CHAPTER 7
Above Heaven, Below Heaven, Precious Only to Us
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More than three miles underground. The Imperial capital.
It could be reached only through a gigantic elevator set up within the central base of the Imperial capital, which led to the greatest authoritative body in the Empire—the Imperial assembly.
It was nearly closing time.
The hall filled with hundreds of lawmakers was currently dead silent. With the exception of the eight people leading the assembly, that was.
“The signal from Kelvina has ceased transmission.”
“And the witch princess Sisbell has escaped. So we have lost a precious purebred. Moreover, the pets and research documents caught up in the astral energy surge were also lost…”
One dejected sigh after another emitted from the monitors along the wall. Sighs that the Eight Great Apostles hadn’t experienced in a hundred years.
“The Successor of the Black Steel. I suppose we’ve given him too much freedom.”
“He’s Crossweil’s pupil. I didn’t think we would be able to control him easily, but he has certainly exceeded our calculations.”
“Yes. We should have simply commanded him to capture the Ice Calamity Witch and been done with it.”
The witch jailbreak incident from a year ago.
It had all started when they had believed they could use the former Saint Disciple Iska, who had still been serving a sentence.
“We shall have you do something you ought to do.”
“Capture the Ice Calamity Witch.”
Why had they asked him to arrest her?
They hadn’t intended to use her as a hostage. It hadn’t been to eliminate a threat to the Imperial forces. They had done it because they needed her for one of Kelvina’s experiments.
“The eldest daughter was too dangerous to use as a subject. We had the third daughter in prison a year ago…”
“Had we been able to capture the purebred second daughter, Aliceliese, instead, we would have had no qualms using her as a new subject, however…”
If that had gone differently…
Had Iska won in his first battle against the Ice Calamity Witch in the Nelka forest, they would have been able to send her to the Birthplace of Witches as a new subject.
“The Successor of the Black Steel knows too much.”
“What shall we do about the other three members of Unit 907?”
“Eliminating him alone should suffice. If the entire unit disappears, even the Imperial headquarters might begin to act.”
“Then we should move quickly. Before the Lord notices.”
Applause rang out.
As the assembly hall went silent, a new proposal had been approved of without the knowledge of any other assembly members.
“We will execute former Saint Disciple Iska.”
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