CHAPTER 455: CHAPTER 295: THE CORONATION

Accompanied by Elizabeth’s earth-shattering announcement, "I am the Royal Authority!", the entire coronation ceremony came to an end.

Within the hall spread a strange silence, the deadly calm after the storm, mixed with lingering fear, and a trace of forcibly suppressed resentment and humiliation.

Everything settled, Elizabeth, the once underestimated princess, now wearing a platinum crown and holding the Scepter of Royal Authority, stood at the pinnacle of power in the Victoria Kingdom with an undisputed queenly demeanor.

As for Lu Yan, the mastermind behind this incredible upheaval, he remained calmly seated on the Golden Throne that towered above all else, as if returning the Scepter of Royal Authority, which symbolizes the lifeblood of the kingdom, was merely handing over an insignificant toy.

To Lu Yan, it indeed was so.

The core value of the Scepter of Royal Authority lies in its absolute suppressive power over Transcendents following the King’s Path, and in that fragmentary uniqueness itself.

The former can be borrowed or even forcibly taken when he needs it, while the latter does not directly enhance his own system of power.

Returning it to Elizabeth was both a gesture of support and a necessary step, after all, he needed a rightful proxy to control this kingdom.

As for whether returning the Scepter of Royal Authority would lead to a loss of control over the situation?

Lu Yan was indifferent, even welcoming such an outcome.

Elizabeth is clever, there is no doubt about it.

She knows well that her ascent to this position is entirely due to Lu Yan’s support. At the moment, the Victoria Kingdom outwardly submits to the majesty of the new queen, but secretly, most of the old nobility and the powerful princes are extremely dissatisfied with her near capitulation to foreign power for personal gain.

Not to mention her siblings, who also have claims to the throne and are currently cursing her from the shadows.

In this unstable situation beset by internal and external challenges, Elizabeth’s wisest and only choice is to cling tightly to Lu Yan, leveraging him and the unfathomable forces of the Underworld behind him to suppress domestic dissent and consolidate her rule.

Of course, Lu Yan also understood that with Elizabeth’s skill and intelligence, given enough time and support, it was only a matter of time before she completely controlled the situation in the Victoria Kingdom.

Simple deterrence and support might maintain loyalty for a time, but it cannot ensure a long-lasting alliance.

Thus, at the peak moment of her ascension to the throne, Lu Yan unhesitatingly offered a "big pie" that would drive any ambitious person mad.

The Path to the True God!

Through analyzing the Rules of the Dead he mastered and contacting multiple instances of uniqueness including the Undying King, Lu Yan had gained a profound understanding of the essence of this mysterious variant of the Extraordinary Path.

Every Extraordinary Path corresponds to a metaphysical source of concept, which could be some natural phenomenon, some social rule, or some ancient and powerful existence.

If this source is not solid or complete enough to support the path’s extension to the top of the sequence, then this path is incomplete, and no matter how hard the Transcendents on it strive, they cannot reach the domain of the True God.

Only those Extraordinary Paths bearing uniqueness have the true potential to reach Sequence 0, stepping into the realm of the True God.

Just as Lu Yan revealed to Elizabeth, the King’s Path is precisely such a path with boundless potential.

It spans the known world’s Seven Great Human Kingdoms, possessing an extremely broad base of followers, and its power source is not any specific deity or existence, but the ancient concept of class that has accompanied the birth of human civilization.

The King’s Path is closely related to the order of human civilization, and theoretically, it completely has the potential to give birth to a True God who holds royal authority.

However, reality is harsh.

Perhaps due to humanity’s endless internal disputes, or more likely because the seven True Gods, who have long been seated on thrones, do not wish to see an eighth appear to stand on equal footing, potentially threatening their rule as a God of Royal Authority.

The core symbolizing the complete uniqueness of the King’s Path, the original Scepter of Royal Authority, was split into seven by some means and integrated into the traditions of the Seven Great Kingdoms, becoming what is now the Scepters of Royal Authority held separately by each country.

Each kingdom only possesses one-seventh of the complete uniqueness.

This fragmentary power is enough to support Transcendents of the path reaching the Sequence 2 level of Earth Angel, establishing powerful secular kingdoms, but it stops there.

Sequence 2 is the limit that this divided path can reach, which also determines that no matter how powerful these kingdoms become, they will inevitably be subordinate to the Seven Great Churches with True Gods and complete path inheritance, unable to truly achieve independence and transcendence of secular power.

The blueprint Lu Yan painted for Elizabeth was grand and filled with bloody temptation.

Conquering the other six kingdoms is not just about seizing land and wealth, but more importantly about capturing their inherited King’s Path power and the other six Scepters of Royal Authority.

When the seven pieces of uniqueness reunite to form an unprecedentedly vast empire in this mysterious version, perhaps the path to the throne of the True God of Royal Authority will open for her.