Chapter 798 – Yes, Your Holiness (1/2)

Chapter 798 – Yes, Your Holiness

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

An Hua and the deputy general watched speechlessly as the Monster Bull and the Mountain-toppling Fiend slowly made their way into the depths of the plains.

Everything they had seen upon coming to this world was simply too shocking.

The deputy general recalled how he had once heard some fellow say that the Demon Commander enjoyed sitting between the coiled horns of a Mountain-toppling Fiend.

But in the Pope's world, even a crippled Earth Monkey could sit in the same place.

”General, might I know your name?”

A voice broke his stunned recollections.

He turned around and saw that Chen Changsheng was looking at him. He hurriedly responded, ”This lowly general is called Chen Chou.”

Chen Changsheng asked, ”General Chen, I am very interested in a certain matter. When you decided to go to Gaoyang Village, were you not worried that your superiors would accuse you of absconding from your duties?”

Chen Chou bitterly smiled as he answered, ”I'm a disgraced general from Seven Li Xi that was transferred to the Mount Song Army headquarters. I originally had nothing to do, so I thought it would be fine to try and save a person. I didn't expect to encounter so many troubles.”

Chen Changsheng felt that the name of Seven Li Xi was very familiar, but he did not think about it too much.

He greatly admired this general called Chen Chou, both for the risks he had taken to send an array master to Gaoyang to seek medical aid, and for the bravery and resolve he had shown in front of those experts. He asked, ”What about now? Do you still plan on returning to the Mount Song Army headquarters for work?”

Chen Chou was somewhat confused, asking, ”Your Holiness means?”

Chen Changsheng replied, ”If you go to the Mount Song Army headquarters and become Divine General, presumably no one will leave you without things to do.”

Chen Chou froze, and only began to slowly emerge from his stupor with An Hua's gentle voice. Wearing a perplexed expression, he pointed at himself and asked, ”I return to the Mount Song Army headquarters and become Divine General?”

Chen Changsheng affirmed, ”Correct.”

Chen Chou found this idea completely ridiculous. He couldn't help but bitterly smile and shake his head. ”If this were before I was transferred, if I were still commanding general of the roaming cavalry, and perhaps if I fought on the frontlines for another ten years, accumulating merit and increasing my strength, perhaps I truly might have a chance at that position in the Mount Song Army headquarters. But now…”

Right now, he was just a deputy general, the lowest-ranking general. He was separated by a full six ranks from the position of Divine General, so was there anything even worth talking about?

In the end, he just sighed.

He had always felt that his father had chosen a poor name for him.

Chen Chou, Chen Chou, achieving merit but no rewards, only having them slowly molder in the records1.

How else could that fellow be transferred to Sloping Cliff while he ended up in a place like this?

Chen Changsheng suddenly realized that he didn't know what to say next.

If that friend of his were here instead of Wenshui City, perhaps everything would have become much simpler.

That friend would assuredly pat Chen Chou on the shoulder and heroically declare, ”Who is Chen Changsheng? If he says you can do it, then even if you can't do it, you can still do it.”

This was precisely the reasoning, but Chen Changsheng could not bring himself to say such words.

Fortunately, there was still another person present.

An Hua walked in front of Chen Chou and quietly whispered a few things to him.

Only then did Chen Chou remember that the person who wanted him to be Divine General was not some swindling priest from a small church, or one of those avaricious secretaries of the Ministry of the Army, but the Pope!

His eyes brightened, but then quickly became confused and turbulent with emotion.

An Hua knew that this was the response after one's mind had been dealt a heavy blow, and smiled as she shook her head. She paid him no more mind and returned to Chen Changsheng.

The Li Palace had never involved itself in government affairs, and in the past few years, it had been particularly inconspicuous.