Who taught him to restore his country like this?

Kertia never glanced at him once; her gaze remained fixed on the composed figure before the statue.

I felt that arrogant, smug look was somehow familiar.

"Who are you?" Keltia asked.

"Will telling me save your life?" Ron asked.

Keltia raised her wand, and the seventh-tier magic, Holy Flame Flash, slowly condensed.

"Wait, I'll confess, I'll confess everything." Ron quickly raised his hands in surrender, and as his muscles and bones slowly writhed, his appearance began to change.

Before the wand, the energy ball, which had expanded to two meters wide, slowly contracted as he obediently followed.

Keltia looked at Ron with cold eyes.

Of course, she was just trying to scare the guy in front of her who had committed a heinous crime and still had that carefree attitude. She didn't deny that she had fallen to the point of being controlled by her emotions, but no matter how impulsive she was, she couldn't possibly unleash a seventh-tier spell in the center of the city.

This man certainly deserves to die, but before that, we should at least find out his identity and the purpose of the God of Destruction's Purification Array.

Keltia watched intently as the middle-aged man's face gradually became firmer, fairer, and more handsome...

hiss……

The more I look at this face, the more something seems off.

It's starting to look more and more like that...

"It's me."

With the last joint reset, Ron was restored to his original appearance.

Since my identity will be exposed anyway after I'm arrested, I might as well confess and get leniency, and suffer less physical pain.

He looked at Keltia with a wry smile, trying to establish a connection: "Lady Keltia, it's been a while, you still... uh..."

Before he could finish speaking, Ron's eyes widened suddenly.

Holy crap, does it have to be this intense?

Above, the energy ball, which had shrunk to the size of a basketball, expanded to more than ten meters wide the instant it regained its original form.

The dazzling golden light was as intense as the sun.

Ron instinctively took a step back.

He might find this enthusiasm a bit overwhelming.

"Please calm down, Lady Keltia."

"This is the city center; we can't cast seventh-tier magic here."

The knights in the castle, trembling with fear, looked at the terrifying energy sphere overhead that was about to fill the entire castle and offered their advice.

Chapter 40 I'm Saving You

"You are Ron Rhinet from the Kingdom of Lach?"

In the Iron Castle.

Ron was tied to a chair.

Earl Lawrence sat opposite him, scrutinizing him.

“It’s me,” Ron said.

"Humph!"

A cold snort rang out beside Earl Lawrence.

Ron glanced to the side, feeling a little guilty.

Keltia, dressed in a nun's habit but not at all like a nun, sat with her arms crossed, a gloomy black aura emanating from her.

It was unbelievable that a clergyman would act so impulsively; Ron found it utterly despicable.

Thinking of this, his cheeks began to ache again, the image of justice still etched on his face.

"There has never been any conflict between the Kingdom of Orantia and the Kingdom of Lach. Why did you destroy the Divine Purification Array?" Lawrence asked in a deep voice.

He couldn't understand why Ron would go to such lengths to destroy the God Purification Array.

There is no enmity between us; this is purely a case of harming others without benefiting ourselves.

“I’m saving you,” Ron replied earnestly.

"Save us?" Earl Lawrence sneered. "Are you saying that because you destroyed the Divine Purification Array, the Demon Clan gave up their attack on Kassel?"

“That’s one point, but it’s not just that,” Ron said.

"You'd better answer my question seriously." Lawrence's tone was already showing signs of losing patience.

“I have been answering your question very seriously.” Ron met Lawrence’s gaze calmly.

He said, "The Divine Purification Array was activated when it was destroyed; you should all have felt it, right?"

"There was a moment."

“No,” Ron shook his head: “Not a moment, but a minute.”

Lawrence frowned.

The Divine Purification Array takes at most two seconds to appear and disappear, so where did the minute come from?

“I am not lying.”

Ron explained, "The reason you felt the Divine Purification Array appeared for only a short moment is because it completely extracted your consciousness from your bodies. Only after I destroyed the Divine Purification Array did your consciousness return to your bodies."

Lawrence frowned even more upon hearing this. After careful recollection, he realized that his mind had indeed gone blank for a moment when the Divine Purification Array was projected into the air.

Kertia, who was standing nearby, was in the same situation.

"So what?" Lawrence said.

Even if the Divine Purification Formation was really activated for one minute, what would that mean?

Seeing that he still didn't realize the seriousness of the situation, Ron smiled without saying a word and looked at Kertia beside him.

Keltia was silent for a moment, then spoke.

She said, "Are you saying that if you don't destroy the Divine Purification Array, our consciousness will never be able to return to our bodies?"

Ron snapped his fingers to indicate that she had answered correctly.

“If you think about it carefully, you’ll find that this situation is very similar to the abilities of a certain prominent figure in the newspapers recently,” Ron suggested.

Upon hearing this, Kertia's expression changed.

She had obviously guessed it.

With such obvious hints, it's hard not to guess.

There is only one person who possesses the ability to detach from consciousness, is connected to time, and is also a recent sensation in the newspapers.

Lilith, the Great Demon.

Her ability, the Eternal Illusion, is to detach from a person's consciousness and prevent them from perceiving the passage of time.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Lawrence, who was also thinking about the Eternal Illusion, couldn't sit still any longer. He stood up and retorted loudly, "The Divine Purification Array was set up by Princess Karina to deal with the demons. How could it possibly harm us?"

Ron chuckled: "You said it yourself, the Divine Purification Array is used to deal with the demons, so when the Divine Purification Array was activated just now, were the demons affected in the slightest?"

According to Karina, once the Divine Purification Array is activated, all the demons within Kassel should be wiped out.

But now, a large number of demons are wandering around outside the city, not affected at all.

"It was you! It must have been you who destroyed the Divine Purification Array, preventing those demons from being punished by it!" Lawrence roared.

He absolutely refused to believe that Princess Karina would betray the Kingdom of Orantia.

Ron didn't want to argue with someone who had lost their mind: "Judging by the time, the other fortresses should have activated their Divine Purification Arrays by now. Instead of questioning me here, why don't you go outside of Kassel and see what the Kingdom of Orantia is really like now?"

"I will go. Once I get there and find out you're lying to me, you know what the consequences will be."

After uttering a cold threat, Lawrence turned and left.

Keltia watched Lawrence leave, then turned her gaze back to Ron.

Now only she and Ron are left in the room.

Ron, who had initially seemed unconcerned, immediately lost his smile after sensing Kertia's dangerous gaze.

“Ahem, Lady Kertia, force won’t solve anything. I think we can sit down and talk things over calmly,” Ron said.

"is it?"

Kertia stood up and walked towards him with a gloomy expression.

Ron's eyelids twitched violently.

Kertia stopped close by, then raised her right foot and stomped hard on his foot, staring at him with a deathly gaze.

"Let's talk this out." Ron forced a smile.

He felt that if Kertia lost her mind at this moment, he might lose something.

For example, the eyes.

Fortunately, Kertia's reason was not completely consumed by hatred: "I ask, you answer."

"Okay." Ron breathed a sigh of relief.

"Victor, is that you?"

Keltia made this guess because Ron and Beatrice got together.

The fact that the woman, whom Count Lawrence couldn't get to talk no matter what he tried, would willingly follow Ron can only mean that Ron understands her very well and knows how to use her.

In her mind, only Mr. Victor in Kassel could possibly know that woman.

Victor happened to be in Kassel on the very day Ron fled Graymist Territory.

“It’s me.” Ron nodded in acknowledgment. With Victor’s high status and prestige, there was no reason for him to deny it.

"Did you order her to kidnap those children?" Kertia then asked.