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Chapter 569

Chapter 569: 442 Chapter 569: 442 Under the gaze of the onlookers, the Chamberlain first snapped his white staff in two.

“Farewell, Your Majesty,” he said solemnly.

Minister Hermes respectfully placed the broken staff atop the queen’s coffin and bowed deeply before it.

This signified that Mycroft’s loyalty to Her Majesty in this life had come to an end and effectively marked his resignation from his position as Chamberlain.

He felt a tinge of regret and, like a weight had been lifted, turned and walked away from the coffin.

Standing behind him, the Minister of Justice Carter stepped forward, tearing his shoulder strap in half and laying it on the coffin, too.@@@@

“Farewell, Your Majesty,” Carter said softly, his eyes closed, a look of wistful resignation on his face.

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He was not speaking to the queen’s soul, but rather to his former self.

After all, the queen did not ascend to the Dream Realm at the end of the funeral like ordinary people did.

At the moment of her death, the Crown Lord’s Knights had already ushered her into the Crown Lord’s domain.

Only her physical shell remained in the Material Realm.

Each minister was to destroy the symbol of authority given to them by Queen Sofia at the funeral, thereby relinquishing their ministerial roles.

The new list of ministers would be decided at the Round Table meeting the day after the state funeral.

And, without doubt, another matter would be announced at this Round Table meeting.

That would be the declaration of war against Star Antimony.

Aiwass stood behind Isabel in a solemn and respectful black priest’s robe, his hands tucked into the sleeves in front of him, in quiet repose.

The catastrophic event that nearly collapsed the order of the Holy Nation and wasn’t resolved by the players until 1900 had not yet occurred.

The relationship between the Holy Nation and Avalon was very close...

in a sense, Avalon was even one of the protectorates of the Holy Nation.

After all, Isabel herself had a quarter Elf lineage, and this time there was no doubt that Star Antimony was entirely at fault.

Thus, the Holy Nation firmly stood by the Avalonians.

The attitude of the Holy Nation was a clear case of taking sides.

Not only did it support Avalon’s right to avenge, but the Eternal Pope personally ordered that nine members of the Papal Guard would be sent to protect Isabel closely.

The Papal Guard, also known as “Elf Butlers” from the Founding Families, were tasked solely with ensuring the preservation of the Founding Families’ lineages.

The protection from Elves meant direct guardianship to the death, for certainly, Isabel’s lifespan could not match theirs.

The weakest among them possessed strength equivalent to the pinnacle of the Fourth Power Level, and outstanding protectors like Butler Oswald were even comparable to the Fifth Power Level in combat prowess.

This time, the Holy Nation was sending elite members of the Papal Guard, all of Oswald’s caliber and sufficiently young, unlike the current “Elf Butlers” who were advancing in age.

—Nine Queen’s Guards equivalent to the Fifth Power Level!

As the nation with the most top-class warriors currently, the Holy Nation had just over fifty warriors of this caliber.

Now they had dispatched nearly a fifth of them to Avalon.

The attitude of the Eternal Pope was quite evident.

He saw that the people of Star Antimony were taking advantage of the fact that Avalon’s generation had too few top-class warriors...

so the deep-pocketed Holy Nation made up the difference directly.