Chapter 781: Chapter 475: The Alice Equation Holds True! (Ten-Thousand-Word Chapter)

Shen Sui never expected that Catherine would so decisively side with Alice, without even a moment of hesitation.

In Shen Sui’s impression, Catherine was supposed to be the most steadfast loyalist to the crown. Based on her stance, she should firmly support the Roland Empire, and stand by her father’s side, right?

Was Alice’s charm really that terrifying?

Wait a minute.....

Shen Sui furrowed his brow and looked at Catherine’s dialogue.

Due to the urgency at the time, and coupled with having too many identities to maintain, Alice didn’t immediately notice the flaw in Catherine’s words, but Shen Sui’s memory was very clear.

Alice had always contacted Catherine using Hozerville’s identity and never revealed herself as Alice.

How did Catherine know that Alice was Hozerville?

Could it be that Catherine deduced this from various intelligence?

If that was truly the case, Shen Sui would have to reassess Catherine’s abilities carefully.

Alice’s disguise might not be easily seen through, but if the other party had a robust intelligence system and unparalleled analytical capabilities, deducing the relationship between Alice, Hozerville, and Adoma from the information wasn’t a difficult task.

But soon enough, Shen Sui learned from Catherine’s inner voice the reason she knew Alice’s identity.

[Catherine looked at the young and beautiful Alice.]

[If it were before, she would never have believed that such a girl could be such a powerful presence.]

[She is both the Witch Hozerville who inherited the name of Twilight.]

[And also the supreme Pope Adoma of the Thunder Church.]

[At the same time, she is a witch of the Dragon Race, a mage of Dawn...]

[If her maid hadn’t told her, Catherine wouldn’t have believed that such identities could belong to one person.]

[Look at the grand arrangements her father and the Thunder Church’s knights have set up to kill Alice; it’s such supreme treatment, a recognition of Alice’s abilities and status by her enemies.]

[Just what role is the Life Card Master named Shen Sui playing by Alice’s side?]

Reading this section, Shen Sui understood why Catherine knew about Alice’s identity.

The third princess of the Empire had recently become a Soul Card for a Life Card Master in the real world.

She received a large amount of intelligence about Alice from the Life Card Master.

Although people in the real world didn’t know that Alice was disguised as Adoma to become the Pope of the Thunder Church, because Shen Sui never used the related form in duels, they did know about the relationship between Alice and Hozerville, since Shen Sui had switched between these identities repeatedly in duels.

And Catherine just happened to know that Adoma was Hozerville.

Thus, the equation Adoma=Hozerville=Alice was established in Catherine’s mind.

It was completely unexpected that Alice’s cover was blown this time because of the real world.

But thinking about it, it was quite normal, given that with the Extraordinary Invasion, the number of Life Card Masters in the real world had suddenly increased, and it’s not uncommon for someone to become a Soul Card Follower in the Soul Card World.

If this happened in another sparsely populated place, Shen Sui might have been able to use the Soul Card proximity alert from the Dueling Device to avoid it, but it happened right in Roland City.

Once Alice entered Roland City, this Soul Card proximity alarm never stopped, indicating that there was a considerable number of Soul Card activities by Life Card Masters in Roland City.

When a warning is one-off, you must pay attention.

But when warnings become this ubiquitous, even if you want to react, you can’t find a target at all.

From the subsequent inner voice of Catherine, her mindset shift occurred after her Life Card Master appeared.

Presumably, this Life Card Master recounted many historical tales of royal struggles to Catherine, reigniting her ambition to ascend the throne and become the emperor of the Roland Empire, even though she had been in a half-given-up state.

Catherine had some prestige among the nobility, but she had been alienated due to disagreements with her father, who fully sided with the Church.

Yet, the insights from the Life Card Master made Catherine realize her own advantages.

At least in the Roland Empire, though the nobles and clergy are both ruling classes, their interests actually conflict. The pie of interests in this world is only so big, and when there’s no way to make it bigger, eliminating your opponent becomes the primary means of strengthening oneself.

The major commanders of the Imperial Army are mainly controlled by the great nobles.

Even though they currently obey the emperor, they actually do not wish for the Thunder Church to grow even stronger within the Roland Empire.

Catherine could fully seize this opportunity to fulfill her ambition.

As for the so-called father-daughter relationship, while possible, it is not indispensable for the royal family.

[Catherine agrees to help Alice.]