Chapter 748: 266: Heaven's Blessing

Chapter 748: Chapter 266: Heaven’s Blessing

“Athens, to be honest, this is my first time here.”

Walking on the central avenue leading straight from the city gates to the Royal Palace, Laine’s steps were not hurried.

As dawn was approaching, more pedestrians started to fill the streets. The commotion from last night and the news spread by intentional parties had already circulated, causing the uninformed Athenians to begin gathering towards the Royal Palace.

Over time, this number might increase, occupying a significant part of the city’s population.

Whether they liked it or not, every Athenian was concerned about the King’s fate.

The chatter rose and fell, gradually turning the entire city noisy. Amidst this clamor, Laine arrived before the Royal Palace.

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A solemn axis, rows of columns, standard upright structures with atrium lighting, and bronze statues tens of meters tall.

As Athens’s Royal Palace, it truly was a building full of classical charm.

Of course, despite the building being here, not just anyone could enter.

Knights in armor guarded the place, and even those bronze statues seemed like some kind of alchemy constructs. In this crucial period, every entrant had to undergo strict scrutiny.

“But I didn’t plan on going in through the main gate.”

With a calm demeanor, Laine had never intentionally prophesied about himself. The ‘future’ he came here to verify today was merely a destiny he had glimpsed by accident.

Thus, in theory, Laine could choose to refuse, but over the years, for any scene related to destiny that he saw, he was willing to fulfill it as long as the cost wasn’t too high.

There was no other reason; just that as one of the four pillars of the world, destiny was always the most elusive, the least tangible, yet omnipresent part.

Laine wanted to change it, but he only hoped to redirect it like changing a river’s course, leading it towards a path he desired, or at least not the originally destined one.

Regardless of success, he would never set foot within this channel himself. After all, if one didn’t know whether it was dangerous, the best way was to avoid contact.

He reached out and made a slight gesture in the air, and Andrea’s aura instantly deceived certain mechanisms.

With one step, Laine ‘walked into’ the Royal Palace.

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Clang—

A saber fell to the ground, from initial shock to resistance, then from resistance to surrender, within a short time in the central hall of the Royal Palace, this ‘rebellion’ had ended.

From start to finish, Andrea actually only dealt with three people. Yet often, not killing people didn’t solve problems, and merely killing people didn’t solve them either.

Apart from the Earl who provoked, the other two were significant figures in Athens.

But facing the raised butcher’s knife, they were no different from others, decisively ending their own lives.

For a moment, the crowd fell silent again. Those who were preparing to do something when Andrea swung the first sword couldn’t help but cease their actions; the scene before them indeed exceeded their expectations.

Were the current Godhood Practitioners starting to use swords now?

“…Your Highness, what do you mean by this?”

Someone in the crowd spoke.

“As you see.”

Her voice was calm; Andrea felt utterly composed at that moment.

“I am executing traitors against the usurper.”

“So, Your Highness, have you finished killing now?”

Someone else spoke, and looking at the speaker, Andrea said plainly, “That is not for me to decide.”

“We still have to see if there are others who think Athens no longer belongs to their King.”

Her gaze swept across the room; whether they liked it or not, at that moment, before Andrea, who wielded the power of life and death, everyone temporarily showed compliance.