Chapter 43: The Pope Is Looking for Someone

When Luo Xiya stepped out of her room again, she had already changed out of her nightgown and into her usual close-fitting clothes.

Around the manor, she preferred dark shirts and loose trousers.

She walked with an imposing, valiant air, if one ignored the scratch marks on her neck.

“Is your neck alright?”

Lady Catherine asked with concern.

Luo Xiya, confused, followed Lady Catherine’s gaze and touched her neck, only then realizing she’d been accidentally scratched last night when Roman resisted.

“It was the cat in the backyard. Nothing serious.”

Luo Xiya smiled nonchalantly.

Lady Catherine took her at her word and didn’t press further.

Milis, however, stared at Luo Xiya for quite a while.

Lady Catherine could be unexpectedly naive about certain things, but Milis could tell those marks weren’t from a cat.

Feigning indifference, Milis asked quietly, “Who was that boy in your room earlier?”

“He’s just here to warm my bed.”

Luo Xiya replied, flashing Milis a teasing smile.

“Oh.”

Milis nodded expressionlessly and didn’t ask any more.

Yet Luo Xiya kept glancing at Milis from the corner of her eye, only looking away when she was sure Milis hadn’t taken a special interest in Roman at first sight.

The three of them entered Luo Xiya’s usual study. Luo Xiya pulled open the curtains, helped Lady Catherine to a chair, and only then took her seat at the head.

Such quiet gestures didn’t affect Milis at all; she simply pulled out the chair next to Lady Catherine and sat down.

“Is there anything important you want to say first?”

Luo Xiya turned and asked Milis.

Milis shook her head, signaling Luo Xiya could speak first.

“Alright, then let me ask, are you in a hurry to take Tania away?”

“Not really.” Milis shook her head again.

Luo Xiya picked up some documents from the table, asking casually, “Then why the rush? You even broke into the dungeon at night. With your relationship with my aunt, if you’d just spoken to me normally, I could’ve handed Tania over to you right after I was done with her.”

Milis fell silent, her uncovered right eye closing instantly.

This refusal to answer made Luo Xiya chuckle.

After a moment, she asked, “You’re a Saintess of the Church, and you come here just for Tania?”

“Of course, I didn’t come here just for that. It’s something I’m taking care of in passing.”

“Then what did you come here for?”

Luo Xiya asked with curiosity.

Milis’s visible right eye fixed on her, silently mocking.

Luo Xiya, oblivious to the ridicule, continued, “How about this? Satisfy my curiosity, and I’ll hand Tania over to you directly, no other troublesome procedures.”

Fortunately, no one from the Desmon Family overheard the conversation.

Otherwise, such a dismissive attitude would surely have infuriated those nouveau riche.

“Didn’t your mother ever tell you that curiosity killed the cat?”

Milis sighed.

From anyone else, that would sound like a joke. But coming from this Saintess, it carried a faint threat.

“Can’t help it. If you’re a cat, you’re bound to be curious.”

Luo Xiya laughed.

Lady Catherine looked on with worry but said nothing.

Milis frowned slightly, then relaxed and spoke softly, “The Holy Throne is looking for someone.”

Luo Xiya’s hands paused mid-motion. Lady Catherine, too, instinctively showed awe.

On the Yanglight Continent, there were many emperors and kings, but only one Holy Throne, the Pope of the Holy Light Church, Goddess Fara’s mortal representative, Her Eminence Sylvia.

For Luo Xiya, the only person she truly respected and feared was never Duchess Kelden, nor the Emperor of the Aingloran Empire, but the Pope of the Holy Light Church.

Compared to the elusive Goddess Fara, the Pope’s authority was tangible to everyone on the Yanglight Continent.

No one knew the details of her High-tier Sacred Seal.

She had reached the Sanctuary realm early, and Luo Xiya also knew that before becoming Pope, she was the youngest ever head of the Odeshu Fanke family.

No one even knew how she inherited the family at such a young age.

In terms of control over the continent, none of the previous Popes had ever matched Sylvia’s level.

In the past, there was always some conflict between imperial and divine power, but now, so-called emperors could only kneel before the Pope.

The main reason?

She was simply too powerful.

Previous Popes only entered the Sanctuary through inheritance and always had clear flaws.

For long stretches, the continent’s strongest were not the current Popes, and their status relied on the Church’s military might.

But Sylvia was a natural-born Sanctuary, with no obvious weaknesses, and with the Church’s already formidable Knight Order and Mage Order, she was truly invincible across the continent.

Just reading about such a life was intimidating.

Among her peers, Luo Xiya was already nearly out of reach for most people, but compared to Sylvia, she felt they weren’t even from the same world.

The Pope, Sylvia, is looking for someone?

Luo Xiya’s faint curiosity suddenly became an urgent need to know.

Milis realized that if she didn’t satisfy Luo Xiya’s curiosity, Luo Xiya would pester her endlessly.

So she simply said, “Her Eminence is searching for a Holy Child.”

A Holy Child?

Lady Catherine and Luo Xiya exchanged glances, both at a loss.

It was a term full of ambiguous meaning.

A Holy Child was a child blessed by the gods; the ‘Judgement’ that Milis represented was one of them.

In other words, the newly awakened Holy Child could be male or female.

Such news would be earth-shattering across the continent.

If it spread, it would cause a storm of commotion, yet Milis had actually said it out loud?

Looking at Milis’s indifferent expression, Luo Xiya couldn’t help but wonder if she’d been led into a trap from the very start.

“Now that you know, can I take that woman away?”

Milis asked.

Luo Xiya nodded her consent. At this moment, her mind was elsewhere, so much so that she could hardly focus on Milis.

The more she thought about it, the more shocked she became.

Roman’s Sacred Seal was the most powerful High-tier Sacred Seal, an unprecedented ‘Life’.

His right eye was an even more startling fact.

Legend said Holy Children always had inhuman physical traits.

At first, that was just a sales pitch for Roman, but now that he had awakened a High-tier Sacred Seal, it was no longer just a gimmick.