Chapter 122: Sowing discord
Listening to Albins' description, Avis roughly understood what they had encountered.
Albins took a fancy to an item at an auction house in the royal capital, but during the auction, a guest in the VIP box also took a fancy to the item.
Normally, the financial resources of the Albins siblings were definitely not enough to compete with a VIP.
But at the end of the bidding, the people in the box gave up bidding, and the item was bought by Albins and Hillier.
Originally, the brother and sister thought that the matter was over, but when they left the royal capital, they were suddenly attacked by a fourth-level professional.
Even Albins had not expected that someone would dare to openly attack and kill them near the royal capital when they and their siblings were wearing Pamir uniforms!
The attacker hid his identity and used an extremely powerful mental attack as soon as they met, obviously intending to kill and silence the witness.
If it weren't for the relic items they had obtained in their previous adventure, this attack would have been enough to kill them three times! At the critical moment, Hillier stepped forward and blocked most of the impact for Albins. However, his own spiritual sea almost collapsed under the mental impact and fell into a state of near death.
Albins barely blocked the attack, and took advantage of the little time bought by Hillary to use a mass random teleportation scroll to escape.
He also used the channels provided by Anvis to urgently seek help from the Olivendi family in the royal capital.
“…This is how it happened!”
"And, Avis, I have a request—"
After briefly recounting what happened, Albins couldn't help but speak hoarsely, looking at Avis with his bloodshot blue eyes. Although his tone had calmed down again, it was still filled with an unbreakable coldness.
"I hope to understand the specific origins and identity of the professional who attacked me and Hillier."
"Can--"
Avis nodded slightly and agreed to his request.
"I will use the power of my family to investigate this matter. I will send you a copy of the results as soon as they come out."
After listening to Albins' story, he was also moved by the deep affection between the siblings.
After getting Anvis's promise, Albins didn't say much.
He stood up again and saluted solemnly to Avis with a serious face.
After leaving Hillary's ward, Anvis notified the family's forces in the royal capital and began to conduct an in-depth investigation into the matter.
Although the Olivendi family's sphere of influence is mainly concentrated in the northwest of the Gloria Empire.
But as one of the four major families in Gloria, even if its power in the royal capital is relatively "weak", it is by no means to be underestimated by forces other than the royal family and the other three major families.
In just half a day, the cause, whole story and identities of the participants behind the incident all appeared completely on Avis's desk.
The guest in the VIP box that day was Lajos Irkan, the twelfth son of Count Irkan of the royal capital.
His mother was a concubine of Count Ilkan. Although he was very much loved by the count, due to his background, Lajos was ultimately unable to inherit the family business.
Perhaps out of guilt and a desire to compensate, the Count had been particularly tolerant of Lajos since he was a child.
Because of the attitude of the head of the family, no one else in the family dared to control him, and as a result, he developed the character of a playboy.
Even though he was not a candidate for succession, Lajos relied on his family background to get along well with the aristocratic descendants in the royal capital.
In the long run, he will have the reputation of being the overlord of the capital.
For security reasons, the Earl assigned two fourth-level guards to protect Lajos, to protect him from getting into trouble while he was having fun in the capital.
The professional in charge of investigating the matter in Olivendi discovered that the person who attacked the siblings Albins and Hillier was one of the two guards.
After receiving this news, people from the family intelligence agency secretly went to look for the guard.
But surprisingly, the professional did not seem to return to Lajos afterwards.
The family's investigators tried to use prophecy magic to obtain the specific whereabouts of the guard, but the prophecy gave feedback that the target was dead.
If it were an ordinary force, the investigation would have been stopped here and the conclusion would have been drawn that the mastermind behind this was the Ilkhan family.
But this is not the end for the Olivendi family.
A high-level prophet in the family took action and made a reverse prediction on the result of the target's death, looking for the specific cause of the target's death.
The result of the prophecy was shocking. The guard was actually a third party! And he was killed after completing the mission! Although Lajos was a playboy, he was not so crazy as to send people to kill two Pamir students in the imperial capital for such a thing.
He only asked the guards to give the two a warning, not to kill the siblings.
However, the guards he sent out did not do as he said, but tried to provoke conflicts between the Ilkan family and other forces by forcibly attacking and killing the Albins siblings.
Because the siblings were wearing the Pamir Academy uniforms, some people chose them as their direct target.
You know, that was Pamir College, the gathering place for the descendants of the empire's upper class! There, if you threw a stone into the sky, it might hit an earl's heir.
If he fired again, he might hit a future high-ranking warrior or an important official of the empire!
Therefore, the attacker did not need to carefully identify the identity. Since the assassin was apparently a guard of the "Ilkan Family", it could be regarded as a random lottery.
If the descendant of a great noble happened to be assassinated, especially if the assassin died under strange circumstances, the blame would probably be firmly pinned on the Ilkan family.
If the force involved in this investigation was not the Olivendi family, and if time dragged on a little longer, even if a high-level prophet came forward afterwards, it would be impossible to get a glimpse of the truth behind it.
After receiving the unexpected and important information, the prophet immediately prepared to make a detailed prediction about the identity of this force.
But this time, the prophecy encountered an obstacle as soon as it was cast.
Behind this unknown force, there is a prophet of the same level who has interfered with the thread of fate related to it.
After learning the news, the family prophet immediately stopped the prediction and conveyed the result to Anvis, asking whether he should continue.
An unknown force that also has a high-level prophet has become worthy of Avis's attention.
Out of caution, Anvis notified the family prophet to temporarily suspend the investigation into the matter.
The results will be backed up and handed over to the family's top management, who will decide whether to continue.
This step of the investigation was enough for him.
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Cuckoo——
(End of this chapter)
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