"Good news and bad news?"

Even Lan Qi couldn't help but feel a slight tremor in his throat.

Because this time, Sigrid didn't seem to be joking.

"Right, Sigrid, why don't you get off me first? Don't you think we're a little cramped on one chair? And this sitting position is a bit undignified."

He realized that Sigrid was too close, and he had nowhere to escape.

He pointed to the sofa in the lounge area on the side of the headmaster's office, which was more suitable for discussing important matters.

He was a little nervous now.

"What, do you think I'm heavy?"

Sigrid moved even closer, asking.

"No, not at all. Your Excellency the Bishop is very light, a charming woman."

At this moment, Lan Qi's eyes were filled with her exquisite face, her pupils like violets blooming in spring, domineering and unyielding.

"Hmph, good thing you know how to talk. Then I'll tell you the good news first."

Sigrid chuckled twice, still playfully squeezing onto the office chair with Lan Qi, pressing down on him without any scruples.

"See what this is?"

Her voice rang out again, and Lan Qi's gaze was drawn to her hand.

He saw a holy seal on her right thumb being tossed up like a coin.

It left a brief silver glow in the air before falling back into her palm.

Even though it was only a fleeting glimpse, Lan Qi saw it clearly.

He couldn't be more familiar with this style of holy seal.

He had seen too many of them on the members of the Ba Tian branch in the Protoss Empire.

"Huh?"

Lan Qi looked at the orange-glowing bishop's holy seal in Sigrid's hand, making a puzzled sound.

He had seen Sigrid's bishop's holy seal before.

It should have been a silver moon crown, with fragments of shattered weapons scattered around the edges, as if foreshadowing the failure of the rebels and their sad, pitiful fate.

Now, the other half of the holy seal was a dazzling sun, radiating scorching light, with golden flames extending outward, forming a corona. Each ray of light was inlaid with a brilliant gemstone, shimmering with different colors under the sunlight, like the various emotions and forces stirred up in people's hearts by love.

These arcs of light intertwined, seeming both limited and infinite.

The radiance of the corona and the coldness of the silver moon crown were distinctly different colors at a glance, yet they were exceptionally compatible when embedded together, as if destined to shine together.

*Click.*

Sigrid gently snapped it, and the new holy seal split into two.

"Wow."

Lan Qi quickly reached out to catch Sigrid's holy seal.

He knew how important this bishop's holy seal was to Sigrid; it was the result of her many years of hard work.

"..."

Sigrid looked at Lan Qi's flustered appearance and chuckled silently.

"I'll show you a magic trick."

She put the holy seals in her left and right hands together, and the holy seal returned to its original form.

Lan Qi raised his eyebrows.

Since when could the bishop's certificate be played with like a magnet?

Lan Qi breathed a sigh of relief.

He had thought Sigrid's strength had increased too much since a year ago, to the point where she could even break the bishop's holy seal.

"A mere bishop's holy seal? If I really wanted to break it, I probably could."

Sigrid saw through Lan Qi's thoughts and said proudly.

"What exactly did you eat to grow up with that divine power... from childhood on?"

Lan Qi asked the same question as Talia.

He didn't expect Sigrid could actually do it.

"Don't worry, I'm easy to take care of and won't eat your family into poverty. It's not like you haven't been on dates with me before."

Sigrid laughed.

Not only had they gone on dates, but they had also traveled together and were very familiar with each other's living habits.

"My family used to have a bit of wealth, but now business is bad."

Lan Qi sighed.

He calmed down and took a closer look, discovering that Sigrid's holy seal was like a key that could be put together or separated into two different holy seals.

[Bishop's Certificate - Ba Tian Mad Love]

[Category: Equipment Card]

[Grade: Orange Epic]

[Attribute: Link/Basic]

[Rank: 0]

[Effect: Proof of identity for the Ba Tian Bishop. Can create Ba Tian or Mad Love branch resurrection certificates of all levels. Generates special attack and deterrent attributes against holders of low-level resurrection certificates. Can locate the approximate location of priests in the same branch. Can identify the authenticity of resurrection certificates displayed by other branches. Can open the Bishop's Council Hall, the Do-or-Die Arena, and the Bishop's Ballot Ceremony.]

[Note: Holder Sigrid Novia.]

After Lan Qi appraised it, the bishop's certificate was indeed different from the one Sigrid had shown him on the eve of the imperial decisive battle last time.

"This is the Dual Bishop's Certificate?"

He was certain that Sigrid's weight in the Resurrection Church had increased a lot.

One person possessed the power of two bishops.

It was just a little different from what he had imagined, and also different from what Sigrid had initially told him.

How could it even derive a sub-branch on its own?

"You could say it mutated a bit."

Sigrid explained to Lan Qi,

"Back then, you temporarily returned your [Saint's Certificate - Ba Tian] to me in the snowy province of Protoss. I fused it back into the bishop's certificate, but later, in the Do-or-Die Arena of the Imperial Parliament Building, I used your power to defeat Askesan."

She spoke of her deduction.

It should have been because the result in that Do-or-Die Arena was judged as her and the Holy Son defeating Askesan together, which ultimately caused her bishop's certificate to become like this.

Originally, a one-on-one duel between bishops in the Do-or-Die Arena was an absolutely conflicting situation with the normal bishop promotion route, but because of her and the Holy Son's actions, the bishop's certificate became an unprecedented and bizarrely judged situation.

"Ah?"

Lan Qi's eyebrows furrowed. He still didn't understand what Sigrid meant, but he gradually felt a little uneasy.

"Here."

So Sigrid once again separated the holy seal, placing the radiant corona one into his palm.

Instantly, this bishop's holy seal began to bloom with immense light, as if it had found its true owner, illuminating Lan Qi's incredulous face.

[Bishop's Certificate - Mad Love]

[Category: Equipment Card]

[Grade: Orange Epic]

[Attribute: Link/Seal]

[Rank: 0]

[Effect: Proof of identity for the Mad Love Bishop, and can also be used by the Ba Tian Bishop. Can create Mad Love branch resurrection certificates of all levels. Generates special attack and deterrent attributes against holders of low-level resurrection certificates. Can locate the approximate location of priests in the same branch. Can identify the authenticity of resurrection certificates displayed by other branches. Can open the Bishop's Council Hall, the Do-or-Die Arena, and the Bishop's Ballot Ceremony.]

[Note: Holder Lan Qi Wilford.]

"Wh-what?"

Lan Qi's eyes widened as he held the holy seal in one hand.

"I'm a Cardinal Bishop?"

In an instant, Lan Qi understood why the mysterious Cardinal Bishop's whereabouts were always a bit similar to his own.

And also why he could sense other Resurrection Church followers below the bishop level after returning from the Northern Continent.

Turns out the Cardinal Bishop was actually himself?!

He seemed to have a hard time clearing his name now.

"Hey, young man, you've become a Cardinal Bishop at such a young age. Your future is boundless."

Sigrid acted like a senior, gently patting Lan Qi's shoulder,

"Next time at the Bishop's Council, we can sit together."

She sighed, even wanting to let the other Cardinal Bishops see them as a pair.

"Why don't you just take this bishop's certificate back...?"

Lan Qi asked tentatively.

"Do you think this can change the fact that you're a bishop?"

Sigrid asked him rhetorically.

Although Lan Qi didn't have a bishop's certificate on him before, he was indeed a bishop.

The astrological compass of the Southern Continent Kingdom Alliance Parliament, which could detect the approximate movements of Resurrection Church Cardinal Bishops, had been divining Lan Qi all along.

As a result, he became the new Cardinal Bishop without even knowing it himself. The people of the Southern Continent discovered that a super-confused bishop had run to the Hutton Kingdom to live, right under the nose of the Kingdom Alliance Parliament.

Now, Lan Qi was the second person to know the identity of that bishop.

"I'm a good citizen, not a cult leader!"

Lan Qi hugged his head.

He had never felt happy about joining the Resurrection Church.

If he had to say, the happy memories were all from being alone with the Ba Tian Bishop. At other times, he was helping the Ba Tian Bishop become an anti-cult fighter for the Resurrection Church.

As an anti-cult vanguard, his Dao heart was a little shattered!

"Also, congratulations. You have your promotion relic. You'll soon be able to reach Seventh Order and obtain an Epic-level class when you return to the real world."

Sigrid's eyes had a hint of schadenfreude.

The relics for inscribing classes are often of the [Mechanical] or [Link] attribute, representing them as the products of artisans or special tools, possessing inheritance effects or being ancient divine objects that have been passed down.

At the same time, these two attributes are the only attributes on the left side of the third row of the attribute periodic table, ranking twenty-first and twenty-second, and are also the attributes closest to magical artisans and the Shadow World.

The inherent attribute of the Resurrection Church's bishop's certificate is Link. In its unsealed state, the single attribute of all bishop's certificates is Link, but when it comes into contact with its true holder, it will reveal the bishop's characteristic attribute.

The bishop's certificate is an epic item that is defined by the bishop, so it has extremely high compatibility and can often be used as a relic for inscribing a class.

"This holy seal will not only allow you to inscribe the Sealer class, but the distribution ratio of magic power and mental power bonuses will also be based on your own attribute ratio. You don't have to bother considering material blending ratios. It just so happens that I'm not very good at teaching how magic users should inscribe their class. I can only help you get it done in one step."

Sigrid finished telling both the good news and the bad news, and left it to the Holy Son to digest.

The original purpose of her trip to the Southern Continent was to return the bishop's certificate to the Holy Son. Although she could also use it herself, it was also of great use to him.

Some time ago, the Protoss Empire on the newly pacified southern coast of the Northern Continent still needed her. At least, she had to wait until the alliance with the Aetherland Kingdom was successfully concluded before she had a chance to leave.

A round trip to the Southern Continent would take at least two months, and the Protoss Empire at that time simply couldn't let her leave for that long.

Now, after waiting for the stars and the moon, she had finally received a vacation to come to the Southern Continent. The hard days were over.

To her surprise, she met the Holy Son in the Shadow World before even seeing him in the real world, and was able to give him this holy seal sooner than expected.

After a long time.

"Sigrid, it's a good thing I met you in the Shadow World. Otherwise, I'm afraid I wouldn't have understood who this Cardinal Bishop was for another year."

Lan Qi thanked Sigrid.

Since things had come to this, he could only accept this bishop's holy seal.

Whether he had it or not, it wouldn't change the fact that he was a Cardinal Bishop.

It just so happened that he could use it to advance to Seventh Order.

And seeing that Sigrid also hoped that he would become a Cardinal Bishop to support her, then he would be one. As long as she was happy.

"One for you, one for me."

Sigrid raised her bishop's certificate and placed it next to Lan Qi's. Through their radiance, she looked at this pair of holy seals, becoming happier and happier as she looked, a sweet smile appearing on the corners of her mouth.

"Then wouldn't your Dual Bishop's Certificate revert back to a single one?"

Lan Qi looked at Sigrid and asked her.

Sigrid could use his bishop's certificate herself, so giving it to him would also divide her power.

"Isn't the Mad Love Bishop just someone from the Ba Tian Bishop? Did you want to set up your own shop?"

Sigrid grinned, hooking her arm around Lan Qi's neck and asking him.

Even if Lan Qi held this bishop's certificate, she could still enjoy the power of two bishops alone, as long as Lan Qi was hers.

"That won't happen."

Lan Qi lowered his head and stared at the relic in his hand, muttering to himself.

He wouldn't change what he had promised Sigrid.

From the beginning of their cooperation, they had made a promise not to betray the Bishop, to help the Bishop with errands, and the Bishop would protect him and give him resources to use.

She was also a Bishop who valued promises and had never broken her word to Lan Qi.

Later, they gradually became close friends who entrusted each other with their lives several times. They had long regarded each other as another part of their lives.

"You're the Ba Tian Holy Son one day, and you'll be my Ba Tian Holy Son for life."

Sigrid looked at him triumphantly, her eyes seeming to tell him not to think about escaping from the Bishop's command.

"If you need a sealing slate, I'll help you snatch it. If you need a promotion relic, I'll help you send it. If you need to conquer a strong enemy, I'll help you fight it."

She vowed confidently.

Living with her Ba Tian Bishop would never lack benefits.

Lan Qi smiled softly and sighed deeply, as if he had put down a burden in his heart.

"You truly deserve to be called a useful big sister."

He sincerely praised Sigrid.

Sigrid was always so reliable that he didn't know what to say.

"Then are there any useless big sisters? Is it that demon princess teacher of yours from the Southern Continent?"

Sigrid hesitated for a moment, then pressed down on him again and asked him.

She wasn't the type of person who would allow the other party to mention other women when she was with him.

But Lan Qi would always inexplicably allude to the same woman.

Over time, Sigrid had almost remembered this woman that Lan Qi couldn't forget.

She had heard Antanas say that Lan Qi's [Great Love Poet] was based on a demon named Talia, and that he had an ancient and exceptionally beautiful great demon by his side. If there were no accidents, the so-called "useless" referred to this demon princess.

"How do you know she's a demon princess?"

Lan Qi was caught off guard. He guessed that Antanas, the bigmouth, had told Sigrid something.

Before he could organize his thoughts, Sigrid's oppressive aura became stronger and stronger.

He now felt that Sigrid had suddenly been aroused with a mysterious competitive spirit, and the aggressiveness in her eyes had become stronger.

"Hey, Holy Son, compared to me, she's much worse, right?"

Sigrid supported herself on the back of the chair with both hands, staring into Lan Qi's eyes and asking.

This question might be a bit deadly, but she was very interested in having the Holy Son answer it directly.

If she met the Holy Son's demon teacher, Miss Talia, in the future, she would also be happy to inform her of the Holy Son's answer.