In the middle of the night, the jackal came back, alone, standing in the room in shame.

Jose frowned slightly. He really didn't expect the legendary thief to take action in person and capture a cultist, and he would actually miss it.

"what happened?"

Church Heartpiercer lowered his head in shame: "My lord, that person has a magic restriction on him. As soon as I caught him, the restriction was triggered, and the target turned into a pool of blood."

Jose frowned deeper: "Magic prohibition?!"

Among Taidanor's various control methods, magic prohibition is definitely worth setting up as a separate subject.

Magic prohibition is similar to the Dragon Clan’s family contract. Once the family members violate certain regulations, corresponding punishments will be triggered. No one can ask the secrets from the population restricted by magic prohibition, because they have not said it yet, and the thoughts are still in their minds. When it is brewing, people die.

Especially those loyal loyalists who put life and death out of the question, as soon as they are captured, they will take the initiative to trigger the restraint. No matter how strong the enemy is, they will not get any useful information, just like the situation encountered by jackal thieves.

"Since you have been restricted by magic, you are not to be blamed," Jose reassured the gnoll and waved his hand to signal the gnoll to leave.

The Jackal retreated and closed the door gently.

There was only Jose in the dark room. He walked back and forth in the room alone, thinking about Beckkits Joyce.

"Beckkits Joyce was actually banned from magic, which shows that he has a certain position within the [psychic sect] and knows some secrets, otherwise there is no need to impose magic ban on him."

"It's a big fish worth pursuing."

"But where do you look it up?"

"No one can keep dripping water. From the people around Beckkits Joyce," Jose recalled the intelligence sent by [Red Dagger]. There was a network map about Beckkits in the intelligence.

Among the people who have close ties with Beckkits Joyce, doubtful people can be roughly divided into two categories, one is the people around him, and the other is the royal family of Dana.

His thoughts became active: "[Wind Whisperer Alliance] suspects that the high-level human race provides cover for [psychic sect], is it the Dana royal family?"

Jose frowned slightly and looked at the night sky outside the window. There was no moon or star in the night sky, and the endless darkness enveloped the earth and sky, like a black cloth covering people, making people breathless.

"Everything related to Beckkits Joyce has to be investigated. It's just that the investigation of the Dana royal family is of great importance, so don't act rashly to avoid turmoil."

At this point, Jose suddenly raised his head: "Not good!"

"Beckkits Joyce's magic prohibition was triggered, and the enemy noticed that he was exposed and must act to destroy the evidence."

He quickly contacted [Red Dagger] and ordered [Red Dagger] to send someone to Beckkits Joyce's house.

Just after dawn, news came from [Red Dagger] that several people related to Beckkits Joyce had been killed, and fresh ashes were found in the fireplaces of all the dead.

"...That's the situation, the clue is broken."

Jose said to the gathered four legendary powerhouses: "The only suspicious targets left are those of the royal family of Dana, those royal children who have contacts with Beckkits Joyce."

"My lord, should we interrogate their royal family in the royal city of a country?" Gus Panshui exaggerated.

"Huh! What happened to the interrogation of the royal family? Could it be that they still dare to do it, and the Dana Kingdom can block the empire's iron hoof?!"

The legendary wild boar warrior-Berwick Shiya didn't care: "If you don't obey and destroy them, you can still be the king if you change your person!"

Edith Windbreaker reminded: "The Kingdom of Dana is indeed not an opponent of the empire, but it is best to keep a low profile in other people's territory. Don't forget that the Kingdom of Dana has a magic tower."

The wild boar frowned no longer. As the Elf Ranger said, although the kingdom of Dana is weak, it also has three legendary guardians. With the help of the magic tower, the three legendary guardians can indeed bring life to everyone. threat.

Afterwards, even if the empire avenged everyone and destroyed the Kingdom of Dana, it wouldn't have much to do with everyone.

Of course, if everyone knew the true identity of the dragon people, they wouldn't think so.

"We must think of a way..."

"..."

Jose decided to terminate the discussion between the four: "Anyway, the Dana Royal family is suspected of colluding with the [psychic sect]. It must be checked again, just to think of a statement that they can accept."

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A day later, the core area of ​​the Kingdom of Dana.

On the plains of Mapingchuan, a male city resembles a beast lying on the ground. The city wall is high and there are arrow towers at intervals to ensure that the arrow towers can shoot to every corner of the city wall. strict.

This city is the capital of the Kingdom of Dana-Winter Fort.

The Bitter Winter Castle has a history of more than a thousand years since its establishment. It has been baptized by wars many times but has never fallen into it. Even if it was reduced to an isolated city in the savage disaster that swept the North, the Bitter Winter Castle has also survived the difficulties under the leadership of the king.

Over time, Bitter Winter Fort has become the spiritual pillar of the Dana people.

It was morning, and the sun had crawled a little bit in the eastern sky.

The gate of Bitter Winter Castle was crowded with people.

Part of the crowd at the gate of the city wanted to enter the city, including the vegetable vendors who came to the city to make a living, the nationals who paid homage to the capital, and the adventurers who traveled here.

Another group of people, all dressed in Chinese clothes, stood behind a large number of guards, and there were beautiful maids holding up umbrellas beside them. There was more than one such people. They stood on the edge of the city wall in an improper place, looking into the distance from time to time. Seems to be waiting for something.

"So many big people, ministers of foreign affairs, ministers of property..., my goodness, even the prince is here!" A young man who entered the city recognized the identities of the people and couldn't help being shocked.

Shocked and curious, he pulled the old man selling vegetables in front of him: "Old man, why are these big people outside the city?"

The vegetable seller was a little impatient. He turned around and saw the silver coin in the young man's hand. He was taken aback for a while, then smiled and put away the silver coin: "Master, you are only going back to the Winter Castle."

"Isn't it, I went to the country manor for a month of vacation, and only came back today."

"No wonder you don't know," the old man who sells vegetables does not sell him: "It has been spread in the city for several days. The mission of the Fosse Empire is coming to our Winter Castle. No, even the prince is greeted outside the city. ."

"So that's it," the young man showed a daze.

The Fosse Empire is the undisputed overlord of the Northland, and all the Northland countries have to look down on it. Now that the empire's messenger arrives, it is normal for Prince Dana to come out of the city to welcome them in person.

"Huh? The Fosse Empire is so good. What are you sending envoys to our country?"

"This..., I don't know either."

After a pause, the vegetable seller suddenly remembered something, and said: "It won't be troublesome. I once heard my father say that a few decades ago, His Majesty the former Kingdom had a festival with the King of the Fusei Empire."

"Hmm..." the young man perfunctorily.

As a nobleman, he has much more knowledge than the old man selling vegetables. He once saw detailed records about that war in the family collection. The battle was not as simple as a holiday.

Of course, there is no need to talk to the old vegetable seller.

Suddenly, the Dana nobles who welcomed the Fosse Empire mission moved, approached the gate of the city, and walked towards the suspension bridge.

The people queuing to enter the city stepped aside and discussed in a low voice.

"The Fosse Empire Mission is here."

A civilian in Mai looked back, but saw nothing: "Huh? Where is the Fosse Empire mission? Why didn't I see it?"

"you're so dumb."

The companion then said: "His Royal Highness has moved, and the imperial mission must be here."

Mai civilians were not convinced: "Why are you so sure? Maybe the prince is tired of staying in one place and wants to move somewhere."

The companion looked disgusted: "Idiot, there is a master mage next to His Royal Highness the prince. It must be the master master who saw the imperial mission by magic. Only then did he inform the prince to be ready. If you don't believe it, you will watch it later."

After more than ten minutes, as expected, a team appeared at the end of the road, and the banner held by the team was the Fire Dragon Ring Flag of the Fosse Empire.

"Come! Here..." the civilians discussed.

Dana Royal soldiers came out to maintain order, cleared the road, and laid a red carpet on the road. The red carpet went straight from the city gate to the Dana Palace.

On the other side, the ministers of the Dana Kingdom who were in charge of welcoming the imperial mission, under the leadership of the prince of Dana, arranged their dresses and arranged their gorgeous dresses without any wrinkles. The drafts welcomed the imperial envoy's lines.

More than ten years ago, the Kingdom of Fosse had planned to turn over the old accounts and support the Odyssey Kingdom to suppress the Dana Kingdom, but fortunately, the king of the Dana Kingdom at that time noticed something was wrong and promptly sent envoys to soften the empire and compensate a lot of money.

After the emperor scrupulously annihilated the Kingdom of Dana, the Odyssey Kingdom had a domineering influence in the North. In addition, the Kingdom of Dana had served softly, tributed a large amount of property, and issued a joint statement declaring that the Kingdom of Dana on the mainland became the Empire of Fosse. The subject country pays tribute every year.

Since then, the imperial emperor dispelled the idea of ​​dealing with the Dana Kingdom.

The Kingdom of Dana was also grateful for this decision, because after the normalization of the relationship between the Kingdom of Dana and the empire, it gained a lot of benefits from trade with the empire, and the extra profit completely covered the annual tribute.

The arrival of the messenger of the God of Wealth, the king of the Dana Kingdom is naturally very welcome and attaches great importance to it.

After the court discussion, the beauty of welcoming the imperial messenger fell on the prince.

Prince Dana was very excited. He was not only excited about welcoming the imperial messenger, but also paid more attention to the political significance behind welcoming the imperial messenger.

The contemporary king of Dana is old and it is time to choose his successor. However, like most kingdoms, Dana is not only a prince, but also two princes and third princes...

This time, the old king entrusted him with the task of welcoming the imperial messenger, and let the great prince deal with the imperial messenger on behalf of the Dana Kingdom. The significance of this is self-evident.

The prince was excited in his heart, but on the surface he was very calm. He only checked the details of the clothes many times, which revealed his true thoughts in his heart.

No one cares about him at this time, everyone's eyes are attracted by the imperial mission that is close to the distance.

It was a five-horse carriage, plus dozens of soldiers. The soldiers rode on their mounts and guarded around the carriage, constantly approaching the direction of the Winter Fortress.

The interior of the carriage is unknown, so most of the Dana’s eyes fell on the soldiers.

The soldiers of the imperial mission consist of three races, the orcs riding the wolf, the kobold riding the lizard, and the jackal riding the wolf.

But no matter what race they were, the soldiers were well-equipped, and they exuded self-confidence from their bones. Especially the kobold guards in front of the team who held the Empire flag with both hands straightened their backs.

All this is only because of their Fuse Empire soldiers.

After half an hour, the Fosse Empire mission came to the front of the Winter Fort in the eyes of everyone's expectations, and everyone was able to pay closer homage to the glory of the empire.

Among the crowd, a junior mage stared at the carriage curtain with an unbelievable expression: "My God, the carriage curtain is actually made of rune cloth. Such a large rune cloth is used to make carriage curtains, which is too arrogant. Got it!"

On the side, a civilian asked curiously: "Master Mage, what is rune cloth?"

Perhaps it was a call of "Master Master" that made the junior mage feel comfortable, or he wanted to play with knowledge in front of the crowd. This young junior mage listened to the surrounding people and explained: "The rune cloth is a kind of precious magic. The materials can be used to make magic equipment, such as robes, and the dimension bag is also made of special rune cloth.... In short, rune cloth is very precious."

"It's more than precious!" Beside the prince Dana, the high-level mage felt complicated when he heard the words of the junior mage.

If he admits it correctly, the curtain used by the carriage at the forefront of the team is not ordinary rune cloth, but made from the silk spit out by the Shadow Demon Spider in the depths of the gloomy region. Gold of the same weight is more precious, and there is no market.

"It's so inhumane! Such precious rune cloth is actually used to make carriage curtains!"

When the carriage approached ~lightnovelpub.net~, the high-level mage took a deep breath. He found that not only rune cloth made the curtain, but even the carriage frame was made of magic metal worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Look at the carriage that doesn't appear to be bumpy, the carriage must be engraved with a shock-absorbing magic array.

"So many precious magic materials! It's just a waste!" The high-level mage found sadly that his net worth was not as good as a fraction of the imperial messenger carriage.

Regardless of what everyone thought, Prince Dana greeted the team with a warm smile on his face.

He stood at a distance of twenty meters from the carriage, which was neither too far nor too close, and would not cause a reaction from the soldiers in front of the carriage.

He bowed his waist, and the standard of action was impeccable: "The Kingdom of Dana, the prince-Charaman represents the kingdom, and warmly welcomes the imperial envoy."

As the crowd watched, the imperial envoys stopped, and a hand covered with fine red scales lifted the carriage curtain.