Purge

As she finished listening to Scythia's words, Beatrice, who had been listening up until now, couldn't help but slightly touch her chin and fall into thought.

'It looks like mages from the Kingdom of Aepheovia are also involved in the Nawen Kingdom... this makes things a bit more difficult...' thought Diana as she looked at her apprentice.

Although Beatrice was confident that her apprentice could pretty easily kill any of the weakling mages present on Golwall Island, as long as nobody from the outside world intervenes at least. She was not nearly as confident in her disciple's ability to do that without beings discovered, as after losing contact with an important mage for a long time, the Aepheovians were bound to become at least somewhat suspicious.

"It's good that you've come here and reported this to me, If not for this then maybe I would've been in for a surprise later," said Beatrice, as she slightly smiled, causing Scythia to lower her head and carefully listen to her teacher's words.

"Now you can go back and continue your mission in the other Kingdoms, don't worry about the Nawen and Aepheovia Kingdoms right now, I will inform you when to deal with them," said Beatrice with a faint smile on her face.

Although Scythia felt an inexplicable chill in her heart as she stared at the smile present on her teacher's face, she still obediently nodded.

"I understand."

...

Two hours later,

As she stared at the large, flourishing city below her, Beatrice, who was floating through the air couldn't help but faintly smile.

"27 mages in just the Capital City, quite impressive," mumbled Beatrice.

A moment later, Beatrice suddenly snapped her fingers, causing 27 figures, which had just become invisible to the naked eye, to suddenly fly up towards her, clutching their necks and gasping for air.

26 Lower Rank Mage Apprentices as well as a single High Rank Mage Apprentice, an extremely terrifying force, at least for Golwall Island.

Sadly though, in front of an Official Mage, especially one as powerful as Beatrice, the Mage Apprentices couldn't struggle in the slightest, allowing Beatrice to quickly read through their memories.

Merely a moment later, after Beatrice read through the memories of the mages, who she then killed, Beatrice snapped her fingers once again, causing 234 other people, who Beatrice had learned about through the memories of the Mage Apprentices, to once again fly into the sky.

After taking a few glances at the memories of these normal humans, Beatrice once again brought up 6 more people to the sky, people who were aware of the existence of these mages, but whom the mages themselves were not aware of.

Unlike Mages or Mage Apprentices, who might've been able to struggle a bit in front of Beatrice if she wanted to alter their memories, these normal humans and Knights, who Beatrice had just captured, could not resist Beatrice altering their memories in the slightest.

In the end, Beatrice had to spend around 10 minutes to alter the memories of these humans, as well as 30 more minutes to destroy all physical evidence of the mage's existence.

After finishing things up in the capital, Beatrice made her way to the next city, using the memories of the mages from the capital to discover every single city that traces of mages.

But even so, as Beatrice went from city to city, systematically annihilating every single Aephovian Mage she encountered, reading their memories, she learned of even more cities with suspected mage traces, making her trip take a bit longer than she expected.

In the end, it took Beatrice just over 17 hours to completely annihilate any trace of magic within the Aepheovian Kingdom, but even so, Beatrice was not done just yet.

...

As she reviewed the memories of every single one of the 147 mages she had killed, as well as of the 7543 normal humans who she altered the memories of, a faint smile couldn't help but appear on Beatrice's face.

"It's as I thought, the Aepheovian Kingdom has by far the highest number of known mages, the other Kingdoms pale in comparison..." thought Beatrice as she suddenly began flying south, to the Nawen Kingdom, where she would continue her job.

...

In the end, Beatrice had killed 263 mages, 261 of which were Lower Rank Mage Apprentices and two of which were High Rank Mage Apprentices, as well as altered the memories of 10345 people over the course of 35 hours.

As there were fewer Mages in the other Kingdoms, they were also a somewhat more secretive than the Aepheovian Mages, making the ratio between them, as well as the number of people who she altered the memories of much lower than in the Kingdom of Aepheovia.

...

As she stared at the streets of Vitriol, the capital city of the Aepheovian Kingdom, which seemed a bit silent for some reason, Scythia, who had just been contacted by her teacher not too long ago, couldn't help but take in a deep breath.

But even so, since her teacher had told her that she would not be disturbed by mages any longer, Scythia still continued walking towards the Royal Palace of the Kingdom with confidence, trusting her teacher's words, and that she had dealt with things.

As a mage, Scythia was able to quickly move through the defenses around the palace, which for some reason, seemed to have been recently changed, and made her way inside.

Looking at the Royal Knights who were standing behind her, at the entrance to the Palace, Scythia couldn't help but slightly click her teeth.

'As expected of the most powerful Kingdom on the Continent, the number of Royal Knights is much larger than before...' thought Scythia, silently comparing this Palace with Palaces she had recently visited.

But even as she thought this, Scythia, who had slowly but surely gained confidence, made her through the Royal Palace, and silently reached the Royal Bedroom, in which the King and the Queen were currently sleeping.

In just a few moments, without any sort of interference from anyone or anything, Scythia, who had bypassed all the guards appeared besides the King's bed.

As she stared at the middle-aged couple sleeping peacefully on the bed, a faint smile appeared on Scythia's face, causing her to stretch out one of her fingers to the forehead of the Queen.