Chapter 82 - Vol1 Ch82: We are knights (1/2)

Translator: La0o9  Editor: La0o9

The negotiation soon reached a deadlock. The Kingdom of Royas has chosen to compromise in a lot of aspects, but the person who signed the contract had to be Nala.

Even without thinking, anyone could tell that there was some sort of scheme hidden here. Nala was the Saintress of Salvation of Interkam, as well as its Princess. If nothing went wrong, she would become the next sovereign of Interkam.

This request was rejected immediately after it was made. Many noble knights in the country were followers of Nala. Although they had chosen to abandon Nala when they regained command of the army, it was also because of this abandonment that they felt ashamed and vowed to upkeep their chivalry as well as the bottom line of pride for nobility.

However, it turned out that this ‘bottom line of pride” was basically the same as nothing. A few days after the negotiations reached a deadlock, the opinion of this being ‘a condition that cannot be accepted no matter what’ changed. Because the Royas army was once again reorganizing itself.

As the Royas’ side had declared, if Interkam couldn’t accept this condition, then there was no longer any need for peace talks.

“This is just signing an agreement, there wouldn’t necessarily be any danger. Isn’t it selfish that the Princess didn’t agree? Isn’t she the Saintress of Salvation? Why couldn’t she agree to something this small?”

At some point, this kind of argument started to make sense for the nobles, and people began to support the Princess accepting this condition to end their negotiations. Interkam at this point was unable to handle another war, the long battle so far had caused the nobles to feel a bit crippled and unwilling to bear any more losses.

And just as history had shown, if there was a first betrayal, there would be a second. Since Nala did not blame or spurn them the first time they did it, she would also not do it the second time. After all, she was the benevolent Saintress of Salvation!

The nobles continued to manipulate the public opinion to force Nala into making a decision. According to them, Nala was just a fortunate village girl, anyone else would have been able to succeed if they were in her shoes, they used every means they had to slander Nala.

These aristocrats’ behaviours grew increasingly contradictory by the day. On one hand, they hoped that Nala would agree to be the representative to sign the treaty so that their interests and benefits could be assured; but on the other hand, they also didn’t want Nala to agree.

Because that would prove that Nala was nothing more than that, and her ‘Saintress of Salvation’ title was nothing but a name. It would mean that she wasn’t so benevolent herself, making their behaviours appear not quite as selfish and miserly, how great would that be?

Compared to the others, Seth the First’s behaviour was a lot more consistent, he wished for nothing but for Nala to walk to her death, that way the throne would only be his.

The majority of the nobles, for the sake of their benefits, finally broke down that tiny last bit of pride they called the ‘bottom line of nobility’ and agreed that Nala should go and sign the treaty.

As for the ordinary people, although Nala’s prestige was high among the civilians, they couldn’t change the decisions of the nobles. Not to mention that most of them also supported Nala going to sign the treaty, they weren’t even feeling ashamed about it. After all, her so-called title of ‘Saintress of Salvation’ was because she should be dedicating herself to bring them salvation, should she not?

In Interkam, only the Church of Divine Grace had yet to make a public statement, while they were practically bombarding each other with words during the debates. Most of the upper echelon disagreed with sending Nala, because it was them who supported Nala to her current position. As soon as Nala became the Queen, they would be able to reap the generous rewards of their efforts, so why should they make Nala take such a huge risk now?

While those who agreed with sending Nala believed that this would be the best chance for them to spread their faith into Royas. If war broke out again, Royas’ domestic rejection of the Church would only increase, and it would become significantly harder for them to spread into Royas than at any other time.

“Everyone, the Black Abyss is approaching, we have no time” Luen declared coldly with the scepter in his hand “The light of God should be shining on more people, not limited within Interkam, our time is running out”