Water Mage in the Flame Realm-Chapter 330 - 318: The Truth (Part 1)

Andrew: "..."

Catherine’s words spread throughout the scene, clearly entering his ears.

Andrew could understand each word, but at the same time felt... he completely didn’t understand what this meant!

The king had already been dead for a long time?

He’s a corpse puppet, retaining most of his power from when he was alive, under Catherine’s control?

So the so-called ’marital discord’ between the king and Catherine was actually Catherine’s solo act?

She manipulated the corpse puppet of the king and opposed herself, staging a drama of the king and queen being at odds, is that what it means?

"What is going on?!" A voice sounded, asking the question Andrew most wanted to ask at that moment.

The one who spoke was Barbara beside Andrew.

Barbara had realized something was amiss earlier than Andrew. When President Beiru and Lady Yi Lian first arrived, Barbara felt very strange: "The relationship between father and mother, why does it look like there’s no problem at all?"

One must know, after Barbara’s eldest sister passed away, Lady Yi Lian redirected her anger towards Barbara, becoming very hostile, causing her relationship with President Beiru to nearly fall apart.

If it weren’t for second sister Catherine playing the role of peacemaker over the years, Barbara had no doubt her parents would have reached an irreparable state long ago.

Yet this time, when they arrived together, they behaved with unusual harmony.

In contrast, Barbara noticed a strange sense of unfamiliarity and distance in her mother’s attitude towards second sister Catherine, even a strong hatred that Barbara couldn’t comprehend.

Originally, Barbara just found it weird and didn’t voice it immediately.

Until she saw the king suddenly "being killed" and heard her second sister say those words, "The king was already killed and made into a corpse puppet by me," Barbara couldn’t hold back any longer, asking "What is going on exactly," while deep down, a great unease surged unexpectedly.

She saw Catherine smiling and looking over, saying gently, "Haven’t I already said it? Your brother-in-law was already killed by me. He was incredibly powerful; during his lifetime, he actually reached the Realm of Magic beyond War God level! After death, I refined him into a corpse puppet using the Secret Technique given to me by Gus, retaining his War God level abilities, and under my control, his behavior and demeanor are completely identical to his living self."

Catherine’s voice grew increasingly gentle, yet Barbara felt her second sister becoming ever more unfamiliar.

Andrew gripped Barbara’s cold little hand tightly, kept calm, and slowly asked, "So, Your Highness Catherine, were the marital disputes because of not having children, including the king wanting to marry Barbara to replace you as queen, all made up by you? All fake?"

"Of course, what else?" Catherine blinked at Andrew, smiling charmingly.

That smile was extremely captivating, yet Andrew felt his scalp go numb!

Not long ago, he did indeed have doubts about whether there was something off about Catherine.

It seems now, there really is an issue. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

And it’s not a minor issue, it’s a major one!

If the king is truly just a corpse puppet under Catherine’s control, then there’s no situation of a "Royal Court divided in two."

The one aligning with the Magic Guild isn’t the king, but Catherine, who controls this seemingly living corpse puppet!

In other words, the Royal Court hasn’t been divided with one half leaning towards the Warm Fire Commerce Association and the other half towards the Magic Guild.

From the start, the Royal Court was with the Magic Guild.

The negotiation and competition that just passed were essentially held on the Magic Guild’s home ground! And the group of them had been kept in the dark from the beginning.

"But, why is this?"

Andrew still couldn’t understand, and also couldn’t believe, "Did Your Highness Catherine actually side with the Magic Guild earlier on? Why? She’s the second miss of the Warm Fire Commerce Association, why would she choose to side with the Magic Guild?"

At this moment, President Beiru and Lady Yi Lian already stood side by side.

Indeed, there was no sign of marital discord or splitting up, let alone divorce.

Catherine’s gaze returned to President Beiru, sighing with some helplessness, "So over the years, the various arguments and discord between you two were just a pretense? Did you already know everything from the beginning, not only about the king being killed by me, but even... that matter, you were aware of it?"

"Yes." President Beiru nodded calmly.

Catherine looked again at Lady Yi Lian, "Mother, your constant hostility towards sister was also an act? Haha, was it to protect her? Were you afraid I would... kill her?"

Lady Yi Lian’s face twitched slightly, unlike President Beiru’s calm demeanor, and she nodded, "Yes."

Barbara, hearing this, couldn’t help but shout again, "What exactly are you talking about? Even if... even if second sister had a reason to kill brother-in-law, she had no reason to harm me, I... I really don’t understand!"

"Auntie, you certainly don’t understand." A figure stepped forward two steps, it was Havier.

At this moment, Havier had no trace of the playful child from before.

The key point is, Havier’s attitude towards Catherine earlier was like transferring the reliance and affection he had for his deceased mother onto Catherine.

However, at this moment, Andrew looked closely at Havier, and only saw the utmost hatred in his eyes as he looked at Catherine!

Andrew felt a stirring in his heart, suddenly it seemed he understood something.

As expected, Havier gritted his teeth and said, "Auntie, you think she..." and stretched out his hand pointing at Catherine on the throne, "think this malicious woman only killed brother-in-law? My mom and dad were also killed by her!"

Havier’s mother was indeed Barbara’s eldest sister.

That commerce association’s eldest miss who died in an accident!

"??" Surprise after surprise, like a bomb dropping in her heart, Barbara was utterly stunned, standing there in place, unable to speak.

From her standpoint, this was completely unbelievable.

She even wondered if she had unknowingly fallen into some kind of Magic Illusion Realm?

Yet Andrew, upon hearing Havier’s words, immediately believed it.

Because Andrew’s first thought was of the discovery earlier: Catherine, as a warrior, had the "Formless Blade Fire," one of the Eight Strange Fires, within her body; Andrew couldn’t understand why, but now he had some guesses.

If memory serves, Barbara’s eldest sister was a possessor of the Formless Blade Fire in her lifetime.

"And the Magic Guild has the ’New Edition Dragon Transformation Combat Technique,’ a secret technique that enables warriors to gain a Strange Fire.

Though it’s not designed for the Crimson Knight, it indeed allows warriors to obtain a Strange Fire previously only owned by mages..."

Andrew couldn’t help thinking, "So is this Catherine’s reason for siding with the Magic Guild, her reason for killing her own sister, is it actually for—"