Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 783 Cause and Effect
The "unclaimed" blade of law still lies deep within the temple, wrapped in vines, lifeless.

Her teacher, Elder Hastings, stayed by her side as always.

In just a few short months, the blade has been broken, students have been injured, and a former member of the faction has almost been taken down.

Even Hastings, the most learned man in the Temple of the Golden Law, could never have imagined that things would turn out this way.

If we trace it back to its origins, the cause of everything can be traced back to when the temple ordered Joan Byrne to enter the world of lucidity in avatar form and withdraw her Eye of Thinking. The enmity between the Blade and that sinner probably started from that time.

What tormented Hastings was that he was the one who made that decision in the first place. He hoped that the young Blade could gain some experience in that "ordinary" mission and easily regain the Eye of Thinking, thus accomplishing this great feat.

Perhaps this is fate.

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Not long after, another of the elder's students entered the main hall and whispered to him the matter that was now causing a great stir in the temple.

One of Elder Lu Kui's three incarnation lamps went out.

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The student who came to deliver the message was the same magical boy who had been brutally beaten up by Milo in the Salub region of the Six Kingdoms not long ago.

Fortunately, Hastings intervened in time and saved his life. He seems to have recovered quite well, although he looks a bit pale and weak.

The news he brought this time was a huge surprise even to Hastings.

Luque and he were essentially followers of the Golden Tree around the same time, both rising from ignorance to their current positions. Therefore, Hastings knew all about Luque's abilities and the strength of his avatars. Regardless of what tricks Milo had played, the fact was that one of Luque's three avatars had been extinguished, which meant that Milo had the power to overthrow and kill those in power.

Thinking of this, Hastings couldn't help but feel a chill.

If he hadn't been able to resist attacking Milo back in Salub, would he have been the first person to have his light turned off?

"Even that old bastard Lu Kui suffered such a huge setback?"

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"You have completely disregarded the beings of the conscious world."

At that moment, a deep sound came from under a stone pillar in the corner of the hall.

Beneath the shadow of the holy light was a knight, leaning against a stone pillar and sitting on the ground. The part of his body that the holy light could illuminate revealed armor covered in scratches and grime, while the part that was not illuminated and was in the shadow seemed to have something ferocious and terrifying writhing about, rising and falling with his breathing.

This person is also one of the "victims" of this series of events.

The old contract of Hastings' faction.

When the Eye of Contemplation briefly awakened, it revealed Milo's approximate escape route. As a knight who had once benefited from the blade of the first law, he decided to use the power of the Old Ones to crush the insubordinate sinners on behalf of the Golden Tree.

It blocked Milo in De Lasrien.

But in the end, a yellow-robed shadow from the Aldebaran star cluster stopped all its movements and almost killed it.

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"Even two of the Old Ones couldn't stop him, so isn't it perfectly reasonable for Lu Kui to lose one of his incarnations?" the knight muttered.

"Two?" Hastings and his students were surprised again.

The student asked, "Were there any other people from De Lasri who were present that day?"

"The priest sent by the Hooked Finger Temple was also from the past, but he was so well hidden that he even fooled me. Yet he was beaten and fled in disarray by that brat. Ha..." The knight chuckled, sounding as if he was mocking Imnar, but also as if he was ridiculing himself.

Hastings' students fell silent for the rest of the session, heads bowed, seemingly lost in thought.

It's probably a questioning of life itself.

It could also be out of lingering fear.

All these "numerous crimes" now attributed to that sinner are beyond the capabilities of a psychic of his caliber. It's clear that his reckless actions were tantamount to suicide; thankfully, his teacher intervened in the end.

……

So, young people really are young.

At this point, the students could only consider Milo's individual strength.

Hastings, as a teacher, thought much further ahead.

For a long time, Milo was seen by the Gold Saints as nothing more than an ignorant and fearless madman. No one thought that a character who grew up in the barren land of the Real World could cause any trouble. But now they have to seriously consider a question: what kind of people are behind Milo?
If all the previous fighting was just him committing crimes alone, then there would be no problem.

The Battle of Derasrien provides a glimpse into this.

When the Great Old Ones strike with overwhelming force, other beings of the same rank will step in to protect them.

Even Lu Kui's avatar has now been destroyed...

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"The one in yellow, is he really the one from the Aldebaran star cluster? Didn't he die in the war of the stars...?" Even the young students had heard of that terrifying yellow robe.

"As I said, the yellow-robed figure that appeared in Derasrian City was merely an avatar. That avatar attempted to perish together with me through self-destruction, but failed," the knight replied again in a deep voice.

"This means that the incarnation of the yellow-robed figure is gone, and someone else killed Lu Kui's incarnation."

It has to be a cunning old fox like Hastings who has a sharp mind.

This is precisely the question we discussed earlier: who exactly is standing behind Milo?

In an era when the gods were nowhere to be found, the mere presence of the Yellow Robe was enough for him to roam freely in the Dream Realm. Now, however, it is said that besides the Yellow Robe, there are other people around?
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Originally thought to be just a greenhorn who had just entered the Dream Realm, he has now turned the vast Golden Law Temple into chaos, leaving everyone uneasy.

Some lay down, some sprawled out, and some even jumped up and down like madmen in the high hall, because they had no idea who had killed their incarnation.

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Hastings looked at Byrne, who was lying in the center of the rootstone platform, his face pale, and sighed inwardly.

He knew that as the hatred grew, and as the Golden Law and that boy from the world of clarity became completely incompatible, even his own people in the Golden Kingdom would begin to forget about Byrne's life or death.

No generation of Blade has ever had a good ending. Is this generation destined to fail in such a humiliating way right from the start?

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Ultimately, Hastings's faction still pinned their hopes on the return of the gods.

If they refuse to share their faith with the serpent people and refuse to let the Blade become their possession, then the only way to revive the Blade is on the day the Golden Tree returns and rebuilds its blessing.

But this is precisely the most naive and difficult path to persuade people.

Even Hastings himself could not provide any concrete evidence to prove the day of the gods' return.

The so-called perseverance is purely a matter of subjective "faith".

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"Endless killing will not solve the problem; it will only increase hatred and disturb people's hearts."

"Only by finding the Golden Tree can everything be resolved."

“I must…follow in the footsteps of the Golden Tree, I must find out where He went and what He did that day…”

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(End of this chapter)