Charlotte's welcome banquet ended in a quite dramatic fashion.

Before the banquet, she was merely the Queen, unilaterally respected by the Nobles of the Parliamentary Party and one of the contenders for the throne of the Falling Star Kingdom. But after the banquet… she had become the only successor to the throne.

The provocateurs led by Duke Wester had already been taken away.

Awaiting them would be the trial by the Kingdom Council, and the charges against them were severe—treason.

Attempting to assassinate the Queen, colluding with the Fallen Bloodline to subvert national power… Although adding "Fallen" before Bloodline seemed increasingly bizarre, the white paper and black letters solidified the charges against personalities like Duke Wester and Viscount Kasim as irrefutable evidence.

The nobles of the Lilac Party had complex expressions.

Even the most stubborn members of the Lilac Party had to admit that the moment Duke Esiah bowed his head to Charlotte, they had already lost.

It wasn't that they couldn't abandon Duke Esiah and elect a new successor to the throne; it was that despite their denials, they were acutely aware that their confidence in challenging the Nobles of the Parliamentary Party wasn't due to their own power, but because of the support from the Bloodline.

So much so that…the reason the three Legendary figures of the Falling Star Kingdom declared their neutrality in the royal succession was also inseparably tied to the Bloodline.

The Nobles weren't fools.

Even though Duke Esiah fiercely denied it, anyone slightly aware of the current situation would realize that though Duke Wester's evidence of guilt was conclusive, his questioning in the banquet hall may very well have hit the nail on the head—

The only thing that could have caused Duke Esiah to renounce his claim to the throne and bow to Charlotte had to be the Bloodline.

The Castel family had reached an agreement with the Bloodline regarding the royal succession.

Or more accurately, the Holy Royal Court had reached an agreement with the Bloodline.

Were it not for Charlotte's subsequent Holy Light Judgment of Grand Priest Campbell, many might still have doubted if the Castel family truly had fallen to the Bloodline, causing them to abandon their support for Duke Esiah in favor of Count Castel.

But clearly, the Judgment of the Holy Light wouldn't mislead.

Not to mention that after the "judgment" of the Fallen Great Priest, Count Castel even received Divine Favor from the Divine Lord, which undoubtedly further solidified the girl's legitimacy.

The Royal Authority of human nations originates from Divine Right, and sovereignty must be bestowed by the divine.

Even if Charlotte publicly cooperated with the Bloodline, even if the Castel family had indeed made secret agreements with the Bloodline, under the shining brilliance of the Divine Lord, everything could be attributed to the will of God, and everything… would be legitimate.

It was the Divine Lord who guided the Saintess to succeed the throne, and it was the Divine Lord who directed the Saintess to cooperate with the Bloodline.

Absurd?

Indeed, it was absurd.

After all, the Holy Royal Court was founded on the overthrow of the Bloodline's rule, and to them, the Bloodline was evil.

But what did that matter?

The will of God was unquestionable, and the divine thoughts were not for mortals to speculate.

Since the Divine Lord had granted Divine Favor to Count Castel, that meant the Divine Lord also recognized Count Castel's actions; everything Count Castel did… was in accordance with God's will.

Ponder on it if you find it hard to understand, and if you truly cannot fathom it, simply deem it as the will of God—after all, God must have a deep meaning, and God is certainly right.

And the Divine Miracle that occurred for all to witness… couldn't be faked.

At this very moment, even Albrecht and Yulster, two of the Bloodline, had their gazes on Charlotte turned strange.

As Charlotte's Blood Servant and Favored, they knew her true identity.

And it was because they knew Charlotte's true identity that they were shocked.

However, amidst their shock, they weren't particularly puzzled.

While the Holy Royal Court attributed the work of Creation to the Divine Lord, proclaiming that the Divine Lord awoke from ancient times and while there were numerous myths about the Creator God circulating from antiquity… the Bloodline had their own heritage and had lived through the era when the Holy Royal Court rose. Many of the Bloodline saw the Divine Lord as indeed powerful, but to say "Creation" might just be gilding the lily.

It is known that some texts even regarded the Creator God and the founder of the Kilari Clan, of the Bloodline of Royal Authority, as one and the same.

Of course, these "wild histories" from unknown eras were not believed by many Bloodline members themselves, nor have those who survived from the Mythical era ever admitted to them.

However, these wild histories laid the foundational understanding among the Bloodline members about the Creator God.

The Creator God is divine.

The True Ancestor, Your Majesty, is also divine.

Both are True Gods; as for the theory of hoodwinking believers about who ranks above whom, don't bother trying to deceive the immortals.

If we really were to discuss it, it's conceivable that the Divine Lord might even have to address the True Ancestor, Your Majesty, as a predecessor.

From this perspective, if the returning True Ancestor, Your Majesty, had reached some kind of agreement with the Creator God in secret, then…it might not be incomprehensible.

After all, during the era when the True Ancestor, Your Majesty, dominated the continent, the Holy Royal Court did not even cast a shadow, and though the Creator God was mysterious, at most, he was but a junior to the True Ancestor, Your Majesty.

Albrecht and Yulster had a whirlwind of thoughts, and quickly attributed everything that had happened today to the possibility that the True Ancestor, Your Majesty, had likely made some sort of pact with the Creator God.

However, as the center of it all, Charlotte herself knew it wasn't as they imagined.