Chapter 166: Chapter 165

<Mrs. Chester, you already know that, don’t you? The chessboard is completely dependent on who moves first.>

<That’s why you need to make a bold decision sometimes. For example, if you don’t like this game, you should make a decision to generate a new game even if that requires overturning the chessboard.>

<Anyway, Isn’t it a chessboard for us to enjoy? You don’t need any restriction to entertainment. As its origin is like a war, there is no eternal ally or everlasting enemy. If I win and am happy, what’s the big deal of changing the players sitting across me?>

Unfortunately, Duke Hubble remembered all the words he had spoken to Mrs. Chester.

When he said that, the protagonist of the chessboard was Duke Hubble himself, and the owner of the new game that could change hands anytime was Mrs. Chester.

“What you told me was very valuable advice for me. Thank you very much,” Mrs. Chester said.

But the situation changed completely now. The owner of the inverted game board was Mrs. Chester, and Duke Hubble became one of the pieces on the board.

“I wasn’t in a position to sympathize with Lord Calvin. I should have gotten rid of you before you gave birth to the emperor’s son…” said Duke Hubble, with a feigned laugh.

He was always a powerful man who wielded power by grabbing somebody’s neck. Not only had he never seen the threat of life for nearly seventy years, but he took it so natural like breathing to use the assasination of his political rivals as his weapon. Had he ever assumed that he would be betrayed by such a vulgar woman like Mrs. Chester? Never.

His political strategy was always strict to others, but he pursued it boldly without fear.

That’s why he didn’t feel the need to plant his security men in and around his vast mansion when he went out and met someone.

If only he had feared this enormous power, something behind that power, and his possible defeat…

He regretted his decisions a bit for the first and last time in his life.

It was his fatal mistake that he overestimated his power and took it for granted until now. He should have taken into account the assumption that he could be betrayed by incompetent families and arrogant acquaintances and friends. The hardship he was faced with now was too harsh to him who led an excessively luxurious life until now.

“You had better be prudent. Elias knows very little about the intelligence that you can make use of. If I die, some of it can be buried forever, and the other can be revealed to the world. Who knows if some of my secrets contain some intelligence about your wrongdoing in the past?”

“It doesn’t matter. Any other card is not as good as the one in my hand. ”

Mrs. Chester ignored his words by shrugging her shoulders.

She continued, “You don’t have to worry about the new chessboard you were planning to generate because I’m going to take it over. I like Empress Alessa as much as you.”

Duke Hubble didn’t respond.

“Do not worry about your successor, either. I’ll make sure your death will go down as an honorable one in the empire’s history just like you did for Mrs. Blanchefort, Lady Rosetta, and many other nobles’ murders.”

At that point, Duke Hubble’s face was irreversibly distorted badly.

“And if you happen to meet the late Sir Calvin and His Majesty, please tell them this.”

Mrs. Chester caught her breath at that point. After breathing out calmly, she said with a bright smile, “Go to hell, you son of a bitch!”

Soon the end of her smooth satin dress turned back slowly. There was the sound of the assassins running towards their prey. Although it was horrible, she enjoyed hearing the terrible screaming and the scent of blood, humming a tune. Her manicured fingertips tapped lightly on her ring engraved with black pythons.

“Oh, I think I made unnecessary remarks as you three would reunite in the purgatory of Tanatos, right?”

She turned to Elias, whose face hardened, while looking ahead.

Elias giggled instead of replying. It was a very strange expression. His face mixed with horror, relief, joy and despair was terrifying like that of a monster.

But Mrs. Chester was not afraid of him. Elias was a crystal of the monster’s bloody mutation and the weakness that destroyed that monster. He existed by violating the principles and morals on earth.

“Congratulations on becoming the new head of your family, Sir Elias!”

To be sure, she was confident that she could become a great trainer of this ugly monster.

* * *

There was a sad cry ringing through the corridor of the serene hall.

Cardinal Helena, who slept lightly, opened her eyes at the noise. There was still darkness everywhere. She got up quickly without delay.

While roughly putting on the robe hanging on the old wooden chairs, she heard the cries from the hallway gradually closer to her room. Other priests also seemed to have woken up and opened the doors.

Helena hurriedly lit the glass lamp. The door of the cardinal’s room was soon opened.

At the same time, the source of the crying sound, which was now in the front of Helena, jumped into her arms.

“Boohoo…Your Eminence! The stars…! ”

Hilde, her face filled with tears and a runny nose, cried out. Helena gestured lightly at the priests who came out to the middle of the hallway, shaking their heads. In no time, they went back to their rooms, feeling drowsy and worried a bit.

“Hilde.”

Helena slowly pulled Hilde’s arms from around her waist. Putting down the lamp, she bent her knees to be at her eye level and looked into her innocent eyes.

Hilde wrapped her arms around her neck. Her breathing pouring into the gap of her disheveled robe was hot and irregular.

“Calm down, sweetheart. It’s fine. OK. Don’t cry. ”

She sobbed, “Your Eminence…”

Helena gently pat Hilde’s back and wrapped her in her arms. But her crying did not stop easily. Her small, fragile body trembled like a surprised herbivore as if she couldn’t endure her overflowing sadness. Helena thought she had to calm her down first, so she spoke kindly and casually while trying to soothe her, “You’re a good girl, Hilde. If you keep crying, Arsène will tell you to write ten more letters of repentance. Did you forget that you suggested we go on a picnic to the flower garden tomorrow? Do you want to be locked in your room writing letters of repentance? ”

“Oh, I don’t like it….”

Only then did Hilde let go of Helena’s neck. She rubbed wet eyes with clenched fists.

Helena gently pressed down Hilde’s rough hands and gently wiped her eyes with her hand.

“So, stop crying. If you listen to me well, I’ll make a pretty wreath of summer flowers for you tomorrow, okay? ”

She immediately stopped crying as if Helena’s proposal was attractive, or her familiar and friendly voice calmed her troubled mind.

“I’m sorry. I promised not to, but I had a dream. In my dream, I was sitting in a very wide, black, barley field. Then, suddenly a star exploded and black and terrible debris rained down over my head…”

Hilde continued to make excuses, even with a runny nose. Helena, patiently listened to her words, gradually became concerned.

Dreams, huge green barley fields, an exploding star, dark and terrible debris…

Hilde, born under the blessing of Goddess Anthea, often had foreboding dreams.

Her golden eyes that closely resembled hers were the mirror of God’s will as well as a prophetic book of the future. As she was young, she still didn’t know how to handle her predictions. But Hilde had a much stronger potential than the cardinal in terms of the divine impact.

Helena got up immediately. Holding the lamp in one hand and holding Hilde’s small hand in the other hand, she quickly walked toward the backyard.

Facing the open night sky, the two priests instinctively looked at the starry sky.

“Yes. There are few stars really. ”

Hilde, who had more divine eyesight, spoke with a trembling voice. Hilde’s fingertips became white as she clenched Helena’s hand.

“Well, there was definitely a star of God Zephyrus over there… I saw it twinkling during the daytime…”

Helena gently bit her lip. She sighed a long sigh while crossing herself.

“That’s a falling star.”

Her lamentation continued. Hilde, who first experienced the fall of a divine star, felt creeped out and held the hem of Helena’s robes tightly.

“I feel scared. What should I do? Why did it fall? I saw a star falling asleep, but I never saw a star falling. Can’t I see it again? I didn’t say goodbye to it. I don’t like it. What can I do?”

“Well. I don’t know why it fell, but…” Helena fumbled her words.

Actually, Helena said that to soothe her. Hilde looked back at the starlight of the distant sky.

There were numerous stars in the sky, such as stars twinkling wickedly, stars shining dangerously, stars standing firmly and silently in their places and stars hidden behind the clouds for a while. In addition, there were more constellations swimming in the chaotic celestial sea.

If the stars on earth followed the flow of heaven, there would probably have a huge vortex in the capital.

“The star may be born again. There is a record that a divine star that has fallen can be revived later. ”

“Really?”