Chapter 831: Chapter 210 Isabel: Too Outrageous Chapter 831: Chapter 210 Isabel: Too Outrageous March 1st, morning.

Avalon, Glass Island, Hall of Silver and Tin.

Queen Isabel had finished breakfast early and sat intently in the study browsing through something.

But she was not dealing with documents; instead, she was secretly reading a novel.

It was the recently quietly popular “banned book” in Avalon—depicting the political struggles and office romance between Minister Aiwass of the Department of Unconcern and Queen Isabel.

Mainly because both Aiwass and Isabel were young, good-looking, and accomplished at a young age.

Coupled with Aiwass’s previous scandal with Miss Aleister, this young minister, exceptionally appointed by the former queen, had in people’s minds become both an adversary and an ally to the young queen.

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Generally, anything involving the Royal Family would be discovered and investigated promptly.

Most likely, the author would become a dried corpse hanging in Execution Square.

However, once people bought and collected the book with a heart-pounding “I’ve finally encountered a sought-after banned first edition,” they surprisingly found that it wasn’t banned.

Not only was it not banned, but it was even continuing in serialization!

This led people to recall “Miss Aleister being expelled from Avalon,” and suddenly understood—oh, so this is Her Majesty the Queen’s intention.

It turns out this is a legitimate venture recognized, and even supported, by the royal family!

Instantly, similar jokes and novels sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

Some were independently printed and sold, others serialized in newspapers, and some painters even received orders to create similar artworks.

It was only because people remained rational that they refrained from creating operas on the subject—those aforementioned could pass as acts of private individuals, but operas would need to be reviewed by the Supervisory Court.

Today, that young minister was not in Avalon, and should he return and discover this affair, becoming infuriated and seeking retribution, then things would escalate.

—Thus, Isabel decided to take action herself.

She gave herself a pen name, “Rose Kelly.”

She planned to write an opera herself, from the script to the music arrangement, then secretly get it approved.

Once people saw it performed, they would likely understand the royal stance on the matter.

But this was just an idea.

Isabel had no experience in writing—therefore, to gather materials, she decided to first see how novels on the market were written and check if there were any plots she could use.

Hence, she had the Queen’s Guard secretly purchase several books from the black market.

Recently, since Aiwass was busy and couldn’t meet her at night, Isabel even read novels till four o’clock in the morning last night—to maintain her energy, she usually went to sleep at midnight.

As a result, being overwhelmingly sleepy, Isabel made up her mind:

It’s already this late, since I can’t get enough sleep anyway, I might as well stay up.

Thus, Isabel drank an alertness potion, and thereafter had herself treated with the harp Aiwass had given her, forcibly eliminating the negative effects of the potion.

After having breakfast early and practicing singing and playing, Isabel sat in the study intending to continue reading.

When she read those books last night, she initially felt her face burn at the protagonist’s name—but eventually experienced a strange sensation.

It was as if she had personally gone through a mysterious adventure, having spent wonderful times with Aiwass.

The sleepless night had been meaningful: Isabel felt resonances with the Path of Beauty.

The wonderful experience of seeing herself as a “character in a novel,” and even creating new fictional art, indeed granted her visibly increased strength.

…But this particular book was different.

It was claimed to be the hottest, most highly reviewed, and least available book sold in the black market.

Isabel’s personal guard had much trouble acquiring it.

As Isabel always liked to save “the tastiest bite for the last,” she planned to read this book last, lest her taste changed and she couldn’t enjoy the other books.

However, this book made Isabel somewhat blush.

Half due to embarrassment, half due to anger.

Because this book contained a large amount of inappropriate, disharmonious descriptions.

What made Isabel most angry, though, was that these stories were not about her—they revolved around Aiwass and “Miss Aleister,” even including emotionally charged stories between Aiwass and the Star Antimony female agent, and Aiwass and the Iris Flower female spy.

The stories of Aiwass and Isabel were left merely to “how they tacitly worked against their common enemies and how they fought each other for their power and interests,” a glorious tale of cooperation and backstabbing.

The book’s author aimed to create an atmosphere in which “Aiwass and Miss Aleister are the lovers, while with Queen Isabel he is a deadly adversary with mutual recognition,” attempting to rationalize why there were no segments about Her Majesty the Queen—yet Isabel knew, the real reason must be that the author didn’t dare write it.

This was indeed reasonable.@@novelbin@@

Because if this author dared write some blasphemous stories about the monarch, Isabel would make sure to contact the Arbitration Hall to arrest him immediately; but inversely, although this author currently refrained from writing recklessly, Isabel still planned to have him arrested—not that she didn’t enjoy reading, but such things definitely couldn’t be allowed for others to read.

— But what you wrote in this, it made me angry!

Although I don’t know whether the author is male or female, or what their background is, from their quite detailed political descriptions, they are likely someone who has access to the Round Table Hall.

At least their depiction of the atmosphere in the Round Table Hall is accurate.

“— Your Majesty.”

Just then, a knocking sound suddenly came from the door of the study.

It was a familiar voice that Isabel had not heard for days—It was the solemn voice of the Great Guardian.

Isabel immediately became flustered and hurriedly wrapped the thin booklet in the corner of the desk with “The Elf’s Diplomatic Terms: Food, Etiquette, and Culture.” Seeing a gap in the middle of the book, she tried to flatten it but failed.

So, she simply picked up the vase on the table, placed it on the book, and pushed it back to the corner of the desk.

She then breathed a sigh of relief and gestured for the guards to open the door.

But as the door opened, to her surprise, a large group of people walked in.

Aside from the Grand Adjudicator who was on leave—Great Justice Arius, Grand Arbitrator Ligeia, and Great Guardian George, the three highest-ranking Transcendents of Avalon, were all here.

This immediately made Isabel perk up.

Because even Ligeia was incredibly serious: she hadn’t had a drink!

Ever since Ligeia gradually became a familiar face on Glass Island, she almost openly resumed her usual routine of hanging out in the bars she loved as “Meg”, enjoying a leisurely life of drinking beer and eating fried chicken.

Especially after the arrival of the Queen’s Guard, she even had the free time to go fishing in Shepherd Bay County, and after fishing, she would return home to share the stewed fish with Isabel.

“— Lord Barton, shouldn’t you be at Star Antimony?”

Isabel looked with some surprise towards the Great Guardian, whose expression was so serious that it even seemed a bit guilty, and said with some concern, “Could it be…

is there a mole in the Gryphon Legion?”

— But why would the Great Guardian bring his own son too?

“No, all is going well on the front lines, Your Majesty.”

The Great Guardian shook his head: “I’ve just rushed back—right now, the Gryphon Legion is still stationed at Star Antimony.

I’ve ordered them to temporarily maintain station, they won’t continue military operations until I return…”

After saying this, he knelt on one knee and lowered his head to apologize: “I’ve come to ask for forgiveness from Your Majesty.”

“— What?”

Isabel was somewhat astonished; she looked at the serious expression of Great Justice and Ligeia and was on edge again: “Why?”

“Because of my son, David Barton—he left the Path of Authority last night.”

The Great Guardian sincerely stated: “This is undoubtedly an act of betrayal to Your Majesty, hence I brought David here at the earliest to apologize to you.”

“— Wait, left the Path?

What happened?”

Isabel had not yet grasped the situation.

— Can one leave a Path?

“Is the child alright?”

She asked subconsciously.

The Great Guardian patted David’s shoulder, signaling him to speak for himself.

While David’s expression appeared somewhat reticent, it carried an air of unwavering resolve.

“This is the situation, Your Majesty…”

David quickly relayed the dream from last night.

“He suddenly burst into flames last night.”

The Great Guardian added: “At that time, Nadia was terrified—but she soon realized that it was the influence of some mysterious power and dared not interfere.

So she immediately contacted me…

I was at Star Antimony, and couldn’t be reached via phone.

It was entirely thanks to a transcendent item I had left them to use in case of emergency, she was able to send out a warning to me.”

“I immediately returned with Philip, who flies very fast.

Hence, it took me less than half an hour to arrive.

And when I arrived, we realized that the power of David’s Path was disintegrating…

but his body was being reshaped into another form.”

The Great Guardian stated solemnly: “We quickly woke David up—and after confirmation, we discovered that it was the legacy of the ‘warrior’!”

“You should remember where the warrior’s legacy originated, Majesty.”

The normally reticent Great Justice reminded her.