CHAPTER 192: CHAPTER 92: THE AWAKENING OF IGRAINE!

Hiss!

Exploded!?

Crow Queen - Triss looked at Merlin’s almost bursting eyeballs. His aura suddenly became extremely weak, and the massive magic power within his body scattered away, as if subjected to some irreversible backlash. At this moment, Merlin couldn’t possibly be her opponent; even facing a slightly stronger wizard would easily overpower him.

Ruined.

Not completely ruined, but he was mostly wasted.

Others weren’t quite clear about what had just happened. They just felt a gust of wind blow over, and shortly after, Merlin let out a miserable scream. But Crow Queen - Triss knew more; she knew Merlin had used some kind of prophetic ability on Duncan and saw something he shouldn’t have. The prophecy backlashed and blew away all his magic cultivation.

Crow Queen - Triss also knows divination magic.

But proximity to vermilion makes you red, proximity to ink makes you black, Duncan doesn’t quite believe everything that divination magic reveals, so she gradually shifted her thinking and started to believe less in divination magic.

Playing out the theme of ’a husband sings, a wife follows.’

Especially after Duncan’s miraculous rise, Crow Queen - Triss hardly paid attention to prophecies.

Beside Duncan, the Druid Priestess possessed by Tethys was also shocked. That was Merlin, the most powerful legendary wizard of Great Britain, and yet he wasted all his cultivation because of a single divination spell. What exactly did he see?

Duncan’s expression at this moment was also extremely solemn.

This Merlin.

Has a knack!

The Dimension Space’s God perspective inherently carries the law of cause and effect to deduce the future. However, it cannot speculate on anything related to himself; only when severing the human form link can it predict future possibilities based on replicated personalities.

But Merlin is different; his divination magic included Duncan, the greatest variable, into the future deduction.

So everything he just divined went beyond the causal law’s future deducing outcome. Duncan’s causal deduction was still at the ’King of Britain’ stage, which is the outcome after the number one human form custody, whereas the Dimension Space resonance’s prophecy image just now directly centered on Duncan himself, foretelling future possibilities.

Duncan, as the greatest variable, was even considered by Merlin’s prophecy spell.

People’s reputations precede them, and Merlin is indeed remarkable!

No wonder Crow Queen - Triss calls him the greatest prophecy wizard of this era.

"However."

"Why in his predicted future, am I fighting the Monotheism directly in a steel-like manner?"

Duncan had other plans during this period. Severus sent people to secretly infiltrate the church, intending to restructure the British Province’s church internally, aiming to reform the Monotheism’s doctrine toward a more moderate future.

Merlin likely knew nothing about these, so in his predicted future, two endings showed Duncan launching a ’battle of heaven’ directly against the Monotheism!

This guy is also an old-fashioned person; he never thought about ’openly repairing the plank road while secretly crossing the warehouse.’

Duncan had no plans to fight the Monotheism head-on; the churches on Great Britain are still running smoothly, and he doesn’t persecute Christians. Jesus walked the earth only a few hundred years ago; with so many holy relics remaining, why play hard with them?

What’s wrong with the church?

In the future, whoever has a louder voice within the church holds the power to speak, thus possessing the ultimate authority to interpret doctrine!

Duncan is more supportive of Polytheism, but he wouldn’t annihilate the Monotheism. The faith has been spreading for so long; even if you wipe out the Vatican, then what?

Does the popular belief cease to exist?

The second Augustus’s future prophecy undoubtedly showed Duncan annihilating the church thoroughly, forcing Demon Hunter - George to turn into Dragon Slayer - Saint George, carrying a pile of church holy relics to fight for his life, and even causing Crow Queen - Triss to die protecting him.

Duncan isn’t foolish!

This is Merlin’s self-induced divination frenzy.

How could Duncan drive his enemies to a mutually destructive level!

If he rises to power, the first thing he would do is split the church’s strength from within.

Why couldn’t Monotheism turn into Polytheism?

Everybody worships the God Church; you worship your doctrine, I worship mine. Despite worshipping the same god, the factions are completely different, forming distinct church systems.

Regarding the third prophetic future, Duncan becomes one of the Norse Pantheon’s main gods.

Nothing much to say.

Merlin yet again generalizes; Duncan is currently not that interested in becoming a deity, and the Norse Pantheon is a sinking ship. From the posthumous transformation’s rank, the Immortal Heroic Spirit’s rank is not lower than the Divine Spirit, even higher than most ordinary gods.

Gods may perish, beliefs may vanish, but the Immortal Heroic Spirit’s achievements are engraved in the long river of human history!

Truthfully, those primitive religion’s nobody gods are really not as good as Duncan’s condensed Immortal Heroic Spirit rank, at least it can be inherited till the end of human history.

A very simple question.

How many people remember the gods of American Indian or the main gods of African Voodoo?

But God’s Whip - Attila, most people know.

The vacuous fame of gods sometimes seems powerful, but once churches are destroyed, beliefs severed, and sacrifices cut off, within just one or two hundred years, those unranked gods perish thoroughly.

Merlin is indeed powerful, but that’s that.

But for Duncan, Merlin’s prophecies indeed inspired him greatly, at least he foresaw what could happen under a complete breakdown scenario.

Duncan’s stance is very simple.

Firstly, personal freedom, to weaken the influence of the slave system as much as possible, allowing most people to attain certain personal freedom.

Secondly, freedom of belief, people can freely choose their faith affiliations without being forced to pledge allegiance to a certain divine faction, directly forcing faith camps to involute, making them adapt to the era proactively.

Under such scenarios, if the church truly wins and missionizes vigorously, with everyone willing to believe in God, then Duncan too is a supporter of the church.

But don’t play the extermination game!

Any faith faction trying to eliminate others by different means won’t be treated kindly by Duncan; he wants to be the one setting the rules.

Freedom of belief, all-embracing.

Duncan respects the freedom of belief of every future citizen of the empire, as long as it is not some obscene cult of an evil god.

For legitimate true gods, you can believe in whoever you love.

"Someone come."

"Help Master Merlin down to rest."

Duncan turned to look at the Crow Queen - Triss beside him and said in a deep voice, "Find a way to treat his injuries."

To kill Merlin now is just a matter of a glance.

But Duncan does not intend to kill him, because Merlin is still useful, and his reputation on Great Britain is very high. In the future, when other forces are incorporated, Merlin can help enhance his prestige and avoid many unnecessary sacrifices.

Merlin has lived for over a hundred years, and even if he can’t go on, he can still be a teacher and perhaps train some very skilled disciples.

Killing him now wouldn’t bring many benefits, it’s entirely a waste of talent.

His current magic cultivation has completely exploded, posing no threat to Duncan, and dealing with him in the future would be just a word.

The Crow Queen - Triss gently nodded and said, "Mm."

But at that moment.

A hurried sound of footsteps rang out, followed by an unexpected figure’s appearance, instantly drawing all eyes in the hall towards her.

—Duchess Igraine.

This lady, renowned as the Rose of Britain for her beauty, entered the hall full of grief and rage, holding a sword menacingly, and directly placed the blade against Merlin’s neck. Because there are schools in Southampton, her three daughters are receiving an education here, and so she moved from her castle in Cornwall to settle here.

For a moment, everyone was somewhat stunned!

Duchess Igraine, who had no star mark at all, held a sword against Merlin’s neck; with just a slight swing of the sword, she could kill this legendary powerful wizard.

Whew.

But soon, Duchess Igraine took a deep breath, awoke from her grief, looked pitifully, withdrew the sharp sword, gave a hateful glance at the extremely miserable-looking Merlin, then focused her eyes on Duncan sitting at the main seat, slowly knelt down and said, "Governor."

"It was he who used witchcraft to deceive me, making King Uther turn into my husband’s appearance..."

"And because of this."

"My husband, Duke of Dingtiger, suddenly died!"...

"Please, Governor, bring justice for me!"

"Restore my innocence!"

Impressive.

In an instant, both Duncan and the Crow Queen - Triss regarded her differently, with the Crow Queen even quietly dispersing the prepared spell.

Although it’s unclear how Duchess Igraine came to know about those secret events at the time, at this moment, she could set aside her hatred, distinguish priorities, and even kneel down to request Duncan to uphold justice in his capacity as Governor of Britain.

This action was simply masterful!

Igraine instantly cleansed herself of all past humiliations, and the stains on her reputation would disappear, revitalizing all of Cornwall’s estates, and her daughters would no longer have a trace of scandalous reputational taint.

Duncan was no longer the naive one he once was.

With just a glance exchanged with the Crow Queen - Triss, he understood that Igraine handed them a knife, offering an unparalleled opportunity.

Merlin was about to be utterly disgraced!

King Uther, even more so, was about to be utterly disgraced!

If Duchess Igraine had impulsively killed the severely injured Merlin with one sword strike just now, then nothing would have been explained clearly. She might have faced punishment from Duncan for being too reckless.

It would be as if she didn’t regard the Governor of the British Province!

But now, she was able to hold back her hatred, calmly think, and leave Merlin’s life, kneeling down to request Duncan for justice, when the truth comes out, she would be seen as a pitiable woman persecuted by the wizard, and Merlin and King Uther as the culprits behind her and her husband’s rift, and the death of Duke Dingtiger.

This way, Duncan can fully take over the inheritance from Duke Dingtiger, with legitimacy and righteousness on his side.

King Uther’s reputation is bound to be ruined!

Duchess Igraine even provided Duncan with an excellent pretext for waging war against King Uther; as long as everything is pinned down, when Duke Dingtiger was fighting against the Saxons on the frontlines, King Uther secretly used Merlin’s witchcraft, disgracefully transforming into the form of another, sneaking into Duchess Igraine’s chamber, committing unspeakable acts.

What Great Dragon Head - Uther? What wise monarch of Camelot? What Round Table Knight?

It all turned into a joke.

He used Merlin’s spells to stab his own people in the back.

The chivalric spirit of the entire Great Britain would forsake King Uther, and he might end up deserted by all!

Of course.

The most important thing in all of this is still Merlin’s confession. As long as he confesses, King Uther could never recover.

Igraine was quite amazing.

She was willing to self-destruct, dragging Merlin and King Uther down with her, just to make all these public, getting justice, and ensuring that her daughter, the Duchess of Cornwall, has no trace of reputational stain.

At the moment Igraine knelt before Duncan, the knife was already handed to Duncan.

Her true revenge had begun.

Take it? Or not?

Duncan didn’t hesitate to extend his hand to help Igraine up, comforting the grief-stricken Duchess, while also accepting the knife she handed over.

This knife!

King Uther was bound to take it!

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