Murphy knew the Wolfsbane clan had sent people into Transia.
He'd been told about it during his negotiations with the dwarf marshal. If the wolf-woman of Transia had given Governor Murphy a "trial" to deal with the gnolls in Transia, then Marshal Loren's "trial" was clearly connected to those ill-intentioned Wolfsbane brats.
Murphy had already prepared to answer the provocations of an ancient enemy, but he hadn't expected things to start developing in such a "strange direction."
The two problems he had to deal with had actually become one?
Could he really be this lucky?
"You've made a serious accusation, Griffin Knight."
Murphy held the core orb and spoke solemnly to Knight Varland on the other end:
"I'd believe you if you said the Wolfsbane clan was up to anything else. Pursuing violence and fear is that gang of thugs' style, and they don't even hide how despicable they are. But to get mixed up with gnolls while the Black Calamity is approaching, and secretly support a foreign warlord who's about to wreak havoc in Transia..."
Tsk, tsk. That's an accusation of an entirely different magnitude.
I may dislike those barbaric scum, but we need evidence for something like this. Those bastards are vampires too, after all."
"If you want evidence, go find it yourself!"
Knight Varland replied irritably:
"We only intercepted this message. Maybe those Blood Eagle traitors were just messing with us, even if it cost them their lives. You're the one who said we should rebuild mutual trust. Count Sico has done his part, and you can treat the message as false.
It costs us nothing either way.
That's all."
With that, he ended the call.
Murphy's orb was on speaker, so the governor Mirian had heard the warning from Sico's winged cavalry as well. The strangeness