Chapter 124 - A Strangely Intimate Relationship

The mechanical female voice gave a welcome and the magic door lit up, several words of the heavenly language floated around the Silver Owl, she chose one of the words and her body disappeared.

The door went dark again and everything was silent.

The celestial language was rare and was said to be of an ancient race that lived many years before human beings. Humans consider themselves descendants of such powerful ancestors, of course, the nobles thought so, the masses didn't know about it except for a few legends and children's tales, but they didn't take it to heart.

Different from the divine language that belonged to the gods and more exclusively to the angels, which was "dominated" by the Church of the Rising Sun, which was funny since there are other deities that might consider other languages ​​as divine.

Like the runes of the elves that are considered divine to them, as they represent their connection to the god of nature.

In the end, the Central Continent humans with so many "divine languages" would be unable to carry out commerce and politics, so almost a thousand years ago the language of the continent was created.

Unfortunately, they don't have compulsory education in all countries, so only in medium and larger cities is the language of the continent normally spoken. In the villages and the poorest only spoke the local language, despite almost 1000 years, they learned to understand and can speak few necessary sentences, just enough to not be deceived or ask for justice.

In small towns, there are official translators for documents, laws, taxes, and newspapers, as well as interpreters who were very important figures in small towns for trade and reception of nobles and other rulers.

The Silver Owl appeared in a luxurious room and looked at the woman behind a heavy dark wooden desk, studying the documents without looking up at an unexpected guest:

"Welcome Silver Owl"

The woman said without stopping working, she felt tired, but as the wife of a Marquis who had to work behind her husband's back, she only had time for documents at night.

No one would have imagined that the branch leader of the Information Guild was the "obedient" wife of Marquis Savoia. Contrary to what Dawn Realm society thought, the Marquise of Savoy was a strong and domineering woman.

Her husband and brother-in-law could only dance in her hands obediently, but her younger brother-in-law, the future archbishop of the capital, seemed to want to challenge her all the time and he behaved morally reprehensible to even the worst of villains.

"Has your dear brother-in-law already left with the church entourage?" the woman in the silver mask spoke tossing the bag of money on the desk.

"That useless one is gone, but I arranged for some people to give a little help to make it difficult for them to arrive"

The woman behind the desk passed another document and signed it aside, she looked quite annoyed whether it was the job or talking about her useless brother-in-law.

"And inside the abbey?"

"This I can't do much about, but some holy knights who have been sponsored by our family will keep their eyes on that fool. I believe that Investigator Bellini won't let my unintelligent brother-in-law do too much nonsense"

"It's even better, Bishop Darcy is staying there," the silver owl said sitting in a comfortable armchair and being warmed by the flame of the fireplace.

"Bishop Darcy? Shouldn't he be in the Aurore Empire in the church taking credit for his heroic tales and being nominated for a seat as archbishop?"

The woman behind the desk dropped the papers and stared at the leopard-looking subordinate and business partner lounging in her armchair.

"How am I supposed to know why he's in that insignificant little abbey?" the woman in the silver mask shrugged and shook her head carelessly.

"I just think your brother-in-law should be careful what he does, if he upsets Bishop Darcy, he might end up unhappy" the silver owl continued speaking as she saw the noblewoman frown in concern.

"It's no use telling me that now..." the boss said with a sigh, already imagining the future headache that that weak brother-in-law of hers would bring her.

"Did he at least fix that flaw of his?"

"That's what worries me… The bastard can't hold back from seeing a beautiful person, male or female… He… No matter how much I've put him under surveillance… That kind of disgusting behavior. .."

"Antonella, it's not your fault. There are people who simply are…" the masked woman tried to console her boss and longtime friend, but she had no words to define a type of man as seen as Bishop Savoia.

"They are monsters" Antonella completed with a bitterness in her mouth.

At that time, newspapers already existed and in the capital, it was not uncommon for scandals about nobles, politicians, professors, and even royalty itself. Marquise Antonella tried in many ways to suppress news about her younger brother-in-law being a serial rapist type and possible murderer.

The scandal would be too high and would ruin the Marquis of Savoia's reputation, sullying her reputation and giving her enemies a chance to oust her from the position of head of the Information Guild branch.

"Ming-Yue what am I going to do?" Antonella said sitting on the couch tired and fearful about the future.

"How about an accident on the way back?" Ming-Yue said coldly, that kind of person was better off dead anyway.

"This could be fixed, but my foolish husband and my second brother-in-law... Tsk, these idiots..."

"Be frank with them and tell them that the scandal would be enough for the royalty to demote him or even take his noble title from him. I am sure they will not protest the matter again. Don't be soft on them, Antonella"

Ming-Yue said firmly, she touched her friend's shoulder and got up, she still had a lot of information to deliver before heading home.

She had only come to her boss to find out about the whereabouts of the marquise's useless and dangerous brother-in-law and warn about Bishop Darcy, but the warning was apparently useless, but if Antonella was smart she would tell her husband and second-in-law, already warning that Bishop Savoia could mess with someone they shouldn't.

They could prepare even more for the negative impact than Bishop Savoia would out there, of course, if he didn't have an accident on the way and die painfully it would be much better.

Antonella who was left alone looked at the closed door and clenched her fists tightly, she very much wanted to be married to Ming-Yue, for sure she would be happier and less worried.

Such a smart and beautiful woman, a pity that her (Antonella) as the daughter of a prominent nobleman she could only leave her fate like an obedient sheep and marry abroad.

She had no power before.

Now she had power, but she didn't want to give up that power and that "freedom" gained, even if she had to cover up such a monster as her younger brother-in-law.

"Ming-Yue is right," Antonella said after a moment of fury and helplessness, she had to eliminate this troubled and dangerous man.

Back at the Jiang-Li hotel, Louis guided Theo showing some oriental paintings and explaining some legends behind them, trying to instruct a little about culture.

Theo was like a little chick shaking its head with bright, moist eyes watching and absorbing everything he could.

The food arrived and they ate silently, then Louis took out his gold pocket watch, checked the time, and got up, handing Theo a book.

"I have an appointment now, this is a book about some nobles from the Aurore Empire, study it well. Tomorrow afternoon I'm going to ask about the people on page 1 for page 5"

The book had 50 pages each page (front and back) had a noble family with their noble titleholders, wives (husbands), and heirs.

Theo took the book and nodded, he felt it was going to be a long night and a busy morning.

"I'll ask to be guided to the thermals... A very interesting place, just remember not to stay too long" Louis said leaving and leaving the curious teenager behind.

On the road that circled the impressive Divine Mountains, a relatively large group in armor were encamping quietly.

The fact was strange for that piece of forest near mountains so high and that every now and then there was a slide of black rocks.

The Divine Mountains were colossal and had their beginnings in the Kingdom of Dawn passing to the Aurore Empire, which served as protection for the kingdom along with the Infernal Volcano, at least they would not fear a surprise attack from the empire.

At least the capital of the Kingdom of Dawn would be safe, Matteo Abbey was not close to the Divine Mountains, but it was close to the Principality of Sulan, which was one to two days from the capital on horseback, which is relatively close when compared to the Duchy of Francine and the Duchy of Oliver that lay after the Northern Tribe.

A trip could take many days from the central city of the duchies to the capital of the Kingdom of Dawn.

The Northern Tribe is where the people considered savages were, but the truth is that the Northern Tribe even being "primitive" has the supernatural power of totems and the knights of the kingdom cannot invade.

They weren't powerful enough and the noble dukes didn't care enough to send reinforcements. They even liked to keep away from the king's power physically because of the Northern Tribe.

Almost independent dukes, but behind the duchies, there was the ocean which brought them wealth and fear of being invaded if they were isolated, so they maintained a "good" relationship with the royal family of the Kingdom of Dawn.

The only exception was the Duke D'Lucas who maintained a close relationship with the royal family since physically the duchy had nothing to prevent the kingdom's army from dominating it, despite the duke's family being the fearsome and powerful wizards, a  battle between them would be foolish and they would both lose as they had the church and the other two dukes who might want to overthrow them both.

Therefore, the Duchy D'Lucas and the royal family maintained a good and close relationship so that they could face the church and the other duchies.

Until the generation of Giovanni's father, who sent his talented son to church... Which was incomprehensible to the royal family, but as the Duke had two more talented sons, they didn't dig deep into the motive of the current Duke D' Lucas has sent his son to the "enemy" of the two.

As for the Holy Knights, the church wouldn't foolishly put itself on the front lines to gain nothing, or maybe get a stab in the back for the Kingdom of Dawn.

As the Northern Tribe does not carry out attacks or bandits, the Kingdom of Dawn had no way of having "good" reasons for the start of a massacre, so they left the people of that territory in "peace".