And so, after dawn—

Late at night on the twenty-fifth day of the Harvest Moon of the Year of the Candle Flame, the existence of the Korik gang was announced in a little-known underground auction hall.

When the sun rose the next day, and the time passed from the twenty-fifth day of the harvest month of the year of candles to the twenty-sixth day of the new day, the gang members in Hyena Street were shocked to find that their organization was in disarray, and the cadres of all levels of the gang seemed to have lost their supreme commander in an army for a long time.

The importance of Colin Coleck himself to the Corik Gang is evident, and his abrupt disappearance causes the entire organization and management system of the Corik Gang to collapse abruptly, and Alice and Scambed will not let go of this golden opportunity to regain de facto control of Hyena Street.

After Alice returned to the castle with Thea, Urs, and the results of the investigation of the underground auction house's overnight operation, the Governor of Scambed, who had received the latest information, immediately sent the noble private soldiers left behind by Kevin Stun before he left the Northlands into Hyena Street, and directly suppressed the remnants of the Korrick gang with a vigorous and iron-fisted approach.

The use of private soldiers by the Northland court alarmed a part of the local nobility and merchant circles in the Northlands as Colin Corick had threatened before his death, but Alice promptly assisted Scambed in issuing a notice to the county declaring that Colin Coleck's gang had led the way in the personal name of the gang leader, and that there was no mention of the involvement of some nobles and merchants in the Northlands.

This proclamation is both a warning and a reassurance.

In this way, three more days passed from the twenty-sixth day of the harvest month of the year of the candle, and in the blink of an eye it came to the twenty-ninth day of the same month.

The aftermath of the collapse of the Hyena Street gang did not make much of a wave, and some of the local nobles and merchant groups that had interests in collusion with the Korrick gang wisely tended to protect themselves in this incident, and chose to remain silent along the steps given by Alice and Scambed, causing Colin Korrick's death to cool down from the peak of public opinion during this time.

Alice and Scambed took care of the matter, and then, at the advice of the former, prepared to focus on investigating the strange plague in the Armored City, but unexpectedly, another more difficult matter ensued, bringing new turmoil to the newly peaceful Northland court.

That new turmoil came from the red-clothed priest Sirudelt.

……

"That is to say, Sirudelt can't wait to convene a meeting in the Cathedral of San Antonios in a day's time, intending to take back the title of count of lord lord in the course of the meeting, by virtue of the dual authority of His Majesty and the Church."

On the twenty-ninth day of the harvest month, the Count's office in the castle of the Lords of the Northlands.

Alice and Scambed stood on either side of the lord's desk in the vacant seats, the former wearing the dress of aristocratic women in their fluffy cloaks on their shoulders, their sea-blue eyes in blonde hair looking down at a document report lying flat on the desk and a letter next to it.

The document, the report and the letter, were sent to the castle by the old priest of McCaron of the Cathedral of Sant'Antonios, and the red-clothed priest of Sirudelt, respectively.

Scambed's bear-like tall figure moved a step aside, the big hand under the long sleeve of the black velvet shirt raised and lightly pressed the corner of the desk, the gaze in his eyes fell on the papers and letters on the desk for a while, as Alice's attention was, and then turned his head slightly and asked softly, "How are you going to deal with it, Ms. Alice?" ”

"Sirudelt's temperament is a little more urgent than I thought, maybe the Duke Regent of Ducatlet is putting pressure on him behind his back." Alice lifted her eyes from her desk and came back to her senses to meet Scambed's gaze, "But it doesn't matter, as long as his excuse is the same rule in the Imperial Succession Law, then we still have a chance to win." ”

"Do you mean that?" Scambed frowned slightly, blinking, "If a deceased noble lord in the empire has only a female heir, and the female heir has no male heirs, then the female heir cannot inherit the title immediately, and His Majesty the Emperor has the right to forcibly withdraw the lord title of the deceased nobleman, and then transfer this title to another nobleman within three years to make him the new lord." ”

"Yes. The best excuse for Sirudelt to reclaim the title of Earl of Northland on behalf of His Majesty is this rule, but I have already figured out a way to deal with him at the church meeting in a day's time, Chief Steward Scambed. Alice nodded calmly, her poker face as unchanged as ever, reflecting her composure, calmness and reserve beyond her years.

But—

"Listen to you, besides the church meeting that is coming up in a day's time, you seem to be nervous about another recent event?" Scambed pondered for a moment, and immediately heard Alice's words, and then asked, "Is it a strange plague in the city?" ”

"Hmm." Alice nodded, her gaze shifted from Scambed's eyes back to the desk beside her, to a dagger on the other side of the table.

She looked sideways at the dagger, one of the pieces of investigative evidence she had seized from the underground auction hall in Hyena Street three days earlier, and knew that the long-standing drug business of the Corick gang might be related to the strange epidemic in the city, and she also remembered that Colin Coleck had become abnormal when she pulled the dagger from her waist and cut her wrist during the battle with her that night.

Forbidden drugs, strange plagues, the dagger, and Colin's anomaly that night......

Is there some causal connection between the factors of these clues?

……

At the same time, another room inside the castle.

"Knight of Urs, Reverend Thea, your companion has written back to you."

"Thanks, squire, we'll call you again if you need anything."

"You're welcome, after all, this is also the order of Lady Alice and the Steward." The palace guard pushed open the door with permission, handed a letter to Urs, spoke casually with him, and then turned away with a smile on his face.

At the end of the operation three nights earlier, Alice had rearranged the residences of Urs and Thea, freed them from the underground prison where they were supposed to be held in principle, and moved them to a double room in the Lord's Castle, where she was asked to "control and monitor them by means of magic".

Thanks to this, although Urs and Thea became scapegoats of Viscount Bildigard at the inadvertent action of Duke Regent Fromeyer, they did not actually look like prisoners in the castle of the lord, but more like earls and courtiers attached to the castle - or in the first place, the two of them were actually slave knights and court priests under the command of Kevin Stun, Earl of the Northland.

After changing to a new residence, Ulsming still had to pay attention to his and Thea's "prisoner" status, so he couldn't leave the castle at will, but fortunately, several court messengers in the castle took on the external liaison work between him and the wolf-eared girl during this period, and for three days they kept in touch with the "Warm House Drunkard" tavern where Bellingis, Dorothy, Groeldon, Brian, and Ekalila were located.

Urs had been allowed to write a letter three days earlier, and as soon as he exchanged information with the little girl and the others, he had passed the peace.

He took a new reply from the guard just now, then closed the door lightly, and when he turned around, he found that Thea also happened to lean over from him, shaking the two wolf ears on the top of her silver hair, and asked curiously, "Urs, what did Miss Bellinglith write in the letter today?" ”

"Don't worry." Urs looked at her and smiled, opened the envelope and quickly skimmed through the letter, and then replied with a smile on his lips, "Good news." ”

"What's the good news?"

"Bellelis wrote to us that after another crystal ball contact last night while we were away, Kotor told her that the Janissaries of the Hearth's Crown had finally first recognized him and offered to play for him in a possible battle in the near future."

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