Murphy was still on his way to Great Reef Province. He was planning to talk with Governor Hood to better arrange the "Anniversary Celebration" storyline, but he had learned about the unusual situation on Gramore Island and in the surrounding waters almost as soon as it happened.
In particular, after learning through the forums and the Wi-Fi Goddess Rose's real-time surveillance that the girl Little Rich Bro had rescued had a special identity, Murphy barely hesitated before sending the news to King Louis through the Batasing Merchant Guild and the Capet family.
Part of it was out of consideration for the bond between parents and children.
Though Murphy was a vampire, he considered his moral standards fairly high.
On the other hand, when something looked like it was meant to provoke a war—and closer scrutiny revealed all sorts of problems—then as the current de facto and symbolic leader of the Order faction, stabilizing the situation was something Murphy, a chosen one of the Creator God, had to do.
He hardly needed to think. A quick turn of his brilliant heel was enough to guess what King Louis would do when driven by anger.
Though the Transians and Plantagenets could hardly be called friends, the Plantagenets were still a necessary part of the Order faction in the division between Chaos and Order.
Murphy's judgment wasn't wishful thinking. It was clear from the kingdom-wide support General Fraser had received for suppressing cultists in Anjou. Though the country had pursued dangerous expansionism over the past decade or so, the Plantagenet nobles centered around King Louis still had plenty of fighting spirit, and the rot hadn't reached the root.
It made sense. The Plantagenet Kingdom had only established a unified legal succession thirty years ago, and it had King Louis, a ruler who didn't