Dressed as a commoner girl, dressed in sackcloth and carrying a basket, Caterina wanders around the city, always having a knack for blending in naturally with the inhabitants around her, and getting all sorts of information in the streets. Truth be told, the nobles and mages of the royal capital rarely pay attention to such a lack of "value", so despite the constant search for Javier in the city, Caterina is still able to operate in the city.

Taverns and markets are always the places where news spreads the fastest among the common people. However, these days, the taverns in the city are infested with a large number of Praetorian Guards, City Guards, and even the knights of the Temple of Nature, so it is not a good place to go, but the atmosphere in the market is much more relaxed, and most people will say a few words when they meet acquaintances, maybe it is true or false, maybe it is just a few words, but valuable information may be hidden in it. Caterina has several eyeliners who are vendors and gangsters in the market area, they don't know her identity, there are so many people in the royal capital who like to inquire about news, everyone follows a rule, pay with one hand and deliver the goods with the other, but never ask where the other party is from.

What's more, Gabriel had severe burns, and none of them were good at healing magic, so they needed herbs to recover from his injuries as quickly as possible.

"Have you heard? The king is dying. He didn't show up for such a big move the night before. Caterina walked past a stall with bacon and heard several men gathered to talk.

"Her Royal Highness the princess is about to take charge of the country, and I think that's a good thing. One of the young men said, "I have seen the princess before, and although she is very young, she looks very calm. ”

Another middle-aged man sneered, "Have you ever seen a princess? I guess you have seen a princess from far away at a ceremony, right? We have also seen such a princess." ”

"So what, I can feel it from afar. The young man emphasized.

"Whether she is calm or not, she is too young. The middle-aged man said.

"So what, the king has no younger heir, she is better than Prince Javier, the prince is too small, the queen's tower of radiant wings has also collapsed, he can't sit on the throne ......"

Caterina listened for a while and found that most people had a good impression of the princess, and as for the attitude of the Temple of Nature and the Royal Magic Tower, ordinary people didn't know much about it, and they didn't say much.

She spun around for a moment, and saw a thug crouched by the wall, with a stalk of grass in his mouth. Looking east and west, looking for prey in the market, Caterina crept over to him, shook his eyes in front of the thugs, and made a look at him, and walked into an alley.

The thug seemed happy to see her, stood up, patted the dust on her body, and followed her into the alley.

"Ah, Miss Bailing, it must be the gods of nature who took pity on me today, and sent you here when I didn't have a brass shield in my trouser pocket. "Bailing is Katarina's pseudonym, just like this gangster's pseudonym is called Tree Stump.

Caterina said: "I naturally have a bronze shield, and I even have a silver spear, but it depends on what information you can exchange with me." ”

"What do you want to know. The stump asked greedily as he looked at the tumbling silver coin in Katarina's hand and bent down very respectfully.

"Tell me which of the strong men died in the battle the night before, and which ones were seriously wounded. ”

"So you care about these things. The stump licked his lips and said, "You just asked me about it." I have a close brother, a squad leader in the City Guard, who happened to be in charge of digging up the ruins of the Tower of Radiant Wings that day, and he even dug up a squintered temple priest with his own hands. Later, he also transported seriously injured knights to the Healer's Tower. No one knew the situation better than he did that day. ”

"Say whatever you know, don't blow it. If you don't know, don't talk nonsense. Caterina said.

"Hey, hey. Miss Bailing, how can this be nonsense? He also has an apprentice who is in the Tower of Healers, and a lot of news has come from there. The stump smirked as he stared at the silver spear, "But before I say it, you know, the old rules. ”

Caterina grabbed the silver spear and put it away, took two copper shields from her pocket, and threw them at the stump. The latter happily stuffed it into his pocket and began to talk about the information: "Many people think that only one Sage died that day, but in fact it was not, two Sages died that day, except for that Gibran in the Temple of Nature, the Sasso Sage of the Tower of the Broken Sky has long been killed outside the city. ”

Caterina looked at her and asked, "Are you sure?"

"Of course, my brother's woman, listen to the High Mage of the Tower of Healers with her own ears. That high-level mage was going to heal the Thousand Thousand Sword Saints when he listened to Benegas himself. The tree stump said.

"Is the information reliable?"

"You know that in our business, you just have to tell what you hear, whether it's true or not, you have to figure out for yourself. Well, though, I heard from another person that even if I gave it to you for free, another person I know was handling feces in the palace dungeon. He said that the one person that the new prisoners hated the most was Julian, the tower master of the Sky Fractured Tower. They all called him a shameless traitor. Said that he was the one who betrayed the teacher. ”

"That's exactly what happened. "Luo Ling, Mei and Caterina have analyzed the current situation together, and they are all very surprised that the Sasso Sage of the Sky Splitting Tower was absent from the battle that night. The worst guess is that he has taken refuge with the princess, and the best guess is that he is on a temporary trip and may return to the royal capital later. But none of them expected that the princess and these people would be so ruthless that they would actually kill the saints of their country. It's a self-defeating thing.

"It's strange, aren't they worried that the Sages of the Empire and the Kingdom will lose their balance?" Caterina muttered to herself.

The tree stump shrugged and said, "Who knows, but if you want me to say, these big people must think of the position under their butts first, and whoever opposes me sitting on it will kill them first." It's like I have to become the boss of the Hammer Gang before I worry about whether the Hammer Gang will be swallowed up by the Wild Bears. If I can't be the boss, then what does it matter to me whether this gang lives or dies?"

"And who else lost their lives?"

"The worst thing is, of course, the Tower of Radiant Wings, the big people in the tower, except for those who escaped, are all dead, but I heard that there are also many painless characters who have escaped, and the Praetorian Guards or something, and now they are also being hunted down. The Tower of the Gods is said to have killed half of the people. Four or five high-ranking mages alone died. Master Kona, the owner of the tower, was taken to the dungeon beneath the royal palace. ”

"What? Master Kona isn't dead?"