novelraw Chapter 354
Chapter 354
354~
"Mm? Where's Xiao Bai?"
"Over this way, Lady He Yan."
The maid pointed toward the bedroom.
"Ran into the Princess's bedroom?"
However, seeing the garden's glass had been shattered, it should have really run inside.
"Let's go. Quickly appease Xiao Bai's emotions."
She remembered Maid Xiao Xi had said the best way to appease Xiao Bai was lots and lots of meat, the more the better! As long as there was lots of meat to eat, Xiao Bai's emotions could be appeased to a certain degree.
Thinking of this, she first moved to the kitchen and began looking for meat to prepare to feed Xiao Bai.
"Meat... meat, where's the meat?"
After searching slightly, she quickly discovered fresh meat preserved in the freezer.
Just these then. Premium Anbei beef. Xiao Bai ate it and said it was good!
"Come here for a moment. Help me carry these... Damn it!"
Rapidly deploying a Magic Shield, a magic attack instantly struck her Magic Shield.
"Who are you!?"
Quickly surveying the entire kitchen, she suddenly discovered this kitchen had somehow already been set with Soundproofing Magic at some unknown time, isolating the kitchen from outside sounds.
"This humble one is the 37th mage of Magic Tower, Vitogroo. Someone put a bounty on your head. I've come to earn compensation."
The maid's voice suddenly changed, shifting from a female high pitch to a male low pitch in an instant.
Very clearly, the original maid had probably already met with a tragic end.
Magic Tower, huh... that mage organization independent of all countries, not belonging to any single country's jurisdiction, and also only bound by Magic Tower's rules.
But Magic Tower had very few restrictions on the mages below. Aside from the organization fees that had to be paid every year, it could be said Magic Tower had almost no constraints.
"Damn it... who sent you?"
Magic Tower's 37th mage, meaning an Archmage. Magic Tower's rankings were arranged by strength. The top 40 positions were all Archmage level. If that strike just now hadn't been deliberately holding back, hadn't wanted to finish her off in one go, she should already be lying on the ground unable to move anymore.
"As a hired assassin with professional ethics, I can't expose my employer's information. However, what I can tell you is the person who hired me didn't spend little money. A big spender. After finishing this job, I can directly retire for 20 years without worrying about not having enough money."
A big spender?
"Then are you planning to put me to death?"
"Of course."
"..."
No, that's not right. If he wanted to put her to death, he fundamentally wouldn't need to waste so many words with her, right?
Having stayed by the Little Princess's side for quite a while now, she had more or less already understood some things.
"Then..."
Maid He Yan pulled out her magic wand, condensed magic power and began drawing a magic circle.
"I'm coming!"
...
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"So, Mo, your meaning is?"
"Don't alert the enemy. The crisis hidden beneath Glaze Nation is absolutely not just what's seen on the surface. It's already involved royal family members. Some royal family members will probably also be part of this Glaze Nation crisis."
Glaze Nation's royal family members actively dragging down Glaze Nation's economy, this was simply... pushing the family fortune their father built over dozens of years into a fire pit!
Simply unreasonable!
"I know. Then do you need me to assign more guards to you?"
"No need. Father the King, did you forget Cecilia is still protecting me?"
Cecilia, a Great Archmage, one of the continent's absolute combat power ceilings.
"But there are always times when Cecilia can't be by your side to protect you."
"This necklace Fei gave me still stores defensive magic! Without Great Archmage-level combat power, the defense on it can't be broken. Moreover, when I'm attacked and trigger the defensive magic, both Cecilia and Fei can sense it at the first moment. So it's fine! Plus, every time I go out, either Fei personally brings me out or sends Cecilia out with me. So Father the King, you completely don't need to worry about safety issues."
Seeing his precious daughter so confident in the necklace around her neck, he as a father had nothing to say.
His daughter was right! Listen to his precious daughter in everything!
"Since that's the case, then Mo can let loose and act. I'll support Mo from behind. If there's any abnormality, I'll root the person out at the first moment. Let loose and act!"
"Good."
Receiving her cheap Father the King's support, she could finally completely let loose and act.
She was afraid that after she encountered this attack, her cheap Father the King would no longer agree to let her do these things that looked very dangerous.
Although... for her, it fundamentally didn't count as dangerous at all.
"Then next is to directly announce the news to the outside, that you were attacked and severely injured?"
"Right. Announce to the outside that Liuli was severely injured in this assassination but was rescued in time and escaped life-threatening danger."
"Also that you've already found the mastermind behind sending the assassin to assassinate you and are preparing to capture him and behead him publicly?"
"Mm mm. Just spread a few more rumors to the outside, pointing all suspicion toward Cui."
After all, didn't the person behind this hope to frame Cui? Then just directly point suspicion over and try to draw out the true mastermind.
Even if she couldn't root them out, it didn't matter. There was still Cecilia!
Have Cecilia cover the entire city with magic power and find that mastermind.
She believed Cecilia knew so many strange and unusual magics. She definitely had a way to help her find the person and also wouldn't refuse her. After all, she had been assassinated this time, and the Empress's order was to protect her well. Cecilia would absolutely agree.
Spreading rumors was just to paralyze the mastermind behind this slightly, making it convenient for her to go to their door to arrest them.
Liuli was recuperating from injuries, then Mo went far away to another country? No. After the advance convoy met the city lord and settled down, she could appear in Glaze City in her original identity to avenge her Elder Sister Liuli!
There was also resolving this big fish that took the bait, butchering them one by one!
Although the list of nobles participating in this hadn't been fully obtained, in another day or two, she could follow the vine to touch the melon and reach the main list.
The so-called killing the chicken to warn the monkey. Chop off all these ringleaders, and the remaining ones would inevitably not dare make any more moves.
As long as Liuli was already "persuading the King to stop reforming the system," those nobles would definitely quickly come knocking for further in-depth cooperation. Then she could obtain the list of nobles mainly participating in this, picking out the most important ones as priority targets.
Eradicate everyone on this grain embezzlement benefit chain, and she could temporarily stabilize the economy. Only then would she have time to properly readjust Glaze Nation's system and find ways to reverse Glaze Nation's overall economic decline.
"Then if there's nothing else, I'll leave first. Father the King, please rest well."
After performing a salute to her cheap Father the King, she also withdrew from the book pavilion.
"Mo."
"Mm? Cecilia?"
She was somewhat surprised. Why was Cecilia waiting for her outside?
"Mo, your maid He Yan is currently fighting with people from Magic Tower. Do you want to go take a look?"
"Ah? Fighting with people from Magic Tower?"
The Little Princess was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted:
"Then why aren't you quickly going to help!?"
He Yan was already being targeted for assassination. How could you still have time to wait here for her!?
"...No need to worry. I've already met that mage from Magic Tower. He doesn't dare deliver a killing blow."
If he dared deliver a killing blow, before truly succeeding, that person's body would explode with a "bang."
She had already planted a magic inside that person. No need to worry about He Yan's safety.
The reason for not directly killing the mage from Magic Tower who came to assassinate was that she also didn't want to offend Magic Tower, mainly didn't want to offend Magic Tower's Chief Mage. She still had many things she needed to communicate with Magic Tower's people about.
As long as the mage from Magic Tower didn't want to seek his own death, he wouldn't trigger the magic she planted, and she also wouldn't offend Magic Tower's people.
Magic Tower's Chief Mage was also a Great Archmage, and moreover, a person extremely obsessed with magic, soaking in the magic workshop every day to research.
Although age-wise, he was much younger than her, he could always find some strange and unusual magic left behind from ancient times. She still very much needed to communicate with Magic Tower's Chief Mage.
Magic Tower was an extremely protective mage organization. She still couldn't casually make moves against Magic Tower's people. Otherwise, if she accidentally made Magic Tower's Chief Mage angry, she would never again be able to go to Magic Tower to communicate with that Chief Mage. So she could only resort to this stratagem.
Both protecting He Yan's life safety and not offending Magic Tower's Chief Mage.
"Then since that's the case, Cecilia, can you help me with something?"
"What favor?"
"Help me find the mastermind behind today's assassin who tried to assassinate me."
"The mastermind behind this, huh... so troublesome."
Cecilia's expression instantly became somewhat downcast.
She hated work, but because the Little Princess had been assassinated, already violating the Empress's order to her to protect the Little Princess, she couldn't not work.
"Fine. Then just wait for news."
Cecilia said through gritted teeth.
Finding a mastermind shouldn't be too difficult. She just needed to directly deploy magic power to cover all of Glaze City, then follow the traces of that assassin's magic power left behind to find them. It was just very wasteful of time, energy, and magic power.
"Then I'm counting on you~"
The Little Princess patted Cecilia's back.
"..."
If you know she's working hard, don't casually make trouble for her!
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"Not bad... being able to hold out this long under my hands."
Vitogroo said somewhat leisurely.
"You clearly haven't brought out your full strength, right?"
Maid He Yan somewhat laboriously wiped dust from her face.
"Who told my employer to have me disguise myself as a Great Mage as much as possible to assassinate you?"
"..."
He Yan fell silent for a while and quickly guessed the other party was lying.
Saying it was the employer's request, but actually he fundamentally just didn't want to truly deliver a killing blow, right?
Although she didn't quite understand the reason within this, she could confirm she didn't need to worry about whether she could survive from the other party's hands.
"However... the time is about right."
Vitogroo glanced at the sun outside the window.
"This assassination counts as my failure."
He also had to leave.
Anyway, he had already come to assassinate the target, and he was also injured, although only scratched by rubble. But using this to report back and obtain a portion of the compensation was already enough. He didn't want to stake his life on this!