Investigation

Staring at the bloodied corpse of the ambassador, which no longer had its head attached to it, a faint frown appeared on Beatrice's face.

"I really didn't expect to meet a mage that old and that weak," mumbled Beatrice as she threw the corpse to the side, the frown on her face disappearing.

Unlike most other old mages she had met on the magic continent, not only was this Vito Rosetti extremely weak, he was so weak that Beatrice felt a little bit of pity for him.

Although he looked to be fifty or sixty years old, based on what Beatrice felt, Vito did not have more than fifteen-twenty Mana.

At the same time, he did not even master a basic Barrier spell, which had even caused Beatrice to doubt if he was even a true Mage.

"It does make sense, most of the actually talented mages are sent off to the magic continent, in a better environment, the magic academies probably didn't go after the ones are that are left here, and managed to slip through the cracks since they have very little talent," mumbled Beatrice as she suddenly appeared next to the old ambassador who had just opened the room.

Weak talent, combined with an environment far inferior to the Magic Continent, where spell books are probably rare and incomplete, this place could not create anything other than weak mages.

Without any warning, the ambassador suddenly fell to the ground, losing consciousness in the process, as Beatrice stared at him.

...

"Out of all the people he had met, only 'Master Vito' had any powers, it looks as though even these weak mages are relatively uncommon in this place," mumbled Beatrice as she destroyed the two bodies which were dirtying the room, disappearing a few moments later, turning into a dark smoke cloud and flying out of the window.

The spell which Beatrice had just used was the 'Dark Escape' spell, which allowed the user to turn into a cloud of smoke.

At first, this spell, as well as the process through which it worked completely baffled it, but after some time, Beatrice had learned to live with the fact that she could not understand everything right away, and that she could learn things in the future.

After that, Beatrice began using this spell quite a bit, becoming quite similar to her teacher in this regard, who also used the Dark Escape spell.

Of course, Selena did not use the Rank 0 simplified version of the spell, but rather the Rank 1 version, which was much more complicated.

A few moments later, Beatrice emerged into a dark alley, as she moved her smoke body through a window.

After that, Beatrice's body once again appeared, as she deactivated the spell and began thinking.

"Now that I'm this close to the Royal Palace, checking would not be a bad idea, after all, doing something like that would be quite useful whilst I'm here," mumbled Beatrice as she suddenly began moving through the dark alleys of the inner city.

...

Ten Royal Knights, some of the most powerful knights in the Kingdom stood in a circle, staring at the old king, who had several grey hairs appearing on his once luscious blond hair.

Looking at the map in front of him, King Geoffrey couldn't help but shake his head, a feeling of frustration emerging within him.

"Two of my own children betrayed the kingdom, how dare they!?" said King Geoffrey as he as suddenly punched the table in front of him.

Early into the morning, Geoffrey was woken up by his loyal guards and alerted that something had happened.

Only a few minutes after that, the king discovered the murder of countless people, but most important, of two of his sons, causing him to fly into rage.

Not long after that, Geoffrey began investigating the people killed, only to discover an extremely chilling fact.

Most of them had been bought by the Aephovian Kingdom.

As these people died suddenly, they did not have any time to hide any of the evidence linking them to the Kingdom, as such, the investigators sent by the king were quickly able to find mountains of evidence that they had never found before, no matter how much they searched.

After discovering this connection, Goffrey began investigating some other people who had been killed, who did not have any obvious link to the Aephovian Kingdom, only to discover that they had been bought.

Seeing this trend, the king quickly investigated the two princes which had been killed, causing anger to appear on his face as he looked at the results.

"Those trash!! What did they expect to rule if they submit to the enemy kingdom, did they think they would be spared!?" asked the king, shouting as the anger visible on his face overflowed.

Originally, Geoffrey had four sons, but seven months ago, James, his most qualified one to take over the throne left the entire continent, leaving his three brothers behind.

At first, Geoffrey wasn't worried that something could happen, but right now he could only stare into the distance whilst his knights stood by his side.

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Looking at the King, who was reading a letter with anger still clearly visible on his face, Beatrice couldn't help but shake his head.

"Although he has interacted with mages, although weak ones, he is not a mage himself," mumbled Beatrice with a slightly weird expression on her face.

As she stared at the King, the desire to control him couldn't help but quickly emerge in Beatrice's mind before being destroyed.

'I bet the mages the king had met were from the Shadow Monastery, I can't risk controlling him and getting caught,' thought Beatrice as she continued looking at him.

Originally, Beatrice had expected that the king would have interacted a lot more with mages, but after she had seen him first hand, a faint smile couldn't help but appear on her face.

'If he can resist the Aephovian Kingdom without even being a mage, their power should really be quite weak,' thought Beatrice as a smile appeared on her face.