Chapter 716 - Entering Nemesis 3 (1/2)

“You met with Arch Duke Gregory and his party?”

“Yes, Your Majesty. There was a bit of a problem that came in, and he helped.”

Upon hearing Shirley’s report, Luke ran back to the mansion.

There he could see Gregory and Saint Guard’s disguised as the Elder Knights of the Baroque.

And Karen’s expression didn’t seem great.

“Ugh!”

“Don’t bend your arms bending, lift them high a little more!”

Karen was kneeling down, facing the east towards the Holy Empire, and was whining with hands raised high.

When Karen’s arms went a little down, as if she wanted out, Gregory struck his sword to the floor and pointed out.

Luke looked at that and sighed.

Hwang Bo-sung, who was behind him, was shocked.

“Your Majesty, that is a little too…”

“Let it be. When you do something bad, you need to be punished.”

Luke didn’t want to say the words of ‘Why are you killing my poor child’, like every other noble parent he hated.

At that time, Arch Duke Gregory approached him and spoke.

“Greetings Your Majesty. I never thought that I would meet you in such an unexpected place.”

“It is nice to meet you. When I heard Karen’s words, I thought that Reina would definitely do something but to send in Arch Duke Gregory…”

“I never expected that this would be the reason for me to enter Nemesis.”

Gregory, who spoke to Luke, glanced over at Karen.

Karen, whose feet seemed to be tingling, tried to straighten her foot and then corrected her posture.

‘Dad, please help me.’

Karen glanced over at Luke with pleading eyes, but Luke ignored her daughter’s plead.

“Aren’t you supposed to scold her more severely?”

“Not that, but Her Holiness has asked me to spank the child when I met her.”

“Really? Then why…?”

“The princess has a rather adult-like personality, right? I thought it would be too much to do that.”

‘And making her kneel and raising her hands, isn’t too much?’

Hwang Bo-sung thought, but didn’t say it out loud, it wasn’t a discussion he could interrupt.

“I see. But how did you get into Nemesis? The security is pretty tough.”

Luke was really curious.

He knew that the Saint Guards had immense power.

However, that didn’t mean that the security magic circle or the checkpoint artifacts in Nemesis would let them pass.

Even Luke had to spend some time and break those circles.

“Did Marquis Reas of the Arthenia Holy Magic Tower accompany you? With his ability, it might be possible, so?”

“No, Marquis Reas is with Her Holiness. We hid under the ground.”

“Underground? You mean that there was something like a secret passage?”

At Luke’s question, Gregory nodded.

“Behind Nemesis are catacombs which were built long back. It is connected to several temples on the ground, it is pretty complex and very extensive, almost like a labyrinth.”

‘Right, the catacombs!’

The catacombs, the paths for the sanctuaries, were created by remodeling the underground dungeons or sewers built during the Mado Empire.

After the fall of the Mado Empire, the world was so chaotic and lawless, so priests of that time used these passages for refugees or escape routes.