The villain queen eavesdropped on my inner thoughts and won't let me lie down?

“The Imperial Right Chancellor is already second only to one person and above everyone else. Now, her younger brother is about to rise too!”

“A useless younger brother can also become a Marquis? Then can my mentally challenged son be made an Earl…”

“Tears streaming down my face, I've made countless contributions and am only an Earl. In the end, that guy relies on his older sister and gets to be a Marquis?”

“Why wasn't I born into the Charles family? Why isn't Angelina my older sister?”

“I'm laying my cards on the table, I also want to rely on my sister!”

“Sister, you need to step up. My title depends on you…”

And at the center of this storm, the Charles mansion.

Roger tossed and turned, feeling anxious and restless, unable to fall asleep.

Until midnight, when a new day began.

“System, settle!”

He just wanted to know if he could still be considered lying flat yesterday.

My random treasure chest, wouldn't it have been played away by the Eternal Night Empress?

Chapter 4: Who Has Such Great Talent?

“Ding, the Lying Flat System detects that the host's words and actions yesterday did not meet the reward conditions. Please arrange your work and life reasonably.”

Upon hearing this, Roger gnashed his teeth, stamped his feet, and beat his chest, wishing he could trade one-for-one with the Eternal Night Empress:

“It's gone, it's really gone, my system reward has been screwed over!”

I once spent three days doing various tasks to find a way to keep you alive.

Although I failed, but now you're doing this to me?

Truly, no good deed goes unpunished!

Roger lay lifelessly and blankly on the bed, deeply feeling his own weakness, pitifulness, and helplessness.

I'm already lying flat, but the Eternal Night Empress is riding my face, teleporting to initiate a team fight and ambushing my useless younger brother. I can't withstand it!

Forget it, since things have come to this, let's think of the bright side.

The Empire is vast and the Eternal Night Empress is busy with countless affairs.

This time she came to visit the son of an old subject, after seeing him… she definitely won't look again, right?

In the future, if he lies low and doesn't cause trouble, and stays at home properly, it'll just be a matter of missing one day's treasure chest.

Yes, it's just one day's treasure chest!

As Roger's mentality gradually calmed down, Angelina saw that his room was still lit and pushed the door open.

The blue-haired girl saw her younger brother lying flat on the bed in his familiar posture, revealing a look of lost dreams, and couldn't help but show a helpless smile.

This stinky younger brother, even after being made a Marquis, is still so lazy.

She sat on the edge of the bed, rubbed Roger's head a few times, and said softly:

“Rest early, tomorrow there will be a ceremony held for your title conferral, you'll have to be busy from early in the morning!”

Upon hearing this, Roger's just-recovered mentality exploded again.

Celebrate what ceremony, celebrate the ceremony of me losing my treasure chest?

Sister, why do you have to twist the knife?

And for this broken ceremony, he has to get up early?

He disdainfully said with his aura fully open: “A mere ceremony, it's better not to hold it!”

Angelina pondered: “It's okay not to hold it, but if people say you're disrespectful to His Majesty, and she hears it, I'm afraid she'll inquire about it…”

Roger, upon hearing the words “His Majesty,” felt a chill run down his spine, rolled over, and quickly grabbed his sister's hand, squeezing out a smile that was uglier than crying:

“Hold it, anything can be held, I like the lively and bustling of ceremonies the most!”

He knew that he couldn't avoid this wave.

……

……

At the same time, the Imperial Palace.

The Eternal Night Empress summoned the Left Chancellor Margaret, the Dean of the Magic Academy, the Imperial Marshal, the Foreign Affairs Advisor, and other military ministers to discuss how to deal with the affairs of the Churches of the Gods.

This world has seven main gods, each leaving a church in the human world.

The gods form alliances and engage in constant wars with each other.

The Azure Vine Empire, in its war to sweep across seventeen countries, expelled the Churches of the Seven Gods.

Now, three years after the completion of the unification war, the Churches of the Seven Gods have successively approached the Eternal Night Empress, making various promises and giving various threats, all in order to enter the Empire to preach.

The Eternal Night Empress disliked the gods from the bottom of her heart.

But the Churches of the Seven Gods are also powerful.

Offending them all at the same time would give even a strong empire a headache.

This matter has been discussed many times, and tonight the Left Chancellor Margaret confidently stepped forward: “I have a plan!”

This was a petite mixed-blood demon with a waterfall of silver hair. The inverted red alien horns and red eyes made her appear beautiful, evil, and threatening.

Margaret always liked to wear a tight-fitting black dress, unpretentiously presenting her proud figure, her eyes were presumptuous and proud, and the faint smile at the corner of her mouth always had an inexplicable meaning of seduction.

Only to hear her slowly say:

“Your Majesty, I have thought of a perfect plan, which is to use the hatred between the gods to win over a group and resist a group. That is, the Empire only allows three gods to preach!”

“In this way, we can accept the benefits, drive away the tiger and devour the wolf, let the Churches of the Seven Gods fight among themselves first, and then let the victorious three families' missionary groups resist foreign invasions, while the Empire focuses on eliminating the remnants of the seventeen countries!”

“This is also a delaying tactic. When the Empire collects the territories of the seventeen countries and its strength doubles, then the Churches of the Seven Gods will either submit or be expelled, all at Your Majesty's discretion!”

After she finished speaking, all the ministers praised and admired her:

What a good trick to drive away the tiger and devour the wolf!

What a good delaying tactic!

Very ingenious, and also very vicious!

This is a variant of the 'two peaches kill three warriors'!

Only three places are needed, but it can cause the churches of the seven countries to fight among themselves, and the Empire can reap the benefits!

This, Margaret, is worthy of being the 'most poisonous in the Empire'!

Born as an orphan, and with half a demon bloodline, she ascended to the position of Left Chancellor by relying on her clever little brain!

However, the Eternal Night Empress did not open her mouth for a long time.

The people became puzzled, the Left Chancellor's plan was already so perfect, was His Majesty still not satisfied?

Margaret was also puzzled, wagging her tail, looking at His Majesty expectantly, only hoping to get her praise.

After a long time, she finally heard the Eternal Night Empress sigh:

“Margaret, your plan is very good, but there are some things that I have only just learned.”

“Your Majesty, do you have new information to disclose?” the Dean of the Magic Academy asked in surprise.

The Eternal Night Empress nodded, and said in a heavy tone:

“I have just obtained some clues and accidentally connected the ancient scrolls we obtained from the early Veronica Dynasty ruins in the past few times, piecing together a creation myth that is completely different from the current Seven Gods' doctrines.”

“The current Seven Gods all say that they created the world. But in the oldest version, the Seven Gods were all created by the God King Amiras using the same source of darkness.”

“And the God King… is a visitor from another plane, not a native god born in our world.”

“The Secret Society has found the plane where the God King was born, a death world that has been swallowed into ruins. We have obtained some wreckage, and the wreckage reacts to the Seven Gods' holy emblems.”

“This is enough to show that the gods are indeed from the same source, and their struggle is just a play, in order to turn our world into such a death ruin as well!”

The Dean of the Magic Academy suddenly realized: “So the victory of the gods is just them acting to facilitate the harvesting of faith?”

Margaret was equally shocked: “Damn, the gods are deliberately letting us play the game of driving away the tiger and devouring the wolf, they are calculating me on the tenth floor… Damn, damn, damn!”

The Imperial Marshal, the Foreign Minister, and others were also horrified.

If these gods are in cahoots and regard the world's races as the lambs of their faith, frantically sucking blood and turning them into a death world, where will the Empire go?

Everyone looked at the Eternal Night Empress.

Only the Empress can make decisions on such major matters.

The Eternal Night Empress's eyes were extremely firm:

“Now, the Empire has only one path to take, and that is to fight the Churches of the Seven Gods to the end, and not allow any one of them to preach, so as to avoid us providing nourishment to the enemy!”

Her eyes were shining, burning with a raging fighting spirit.

Even gods, if they want to do whatever they want with her country, they have to ask her if she allows it!

All the ministers said in unison: “Your Majesty is wise, we are willing to follow Your Majesty and fight to the death!”

Dean Hall sighed: “Fortunately, Your Majesty is one step ahead, otherwise we would have fallen into the trap of the gods.”

Unexpectedly, the Eternal Night Empress shook her head: “This time, it wasn't because I saw through it…”

Although she was strict, she was fair in rewards and punishments and would not take credit for her ministers' achievements, saying it was her own doing.

All the ministers immediately became curious: “May I ask Your Majesty, who has such great talent? We should take him as a brain trust!”

Seeing the people's inquiries, the Eternal Night Empress couldn't help but smile.

She subconsciously wanted to show off her unique talent discovery: “I went to the Charles mansion in the afternoon…”

Margaret immediately exclaimed in shock: “Impossible, the blue-haired saint is so stupid she can't even use magic, how could she see through the true relationship of the gods?”

A hundred thousand points of warning signs rose in her heart.

Right Chancellor Angelina is in charge of internal affairs, finance, and food, while Left Chancellor Margaret is in charge of military intelligence.

The two minds their own business.

But the tacit cooperation is only on the surface, and they often compete secretly.

Margaret believed that Angelina was secretly studying the relationship of the gods, which was clearly an attempt to interfere in her field!

She was immediately like a little tiger whose territory had been invaded, roaring in her heart:

Good for you, Angelina, I used to think you were a saint.

Now I find that you are not only a saint, but you are also a bitch!

I talked to you about the affairs of the gods before, right?

You already knew the relationship of the gods, but you didn't remind me.

Oh, you just wanted to see me make a fool of myself in front of His Majesty, right?

Hehe, you can know a person's face but not their heart!

Angelina, ah, Angelina, you usually pretend to be gentle and kind, but inside you are actually a snake and a scorpion?

Angry!

Very angry!

Hate!

Especially hate!

I actually lost to the blue-haired saint!

Sooner or later, I will personally expose your hypocritical face!

Chapter 5: The Celebration Blessed by the Empress

The next day.

Angelina still didn't know that she had been considered a hypocritical villain by a certain colleague.