So, Ryan and his party went to their usual place with Catherine and his daughter, a luxurious mansion made of gray bricks and tiles and a lot of flowers and plants in the yard.

Catherine's mother died at an early age, and the only people living here are Catherine's father and daughter, as well as their servants. After all, although there are few people living in the mansion, both the garden and the furniture and floors in the mansion need to be maintained by special people.

Unlike the stories that the bards weave for the sake of sales and listeners, in the city of wealth, if a family has a scarce number of servants, the heavy work is often ridiculed by other families.

Therefore, even if the job of a servant is not good to say, there are still many people who desire it.

Because this can not only bring them a stable income and a better living environment, but even if conditions allow, they can also secretly take advantage of the owner's inattention to steal from each other, and engage in some small actions or something.

For example, this servant, who was in charge of the road sanitation outside the restaurant, secretly slipped into a secluded alley at night after Lane and his party had entered the restaurant, and took out the key to open the door of a house.

It was a small room of about forty square meters, and a man who looked to be about thirty years old was sitting quietly reading a book.

"You're back."

Seeing the servant push the door in, the man put down the book and asked in a deep voice,

If Schaefer was in this place, he would have been surprised.

Because this man happened to be his assistant in the academy.

A fool named Balk who has a reckless personality and is also very long-winded.

At this moment, however, the young man retracted his old hippie and rambling, and with his feet on the table, he nodded to the servant, and asked, "Tell me, what have you heard?" ”

"They seem to be planning to buy something at the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow."

The servant bowed respectfully and replied.

At the same time, as he spoke, his figure began to change.

The human features faded from his body, replaced by a tall, lanky monster.

Shapeshifters.

As their name suggests, they can change their appearance at will, and on top of that, they also have the skill of mind-reading (within 60 feet).

At least nine out of ten shapeshifters have owners.

On the one hand, their abilities are really useful, and on the other hand, if the shapeshifters don't find themselves a master, then with their evil abilities, they will usher in death once they are discovered.

"Chamber of Commerce?" Balk was slightly stunned, then smiled, "Except for the poor ghosts, almost the first stop when they come to this city is to buy something from the Chamber of Commerce, and it seems that they are not exempt from vulgarity." ”

"Besides, Catherine seems to be going with her," the shapeshifter recalled, "and according to the master, it may be that Schaefer wants to win the favor of them." ”

"Good analysis."

Balk raised his right index finger and tapped the table with a smile.

The shapeshifter didn't dare to say anything else, and continued to ask respectfully, "May I ask the master, what do you need me to do for you next?" ”

"Not for now, I'll have to think about this for a while," Balk touched his chin, "Alright, you go down." ”

"Yes, master."

The shapeshifter bowed respectfully and left.

As a result, Balk was left alone in the room again.

"Amy."

Balk stretched out an index finger to light a random light spell, and as he watched it glow, he muttered to himself, "What a pleasant name." ”

There was a secret in Balk's heart all along.

This is a secret that only a very few people can know.

His Royal Highness, the most prominent prince in the kingdom, his true identity is actually an illegitimate child, and the real royal blood is someone else!

The king of this kingdom is old, and his brain begins to forget things often, and cannot make the right decisions, and weigh the pros and cons like a true monarch; On the other hand, the bastard is extremely intelligent and he has a lot to want.

As a result, the bastard began to gradually make his decisions secretly through the king.

Gradually reclaim the command of the nobles, the territorial rights.

The bastard longs for the feeling of holding power in his hands, and he knows deep down that the bloodline left by this king and the deceased queen eleven years ago may be the biggest hidden danger before he gets everything.

For eleven years, the bastard has been trying to find out what happened to the bloodline of the king and the true queen.

It's a pity that due to too few clues, the bastard's investigation has been fruitful.

It wasn't until later, with the help of the Lich (the bastards feared these creatures, but he knew he had to do so to make sure his rule was more secure) using prophecy spells, that the bastards gradually gained enough information.

Her name was Amy, she wore a blonde ponytail, and she was born in a small village.

But this information is not enough, the entire material plane is named Amy, and there are probably at least a few thousand girls who meet the lich's criteria for using prophecy spells, can he still arrest all of these named Amy and interrogate them one by one?

He's not a fool!

Wouldn't he be openly telling those who were looking at him that there was something wrong with him!

While the bastard was in agony and anxious about the unsolvable problem, a lich dressed in a red robe stepped forward.

His prophecy spells were more powerful than those of other mages, and when he used them, the bastard was able to get a new clue very smoothly.

The king and queen named Amy was born from a dragon sorcerer and the most powerful red dragon of the five-colored dragons.

With this clue, the range is much smaller!

So the bastard, in order to avoid long nights, began to secretly ask the intelligence agents to find the girl named Amy, who was also a red dragon sorcerer - even though she herself may not even know her true identity.

Balk is one of the people who was secretly investigated and found by the illegitimate child.

The object of his real service is a certain red-robed wizard, but the affiliation does not matter at all, he has been an assistant in this academy for a whole decade, in order to wait for an opportunity, a chance to obtain glory and wealth, a chance to make those who despise him only kneel at his feet, and a chance to be recognized by the great red-robed wizards.

And today, Balk realizes that the opportunity he's been waiting for has finally arrived.