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Feeling that her words were not in vain, she felt relieved: "Trust yourself."
"I understand." The second prince stood up and strode out the door.
Avril recalled what he was about to say but was stopped by her, and asked, "What were you going to say when you came in?"
He paused, turned his head and said with a smile: "Aiji brought some new things. I will tell you the specific function after I find out."
After saying that, he walked out the door and disappeared into the night.
Avril blinked, her eyes revealing reminiscence.
Seeing that her master was sitting still and not going back to the bedroom to rest, Mora suddenly came to her senses, bent down slightly and leaned close to his ear:
"Your Highness, are you thinking of Mr. Zhang Mu again?"
"A little bit." Avril leaned to the right, resting her elbow on the armrest of the sofa, her chin resting on her palm. "He always comes up with something new."
"Well, like delicious instant noodles." Maura's eyes lit up.
Recalling the two-story house in a small town, Avril's frosted face showed warmth, but suddenly became even colder:
"Have you found any results on the matter you were asked to investigate?"
Maura came back to her senses and pulled at the twin ponytails that fell on her shoulders: "I searched around the woods for several days, but there was no clue at all."
She twisted her index finger around the end of her hair and said worriedly, "I can sense some magical fluctuations, but there are too many city lords coming to the capital recently. After investigating them, I found more than a dozen similar magical fluctuations."
As she was talking, she recalled the unexpected situation she encountered on the way: "When I was looking for footprints in the woods, I ran into people from the church."
"church?"
Avril sat up, turned her head and looked at her in confusion: "Was it a personal action of the believers, or was it an order from Jarvis?"
"There are a lot of people, including fanatics. Jarvis must have sent them."
"What are they doing in the woods?"
"Seems... he's looking for something too." Maura scratched his face. "I vaguely heard them say that Deputy Hagrid is missing?"
"Hagrid? Missing in those woods?"
Avril remembered him.
The two sides had rarely met after returning to the capital, but she still remembered the conflict that broke out outside Kas Town.
After thinking for a while, Avril said to herself in surprise, "I haven't seen him establish relationships with officials or nobles, so he naturally wouldn't offend anyone. Why would someone want to kill him?"
You know, killing a believer is a very dangerous act.
Although the church does not care too much about low-level believers who die in the wild, it is impossible to say that they completely ignore it.
The one who died this time was Hagrid. In the church's branch in Lake, he was no insignificant marginal figure.
He is a clergyman at the level of a cleric and a student of Bishop Jarvis.
Even if Jarvis doesn't care about this student, he should still care about his own face, right?
Setting an ambush and killing Hagrid in the woods a few kilometers outside the royal capital was equivalent to slapping Jarvis in the face, and it was also a contempt for the entire church.
Look, I'm killing your little brother right at your door, what can you do?
The church will never let this kind of insult and disobedience go until the person responsible is found.
With the power of the church, it is only a matter of time before the killer is caught.
Who on earth would risk his own death to kill Hagrid? Is there a deep hatred between them?
Hmm? Speaking of hatred...
Avril asked Maura, "Is the area they are searching far from the tombstone of the junior?"
"Very close, right in front of the tomb, you could say."
"Oh, that counts as my junior brother witnessing it with his own eyes."
Shaking her head, she stood up and walked towards the bedroom, instructing Maura: “Step up the search for clues.
By the way... go and contact Lord Aigi. I want to see what tricks he used to deceive my brother the king into trusting him so much."
"As ordered."
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After Zhang Mu activated the shadow technique and left the house, he did not leave and return to the hotel.
He stayed outside the door and watched the second prince get on the carriage and head towards the palace.
I guessed in my heart that he was going to look for Avril, and then turned around and went back to the hotel.
Zhang Mu stood in front of his door for a long time without knocking.
Another half an hour passed, he ran into the next room to wake up Mih, and they flew to the roof together.
Sit down on the eaves with your legs hanging out in the air, swinging back and forth.
Zhang Mu looked at the city in the night, silent.
Mih next to him also looked into the distance: "What are you hesitating about?"
"How do you know I hesitated?"
"You came to the capital, and everything you did before that, was all for someone."
"Ah."
"He's in the capital?"
"Ah."
Gazing sideways at him, Mih asked, “Why don’t you go meet him?
With your camouflage magic, you won't attract anyone's attention."
"What's the use of seeing her?" Zhang Mu supported the eaves with both hands. "Indeed, she missed me very much.
If I appeared in front of her now, she would probably cry like a baby.
and then?
The current predicament will not get any better and may affect my plans.”
Mi He lowered his head and thought for a while: "You seem to be prepared for failure."
Plan for failure?
Zhang Mu narrowed his eyes. Of course I have more than one alternative plan if the situation takes a turn for the worse.
He had thought it through since the day he set out.
If Andre won, the First Army, Mih, Domit, and Soren would all die in the capital.
The only thing Zhang Mu could do was to get Avril away from Lake safely.
With enemies all around and all roads blocked, he had to use himself as bait and make enough noise to attract the attention of all enemies so that Avril could escape safely.
For this reason, he cannot have anything to do with Avril.
Although he was confident that with his combination of shadow magic and shapeshifting, he would not be discovered even if he went to see Avril by himself.
But what if?
He doesn't understand the Saint level. What if the Saint level can see through shadow magic and transfiguration?
The more fun he makes, the more his enemies will suspect he has other intentions and will keep an eye on Avril's whereabouts.
Zhang Mu looked up at the starry sky.
Senior, what are you doing? Are you also looking at the stars?
Taking a deep breath, Zhang Mu turned his head and met Mi He's gaze: "You may die, as will Domit, and Soren, the First Army.
You may die in the capital, in this city far away from home, for my personal purposes."
Mih smiled and said, “I knew about this kind of thing from the beginning.
They know it, too.”
Looking back at the starry sky, Zhang Mu asked calmly, "When did it start?"
"Probably, the moment you agreed to join the resistance and proposed to form the First Legion in the future."
After saying that, Mih laughed and scolded: “Do you think we know nothing?
Come on, who would raise a private army for no reason?"
"That's right." Zhang Mu was silent for a moment, then said, "I'm sorry for leading you... down this path."
"no need to say sorry."
Mih stood up and looked at the buildings of different heights under the night sky: "What you need to do is to lead us to victory."
Chapter 266 Mora: There is a familiar smell
Dawn.
Maura got out of bed, followed the order of her Royal Highness the Princess, changed into a maid outfit and went out.
The destination is a guesthouse built under the auspices of the royal family, a hotel located in the northern district of the royal capital.
Most of the city lords who came to the royal capital to report on their work stayed overnight there.
Among them was the Lord of Edge City.
Walking on the sparsely populated street, Mora lowered her head and looked at the road, each step stepping on the gaps between the stone slabs.
My mind is thinking about what I need to do today.
First, find out the background of Lord Edge, and then search for clues in the woods outside the city.
Hmm... I'll come back later and check again with the City Lord.
After sorting out the order of affairs, she finally had some free time to think about her retreat after the battle for the throne was over.
Yes, consider the retreat directly.
In her opinion, Her Royal Highness the Princess had virtually no hope of winning.