Little Tyrant Doesn't Want to Meet with a Bad End Chapter 656.3: I’ll Take You Away (3)

War had plagued humankind’s eastern border for at least half of the thousand years since the beginning of the Third Epoch. Countless humans and deviants had slaughtered each other here for the future of their races.

The eastern border had become the birthplace of heroes and origin of legends, but above that, it had also become the symbol of humankind’s unity.

Yet, infighting broke out within humankind at the eastern border for the very first time.

The powerful Austine Empire had descended into civil war at this critical time, resulting in infighting not just on the eastern border but back in its motherland too.

In Noyce Fortress, Lilian stared at a document with a deep furrow on her forehead.

A week ago, in order to save Paul Ackermann, Lilian, who had maintained a low profile for several years now for the sake of her child, suddenly mobilized her troops to Emperor Lukas’ secondary palace under the guise of a negotiation, so as to facilitate Paul’s escape.

Such an action was tantamount to treason, but this was commonplace in the Austine Empire’s noble tradition of ‘survival of the fittest’. There was no doubt she would suffer severe backlash for it, but she was influential enough to bear its brunt.

What she hadn’t expected was for Layton to appear at this juncture and present to her a report of his hundred-year-long investigation. The report had overwhelming evidence of Emperor Lukas’ long-term collusion with the Savior’s worshipers.

This changed Lilian’s mind.

If Lukas were only an ambitious and callous emperor, Lilian wouldn’t have staged a revolt, especially not at this juncture. In fact, there had always been a part of her that had wanted to win Lukas’ acknowledgment and inherit the crown in such a way.

But everything changed after she saw the document.

Lukas was so powerful that his collusion with the evil cultists could threaten humankind’s safety, but even if not for that, Lilian couldn’t forgive Lukas for working with the Fallens in her personal capacity too.

The Fallens were the greatest enemie

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