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"Ah, really? After your clan has guarded this seal for so many years, don’t you have any contingency measures?"

Looking at the silent couple of Angels before her, Dorothy was somewhat flabbergasted and didn’t quite know what to say.

Should she say that these Angel Witches were truly carefree? Living every day beside a human-shaped nuclear bomb without taking any precautions, they really didn’t seem to take their own lives seriously.

"Actually, there are, but..."

Rosalind also felt a bit embarrassed at this time, and couldn’t help but glare at her daughter beside her.

There was no helping it; the clan’s funds had been tight over the years, and naturally, there needed to be some cost-cutting. And one of the cost-saving measures...

Well, the truth was that the Guardian Church Great Array and the Seal Strengthening Technique had actually shared a single mana pool as a power source in recent years, but now the mana pool had been completely drained by her own resentful daughter...

But who could have foreseen this? The call for the Guardian Church Great Array had never been activated since its establishment, and the same was true for the Seal Strengthening Technique. These two grand formations had gone unused for ten thousand years, yet their maintenance was outrageously costly. So, naturally, when it came to cost-cutting, these two were the first that came to mind.

Moreover, they hadn’t completely cut funding, had they? It was just that the original two huge expenses had been reduced to one, and in theory, as long as the two grand formations weren’t activated at the same time, there wouldn’t be any major issues.

But now...

A Forbidden Curse Level Array’s mana pool was immense, and after being used once, refilling it would take at least a month at the fastest, but now there was less than a week’s time left.

Tsk, Fate really had a way of toying with people.

The Director of Studies was utterly speechless, and then felt powerless as well.

Alas, her clan had risen to prominence since the days of the God King and had survived for over a hundred thousand years, being the oldest clan in the Witch World, and now was the family going to become history under her watch? How could she face her ancestors in the Underworld after that...

Oh, wait a second, it seemed that not many ancestors had actually gone to the Underworld; most of them were, in fact, still alive.

Thinking back to those ancestors who, after retiring, either followed the Divine King in the Divine Realm or mingled in some other world, Rosalind felt a bit of a toothache.

It seemed things were getting even worse. After all, ancestors who had passed away couldn’t rise to scold you, but the living truly could come to give you a thrashing after hearing the news.

But then, upon remembering that she was only acting as the Clan Leader, and that the real Clan Leader was actually her wise mother, the Director of Studies breathed a sigh of relief. She could, at most, be considered a dethroned Crown Prince, not a dethroned monarch.

"So, that’s the situation..." Experience tales with Lokepub

Though feeling incredibly awkward, Rosalind still went on to explain.

This blow was truly not because they were unprepared; it could be said that it was the decline of the family that led to the preparations being inadequate.

Dorothy: "..."

Euphilia: "...."

Mother and daughter listened to the explanation, then exchanged glances and shook their heads in succession.

It would have been better not to explain at all. Who would cut back on life-saving resources to save money? Whoever issued such an order was either stupid or malicious.

But upon further thought, if you’re so destitute that even life-saving measures are skimped on, just how bad is the situation within your clan?

"Actually, we do have a contingency plan for the contingency plan."

Probably aware of their scornful gazes, Rosalind, after stewing in her frustration for a while, then attempted to recover some dignity.

"What plan?"

"The God King Holy Child."

The Director of Studies turned her head, feeling her face burn as she spoke.

She glanced at the Holy Sword Avalon on the sealing altar and then added.

"This sword of the Divine King himself is actually a super mana pool. As long as someone can pull out this Holy Sword, then channeling the Magic Power on the sword can also repair and reinforce the seal."

"Oh, so that’s how it is."

Dorothy clapped her hands with an air of sudden realization.

"So the question is, where is your God King Holy Child?"

She asked with a look of curiosity.

Rosalind: "....."

The Director of Studies felt bitter in her heart; she didn’t want to speak anymore and just wanted to shut the world out.

No one in this damn Judgment Court was a good person; this Clown before her was the second most detestable person she had met in her lifetime.

.......

Meanwhile, in the far reaches of the Western Universe, at the frontier of the Witches’ pioneering battlefields, a fleet comprising thousands of Warships of various sizes sailed through space. From the fleet’s pure white paint, the Angel-shaped Magic Power sails surrounding them, and the standard Archangel’s Sword flag, it was clear to whom the fleet belonged.

This was the Angel Witches’ Battle Group—the Revelation Fleet.

Although in the ranking lists of the Witch Battle Groups, this particular fleet barely made it into the top 500, it is worth mentioning that it was a newly established, young battle group that in less than ten years, cut through countless others to rank within the top five hundred. The speed of their growth had already broken the record recently set by the Legion of Destruction from the Dragon Kingdom.

Even though this fleet might still seem a bit green compared to the veteran battle groups, its potential was undeniably promising.

Consequently, many were impressed by this distinguished battle group, and quite a few believed that this might signify the beginning of the revival of the Angel Witch Clan.

Unfortunately, this thought was soon shattered because the Vice-Admiral of the Revelation Fleet had made it clear quite early on: their group was an independent entity, not under the Ancestral Court of the God King Sect. They felt that the Ancestral Court had become severely corrupt, and thus, they decided to establish their own institution, the God King’s Church.