Mage Manual-Chapter 646 - 513: Hanna Extra (Part 2)

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After Ash and the others were teleported away, Hanna thought Liss would at least be heartbroken for a few days before she could recover. However, by that very afternoon, Liss began fulfilling her duties as the Empress—she swiftly took control of the Imperial Secret Guard, summoned representatives of each family, and announced the smooth succession of the throne, as if nothing had ever happened.

The only difference was that she established a new department: the Witch Government Establishment Bureau, and appointed Hanna as the first Witch.

The stance of the Empress was clear: there would be no changes to the Gospel in the short term, but soon she would attempt to interfere with the Gospel System and transform the kingdom according to her own wishes.

She herself might not have had a strong desire to rule, but whether it was to prepare a gift for Ash or to fully control the Divine Being, she could not just sit on the throne as a vessel of the Gospel.

However, could the Empress, with her mortal body, control the Divine Being that even Legendary Mages found difficult to command?

Indeed she could.

Because the glory of the Gospel Divine Being penetrated every corner of the Kingdom of Gospel and operated society with its own will. Simply put, it replaced the thoughts of the populace with its own ideas, which is why the Kingdom of Gospel was so harmonious and peaceful, with no barriers between people, no internal friction in production labor, and gears of the state machinery that seemed never to rust—they were all under the control of a unified will. frёeωebɳovel.com

But this also created the opportunity to counter-control the Gospel—by deeply interfering with the operation of society and using the thoughts of the people to influence the will of the Gospel, the Empress could seize the opportunity to replace the Gospel with her own heart!

Of course, this was just a preliminary concept. After all, the Empress still couldn’t interfere with the Gospel System, and they hadn’t even decided ’what kind of future they wanted to create’, which is why the Witch Government Establishment Bureau was established.

The Empress wished for Hanna to draft a development plan written by the Evangelists themselves based on ’the future woven by the Gospel’, ’her own field investigations’, and ’discussions of expert advisors’. Even after a comprehensive judgment that ’the future woven by the Gospel’ is the best future, it must still receive the approval of the Evangelists themselves to be implemented.

"In order to grasp the Gospel, I must help you take back the future."

Hanna recalled the solemnity of the Empress in her snow-white dress when she said this phrase, feeling as if the one sitting on the throne was not a little girl a tad shorter than Yvalin, but a mature Empress in her twenties.

It was precisely because of the Empress’s resolve that so many people visited Hanna one after another. Without a doubt, the decisions made within the Witch Government Establishment Bureau would affect countless fates, whether they wanted to join and become a decision-maker, or hoped for policy benefits to breakthrough ceilings; they all needed to curry favor with Hanna.

Besides, they were certainly uniting, allying, and splitting in private, countless conspiracies were taking root, and countless Contracts were being signed. These ambitions, which had been suppressed by divine will for over a millennium, these frenzies bound by the Gospel for over a millennium, were about to encounter their first and possibly only explosion in the coming fifty years.

As the future was wrested from the hands of the Divine Being, politics among mortals was reborn as well.

As for why this power was entrusted to Hanna, firstly, Hanna had the desire, and secondly, the Empress truly didn’t have many people to choose from.

And Hanna was clearly enthusiastic about it—wasn’t her own wish to blaspheme the Gospel, to seize the desires of the Divine Lord, all to change the Kingdom of Gospel? Now the Empress had handed her the brush, allowing her to smear at will in the portrait of the Gospel, she was practically advancing rapidly on the path of her ideals.

By the time Hanna had finished writing her thoughts on the City system of Vatican Mura, it was already past ten at night. Suddenly remembering something, she quickly left her office for the sleeping quarters.

Today was filled with too many events, and naturally, Hanna stayed over at the Imperial Palace—after all, there was no shortage of rooms. She arrived at her own sleeping quarters and saw little Banjee already asleep in the cradle. The Servant in charge of caring for him nodded at her and then left for other duties—should Hanna need anything, they would appear instantly under the guidance of the Gospel.

On tiptoe, Hanna crouched beside the cradle, looking at Banjee’s furrowed brows as he slept, and couldn’t help but smile—it seemed that even as a baby, Banjee still wore a look of deep concern.

She reached out to gently stroke Banjee’s forehead, whispering softly, "I might not be able to be with you often in the future..."

Banjee, clutching his little fists with his tiny lips puckered on his blue hair, did not hear that the daughter he had raised for over twenty years now had new thoughts.

But there was nothing Hanna could do if Liss did not transform back into Liss, or if Liss had no intention of reforming, she would surely have brought little Banjee back to Azura wholeheartedly, raising him with all the care she could give him.

However, the Empress appointed her as the first Witch of the Witch Government Establishment Bureau, a temptation too great to resist. Power, career, ideals—all within easy reach, Hanna simply could not refuse. As a result, Hanna certainly wouldn’t have time to accompany Banjee, and at most, she could often visit, but not provide the full care that Banjee did for her.

In the end, she still couldn’t compensate for the debt Doran owed Banjee.

If only Ash were here... he could have given little Banjee a brother or sister...

It wasn’t until now that Hanna suddenly remembered those who had once been picked up by her but were now lost again.

They seemed as if they had never existed—no one remembered them, no one paid attention to them, no one mentioned them, except for the remnants of their rankings on the Weaving List, they seemed to have left no trace in this Kingdom... but the Kingdom of Gospel seemed to have undergone a dramatic change because of their passage.

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