Super Righteous Player
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Theoretically speaking, the "Pleasure Seeker" is not an airship meant for rent. It has never been lent out even once in history.

Because in fact, it is the Holding Cup Church’s armed aerial fortress.

It is one hundred sixty meters long with its maximum diameter and height both nearing thirty meters—close to the height of a clock tower around six stories tall. Therefore, it is also honored by the Holding Cup Church as "Our Great Bell Tower," "The Revered Pleasure Seeker."

Although it doesn’t carry as many weapons and explosives as the red knight’s airships... it doesn’t mean that it is significantly inferior.

The "Pleasure Seeker’s" most advanced technology involves shock absorption and soundproofing. On board the "Pleasure Seeker," there are even specialized restaurants, ballrooms, studies, baths, and entertainment rooms where you can play cards, chess, read books, and enjoy dance performances...

It has two floors of passenger cabins, each room featuring a huge, soft double bed. Except for not having separate bathrooms and slightly cramped rooms, it’s hardly different from the most luxurious hotels.

The "Pleasure Seeker’s" maximum flight speed can reach eighty kilometers per hour—under "tranquil status," it can still maintain a speed of sixty kilometers per hour.

In the tranquil status, the "Pleasure Seeker’s" stability can even allow for playing billiards in the entertainment room. This level of stability makes it possible for ritualists to perform ceremonies in the air.

However, conducting ceremonies is a very dangerous affair. A single failure could cause an explosion. Conducting ceremonies in the turbulent skies is certainly not a safe practice.

But this is not entirely without solutions.

The "Pleasure Seeker’s" ceremonial room has a special design—it accommodates the secret number "9" of the Goddess of Cup, which can hold up to nine ritualists to perform large-scale joint ceremonies, or divide a certain ceremony into nine parts in a specific way.

In this way, each person only needs to complete a part of it, allowing the ceremony to proceed smoothly.

As a result, the likelihood of ceremony failure is greatly reduced.

Because as long as each component is confirmed to be without issues, the ceremony is unlikely to have problems in the end. It’s like breaking down a question that directly asks for a result into many verifiable steps to calculate separately.

Conversely, if the ceremony does fail, bearing only one-ninth of the feedback generally won’t pose a life-threatening risk.

This divided ceremony, called the "Ninth-Fold Ceremony," is also a large-scale auxiliary ceremony developed by the Holding Cup Church—named "Feast Beloved by Many." In addition to deconstruction, it can also be used to amplify and project the ceremonies of the Goddess of Cup.

It can only be used by priests of the Holding Cup Church... though in reality, only the Holding Cup Church may need such auxiliary methods for their rituals.

According to "The Secrets of the Cup," the Goddess of Cup is the only True God among the gods who requires a "sacrifice" to complete her ceremonies.

Just as requesting the power of a "Purified Realm" requires the offering of highly purified Gold—so too does using ceremonies like "Untouched Heart Sings" from the Goddess of Cup require a self-sacrifice.

If performing high-level rituals, it is very easy to hurt or cripple oneself.

Of course, for some, obtaining a large amount of highly purified gold might be far more difficult than offering up one’s own blood and limbs...

Yet this airship allows ritualists to perform ceremonies continuously with the lowest cost, highest speed, and minimal risk.

Imagine this—

A large airship floats at sixty kilometers per hour above the great barrier—since it’s above the great barrier, this means that nearly all attacks from the ground are unlikely to hit it.

And it can constantly have an effect on people directly below it.

As long as the Holding Cup Church holds the "Pleasure Seeker" in its grasp, they can intervene in the battlefield at any time.

In the Divine Arts of the "Blood" realm, many have considerable lethality and disruptive power.

For example, mass sleep, mass insomnia, mass frenzy, mass madness—or causing vines to grow out of the heart, making the blood inside the body corrupt, turning detached blood into scalding acid to counterattack the enemy, and so on.

It’s just like air force bombing infantry, unable to resist, unable to counterattack... and they can’t even evade in front of this overwhelming ceremonial spectacle; the only thing to do is to flee as quickly as possible.

But this airship traveling at sixty kilometers per hour.

If it were to carry out a pursuit, it would be absolutely impossible for infantry to escape.

—How could such a deadly weapon be lent out casually?

They even lent it to foreigners... The worst part was that the church didn’t even leave a cardinal onboard the airship to supervise.

There were only the four pitiful children.

Their authority was far too low. So much so that they had no idea what behaviors were allowed...

It must be a conspiracy, they thought sadly.

Fortunately, the church had only lent out the four of them and hadn’t sent nine ritualists along as well.

At least it wasn’t the worst-case scenario.

It was akin to the airship having very advanced weapons but, at least, no equipped personnel who knew how to operate them.

...It was still pretty outrageous.

If ritualists had also been provided, they’d genuinely have to wonder if the Holding Cup Church was planning to bomb another country under the guise of "lending the airship to travelers"—perhaps Dennisiowa’s Royal Capital.

Considering the strained relationship between Dennisiowa and The Holy Nation...

In that case, they could just be the scapegoats the Holding Cup Church would blame after provoking a war.

But something felt off—after all, one of them was a direct disciple of the Pope, wasn’t she? She also questioned herself, never having offended anyone, and was quite favored by her teacher.

What in the world was going on?

Whom were they supposed to get close to? Where was this airship heading, exactly?

An airship of nearly the highest bombing configuration... Traveling to the Sorrowful Duchy couldn’t possibly be just to bombard the Tomb of the Bone Duke, could it?

The four of them had secretly discussed it several times, but still couldn’t figure it out. Instead, they were growing more and more nervous.

Fortunately, one of them had become acquainted with Dragon Well Tea and had successfully passed on her own name...

"—Ailin."

Dragon Well Tea instructed, "We need to prepare to descend."

After the "Pleasure Seeker" entered full-speed mode, it took only eight hours to fly from the heart of The Holy Nation to the skies above the Sorrowful Duchy.

The female priest with beautiful brunette hair, who had been standing by their side and listening to their conversations, had a complicated expression on her face.

The more she listened, the heavier her heart felt.

She felt that her professional smile was almost at its breaking point...

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—How could they be talking about both Duke Winter and Princess Noah... Are these people’s identities that high? Which country are they from, anyway? And they’re calling "Old Bones" with such familiarity, almost to the point of disrespect, and they seem to know the Silver Baron as well.

What was most outrageous was that she had heard these people discussing how to assassinate Noah’s Prince and how to seize control of the Underground City—

...Why, why are these people chatting so recklessly?!

What exactly are these people’s backgrounds? What kind of lawless bandits are these?

Will I end up being silenced?

Probably...yes...

Ailin shivered slightly, her expression growing increasingly fearful.

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