This Holy Knight is So Despicable!
Chapter 41 Do You Know How to Fish?

Chapter 41: Chapter 41 Do You Know How to Fish?

"Why do I still have to cook when I have a maid?"

Lette, with a sullen face, placed the four dishes and one soup on the dining table. Lilith eagerly picked up her utensils, not forgetting to tease him.

"That’s what you deserve. Who told you to mess up the only maid yesterday?"

Lette gave her a disdainful look, "Eat up! There’s so much food and it can’t even shut your mouth!"

"Wow! So fresh and unique in taste!"

Emily pointed at the soup pot excitedly, "What’s this white stuff? It’s so good! Is it a specialty of the Holy City?"

Lette served himself a bowl, "This is a specialty from my hometown, called tofu! It’s made from soybeans! If you like it, eat more, I’ve already set aside a portion for Flander.

Seriously, who’s the master here!

Lilith, I’m not talking about you!"

Lilith put down her utensils, grumbling impatiently, "Oh right, right, master, master! Then why didn’t you want me to warm the bed for you last night?"

"Haha, I was afraid of being poked."

"Ha!? What did you say? What did you just say! Who do you think is to blame for my current state? Wait till I recover my form! I’ll dazzle you!"

Lette dug his nose with a look of disdain, "Oh, right, oh, Maya~ Dazzle me to death!"

"I’ll fight you for it!"

Lilith pounced on Lette’s head, starting her frenzied revenge spree.

Emily awkwardly smiled and then opened her mouth to ask, "Um, Lord Lette, what are we doing today?"

"Just call me Lette, you’re not clergy."

Lette pulled Lilith off his head, shoving a piece of fried sugar cake into her mouth to calm her down.

"There’s nothing special to do today. But I think it won’t be long before the Red Archbishop and the Black robed Archbishop come to ask for accountability.

Wanna bet on who gets here first?"

Emily was clearly not very interested in this wager, "Why, aren’t you giving me any tasks?"

"Huh? What task?"

Emily gestured with her hands, "Didn’t you say, that the Holy City currently has four main enemies! Pagans, remnants of the truth, Dark Races, and the New Church.

You support Lord Adros to deal with the Dark Races, right?

The three quotas for the legitimation of the heresy sects are to deal with the pagans, right?

Recruiting Flander is to deal with the New Church, right?

So now, shouldn’t we be dealing with the remnants of the truth? Aren’t I the one you have in mind for this role?"

Lette burst out laughing after hearing this, "What, is your understanding of my strategy just limited to reactively blocking attacks or plugging leaks as they come?

Having heroes persuade heroes and brave men investigate brave men is fine too, but one-to-one correspondence isn’t my style."

Emily seemed puzzled, "Then, what do you plan to do?"

Lette stirred the clear soup in his bowl, "In our hometown, there’s a rather cruel dish called loach burrows into tofu.

The preparation of this dish is complicated, but its principle is simple.

The chef puts water in a pot, adds a piece of tofu, and a few critters known as loaches, small fish, then slow-cooks it.

As the water heats up, the loaches burrow into the cool tofu, until they are cooked along with the tofu."

Upon hearing this, Emily couldn’t help but shiver, suddenly losing her appetite for tofu.

"Why are you telling me this?"

"I’m trying to tell you that you misunderstood my strategy."

Lette tapped the soup pot, "Now, the entire Holy City is my iron pot, and whether Dark Races or remnants of the truth, they are just little loaches.

I had the Holy Knight’s new army enter the city to strengthen city defenses and security. I also released all the Black robed Crowd to coordinate the actions.

All of this is to slowly heat the water in this iron pot.

Who do you think is the tofu?"

Emily looked at the soup pot, deep in thought, "To the Dark Races, Lord Adros must be a piece of tofu.

But joining his ranks would mean betraying the Blood Witch.

Although some of the Dark Races will choose this path, many loyalists will remain."

Lette chuckled, "What if I relax the oversight and inspection of the heresy sects and encourage them to tear at each other?"

Emily widened her eyes, "Then these heresy sects will become the second piece of tofu!

The Dark Races, wielding the magic of the Blood Witch, can avoid being detected by the Holy Light Formation.

As the ’water temperature’ of the Holy City rises continuously, they will eventually risk it all and seek refuge in various heresy sects.

In doing so, they can both avoid inspection by the Holy City and evade being rounded up by Lord Adros.

But can this really be done? Won’t the Holy City become chaotic due to factional disputes?"

Lette waggled his finger, "No, no, no, it’s an orderly chaos!

Because these heresy sects aim to be legitimized, so they must comply and create chaos according to the rules we set.

If they don’t comply, they’ll be disqualified from the legitimation competition.

The next moment, they’ll be attacked by other sects collectively, consumed in the blink of an eye.

Don’t underestimate the power of competition for job positions and the ensuing race to the bottom."

Emily felt her head swell, "But you still haven’t said how to deal with the remnants of the Truth Church!"

"Those people are indeed tricky. They are highly destructive, few in number, and adept at hiding. Even boiling the water might not force them out.

So, we need to bait them like we’re fishing!"

Emily was somewhat resigned, "How is that possible? They must be particularly cautious and highly vigilant now!"

"But what if I have a bait they are guaranteed to take?"

As Lette said this, he spread his hand open, revealing a Holy Light Magic Ring floating above his palm. Yet, on the ring, Fire Element began to gather, eventually forming a Fireball.

Emily was startled, suddenly jumping up, "Fireball Technique! How do you know Fireball Technique!"

"If you were remnants of the Truth Church and saw me cast a Fireball Technique using Holy Light, wouldn’t you want to investigate?"

"Not just the remnants of the Truth Church, any Elemental Mage! No, anyone with some knowledge of magic would want to know!"

Emily couldn’t help but lean in to observe, "How on earth did you do it? Do you have full-level affinity with elements other than Light Element?"

"This Fireball Technique is made of Holy Light. This, is the power of the Magic Ring."

Lette jiggled the Fireball Technique in his hand, "Remember the Element Absorption Technique?"

"Of course I remember, it’s about swapping high-energy elements for low-energy ones!"

"Holy Light is an elevated state of Light Element. It can be swapped out regardless of whether other elements are active."

Emily kept waving her hands, "But the magic elements you swap out should be non-standardized!

When you defeated that vampire butler, you said non-standardized magic elements couldn’t form magic!

Since you don’t have Fire Element affinity, you shouldn’t be able to perform soul marking on it!"

Lette was quite pleased, "Seems you absorbed a bit of my lessons. Yes, the soul mark on this...isn’t mine...

It’s Light God’s."

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