Lan Qingyou had no idea what had become of those two thieves named Limade and Tangruowa.
Nor was she interested in finding out.
The Head Maid would take care of it.
And from the Head Maid, she learned that a craze for Summoning Magic Arrays had swept across the entire Empire.
Although her experiment had sparked this storm,
she had to admit that she was hardly at its eye.
Or rather, because her level was so high,
nobody else dared treat her as the storm's center.
They didn't even dare spy on her.
It was said that the corpses swaying from the city wall had been hung there on the Old Emperor's personal orders because they had spied on Lan Qingyou.
One of them had even been the leader of a rural Knights Order.
His name no longer mattered.
He was dead.
But his death made Lan Qingyou shake her head again and again.
When this sort of thing happened, she had hoped to find herself a bit of entertainment alongside her research.
She had even planned out the whole routine: follow the clues, catch the culprit, then make a grand display of herself in front of everyone.
Instead, the man was dead.
And the Old Emperor himself had ordered it.
Which meant he didn't want anyone investigating further.
Well...
Didn't that make it all the more worth looking into?
Come on!
What did the Old Emperor have to do with her?
Compared to power and all that, she only cared whether the mastermind could help her unwind from her research.
But when it came to investigating a case, Lan Qingyou was certainly no expert.
So she had no intention of using conventional methods.
In no time at all!
She opened a book with a skull on its cover.
Then