This Holy Knight is So Despicable!-Chapter 683 - 590: It Turns Out to Be Myself

"Teacher! I'm back!"

Lette kicked open the doors of the Pope Palace and swaggered in.

Only to find the entire Pope Palace deserted, not even a ghost in sight.

Lette was greatly surprised, thinking something might have happened.

He immediately scanned the entire Pope Palace with his spiritual power and quickly found some traces.

Before saying anything else, the Pope's little treasure stash had already been emptied.

There were many fresh signs of activity in the palace, clearly indicating people had been here not long ago.

No need to say more, surely his teacher knew he was coming and feared he might settle scores, so he hurriedly transferred his assets.

"This money-grubbing vice, when will it ever change."

Lette rubbed his temples, at a loss for words for a moment.

Mind you, unlike the previous Holy Light Church, the current Holy City no longer lacks money.

For instance, the Holy Light Church has become the world's financial center.

Not to mention how much revenue the Holy City, being the largest tourist city, generates annually for the Holy Light Church.

Just the trade routes with other races are enough to make the Holy Light Church staggeringly wealthy.

These are trade routes crisscrossing the Sea Clan, Elf Clan, Dwarf Clan, Beastman Clan, and Barbarians.

One turn of the carriage, and it brings in millions in gold.

Not to mention, after the Elf Empire recovered from its crisis, it welcomed the surrender of the Dark Elves.

The opening of the underground rail further made trade as easy as breathing.

The whole continent is thriving, and as the hub of all this, the Holy Light Church is drowning in wealth.

The days of worrying over a few Gold Marks to the point of losing appetite are long gone.

Even with things at this stage, the Pope is still so greedy and stingy with money, leaving Lette speechless.

"Trying to run? You can't escape!"

In a fit of rage, Lette unleashed his powerful spiritual power, sweeping the entire Holy Light City.

Such blatant spiritual sweeping instantly stirred resistance and dissatisfaction among many strong figures within the city.

But once they recognized the owner of this spiritual power, they all quieted down.

No shame, no shame.

After all, the other party is that Holy Sin, no shame.

"You went there, teacher, what were you thinking?"

In almost an instant, Lette locked onto the Pope's location and then soared into the sky, dashing toward the target area.

In theory, flying over the Holy City is prohibited.

But some things are just like that; if the rules have no enforcement, they remain mere rules.

Glowing light flashed across the skies of the Holy City, and every church institution within quietly prayed, hoping he wouldn't land on their side.

Fortunately, Lette steered the glow straight out of the Holy City, landing directly above the Holy New City, then descended to the headquarters of the Holy New Sect.

"Teacher!"

When Lette landed, he saw the Pope commanding the guards to transport assets, feeling a mix of emotions.

"I say, after all this time, you still haven't changed, have you?"

"Ah, isn't this Lette? You-you-you, why have you suddenly returned?"

"If I didn't come back to check, who knows what other nonsense you might be up to!"

Lette pointed to the piles of gold and silver treasures: "What are you doing with this?"

"Ahem, ahem, well, uh. Ah! It's like this.

That person! You know the one, didn't you call Flander away?

The Holy New Church here temporarily lacks a leader, so I came to inspect and guide the work.

Unexpectedly, I discovered a large amount of gold, silver, and countless gold coins here!

This is simply too bizarre! I feel there's a big secret lurking here!

So, I'm ready to personally take command and investigate thoroughly!

We must completely eliminate this unhealthy trend!

Eliminate! Hmm!"

The Old Pope seemed quite satisfied with the lie he concocted, his mood shifting from panic to complacency.

Lette couldn't help but roll his eyes: "Teacher, I might have forgotten to tell you. The Lord of Lies is currently working under me, and he respectfully calls me 'Boss.'

If he finds out my teacher tried to deceive his boss with such a clumsy lie,

Pino, that fellow, would laugh to death.

I just came from your Pope Palace, even if you want to claim this money belongs to the Holy New Church, at least leave some behind while moving them from your little treasure stash to cover up, right?

A year has passed, and your little stash is completely empty, huh?"

The Old Pope turned beet red, finally lying down on the pile of money, not bothering to argue anymore.

"I've stashed the money, what of it!"

"Hide money if you want; you're the Pope, who can do anything to you? 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

The point is, I just don't get it, why must you hoard money?

For the Church, gold coins now are just numbers. Do you still need to hoard money?"

"Of course!"

The Pope sat up, full of indignation.

"It's for the future of the Church!

Yes, the Church's revenue has been steadily increasing recently, but expenses have also risen!

If I don't save a bit in advance, what if I accidentally overspend, what do you expect me to do?"

Lette obviously didn't buy it: "Oh, quit making stuff up, what large expenses has the Church had recently?

I admit, the change from Holy Light Goddess to Holy Light Twin Goddess did cost the Church quite a bit.

But that was almost a year ago!"

"It's the Magician Association!"

"Magician Association?"

"Yes!"

Mentioning this name, the Old Pope gnashed his teeth in hatred.

"This group of mages, I don't know what happened, suddenly obtained a large number of points in a short period, and coincidentally, a lot of them advanced in rank!

Then, it triggered a wave of redemption frenzy.

It directly bankrupted the Magician Association's exchange shop.

The Church, as the Magician Association's guarantor and backer, had to mobilize a large amount of manpower and resources to help them through this exchange crisis!

Coincidentally, many of our internal Divine Mages also obtained a lot of points, completing their advancements simultaneously.

External troubles and internal strife nearly dragged the Church down with them recently.

I realized from this crisis that it's better to have extra reserves just in case!

Most importantly, don't let me find the person who oversaw those association tasks!

I will let them taste the Church's iron-fist sanction!

Sigh, Lette, why are you blushing?"

"Ahem, feeling invigorated!"

Lette secretly swallowed, knowing he was the source of the Magician Association's oversupplied tasks.

Or rather, it stemmed from that Light World journey, where he helped Old Pi and Alice with solving packages.

This chaos had its roots in himself.

"Ahem, this incident, let's just let it go! Teacher, I came to see you because there's something important to discuss with you."