Edward's Whereabouts

"What happened at the port?"

Iver was a little confused. "Has the batch of goods smuggled by former Minister of Trade arrived?"

He remembered that just this morning, Sherlock specifically mentioned this matter.

The cargo ship was scheduled to return to the port today. And it was dispatched before Minister Drost was arrested. With no information after going offshore, it was impossible for them to know that something had happened to Drost. Therefore, the previous smuggling plan should also proceed normally.

So now it should be fully loaded.

"This kind of thing should be directly handled by the Inspectorate, right?"

Iver was a little confused. "Where is Edward?"

Speaking of which, it seemed like he hadn't seen Edward in a while.

The last time we met, it was before Iver faked his death - because Iver wasn't too confident about Edward's acting skills, he didn't notify him of his fake death.

After all, he doesn't look like Sherlock... According to Sherlock's character who likes to act alone and investigate privately, he really shocked everyone when he faked his death. Because something might happen to him, he needed to inform a circle of people so as not to scare his own people.

But Iver is obviously much more stable than Sherlock, so it's not so easy to deceive people, and he doesn't even have a body.

So Iver needs to let Edward help him deceive others - Iver himself doesn't need to do anything. When Edward looks anxious, others will know "Oh, it seems that he is really missing" and not hiding.

After dealing with the matter of Lloyd's and Minister Drost, Prince was cursed to death, and Bureau of Supervision was killed by Giant Prince Wolfram attacked, set up a trap to kill Bone Carver, helped Ms. Meg shed his skin and be reborn... followed by Iver's advancement ceremony and Final Exam.

He's been very busy these past two weeks.

Iver simply forgot to look for Edward.

But now he remembered-oh yes, I still have an older brother.

Speaking of which, I have been "resurrected" for a week. Why hasn't Edward come to find me?

——In other words, when Prince Andrew passed away, why didn't Edward come to the funeral? "I don't know, I haven't seen him for a long time."

Isabel shook his head slightly.

Although under the guidance of Queen, she has now begun to get involved in politics. But after all, she still has to take into account her studies and Extraordinary Ability's improvement, and doesn't have that much energy to directly take over Avalon's various political affairs.

"Since he didn't come to Prince Andrew's funeral, it means that Edward may have disappeared a week ago."

Iver fell into deep thought and said to himself, "But His Majesty didn't specifically mention this to me. Ligeia didn't say anything either... so at least nothing happened to him."

"He couldn't have faked his death too."

Isabel blurted out.

Iver almost choked on his own saliva.

"It's not... it shouldn't be." This is definitely impossible rationally, but Iver is suddenly a little unsure now, "After all, as the inspector general, he usually keeps a low profile. People who can see him either have a high status or have committed some major incident..."

"Don't you know?"

Suddenly, Yanis's voice sounded, "Edward has gone abroad."

"Huh?"

Iver was shocked.

The paintings hanging in the house had just been burned. Where did Yanis come out? Yanis's voice came from the magic painting above Iver's bedroom - the magic painting that looked like a window. Because it looks so much like a window that Iver glanced at it and forgot it was a painting.

It usually brings the fresh air outside to Iver, and now Yanis also pops out of the painting. Because the material of the magic painting is not ordinary paper, it can survive the burning aura of Morning Crow Fire.

At this moment, Yanis was like a puppy with its paws on the edge of the bed, grabbing the painted "window" with both hands and poking its head in from the outside.

"... How long have you been listening here?"

Iver has a complex expression.

Yanis said with a smile, "Start from 'I'm afraid of pain'."

——Didn't you hear everything? "Eh...?"

Isabel opened his eyes curiously.

Iver... Are you afraid of pain? She was suddenly excited - maybe she was even better than Iver in this regard.

——She is not afraid of pain!

Previously in Promotion Ritual, even if her head hurt, it would not affect her investigation; even if her head was blown off with a pistol, she could recover by just shaking her head.

"Don't worry," Yanis slightly lowered half of his head, revealing only a pair of smiling eyes, "I'm just watching from the side. I don't want to be the person in the painting... In that case, it will be biased to Path of Twilight."

Yanis really likes to eavesdrop and peek. She doesn't reveal secrets and is very strict with her words. She is simply full of curiosity and wants to get over and take a look at everything.

The "painter" can penetrate into any painting, but usually it requires constant jumping and there is a certain distance limit; but if it is a painting drawn by oneself, then it can be transferred instantly even if it is far away.

I hope Isabel won't imitate her teacher after she reaches a higher level...

If Isabel also learns this bad habit, it will be over.

——After all, Queen can determine currency.

The banknotes used by Iver today were only used on a large scale one or two hundred years ago. Until then, the most commonly used currency was coins.

Coins at that time were not bound and could easily become irregular during use. At that time, many people would cut off the edges of coins or grind off some powder. Over time, they could make up a lot of silver or even gold. Because of this, many coins on the market become smaller and lighter as they are used.

In order to put an end to this kind of bad currency, a man King introduced banknotes more than two hundred years ago. At that time, Lloyd Prince had not yet appeared, and the royal family still had complete and unchecked power. They can do whatever they want.

The original banknotes were printed with royal portraits, just like the Avalon triangle engraved on ancient silver coins. But counterfeit coins soon appeared.

Even if that King used the Nine Clans' Xiaoxiao Le Technique, it would not help - the counterfeit money was extremely rampant, which once disrupted Avalon's economy and caused chaos in the country. So King was forced to bring back the coins again, and mixed banknotes and coins.

But it still got more and more chaotic after that. Until more than a hundred years ago, a King creatively decided to cancel the circulation of gold coins, set silver coins as the highest-grade currency, then set up two grades of red Copper Coin and Copper Coin, and printed new banknotes.

He had the coins wrapped with a layer of edges so that they would be easier to spot if cut off; he also had the coins and banknotes imprinted with the Silver Crowned Dragon, Si Zhu and Hourglass logos. Claiming that this is currency used under the supervision of Pillar God, making and using counterfeit currency is tantamount to blasphemy.

Theocracy became energetic after hearing it. So the bishops of Avalon were asked to help implement the promotion - almost from then on, the counterfeit coins of Avalon disappeared.

When people encounter counterfeit coins marked King or Avalon, or inferior coins of insufficient weight, they will most likely pretend they don't know about it and just use it secretly. The result is that more and more counterfeit and inferior coins are circulating in the market.

——But this has something to do with Nine Pillar Gods, so people don't dare.

Originally, even if counterfeit coins were used, it was nothing. After all, they were not made by them. If they were discovered, it would be a big deal to replace them with real ones; but now if counterfeit coins are used, there is a risk of blasphemy - although in terms of probability, it is impossible for Nine Pillar Gods to keep an eye on everyone who uses coins, and may even be too lazy to care about this kind of thing.

But people don't dare to gamble.

Because there really is a God in this world.

This is Path of Authority's royal solution to the problem.

And if Isabel becomes Queen, she has another solution - that is to print her own hand-drawn paintings on all coins. Even slightly larger denominations of money can be printed directly into magic paintings. This is undoubtedly the best anti-counterfeiting mark, and once the volume is increased, the cost can be reduced.

In this case, it means that Isabel's "eyes and ears" are all over the country.

Anyone with money will become Isabel's surveillance camera. She can also jump and teleport at will through these banknotes...

That would be too scary.

If people knew about this, it might cause panic.

... And Iver has a premonition. If Isabel really does this, maybe he will also be drawn into the money.

I hope Isabel can't remember this matter - or in other words, I hope that when Isabel comes up with this idea, he can stop it in time.

Iver had a change of thought and asked, "Did Edward go to Theocracy?"

His first reaction was, "Did Edward go find Oswald?"

Their old butler said he would be back soon, but now, almost half a month later, he still has no news at all. If Iver hadn't known that Oswald's combat power was approximately equal to Fifth Level, he would have doubted whether something had happened to him.

——It would be funny if the adoptive father disappeared and the housekeeper went to look for him and then disappeared; and then Edward went to look for the housekeeper and disappeared.

Calabash baby saves grandpa, right?

"It's not Theocracy, it's Iris."

Yanis replied, "The order given by Queen - do you remember the girl who assassinated you before? According to the investigation by the Inspectorate, her grandfather was the deputy chairman of the Iris Public Safety Committee, The strong man Iris Fifth Level is equivalent to our Grand Adjudicator. This is already a diplomatic incident... In order to prevent Avalon and your interests from being damaged, Edward took the initiative to deal with this matter.

"His side was going to be struggling for a while longer because we lacked evidence, which was very troublesome. Fortunately, Lars Graham revealed a flaw - there is no doubt that we will win this time.

"If you are curious about the port, you don't actually need to go there. Because Red Lady has already gone to arrest people... This time a smuggler who is in contact with Drost came with the ship. He is the witness who came to the door.

"Oh, right. You may not know...Red Lady is Edward's deputy. You can just go to the Inspectorate and wait. But I think she can actually handle this."

...Red Lady?

Iver still remember this person.

She seems to have something to do with Minister Drost, and she also seems to have something to do with Lloyd's... But Iver is not sure either.

He and Lily looked at each other to confirm that there were no omissions in each other's impressions.

——Got to meet her. Not only to meet the smugglers, but also to see Red Lady.

However, the smuggler who came from Star Antimony to sell Drost goods...

For some reason, Iver always feels a bit familiar.

Then Iver said, "Then let's go take a look. Isabel, do you have a test this afternoon?"

"No."

Isabel shook his head. "I only have one left, and it's for tomorrow afternoon."

"Me too," Iver smiled and patted her hand, "Let's go then?"

"... Is this what you're wearing? How about I get out of the way first, and you can come back to me after you change your clothes."

Isabel replied crisply.

But...

Has his hair grown longer? She looked at Iver's platinum soft hair that had now turned into a shawl, and felt a little confused.

Isabel actually knew that Iver was looking at Grimoire - a servant had already told her about it.

——Is this some kind of germination tantra?

Then look at Iver again, will it become waist-length hair? Isabel feels a little itchy in his heart.

She decided to draw a magic picture for Iver with waist-length hair after the exam was over - although Iver's hair was far from that long, her imagination could make up for the length! Update completed!