Among all the high-ranking people on the planet, the first person to receive Fran was not the members of the House of Lords, nor the Grand Inquisitor of the Heretic Tribunal, but Lu Yana. Lu Yana, who is now the deputy director of the Imperial Shield, brought two

An Imperial Shield cruiser met Fran and his party at the asteroid belt in the outermost part of the solar system.

"Welcome back to Earth."

Lu Yana said in the communicator, still wearing the ancient black sejing sharp armor instead of the golden armor of the Imperial Shield. This super psionic master who had reached the peak of human psyker level 18 two years ago is here.

Shi is smiling

Looking at Fran and Eris on the other side of the communicator, he said: "The Imperial Shield agreed to my request and specially arranged for me to come here to greet our great hero, Duchess Fran and her party. From now on, your

Security will be maintained by Imperial Shields."

"This is impossible!" Versesline suddenly said: "The security work of the Duchess has always been within the scope of the Heretic Tribunal before, now, and in the future. The Imperial Shield has no right to deprive us of our security responsibilities."

Lu Yana glanced sideways at the image of Versesline. If Lu Yana, who was still a commoner a few years ago, was still full of awe for these battle nuns, now Lu Yana can be seen across the demigods and even the divine gate.

In her eyes, battle nuns like Captain Versailin are no longer the focus of her attention.

"It used to be, but since the Kestin family has been able to interfere with the work of the Heretic Tribunal, the Battle Sisters no longer have the responsibility and authority to protect the personal safety of important figures in the empire."

Versesline was slightly stuck. She understood what Lu Yana meant. The Heretic Tribunal secretly negotiated peace with the other noble families through the Kestin family behind Fran's back. In essence, it was a betrayal of the allies, and this kind of betrayal was also a betrayal.

This means that the honeymoon period of the previous alliance is over. The Battle Sisters no longer favor Fran, and even begin to maintain some hostility towards Fran. In this case, even the Imperial House of Lords will ask the Heretic Tribunal to leave Fran for a period of time.

distance.

Even if Fran poses a threat to the upper echelons of the empire, the empire cannot easily lose such a powerful existence. Maintaining a proper balance is a must. Therefore, the current appearance of the Imperial Shield is the clearest signal.

After Lujana scolded Versesline, she turned to look at Fran's image and said with a smile: "Captain Van Nicast and Director of the Aristotle Think Tank welcome the Duke to the Imperial Shield Station at the appropriate time.

Before the visit, I will be responsible for your safety throughout the entire process. I don’t know if Duke Fran agrees to this arrangement."

Although I can understand that this is a product of the balance between the upper levels of the empire, the familiar Lu Yana is much stronger than the spies of the Heretic Tribunal and the ubiquitous battle nuns who are lurking around me.

Fran nodded slightly and responded: "I am very happy with the detailed arrangement of the leader. I have no objection to such an arrangement."

Luyana looked up at Eris, who was sitting behind Fran with his feet on the table. She smiled again and said, "This trip to the earth may not be very smooth for Duke Fran.

However, with an existence like Eris, I believe that your actions will ultimately be a complete success."

Fran turned her head and glanced at Eris, smiled as well, and said a few words casually. The two of them started talking to each other on the bridge communicator, leaving Verseline on the Victory aside in the cold, and did not turn off the communication at the same time.

It seemed that it was accidental, but it also seemed to be intentional. Such scenes and conversations continued to spread to the battleship of the Victory. Verseline watched quietly. After a long time, she turned around and asked in a low voice: "The news

Confirmed?"

"|Yes, Mammy, the Messiah has been transferred and may now be in the main control computer of the Kestin family. The Messiah has enough knowledge. Apart from being unable to turn on the soul fire, its knowledge is enough to guarantee a

The demigods find the correct divine level, and find the divine door that truly belongs to them on the divine level. This transfer can save a lot of time for Shaila to become the emperor's real bride."

Verseline frowned slightly and sighed unknown behind her visor. Of course she knew that this was something deliberately done by the Heretic Tribunal in order to compete with Fran's power. If Fran had too many people close to God,

If the position exists, then the empire must at least

Only the existence of two gods can maintain this delicate balance, but why choose the Kestin family? Is it just because there is a huge conflict between the Kestin family and Fran, which can guarantee that the Kestin family will never favor Fu Lan.

Is it because of Lan's side?

Versesline is somewhat puzzled by the decision of the Grand Inquisitor. As a veteran noble with the ability to cultivate a demigod, the Kestin family will not favor Fran, but they may not necessarily do so.

Loyalty to the emperor and making Sharla Kestin the emperor's bride may not only fail to settle those disputes, but may lead to the beginning of greater divisions within the empire, especially for people like the Kestin family who are obsessed with power, power, and wealth.

A family whose plunder and desires have no end.

Using a marriage to solve the immediate dilemma, but turning a blind eye to the future dangers, if this is the decision of the Grand Inquisitor himself, then this is definitely a very bad decision.

Based on Verseline's understanding of the Grand Inquisitor, to be able to make such a decision, the Imperial Divine Religion behind the Grand Inquisitor probably also exerted a lot of strength. Not only this time, a few years ago, members of the Kestin family

In the end, it seemed that certain personnel from the Imperial Divine Religion played a big role in the assassination of Fran. The matter was raised high and fell gently. It was from that time that Fran found out that the upper echelons of the empire were interested in this matter.

Only after this matter was handled like this did some rifts arise between him and the empire.

And now, this rift has widened further with the private peace negotiations between the Heretic Tribunal.

Also, the fourteen noble families, with their current cowardly behavior, it is simply unimaginable how they were brave enough to unite and send something like a combat mediation team to let Fran seize the opportunity.

, if these great nobles did not have the support of a larger behemoth behind them, it would have been impossible for them to have acted like they were seeking death.

Verseline could even imagine that the Imperial Divine Religion also played a disgraceful role in this matter. With the endorsement of the Imperial Divine Religion, those big families thought that Fran would compromise because of this, and in the end they almost lost themselves.

Sent to the gallows, according to this inference, the Imperial Divine Cult

In order to prevent those noble families from being attacked by Fran, they would bite back and expose their scandals, which would lead to a very bad outcome. Therefore, they put pressure on the Heretic Tribunal and forced the Grand Inquisitor to negotiate peace with those noble families through the Kestin family.

It becomes a matter of course.

Versesline was fed up with this political whirlpool, especially the leaders of the Imperial Cult. They were in a mess both in terms of combat prowess and state-governing strategies. Their tendency to flatter others was never prohibited. The internal situation within the Imperial Cult before the Apostasy was ugly.

The phenomenon seems to be on the rise again now. When the empire is in danger, these guys are still like this. In this situation, it is not impossible for Fran to rebel on the spot.

Even though the human empire has a huge territory, Verseline, who has been fighting with Fran for several years, knows very well the Duchess's fighting strength. As long as Fran rebels, there will be absolutely no enemies on the road from Fran to the center of the empire.

Any army can block Fran's attack. On the contrary, Verseline is curious about who can stop Fran.

The Imperial Army will not do so, nor will the Space Marine Legion without receiving a joint request from the Imperial House of Lords and the Imperial Army. Except for the Heretic Tribunal, the other five major tribunals will only treat it as if they have no knowledge of this matter.

The thing is, as long as Fran does not shout slogans like "False Emperor" and is not rebelling against His Majesty the Emperor, then the only ones that can be used by the Imperial Religion to stop Fran's attack are the Battle Sisters, but only the Battle Sisters

There will be no way to stop Fran's attack. When the time comes, the Imperial Divine Religion will finally collapse under Fran's attack. Those guys who are just eating corpses will have no good results. Haven't those guys who occupy the upper echelons of the Imperial Divine Religion discovered it?

Is this so short-sighted?

Being led by such short-sighted guys, Verseline was once again worried about the future of the empire. It was simply impossible to expect those nobles to contribute to the empire. Except for a few nobles, most of them would definitely do it.

When the empire's crisis comes, put the empire aside and hold on to your own territory. Even if this territory means nothing when the real crisis comes, the greedy nobles will never devote all their strength to the empire.

Don't rely on things you can rely on, but believe in things you can't believe. Behind the mask, Verseline suddenly remembered what Fran said before. There are still three chances to ignite the fire of the soul.

3 chances?

Verseline suddenly stood up and asked: "Is there any news from Sister Susannael?"

"Yes, Mammy, just now, news came from the Battle Sisters on Altana Planet 5 that Sister Suzanelle, who had been missing for a long time, has returned to Planet 5, but she did not go to the Battle Sisters

She will report and plead guilty, but will stay in the Duke's Palace, indicating that she will not leave the Duke's Palace until the Duke returns to Altana 5."

Verseline smiled slightly and whispered: "Oh, the baby bird has finally grown up."

"What did you say? Mommy."

"No, it's okay. Report to the Grand Inquisitor. Regarding Susannael's matter, I will not hide anything in this matter. Tell the Grand Inquisitor that three years ago, Susanel was killed because of Lord Fran.

The appearance of black leather wings on her back deceived us, thus losing the favor of the emperor. From that time on, Fran sent her on a separate conquest operation, and we also lost the first opportunity to restrain Su.

Susannael's opportunity, until now, it is impossible for us to make any further moves against Susannael, because at this time, any move will be regarded as a challenge to the duchess, and in the end it can only lead to a relationship between the two parties.

Of course, I believe that the Grand Inquisitor may not mind the breakdown of the current relationship. No, it should be said that the leaders of the Imperial Cult will definitely not mind the breakdown of the relationship between the two parties while Fran is still on Earth.

At that time, those guys must have wanted to do something messy so that Fran could not leave the earth and become a hostage of her own territory on the earth."

Seeing the battle nun beside her faithfully writing down everything, Verseline took a long breath and said: "These idiots, yes, write it down, I said, these idiots!"

Watching her secretary leave, Vercelislin glanced at the red armor on her body with some nostalgia, and suddenly remembered that Zhang Yi suddenly appeared in front of them, wearing the same black ancient elite armor as Fran.

Look.
Chapter completed!