The Viper’s Resurrection (5)

A little earlier.

After crossing the border into the Kingdom of Providence, the Holy Kingdom’s army marched toward a single point.

A wasteland filled with stone tombs, where countless corpses instead of people were buried.

Among the stone tombs whose names and origins were unknown, the Holy Kingdom’s army headed for only one place.

Since the Holy King was too exalted to be there in person, Stuart, commander of the Mace Knights, supervised the operation.

“How are things with the tomb?”

“The priests say they’ve disabled the alarms. They’re going to move the corpse and begin the ritual now.”

“Good. Make sure the Overlords don’t catch on.”

Originally, they had carefully robbed the tomb to avoid detection by both the Providence royal family and the Twelve Overlords.

But now that the Saintess had defected to Providence, there was no longer any reason to worry about their scrutiny...