The Pathway Of Wisdom-Chapter 39: There’s a lot of work to do.

Zeil took his luxurious carriage and left.

Looking at the fading carriage in the distance, Alex thought to himself.

’I was expecting both factions to approach me but it seems that the other faction does not have much interest in me...’

The Ilma family was likely split into two or more factions, and it was confirmed by Zeil’s conspiracies.

The first faction was led by Count Foley, who wanted his eldest son to succeed, while the second faction was led by Zeil, who was conspiring to usurp power and lead a rebellion.

’Has the second son also created his own faction or is he supporting the eldest son?’

According to what Alex had found out through Ethan about the Ilma family, Count Foley only had these three sons and no daughters or any other children.

He seemed to have affairs with other women, but he didn’t have any illegitimate children at all.

’He either didn’t acknowledge them as his children or just got them eliminated before anyone could find out about them...’

Thinking this far, Alex shook his head and stopped himself.

’Forget it; it’s got nothing to do with me. It’s not a modern world; crime and abuse of power are rampant here. There’s nothing special in this matter...’

Even in the modernized society in Alex’s previous world, there were many people in power who often abused their powers and did a lot of horrible things.

Corruption and nepotism were rampant even in his previous world despite it being a modern society, so it was nothing too out of the ordinary that in this medieval time period, it was even more prominent.

Alex shook his head and went back inside the church and nodded his head in satisfaction when he saw quite a few people praying to the half-broken statue of the god of wisdom.

’Oh~ benevolent god of wisdom, look! You have got new believers now... You must be quite happy, right? Hehe...’

Whenever someone noticed him walking by, they hurriedly bowed their heads toward him in fright.

Alex passed through the corridors, asked a random member of the church where the infirmary was, and walked inside the infirmary with the usual arrogant look on his face.

"So, how’s the situation, Ethan? He will be fine, right?"

Ethan, who had just finished treating Jake with his divine power and was sitting on a chair nearby panting heavily, nodded his head at Alex’s question and gave a wry look.

"Your holiness really didn’t show him any mercy at all... his condition has stabilized now but if he hadn’t been treated by divine magic by someone as skilled as me..."

"Things would have become out of control and he could have..."

Ethan seemed a bit dissatisfied that Alex beat up Jake so badly; to console him, Alex shrugged his shoulders and spoke.

"Well, I only went so harsh on him because I knew you would be able to control the situation no matter what... still, considering he’s your son, I held back quite a bit you know..."

"If he was an enemy or something, he would have been in a much worse condition... no, perhaps we won’t even have had anything left of him to heal anymore in that kind of scenario..."

Alex spoke those words with a wide grin on his face, making everyone in the room feel a chill run down their spine.

He looked completely relaxed while saying such cruel words, and his young age and small physique added extra points in his creepiness.

"By the way, can you reattach severed limbs, Ethan?"

At Alex’s question, Ethan shook his head in confusion.

"No, I can’t do something that complicated... you needed to help someone in re-attaching limbs?... perhaps the pope might be able to do that but I am not really sure..."

"Our benevolent god governs over the domain of wisdom after all, not the domain of life and protection, so healing skills are rare among our church members..."

Alex nodded his head, feeling a sense of relief.

"Thankfully I didn’t use ’that’ on Jake then... he might have lost or two of his limbs forever in that case..."

"I need to be more careful when planning from now on..."

It was first Alex’s first time making a nearly superhuman-level person kneel, so there were bound to be mistakes.

But of course, he will not make such simple mistakes again; he will have more ideas about what limits he needs to follow.

"Y-you had even more plans ready for him?... Y-your holiness is really worthy of being the chosen ’Saint’ of the god of wisdom..."

"Y-you are really blessed with tremendous wisdom and intellect..."

Ethan and everyone were so shocked at Alex’s words that they couldn’t help but stutter and step back a bit to make some distance from him.

Many of them were frightened, and many of them dared not even look him in the eyes anymore.

Despite being just a short young kid, Alex had already solidified his strength and power over the church in just one move.

Winning the duel not only helped Alex gain a reputation outside the church, but his reputation inside also improved.

Now, he had become qualified to control the church more deeply, and no one would dare to conspire against him.

’Still, the main culprit has yet to be found... whoever it is, will likely go dormant for a while after losing to me so horribly...’

’I need to wait for an opportunity to strike at him hard enough and catch him in one go...’

Alex glanced at Jake, who was sleeping peacefully, and Freya, who was holding his hand carefully, and a smile appeared on his face.

’Hoh, so she likes him?... that’s quite nice; it might come in handy someday...’

"I am going to the library. Tell him to visit me once he’s awake. he has to fulfill the promise which he made while standing in front of the statue of our benevolent god himself..."

After saying that, Alex took the apple placed on the plate for Jake and left the room to head straight towards the library.

’They might hate me, they might fear me, but I don’t care... all I want is control so that I can get all the information of this world for myself...’

The grand library might have all the knowledge of the world, but that was just a rumor; there was nothing confirmed yet.

And Alex didn’t like putting all his eggs in the same basket; he preferred making several plans for the same outcome so that in case one fails, the other one works.

’I need to start researching the history and all the stuff related to this nation now...’

’I have wasted too much time on unimportant stuff; I need to start gathering information from now on, as much as I can!’

If it wasn’t for all the hectic troubles and plans he had to make to make the duel as perfect as possible, Alex would have already dived into the grand library and wouldn’t have come out of it for an entire week!

’Aside from studying, I need to start improving my physical fitness too; it will be easier for me to trick opponents if they end up assuming I am weak physically...’

’Also the plan for ’Revenant’ needs some fine-tuning and modifications... there’s a lot of work to do...’