The next morning, after breakfast, Altair went to the study, selected several high-value invitations, and personally wrote replies confirming her attendance.
To free herself as soon as possible from the order George III had given her, Altair returned to the survival routine of her university days in her previous life: "Sleep during the day, play at night."
At around three in the afternoon on July 23, 1348, Altair sat in the study and finished writing a thank-you note for the previous gathering. After handing it to a servant to mail, Irene, her personal maid standing beside her, reminded her, "Count Altair, according to the schedule, you should be heading to the bathroom now to bathe and prepare for the next gathering."
Altair set down her fountain pen, lowered her head, and pressed a hand to her forehead with a bitter smile. After all this time, she finally understood why the Twilight Hermit Society had insisted that Duke Negan had to die. That bastard was truly maddening!
To prevent any True God Church—or the nobles themselves—from discovering that someone was using a Beyonder Ability to alter everyone's thoughts, Altair used only shallow Psychological Suggestion at every gathering, gradually influencing their minds to accept that repealing the Corn Law might not necessarily be a bad thing.
But after only two days, as long as they attended one banquet hosted by Duke Negan, those "influenced thoughts" would be disrupted!
It was not because he was clever enough to notice that someone was meddling with the repeal of the Corn Law, so he sought out the Storm Church to regularly cleanse everyone's spiritual worlds.
Duke Negan was simply stupid, stubbornly clinging to old ways and unwilling to give up his own interests.
At exactly four o'clock, Altair finished bathing and entered the perfuming stage.