Chapter 490: A Secret Meeting in the Restroom
Sneaking into the Royal Palace was unexpectedly simpler than imagined.
During a brief few days of odd jobs, Igor and his team not only measured Nabistin’s terrain firsthand but also discovered a crucial detail: all personnel were provided by the Gospel.
Even if some workers weren’t underground people but rather respectable residents of the ground city, they were still ‘Gospel employees’, whose service was all skill, devoid of any emotion.
They boldly inferred that the palace attendants were likely 100% automated. Though there was the possibility of traditional holdovers like ‘real service is nobler’, ‘serving the royal family can’t be outsourced’, or ‘being a dog for Yisuo must be cherished’, the plan was a daring gamble from the start, and they’d just have to bet that the Yisuo Royal Family wasn’t that feudal.
Clearly, Annan’s bet paid off. At the Court Banquet hosted by the royal family, all the service attendants were ‘Gospel employees’, indicating that the Yisuo Royal Family had fully embraced modernity. However, palace attendants weren’t recruited part-time from the underground city; they were full-time Nabistin natives. Ashe and his team could only sweep the streets of Nabistin, as the palace grounds were an exclusive zone for upper echelons.
But there was a catch: all ‘Gospel employees’ had their duties assigned by the Gospel, with no intervention from the palace in personnel matters.
This presented a massive loophole for the Purple Moth to exploit with ease—don’t forget, just over a month ago, Annan was a manager at a firm specializing in the Blasphemy Gospel!
The operation was quite complex in detail, but according to Ashe’s simplified understanding, Annan switched their shifts with those of the palace attendants. The palace attendants took their places sweeping the streets, and they took the palace attendants’ roles at the Court Banquet!
When Annan, with a tone of pride, explained how she cleverly and brilliantly executed this crucial step while resting a hand on his shoulder, Ashe had a sudden strange thought—