Carl was unmoved: "You are an adult too. If a person does something wrong, he must pay the corresponding price. Don't you even understand this principle?"

"Wrong?" Dinah raised her glass, her eyes confused:

“Is what I did wrong?”

"I investigated the mummy case and wiped out the fire thief. Everything I did was in accordance with the chivalric code and the laws of the kingdom."

As a knight, she should protect the weak; as an inspector, she should uphold justice. She didn't think she had done anything wrong.

Is it right to just ignore it?

"Right or wrong depends on the perspective."

Carl shrugged.

"You may think you are not wrong, but the people who died because of you and their families don't think so."

"And the reason you work so hard to solve the case isn't just because of the code of chivalry, right?"

“Heh…” Dina shook her head and smiled bitterly. She raised her head and drank the wine in one gulp. Then she looked at Karl with drunken eyes: “You…are not the same as before.”

Carl used to be careless, with a personality as rude as his voice, but now he has become elegant, and even his speech is well-organized.

“People change.”

Carl looked calm:

"There's nothing strange about this."

"That's right!" Dinah nodded. "Cheers."

The two clinked their glasses and drank them all in one gulp.

"belch……"

Dina's face was red with alcohol, her eyes became a little dull, and she was grinning foolishly at the wine.

Her alcohol tolerance seems to be average.

"You are right."

Dina burped and grinned, "I have my own reasons for investigating the case, not just because of the chivalric code. Do you know about the life potion?"

"Life potion?" Carl raised his eyebrows. "Potion that can help a knight's squire become a knight?"

As a knight's squire, he certainly knew about life potions, and similarly, life fruits.

They are all "treasures" that can increase the chance of promotion.

"Yes." Dina nodded. "I am the chief inspector. If I have made a contribution, I can apply to the city lord to buy a life potion."

"Hmm..." Carl was a little puzzled: "You are the eldest daughter of Viscount Sassoon. With the strength of the Jaeger family, you can't get a life potion?"

"I got one before." Dinah looked up, "But I was young and ignorant at that time, and was deceived. Given the rarity of the life potion, even though I am the eldest daughter in the family, I couldn't get a second one."

Cheated?

Carl shook his head speechlessly.

Although what the other party said was ambiguous, it was most likely an internal family issue, which was not uncommon.

No wonder Dinah has been so active since taking office. It turns out she did it to get promoted to knight.

"I'm not young anymore."

Dinah murmured:

"If I can't be promoted to knight in a few years, I will have to marry an unknown man."

"I'm not willing to accept this..."

"Every family has its own problems." Carl drank a glass with her and encouraged her: "I wish you success."

"Then can you withdraw the complaint?"

"cannot."

"..." Dina lowered her head and drank silently. When she became drowsy, she threw a heavy bag in front of Carl.

“Boom!”

“Clatter…”

The sound of coins colliding in the bag attracted the attention of several people drinking nearby, but they turned their eyes away after seeing the uniform on Carl.

"how?"

Carl said: "Bribe me?"

"No." Dinah shook her head and said in a muffled voice, "Help me hand it over to Ham's family."

"Ham?" Carl understood. "Why don't you go by yourself?"

"I dare not." Dinah sighed: "Ham has an old mother at home, and a deaf-mute sister who was driven back by her husband after getting married."

"I don't dare to see them. Please go for me."

"..." Karl was silent for a moment, then nodded slowly:

"That's fine."

"By the way, what is the current situation of the mummy case?"

"It was taken over by the Vatican, and the Night Watch is in charge." Dina was obviously reluctant to mention this:

"Let's go!" Carl stood up: "You are drunk too."

* * * “Try it.”

Jenny's enthusiastic attitude:

“I learned to do it myself.”

"oh!"

Karl looked at the food on the table and nodded in appreciation: "Not bad."

Almond milk, white bread, grilled meat, and cold vegetables. The fresh bread has a fragrant aroma, and the grilled meat and vegetables are even more delicious.

Not to mention the taste, the appearance is very good.

"I learned this from the party." Jenny said shyly, "How do you like it?"

"Yeah." Carl nodded, cut a small piece of roast meat and put it in his mouth. After chewing it, he nodded with satisfaction: "Very good."

"Jenny, even if you don't become a singer and switch to catering, I believe you will be able to make a name for yourself soon."

"Really?" Jenny smiled. "As long as it tastes good, eat more."

"I ate on the way here." Carl waved his hand: "You guys eat, don't worry about me."

As he said this, he picked up the milk and walked towards his room.

"Don't look at it."

After Karl closed the door, Mrs. Mary shook her head at her reluctant daughter:

"He's obviously not interested in you."

"But..." Jenny pursed her lips: "I still have a chance, don't I?"

"Now that you have been admitted to the singing group, you should focus on your career instead of trying to please men." As a person who has experienced this, Mrs. Mary taught her daughter:

"If you rely too much on men, you will lose yourself."

"Got it." Jenny looked impatient:

"I have been practicing my singing very hard, and the seniors in the group have promised to let me perform on stage soon."

"Really?" Mrs. Mary was pleasantly surprised. "That's great. If you can perform on stage, you can get paid and live a better life."

"Hmm." Jenny rested her chin on her hand, her eyes thoughtful.

"If I perform on stage, can I invite Baron Karl to watch? Will he agree?"

"..." Looking at her daughter with a love-crazy look on her face, Mrs. Mary was speechless and simply stood up to clean up the dishes.

In the room.

Carl tried to practice meditation again.

Without the support of divine power, his consciousness was shaken by a wave as soon as it entered the inner sea of ​​​​spirituality.

The more unstable your mind is, the more distracting thoughts you have, and the bigger the waves will be.

“Without thoughts, feelings or fantasies, I keep my heart steady and let distracting thoughts rise and fall. I remain unmoved. It’s easier said than done.”

Fortunately, with his experience in the divine realm, Carl had gradually figured out the rules and was not kicked out as soon as he entered.

After a moment.

"call……"

“It still doesn’t work!”

Carl, with a tired face, shook his head helplessly, but he was already used to failure. He calmed himself down and entered the divine realm with the books in his arms.

"Secondary mana field."

Carl opened the book and stopped at the page about constructing a spell model. With an expressionless face, he tried to practice.

Here, he has mastered the meditation method, his mental strength has been condensed, and in theory he can already construct a spell model.

But according to teacher Adolf, the secondary magic field is relatively difficult in zero-ring witchcraft.

Not only is the spell model complex.

The spiritual power required is also greater than that of ordinary zero-ring witchcraft.

However, mental strength is limited by the reality of the entity, and will not increase just because one is in the divine realm.

Whether it will succeed or not is still unclear.

"Arcane, force field..."

Carl in the divine realm was like a Taoist priest in a snail shell, using incredible control to control weak mental power to construct spell models.

Mental power turned into lines and outlined in the sea of ​​consciousness, from simple to complex.

Until...

form a whole.

(End of this chapter)