Chapter 1488: Irreconcilable

Chapter 1488: Chapter 1488: Irreconcilable

Pei Yan had long been prepared for the other party to reject this request; otherwise, they wouldn’t have put on such a grand display. They could have simply called out the perpetrator directly. However, even though he was mentally prepared, when he actually heard Aleister say this answer, he couldn’t hide the anger in his heart. His lips twitched in fury, and the disdain was evident on his face.

"Mr. Aleister, are you joking with me?" Pei Yan shook his head with a bitter smile, frowning as he looked at the slightly uneasy old Mage in front of him.

"This is not a joke; it is the final decision made by Council City! It is also the final outcome that should be for this matter." Before Aleister could respond, Urban stepped forward and responded first. While Urban admired and regretted Aleister’s response, there was also a slight dissatisfaction. He felt that such conditions had made great concessions to the Investigation Hall, and it was completely unnecessary to sacrifice this respectable old Mage’s later life. If Aleister continued to preside over this, then Council City’s stance would become too insignificant.

Urban’s words amused Pei Yan to the point of anger. He took off his hat and paced back and forth, finally laughing bitterly, "You’ve all made the decision! Then what do you need us for?"

"We didn’t invite you; it was your own decision to make this agreement. We merely responded to you! Mr. Pei Yan, I think we’ve shown enough apology on this issue. I feel there’s really no need for you to persistently entangle on this matter." Urban, just like his arrogant clerical colleagues, arrogantly raised his head and looked at Pei Yan as if looking at a fighting little rooster. In Urban’s eyes, these people were just a group of somewhat aggressive little roosters. When they continued to make untimely challenges, he would lead the church army to crush them all into powder.

"Are you saying that your so-called sufficient apology is just confining these two culprits in a cage, still in your own Council City cage?" Pei Yan laughed and stepped back two steps, spreading his arms in disbelief, "Do you call this punishment? Four hundred years! For ordinary people, it’s a lifetime imprisonment, unobtainable; for Cultivators, it’s just a longer retreat and discipline! You didn’t even bother to abolish their cultivation levels. Is this your so-called apology?"

Aleister hurriedly tried to explain as he saw the negotiation starting to become chaotic, "No! No! Mr. Pei Yan, you’ve misunderstood. This isn’t a simple dungeon; for Cultivators, it’s the most brutal punishment. Everyone incarcerated here will endure the suffering of their internal source energy being extracted and burned, day and night. I think this should be a great punishment for the penalized, letting them reflect on their sins against Miss Sifuer during these four hundred years. If Mr. Pei Yan feels it’s unbelievable, you can send someone to supervise these two being punished! You can check at any time!"

"No! I did not misunderstand! I was just too naive!" Pei Yan said, as he switched the hat to his other hand and stored it in his ring. As he made this move, his silent companions standing beside him also took off their hats and kept them.

With a complex expression of disappointment in his gaze, Aleister saw Pei Yan unbutton his coat one by one, and whispered commands, "Old Jiang, go prepare! Send two people to protect him!"

Upon hearing the command, Jiang Feiyang left the lineup without a word and without looking back, while two team members tacitly guarded him on either side, immediately drawing the attention of various forces. Many Mages floating in the air diverted their locked targets from the crowd to the three leaving the team.

Pei Yan, however, ignored it, relaxed the tight button on his collar, and mockingly said to Aleister, "I knew before I came that you wouldn’t impose any substantial punishment on Flamel, but I still held on to hoping you’d care about saving face by making a show. Your actions just now sincerely moved me, even wavering my view of Council City! Now it seems I’m just a fool. Mr. Aleister, I want you to tell me honestly! If I’m not mistaken, the so-called voluntary abolishment of cultivation to accept punishment should be a decision you made on the spot, not part of your original planned agreement, right?"

"Yes! The decision Aleister made was not discussed with us in advance." Urban responded promptly on behalf of Aleister.

"That’s it!" Seeing Aleister hesitant to speak as he was cut off, Pei Yan nodded and turned back to his team members and envoys, pointing towards Council City’s direction loudly, "So you’re saying Flamel colluded with Bloodslum with the intention to harm allies, mobilized Council City forces to raid his own betrothed fiancé after the matter, even murdered them to destroy evidence afterward! Council City’s solution is just to use participating low-level members as scapegoats by abolishing their cultivation and exiling them, whilst the culprits were simply locked up."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and angrily shouted at Aleister who wanted to argue back, "Don’t tell me about how torturous that prison is; a painful torture can harm a person, or it can become tempering one’s will! Even if that Bright Archbishop has limited time, unable to endure the four hundred years of punishment! But Flamel absolutely can! With his ability as the Child of Origin, after four hundred years of polishing, it’d be easy to restore his strength upon leaving the dungeon! Aleister! Are you telling me during those four hundred years he’ll repent from pain? No! We both know deep down, four hundred years of time won’t bring any remorse; it’ll only breed more hatred!"

"This is merely your narrow-minded personal speculation! A four-hundred-year punishment is extremely severe for them. A person capable of cultivating to Holy Mage and Archbishop level, their longest lifespan, barring accidents, is around fourteen hundred to seventeen hundred years. For a trivial mistake, they must spend a third of their life in a sunless dungeon, isn’t that enough? As you said, with Archbishop Borgia’s current age, he can’t endure these four-hundred-year sentences! He merely purified the deceased, allowing them to return to the embrace of the Supreme, and still receives such heavy punishment, isn’t that enough?" Urban roared angrily to refute Pei Yan’s statements.

"Not enough! Don’t you know why he must die too?!" Pei Yan, also ripping off his polite fa?ade in extreme anger, ridiculed, "People have their own beliefs! You even spared despising enough soul of Sifuer for leaving no evidence! Purification! You even dare to say it out loud! Do you think your Supreme is a hot cake? Everyone is rushing to believe in him? Bah! Show some shame!"