At this moment, shatter the dimensional barrier.

Chapter 148 will announce the fate of the Fontaines at this moment.
"Are those the Geo Archon of Liyue and the Anemo Archon of Mondstadt?" Arecino looked at the gods who appeared in the VIP seats on either side of Frynn.

At first, she could feel the overwhelming divine power, but now she only feels like an ordinary person, just like Funina.

Is this the ultimate control a god has over their own power? When they don't reveal their divine power, they are just like an ordinary person.

She had originally wanted to test the water god, but now she thought her idea was a bit ridiculous.

【quiet! 】

Villette tapped the ground with her cane and said seriously.

A subtle sense of oppression instantly silenced the opera house, and the audience could only stare with fervent eyes at the three deities in the VIP seats.

Seeing three deities seated together at once is probably an experience few people in history have ever had.

“Everyone is present, so the trial shall begin,” Navelette said solemnly.

Click! Buzz~

The scale-shaped 'Cardinal Decree' that occupied the entire wall of the stage began to glow.

"The 'serial disappearance of girls' case started twenty years ago. Over the past twenty years, hundreds of girls have gone missing. Do I need to repeat the details of the case again?"

Navia said, "No need, everyone already knows about this case that has lasted for twenty years."

“I have thoroughly investigated the ‘serial disappearances of girls’ case. I will explain everything about ‘Addicted Les’ and ‘Unjust Carles’ related to this case, and I have 100% evidence.”

"While I am explaining the cause and effect, please make sure that no one interrupts me."

Naviat said seriously, "It is my duty to ensure that the testimonies of both sides in the courtroom are not interrupted. Miss Navia, please give your full testimony."

Navia looked at the three gods in the VIP seats with reverence, then turned her head and her gaze swept over a familiar face, and she couldn't help but feel a little excited.

'It is Him, that deity.'

Yesterday's two-hour adventure gave her all the evidence she needed to clear her father's name and reputation, and she was sincerely grateful to the unknown deity.

Navia snapped out of her daze, took a deep breath, and glared resentfully at Marcell, who was feigning innocence, as she slowly began to recount her story.

"This happened twenty years ago."

"A male adventurer from Winter and a female adventurer from Fontaine embark on an adventure together in Fontaine."

"During their adventure, the two developed feelings for each other, became lovers, and pledged their lives to each other. They both dreamed about their future married life and had even thought of names for their future children."

"But one day, during their adventure, they discovered a ruin and found strange seawater gushing from underground within it."

"The female adventurer from Fontaineble was so excited about finding the unknown ruins that she disregarded the rule that adventurers should not touch the unknown with their bodies. She melted into the sea the moment she touched the strange seawater."

"The male adventurer who had reached the winter was devastated when he realized what was happening. He frantically searched the water, but he himself did not react to the strange seawater."

"In a state of utter despair, he came to Fontaine seeking help, but everyone treated him like a madman and mocked him."

As he listened to Navia's account, Marcel's pupils constricted, and his clenched fists trembled. How could this be! How could this be! How could this be!

This tells his story as if someone had stood beside him and witnessed it all!
"What are you talking about? A person dissolving in water? Are you telling a story?"

"Yes, it's too bizarre."

Is this a story?

A murmur immediately broke out in the audience.

Boom!
【Silence!】Villet tapped his cane on the ground and said sternly.

Navia looked sharply at Marcel, whose emotions were beginning to panic, and continued speaking.

"That winter adventurer hated the Fontaines who mocked him as a madman. To prove he wasn't dreaming, he secretly kidnapped a girl who had mocked him and threw her into the strange seawater in the ruins."

"The woman melted under his gaze, just like his lover."

"In order to find his lover who had melted into the sea, the Winter Adventurer returned to Winter, disguised himself as a merchant, and then came to Fontaine again to secretly kidnap the girl for melting experiments."

"He also discovered that diluting the seawater would produce something that only the people of Fontainebleau could become addicted to, and that thing was later packaged as a beverage and appeared on the market."

That's 'Les'.

"While using Les to amass wealth, he also colluded with noble merchants to build a network of interests to conceal his identity and secretly kidnap young girls for melting experiments."

“Until my father, Kares, the president of the Rose Society, began to crack down on ‘Les’ and relentlessly investigated.”

"Just when we were about to find the culprit, we were ambushed."

"He bribed his father's assistant to carry out the assassination. He also anticipated that his father's assistant might encounter an accident and be unable to carry it out, which would expose his identity. So he also arranged for a second assassin."

"If anything goes wrong, kill my father and his assistant, then use the original fetal seawater to melt them down and eliminate the evidence."

"The second assassin shot and killed my father's assistant. My father fought with him and grabbed the gun. At that moment, the second assassin melted in my father's shocked gaze."

“It was raining heavily at the time, and the second killer disappeared into the rain, leaving only my father and his assistant who had been shot and was lying on the ground.”

“My father was thus labeled the ‘unjust Carles’ who shot his closest aide,” Navia said, her breathing quickening and her voice rising with emotion.

"The clothes left at the scene by another person are proof."

"As for why my father chose to die in a duel rather than expose the truth."

"I was threatened by them. If they were exposed, I would be the next target in the 'serial disappearances of girls' case. I didn't want to fight them to the death, because if we did, many members of the Rose Society and their families would be retaliated against."

“And the person I’m talking about is none other than Marcel, the president of the Cabrière Chamber of Commerce,” Navia said loudly, pointing at Marcel in the dock.

"The seawater that dissolved the Fontaine people is also called 'primordial fetal seawater,' which is the raw material for Les."

Wow! What a dramatic story!

"Even the villains in the most evil stories aren't this bad."

"Yes, it was fantastic."

The audience couldn't help but applaud after hearing the story, while also looking at Marcel, who was in the dock.

“Mr. Marcellus, do you have anything to refute?” Navelette asked Marcellus seriously.

“Excellent, excellent! I never expected you, Navia, to tell such an excellent story. But I am really not the murderer you are talking about.” Marcellus said kindly, “If you want to accuse me of murder, you can go to my hometown of Zhidong to investigate and ask my relatives and friends who know me.”

"Besides, I have never been an adventurer. You can find that out by checking with the Adventurers' Guild."

"This is easy to find out."

“I understand, Navia, that you are heartbroken and indignant because of your father’s situation, and I can understand why you mistakenly believe that I, your uncle, am the culprit,” Marcel said. Even if they could find out about his past, what difference would it make? No matter how they investigated, the name Marcel had absolutely no connection to the 'serial disappearances of girls' case. Thinking this, he looked at the three gods in the VIP seats. Although he appeared innocent on the surface, he was inwardly extremely nervous and afraid.

Click, click, click... The scales of the 'Cardinal Decree' began to tip in favor of Marcellus.

“Hehehe, Marcellus, of course, the name Marcellus cannot be found in any way related to the ‘serial disappearances of girls’ case,” Navia retorted calmly.

"The name Marcellus is the name the culprit and the Fontaine adventurer chose for their future child after they secretly pledged their lives to each other."

"Your real name is Vashe, and the Fontaine female adventurer who was melted by the primordial seawater is called 'Veneer'."

“Am I right, Vashe?” Navia stared intently at Marcell, who was already sweating profusely with nervousness, and raised her hand, holding two notebooks.

One is an experimental notebook, and the other is 'Vinnell's Adventure Notes'.

"Your handwriting is on this. You can find that it is exactly the same as your usual handwriting."

"You wouldn't be trying to argue that I fabricated this evidence, would you? Then please, the three deities, verify its authenticity."

Click, click, click... The 'Cardinal Decree' descended towards Navia.

Marcel fell silent, his emotions gradually collapsing, his kind expression turning into a ferocious one, and he covered his forehead with his hand and began to laugh.

"Hehe... Hahaha... I really didn't expect that after I took down that old fox Carles, I would end up being stabbed in the back by his daughter."

"They investigated so thoroughly, it's as if someone was standing right next to me watching."

“You, a mere little girl from the Rose Society, could never have done something like this. It must have been divine intervention, right?” Marcellus pointed to the VIP section, his reason gradually slipping away.

"Only a god could investigate so easily and so clearly."

Boom!
Navelette tapped the ground with her cane: "Silence, do not be disrespectful to the gods."

"If Mr. Marcellor has any further objections, please do so as soon as possible, otherwise the trial will proceed to the next stage."

Marcel pointed at Navelette and roared in a fit of madness, "Disrespect to the gods? Do you know how long I prayed to the gods while watching my beloved melt away before my eyes?" He then pointed at Funina.

“I prayed to the Mo Mang Palace, but you, you, and all of you thought I was crazy, laughed at me, and made fun of my pain.”

“Veneer’s death is insignificant to you, and is ignored by all of you.”

"When I decided to try to win back my lover in my own way, you all came out one by one and said to me with righteous indignation, 'You are guilty, you deserve to die.'"

"I deserve to die? You, you, and your high and mighty gods are the ones who deserve to die. What kind of high-sounding trial are you, pursuing justice and farces while ignoring the suffering of ordinary people?"

"Hahaha, I thought that by continuing my research I would be able to bring Vinier back, but in the end it was you gods who shattered my hopes."

Marcel was gesturing wildly towards the audience, Navelette, and the gods.

"Those who are dissolved can't come back, hahaha, if I'm not having a good time, none of you will either."

"..." Funina's feelings were complicated. She knew a lot about Fontaine, but she was just an ordinary person without divine power. If she had divine power, she could directly solve the corruption of the Fontaine nobles and all sorts of bad things.

Barbatos and Zhongli were unmoved; it was merely an offense committed by an ordinary person in winter who had lost his temper.

At this point, Marcel was restrained and pinned to the ground by law enforcement officers to prevent him from further offending the gods.

Navelette said calmly, "It seems that this trial has come to an end."

"Then, Miss Navia's accusations against Mr. Vasher will now be subject to the final decision of the 'Prophet'."

Navelette sent the judgment document into the 'Cardinal Decree', and a blue light instantly emanated from it.

With 'Fukaros' gone, who is in control now? It's Los Santos, of course. He injects a bit of power and will into it. What conforms to his will is right, and what doesn't is sinful.

The light of the 'Cardinal Decree' slowly dissipated, and a document appeared before Navelette.

“Based on the decree, the Cardinal has given his judgment,” Navilette said, looking at the document.

“Mr. Vacher, guilty… death penalty.” Vilette was somewhat surprised when the death penalty was mentioned.

"What? Death penalty?" Marcellus stared wide-eyed.

"Death penalty? What's going on? Why would there be a death penalty?" The audience couldn't believe it.

"Death penalty? A decree ordering the cardinals to receive the death penalty?"

"Never before."

"Yes, why is there a death penalty?"

"Is it because it's too evil that the death penalty exists?"

"It's very possible, after all, hundreds of girls have been murdered over the course of twenty years."

"It's true that such a bizarre thing as a person melting into seawater is actually true."

"Yes, that's outrageous."

"Wait! That prophecy! Fontaine will be submerged in the sea, and all Fontaines will dissolve in the water! Isn't that the prophecy?!"

"My God! Does that mean the prophecy is true?!"

"Isn't Lady Furina about to reveal the truth behind the prophecy? So the seawater in this 'serial disappearances of girls' is related to the prophecy!"

"Silence!" Navelette said sternly.

The audience quieted down.

"Let me go! Vinier! I made a promise with her! We'd be together even in death! Let me go!" Vasher struggled incessantly. He was so brazen because Fontaine didn't have the death penalty.

Even at his worst, he would just have to die of old age in Mello Petersburg, but now he's being sentenced to death.

He can't die yet, he can't die yet!

"Take him away and take him to Mello Petersburg to be executed," Navelette said.

Vasher was escorted out of the courtroom by law enforcement officers amidst screams.

"Alright, my people, you must all have many questions and doubts about the trial just now, right?" Funina stood up, her expression becoming solemn, and her voice losing its usual dramatic quality.

"The prophecy that the people of Fontainebleau will dissolve in the water, the origin of the people of Fontainebleau, how the people of Fontainebleau overcame the crisis, and what the future holds for the people of Fontainebleau."

"With the wind god and the rock god as witnesses, I now reveal them to the world one by one."

(End of this chapter)