Chapter 356 - Agatha (54) (1/2)

If thought from someone else's perspective, while his actions showed that he still cares, Jiang Li still seemed to be quite cruel on Margarette as he constantly did stuff similar to that incident without letting her see him. It was like he kept giving hope that he was near, yet in actuality, he was so distant.

On one hand, the system was really correct for calling him very vengeful.

But on another, it was also because he found her previous actions unacceptable.

One should not take a person for a substitute for another. It does not matter if that person was still him or not, or if the other party was aware of it or not. No one with the least bit of self-respect should tolerate their partner seeing another's face or soul in them. Jiang Li was especially sensitive about this since he was a world-hopper. No matter what identity he wore in every world, he was clear that all that belonged to him was his soul...

What about her?

The fact remained how he reached out to her several times before his points were emptied out, yet she ignored all of it.

He didn't want to not forgive, but forgetting, that one thing which he considered the key to forgiveness, was proving to be a fight more difficult than imagined. Even now he was sure the girl only wanted him back for that damnable previous incarnation of his! He knew because he never truly stopped observing her.

To be honest, the thought really made Jiang Li unhappy.

His unhappiness was channeled into his pursuit to become a deity.

Thankfully, there was more to learn about the continent, magic, and divinity so there were things to distract him. Thankfully too, he had long become familiar with how to enter the Church of Wisdom without being spotted. Where else could he access a very wide array of knowledge? What else but reading from the church's archive could give him an idea where to start?

He had stayed there until the Gallaghers' schemes were exposed and the royal family's plan to rouse their Nephilim blood was foiled by the leads.

Speaking of the Gallaghers, a few funny memories surfaced in his mind.

When that particular event happened, Jiang Li was only watching from afar since he had no reason to involve himself there. His face had a hint of gloating. Those people tried so hard to come this far but they did not know that no matter what they do, they just had no way of succeeding.

How badly he wanted to say to everyone that the moment the two pairs of leads were lured into the capital, all schemes that could indirectly or directly harm them had been automatically negated in a 'reasonable' way.

One instance which Jiang Li couldn't stop laughing for an hour at was the farce staged by the royal family. And it all started from the Papal Dynasty which wanted to replace the Borley.

The Gallagher clan had enjoyed a special status in the kingdom for almost a thousand years because of their close ties with the church. But from three generations ago, they started using their secretly exiled members to dig pits for the royals. These exiled people used their last name's guarantee as servants of the Goddess of Wisdom to disillusionize the royals into thinking they were descendants of very powerful beings.

'Hey, if you don't know, you actually have a very awesome bloodline. Come and get the cure from the witch clan.'

'I assure you, uniting the continent under your rule will be as easy as pie as long as you wake up your sleeping powers.'

'Getting the witch clan to break lineage limitation will be hard? Oh. No problem, our whole Church will cooperate with you. We happen to know someone who will be desperate for something only we possess…'