<h4>Volume 5 Chapter 236: The Imminent Mission To Recover The Holy Maiden Of The Radiant Church</h4>


    Trantor: The Light


    Edits by Kenny


    In the secret conference room of the St. Louis Church Academy in the southern part of the Olsylvia Academy, the discussion on the joint excavation of the Scripps Cemetery continued.


    Chief Gralen of the Radiant Church’s Law Enforcement Team, advocated hiring a professional excavation team to handle the matter. What all the partners had to do was to pay.


    The group of people led by Carlos opposed the proposal. It wasn’t that they had no money, but that it was a capital crime to steal and dig the church’s cemetery and destroy the ruins. In case of an ident, Gralen would definitely throw all the me on them!


    The Fraternity and another faction headed by Charlotte, who was a crossdresser, advocated that they employ a group of people to form a joint team and regard it as a joint exploration.


    Gralen didn’t dare to agree with this proposal. He wanted to wait for his partners to dig up the spoils and divide them. The matter of him employing other people would only be something they could hold against him. The Light Pope wouldn’t step down because of this and would probably use Gralen as a scapegoat.


    Be was watching the y, but she didn’t know that some of these nobles quietly took her as their leader and even moved their seats behind Be. If Be didn’t say anything, they would also continue watching the y.


    The partner she suspected to be royalty seemed to have no interest in the three parties and sat where he was. Be guessed that the people present had assumed that “he” was part of Be’s faction and treated him as a bystander watching the y.


    Be’s eyes began to wander around in her idleness. Be wasn’t interested in this grave-robbing meeting that had turned chaotic. Her interest was in other aspects.


    Unfortunately, in this entire venue, it was all men and not a single girl, except for Be, which made her somewhat frustrated. A ce without a single beauty was simply hell for her.


    The crossdresser, Charlotte, was actually quite good-looking, but Be had a normal sexual orientation after all, so she wouldn’t go for a crossdresser. After much deliberation, Be’s gaze returned to the one she suspected was royalty.


    The mysterious Imperial “Duke” seemed to have discovered Be’s rudeness. Any ordinary person would be able to detect it if someone were to stare at them with strange looks. Besides, the Imperial Duke wasn’t an ordinary person.


    “What are you looking at? Stop staring, and I’ll pretend that nothing happened!”


    Be was startled by the voice that suddenly sounded close to her ears. Fortunately, she had been through a lot. Be had heard of this secretmunication magic that transmitted sounds thousands of miles away.


    “Imperial Duchess, although your title is higher than mine, I don’t think you’re allowed to vite noble etiquette either!”


    Be also knew a simr kind of magic that she had learned from Ariel. It just so happened to be perfect for the situation. The Imperial Duchess had obviously been frightened. After that, the duchess didn’t reply to her.


    This made Be lose any annoyance. The duchess was a girl. Be could hear it from her voice. There was a tad of regality in her solemn voice, which was in line with her Imperial Duchess’ status.


    At the end of the secret meeting, the result was that the two sides had each taken a step back. The partners would pay for people, but in return, the Law Enforcement Team had to send one or two captains to follow, so everyone was on the same boat, and no one could run away.


    Be had been flirting with the Imperial Duchess using the thousand-mile voice transmitting magic. She didn’t even listen to the contents of the meeting. When it was her time to pay up, she casually put a few precious rubies without a second nce.


    Carlos looked incredulous. He wondered if his bitter rival was suddenly an actingdy and wouldn’t go against him. But this was good as well. It was better to avoid direct conflict with Be. Carlos now tried his best to avoid any confrontations with Be.


    When preparing to leave the conference room, Be found something unusual. There was no one in the Imperial Duchess’ seat. Be nced at the mirror in the back of the conference room but didn’t see the Imperial Duchess’ reflection either.


    When Be turned to look, the Imperial Duchess had disappeared. Was she a ghost? It is unlikely that any ghost was so bold as to dare to appear on the site of the St. Louis Church Academy. After ruling out the possibility of her being a ghost, Be chose a more direct way and asked President Charlotte.


    Be wondered if that the mysterious duchess was like Charlotte and might have some mysterious power to travel through parallel worlds.


    “Did you see her? Big sister Be, it seems you’re not as simple as you look. I won’t tell you her name. This is what’s going on...”


    Be’s guess was indeed true. Apart from her and Charlotte, the other people, including the Chief of the Radiant Church’s Law Enforcement Team, didn’t notice the Imperial Duchess.


    There was nothing mysterious about the Imperial Duchess. She was a princess of the Aldridge Empire. For some special reasons, she was deprived of her Princess status and given the title of Imperial Duchess.


    What Be saw this time was an image she had conjured up with magic from a different dimension. As Be was a high-level Demon God, she had easily seen through the Imperial Duchess’ magic.


    Be didn’t know it was because of her Demon God identity that she had seen through the phantom of the fake Imperial Duchess. If she had known, she might’ve doubted Charlotte’s real identity as well.


    After Be left the conference room, she saw the elusive Imperial Duchess under the big tree not too far away.


    This time, Be turned to leave as if she hadn’t seen her. This made the Imperial Duchess a little anxious. She was now in a special form and couldn’t touch anyone.


    “Stop, don’t go. I have something to...”


    “Okay, I was wrong. Would you please stop? I really need your help.”


    “No, you’re covered with a cloak. I can’t even see how you look. Besides, isn’t your title no higher than mine? What would I be able to do for you!”


    “My profession is special, so I can’t show you how I really look right now. Can you help me? I also know astrology. I can help you read your future.”


    The Imperial Duchess simply exined that she was different from President Nina. President Nina had too much reservation when it came to astrology, but she could read something that Nina couldn’t.


    Be chatted with the Imperial Duchess’ image under the tree for a long time before leaving. ording to the Imperial Duchess, Be had to alter some of her ns temporarily.


    It wasn’t easy to enter the underground Scripps pce. The special mechanisms inside required six key sacred objects. These sacred objects were now with President Maria, Holy Swordsman Cynthia, and the four Holy Maidens of the Radiant Church.


    President Maria and the others had moved to Be’s dormitory, but as the future leader of the Radiant Church, the Light Pope had given them some sacred objects.


    There was something wrong with those sacred objects. They would gradually control their owner’s thoughts. Besides controlling high ranking church officials with forbidden spells, the Light Pope would asionally ce this sort of sacred object with mind control abilities on members of the church who were disobedient and might rebel.


    When Be and her friends returned from their conquest in the Beastman Continent, Maria and the others were called by the Radiant Church for a meeting as soon as they returned to school. It seemed there was a problem since they hadn’t yet returned to Be’s dormitory “Pure White Heaven.”


    If Be had received the news a littleter, that might’ve put Maria and the others in danger because Be had secretly ced dark energy restraints in their bodies. When the time came, the two kinds of energies would re up simultaneously, killing Maria and the others.


    Before it was toote, Be hastily held a secret meeting with Noreya and nned to infiltrate the St. Louis Church Academy to destroy the strange sacred objects on Maria and the others.


    Noreya was the only one directly involved in this operation. One of Be’s closest aides, Assassin L, was responsible for investigation and support, helping Be and Noreya determine the whereabouts of their targets.


    The group of rescued female thieves had grown into excellent thieves through the training of Interdimensional Demon Noesha and Poison Origin Betty. They were perfect for this operation.


    The Imperial Duchess, who had reminded Be, wasn’t involved in the operation. What she needed was something inside the Scripps Cemetery.


    Her original n was to remotely manipte one of her partners present at the scene and act ording to the situation, but Be and Charlotte had both discovered her, which eventually forced her to shelve her n.


    The St. Louis Church Academy was quiet at night. Since the Law Enforcement Team of the Radiant Church was digging up the Scripps Cemetery, the security of the entire academy had been raised to the highest level.


    Be’s task tonight was rather heavy. She nned to obtain the four sacred objects from the four Holy Maidens of the Radiant Church, and then secure the two most crucial sacred objects which were with President Maria and Holy Swordsman Cynthia.


    The targets of her mission weren’t in the previous dormitory building, which disappointed Be, who wished to repeat her feat of “catching them all in one fell swoop.”


    The first sacred object she would retrieve was the Netherworld Stone. It was with Daisy, one of the four Holy Maidens, and a representative of Salo’s faction.


    Daisy’s location wasn’t hard to find. In a ck hotel on the outskirts of the St. Louis Church Academy, some of L’s Demon Thieves had discovered her tracks.


    Be arrived at the scene with Noreya immediately after receiving a tip-off from her subordinates. It was a rather romantic hotel, so ordinary Clerics wouldn’t be here.


    From a distance, Be saw Daisy dressed in a ck, revealing evening gown, flirting with people all over the hotel. Many Casanovas took the opportunity to offer her a toast, presumably to get her drunk and take advantage of her.


    ‘This girl actually went behind my back to flirt with other men. It looks like I’ll have to...’ Be was so angry that she almost went over, but Noreya, who was watching, pulled her back in time.


    “Be, calm down. She’s not Daisy; she’s just pretending to be her.”


    “Hmm... Let me take another look...”


    As a professional assassin, Noreya was very urate in judging her target. Now, she wasn’t going to kill her. She was merely confirming her target.


    After Be had calmed down, she too found that there was something wrong about Daisy. Her figure didn’t look right. Daisy was currently wearing a dress designed by Be, and Be was well-acquainted with Daisy’s figure.


    In the restroom of the ck Hotel, Be and Noreya obstructed Daisy’s path. The imposter didn’t know that Be had already seen through her identity. Before she could respond, Noreya knocked her out.


    Be quickly stripped the imposter of her clothes, and after some groping, she found a ring on her finger that could change her appearance.


    “Mmm, Duchess Bellina, why... are you here? This is...”


    “Who the hell are you? Where is Daisy? Tell me now!”


    “What are you talking about? I’m Daisy... Don’t mess around. Although you’re a Duchess, insulting a Holy Maiden...”


    Be pulled off the imposter’s appearance-altering ring, revealing her true face. She was merely someone who looked somewhat like Daisy and could hardly be called beautiful. Be already tied her with rope in the restroom cubicle.


    “If you don’t tell me, I’ll leave you like this next door. What do you think...”


    “Isn’t next door the men’s... Wait, I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you everything. Daisy is in a room upstairs.”


    Hearing that Be would leave her naked in the men’s restroom next door, the imposter turned pale with fear. She knew all too well the kind of men who frequented the hotel.


    If they saw a naked beauty in the men’s restroom, they would want to do that to her even if they were blindfolded. Then, she would be miserable and unable to get out.


    It turns out that the real Daisy had almost been controlled by the sacred object, Netherworld Stone, as soon as she received it. Suspicious that there was something going on, Daisy ran away and hid out in the hotel.


    This imposter was someone the Light Pope had ced beside Daisy to watch over her. Seeing that Daisy hadn’t been sessfully controlled, she locked the door and informed the Radiant Church to send people to take Daisy away.


    Daisy didn’t expect that this personal maid who had been with her for many years to be a traitor and was now trapped in the room.


    After seeding at her task, the traitorous maid wanted to go out and celebrate. She pretended to be Daisy so she could drink for free because the senior members of the church enjoyed a number of privileges in the stores within the area of the St. Louis Church Academy. Unexpectedly, her operation was discovered by the thieves who had been sent by Be to investigate.


    Be stopped talking to the fake Holy Maiden as soon as she got the information she wanted. She directly blindfolded her and ced her in a sack that hadn’t beenpletely sealed.


    The real Daisy had fainted on a bed in a room on the second floor of the hotel. Even when Be and Noreya entered, she didn’t awaken.


    Be saw Dark Holy Maiden Daisy lying naked on the bed. Her clothes were probably removed by someone.


    The floor of the room was still littered with several pieces of sexy ck lingerie. The person who stripped her clothes didn’t know how to remove the new lingerie Be had specially designed for Daisy, and could only tear it off.


    The Netherworld Stone Daisy wore around her neck gave off a strange glow. Be spected that this “Netherworld Stone must have done this.”


    “This is the sacred object? I think that the Light Pope has a serious problem.”


    Be held out her hand and tried to tear off the Netherworld Stone ne, which annoyed her greatly. Just as she reached out, a huge shadow descended from the originally empty ceiling, targeting Be.


    Be stepped back and threw a kick upwards, hitting the mysterious figure in the chest. The strong impact forced the figure back to the ceiling.


    Noreya drew out a throwing knife. It shot out, nailing the figure to the ceiling. It was a ck shadow. After being stabbed by Noreya’s special throwing knife, it melted into a pool of ck ink-like liquid, which stuck to the ceiling.


    “That’s a Shadow Predator... Be, if you had been a little slower, you’d have to change clothes again...”


    The Shadow Predator was a demonic being, that was attached to the Netherworld Stone, and excelled in stealth and sneak attacks. Its sneak attack on Be had been a mistake. With one move, it was kicked back to its original ce by the other party. Noreya happened to have a weapon that was very destructive to illusory beings.


    Without the Shadow Predator’s interference, Be managed to remove the Netherworld Stone ne easily. When the Netherworld Stone was taken off, its luster turned much dimmer.


    “Be... You’re here. Hmm, where are my clothes? Meanie, you couldn’t be thinking of doing...”


    “You little vixen. Even now, you’re thinking of... Tell me what’s going on!”


    Be carried Daisy and left the ck Hotel through the back door with Noreya. Soon after they left, the Recovery Team of the Radiant Church appeared. They went to the designated room and brought away the fake Holy Maiden, who had been moved over.


    After dealing with Daisy, the task was a little simpler. The sacred objects given by the Light Pope to the Holy Maidens all had issues. Daisy was able to escape because there was dark magic in the magic that she practiced. Because she could see that there was something wrong with the sacred object, she had been prepared, so it couldn’t sessfully control her.


    The Light Pope had originally wanted to arrange for Holy Maiden Susan or Holy Maiden Hayley to go on a date with the dignitary of a great empire, but Hayley and Susan, who had always been obedient, were somewhat conflicted this time.


    Holy Maiden Daisy and Holy Maiden Sophia also took part in rebelling against him. The unity of the four Holy Maidens was thest thing the Light Pope wanted to see. Having checks and bnces had always been the management style that the Light Pope preferred. If his subordinates were united, that would threaten his authority.


    President Maria and Holy Swordsman Cynthia agreed with the actions of the Holy Maidens. As ast resort, the Light Pope had to take action himself, using these evil sacred objects.


    Aside from the Netherworld Stone that was already in her hands, there were three other sacred objects, Heart of the Ocean, Sky Feather, and Crystal of the Earth, that Be hadn’t yet obtained. The sacred objects were with Holy Maiden Hayley, Holy Maiden Sophia, and Holy Maiden Susan, respectively. Daisy knew the approximate location of the three Holy Maiden, and they were all in different ces.


    After obtaining the three sacred objects, Be still had to get the Golden Key, from Maria, the sessor to the Light Pope, and the Crystal Map from Holy Swordsman Cynthia. There was still much to do in this night attack, so Be nned to divide her team into two.