Barritt, who incarnates as a secret infiltrator investigator, quietly moves forward in the shadows. With many experiences in night sneaking, he's become quite proficient at this kind of thing.

With silent footsteps, agile jumps, and nimble rolls, Barrett the Stalker is a ghost that no one else in the city can find.

He climbed onto the roofs of the inhabitants with a grappling hook, then hid in the dense oak canopy, jumped down and plucked the dead branches and leaves off his head, he galloped sideways through the narrow alleys, hid in the wide apron that hung out, and took the two copper plates from the apron as he left, curled up in the grass and waited for the patrol to go away, and then flew into the toilet next to him, not forgetting to lift his pants when he came out, he caused a certain watchdog to bark, and then scared it back to the nest with a murderous aura, and then cursed in a low voice to dry the dog poop that he inadvertently stepped on on the soles of his boots.

Barrett is like a dexterous cat, no, a tiger, searching for her prey in this jungle of stone bricks.

And the hunting target of his tiger is the nobles in the city who hook up with the devil and are not clear.

It is worth mentioning that our secret infiltrator investigator also has an accomplice who also came here, I don't know if it is because the garrison officer is a little worried about Barrett's investigation, or if there is a surplus of manpower. Anyway, the guy and Barrett made an appointment to investigate separately first, and then meet to summarize.

The entire Kingdom of Holy Araso is located in the southeast of the continent, although the location of the city of San Nino is somewhat north of the kingdom, but it is much warmer than the city-state of Muya, and Barrett does not feel much of the coolness of the night even if he does not use the 'endure the environment' spell on his leather armor.

According to what Barrett had known before, there were twelve noble families living in the city, which were more or less related to each other. These nobles have titles ranging from earls to barons, and if there is no problem with the information given by the garrison officer Julian, then the guy who has colluded with the devil should be one of these nobles.

The power of these twelve nobles is intertwined in the city of San Nino, and their status is extraordinary. But none of them are the real rulers of this bustling city. Because of the special form of government established in advance by the founding emperor of the Holy Arathas Kingdom, Thao I, and the supreme authority that remained among the people, the imperial power of this country was more concentrated than that of other human kingdoms.

In Holy Araço, there were very few nobles who actually owned their own domains, and the vast majority of lands belonged directly to the king. Even if some nobles have their own territories because of their ancestors' great achievements, most of them are only at the village and town level, so those in power in the big cities are basically the mayors of the city halls directly appointed by the king, and the nobles are at most in important positions among them.

Although the nobles had many privileges, no territory meant no taxes, and although the king would give each nobleman a lot of money every year according to the level of the title, for those noble families with an ancient history and many servants, the king's money was a drop in the bucket. Therefore, almost all aristocratic families with some history have their own unique ways of making money.

Whether these ways of making money are completely legal or not obviously does not need much speculation, so the residents here are suspicious of the nobles' daily behavior, which is normal in Barrett's opinion.

At this time, our barbarian infiltrators are preparing to go to the house of Countess Teressa, one of the twelve nobles in the city, to investigate whether the countess has any suspicious acts of collusion with the devil.

Barrett naturally chose to investigate the widowed countess first for his reasons, of course, the reasons did not include some dirty thoughts, because the countess was nearly eighty years old and was not the type Barrett liked.

One of the reasons he chose Countess Teresa was because her mansion was closest to the tavern where he had been hired, and the second reason was the strange rumor that the countess had told people.

Every nobleman in the city has suspicious rumors, Baron Richard likes to listen to opera and is very generous, but his ancestral property is not very rich, and the property in the eyes of the people is only a small shop; Viscount Bevis is a small branch of another family, this family only intermarries with internal relatives, and everyone has a small slender tail; Sir Duncan is never accepted by other nobles because his title is too low and not hereditary, but every descendant of this family can successfully obtain the knighthood through various means......

The Earl of Guise, who had succeeded in inheriting the title by sudden succession, obviously sounded more suspicious, but in Barrit's view, the Earl of Guise's actions were nothing more than an ordinary murder for the sake of power.

Such murders were by no means uncommon among the nobility, but they were not within the scope of Barrett's investigation, and he had no interest in the deceit that was common in the family.

As for the Viscount Palm, who smelled of dead man's corruption, he could have investigated it properly, and if that guy had really turned himself into an undead, Barrett wouldn't mind talking to him.

As for Countess Telisa, although she was already an old woman in her eighties, she looked like a young stunner in her twenties and thirties. Although the Countess claimed to have spent a lot of money on a potion made by a mage to preserve her youthful appearance, old Todd swore that she had looked ordinary when she was forty or fifty years old, and that she was definitely not as young as she is now.

According to Barrett's understanding, the mage's potion might be able to slow down aging, but it was not enough to regain youth, so he decided to inquire about the beautiful countess first.

Countess Telisa's mansion was very walled, and the guards were more formal, at least the two guards at the gate with long swords and chain mail were very much like that, and seemed to be more reliable than most of the guards who collected taxes at the gates of the city.

But no matter how skilled these two guards are and how serious their attitudes are, since ancient times, few infiltrators have broken in directly through the main entrance, so it is difficult to say how much of their true role can be.

There were a few steel spikes stuck in the courtyard wall, but it didn't stop Barrett from climbing. He used the magic rope to carefully climb the courtyard wall and look inside.

There are several unique buildings within the courtyard walls, as well as a shadowy garden. Two guards armed with glowing stones patrolled back and forth around the largest mansion in the center, occasionally glancing warily around.

Barrett didn't jump right in recklessly. He first found a lot of osmanthus trees planted in the courtyard wall, and took advantage of the green osmanthus trees to cover it, and then quietly jumped in.

He lowered his body and crawled towards the mansion in the center.

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