushing the lady to stand against Malin.
Ah, ambition. Malin, to tell the truth, was quite fond of the word. Considering that newspapers from Carterburg to Farole were now talking about Malin’s benevolence, kindness, and how he saved the world—how his corporation provided so many job opportunities that day, granting salaries to families that should not have expected them, allowing the impoverished a living, and those destined to flee a food supply.
Malin felt that entrusting the educational press to Clovis was absolutely the right move.
As for ambition... such a fresh, elegant, and universally appreciated adjective had never before been associated with Malin’s head.
Malin has specifically inquired what this ambition represented.
At first, the Bishop considered death before dishonor, doggedly refusing to speak. Then, under the aid of a questioning divine art, he tearfully confessed what the ambition represented.
It represented Malin’s desire to become Emperor.
"Emperor? I thought he would only say I wished to be King," Malin complained to the old Bishop of the Church of Justice, who, chuckling, patted the young man’s head and suggested that this meant the esteemed Marquis held Malin in high regard.
Besides, Emperor does sound mightier than King.
Regarding this, Malin could only smile knowingly—what a joke, Malin was a man who shattered crowns, such a thing as putting a crown on one’s head was indeed not what he aspired to do.