Bai Yue Ling had been waiting for Jelly’s appearance all along.
Back when she had corrupted Shi Qianla in the Royal Palace, Bai Yue Ling had instructed Jelly to bide her time and secretly infiltrate Viki’s room to help gather evidence of Viki’s collusion with the black-clad figures.
Although Jelly prided herself as a noble queen and had once secretly sworn that she would never obey Bai Yue Ling’s commands.
Deep down, she knew that if this silver-haired big-chested girl faced a crisis, her own days wouldn’t be easy either.
Only as Bai Yue Ling’s level rose higher and higher could she recover more and more of her strength to break free from the pet contract.
If Bai Yue Ling dropped to level 1, her own level would only be 6, and she’d be doomed to remain a pet forever in this lifetime.
So Jelly obediently lurked in the Royal Palace. Though she didn’t know Viki or the black-clad figures, with her rich experience as a queen, she could still identify the evidence that Bai Yue Ling wanted.
Gazing at the stacks of paper in Bai Yue Ling’s hands, Sistana strode forward quickly, her forked robe slightly lifting with her movements to reveal the snow-white, plump thighs beneath.
She ignored the sticky slime and directly picked up the stacks of paper, reading them carefully.
Viki’s chest rose and fell slightly as a faint sense of unease crept in, yet she maintained her calm and said, “A low-level monster like a Slime, what could it possibly find… Ugh? S-Stop it quickly, this slime is so disgusting!”
Suddenly, Jelly sprayed out like a water gun, covering Viki’s face in sticky slime and leaving the ignorant princess who had slandered the Slime race in a wretched state.
“Sorry, my Slime here is a bit naughty.” Bai Yue Ling giggled as she picked up Jelly, asking in an extremely low voice, “Why didn’t you dissolve her clothes?”
Jelly said flatly, “I was afraid of getting beaten.”
As the Slime Queen, Jelly’s slime could adjust its properties on its own—flame mode, freeze mode, lightning mode… Of course, there was also dissolve mode.
It took Viki a great deal of effort to clean the slime off her face.
By then, Sistana had already skimmed through it all at a glance, passing the papers to Taoxia beside her with an expressionless face.
Taoxia looked at the lines of text on the paper, her cute brows furrowing slightly as her loli face puffed up in anger.
Then, Huilian took the papers and read them quietly for a moment before sighing.
“Little sister…” Huilian’s black-and-white eyes carried pity. “Starting half a year ago, you’ve been providing these black-clad figures with intelligence and funds. In exchange, they would help you as mercenaries… Is that a fair summary?”
“…” Viki lowered her head in silence.
Sistana’s gaze was icy cold, an invisible pressure emanating from her. “Those black-clad figures killed the divine officials of our Church of Nature.”
“I… I didn’t know they would do something so extreme.” Viki said softly, “I’ve always treated them as mercenaries. At first, they were very obedient, but who knew their actions would grow bolder and bolder later on, and by that time I had already…”
“You were already in the same boat with them, right?” Huilian shook her head. “Actually, you could have stopped in time. After all, you’re a princess…”
“No, she never intended to stop at all.” Taoxia’s gaze seemed to pierce through Viki’s body, sharply scanning her consciousness.
“Even yesterday, you provided the black-clad figures with intelligence on Priest Hero.”
“How did you come to know them? Why did you do this?” Sistana asked.
“…” Viki fell silent again.
“Speak, meow!” Taoxia shouted sharply, her Word Spirit power surging toward Viki in an instant.
Viki’s body trembled as she said softly, “Meow…”
“…” Taoxia paused for a moment. “Tell the truth, meow.”
For certain unknown reasons, her Word Spirit power had to end with the word “meow” to activate.
Viki couldn’t control herself and said, “It was… half a year ago, when a black-clad figure approached me on her own, and then… then she showed me…”
Huilian asked in confusion, “Showed you what?”
“She showed me the future of destruction…” Viki’s little face paled. “The earth crumbling, the stars falling in reverse, the commoners of the Royal Capital losing their homes and families, the major churches of the Light Faction slaughtering each other.”
Her gaze shifted back and forth between Sistana and Taoxia as she said gravely, “I clearly saw it—Lady Taoxia being strangled to death by Lady Sistana with vines in the ruins of the Judgment Church. And Lady Sistana being backstabbed by the Life Archbishop ‘Jinsi’ and exploding to her death.”
At those words, everyone’s expressions changed, except for Bai Yue Ling, who showed a look of sudden realization.
Because in past loops, she had indeed witnessed with her own eyes the archbishops battling amid the ruins of the Royal Capital, a scene extremely similar to what Viki described.
In other words… those black-clad figures had somehow let Viki see the “future”?
“Nonsense!” Taoxia’s cat tail stood on end. “Why would this old hag kill me?”
Sistana said calmly, “Jinsi and I are friends through life and death; she would absolutely never backstab me.”
Huilian quickly asked, “Leaving aside the veracity of this future for now, little sister, why didn’t you just come out and say it directly?”
“Who would believe it if I said it?” Viki sneered. “Unless you’ve seen that doomsday scene with your own eyes, you can’t understand that sense of shock and despair. Everyone would just think I’m crazy—especially you, big sister. Actually, compared to the two archbishops, you’re the one who believes in this future the least.”
Clearly, both Sistana and Taoxia scoffed at this so-called “future.”
And as someone who pursued peace her entire life, Huilian… didn’t take this “future” to heart at all.
Huilian was silent for a moment before saying softly, “Little sister, is it because you saw these things that you’ve become so… radical?”
“That’s right. I’m different from you; I clearly realized that without the Dark Faction as an external enemy, the Light Faction will inevitably erupt into civil war sooner or later… a new ‘God War.'”
Viki’s gaze passed over the window, gazing at the brilliantly lit Royal Capital under the night sky.
“To protect the Rose Kingdom in the God War, I made up my mind long ago: I must ascend to the position of ‘Queen’ by any means necessary. Only then can I unite the entire Rose Kingdom in concerted effort to win victory in the God War…”
“Hold on.”
Bai Yue Ling suddenly spoke up to interrupt her. “The ‘by any means necessary’ you just mentioned—does that include trading with the black-clad figures, hypnotizing your friends, and brainwashing me?”
“That’s right. When necessary, everyone can be controlled by my mental magic and turned into my tools—Aiya and Shi Qianla are no exceptions.” Viki said seriously. “Only then can I grasp all the power in my hands and protect the kingdom in the next God War…”
“Enough, no more nonsense from you.”
Bai Yue Ling interrupted Viki once more, stepping forward with her snow-white, plump thighs, her face expressionless.
“You… what are you doing?” Viki instinctively retreated two steps.
Bai Yue Ling stood before Viki, clenched her fist tightly, and then—
Slammed a fierce punch right into Viki’s face!
With a thud of fist meeting flesh, Viki flew backward in an instant, crashing heavily onto the balance not far away.
Blood stained the word “Evil” on the balance red. Bai Yue Ling took a deep breath and bellowed,
“You idiot… is this how you treat your only two friends?”