The Prime Minister's Suspicion

"Take my orders and search Academy City above. Have the security forces inside cooperate. Anyone who dares resist is to be executed on the spot."

Mordred dispatched over a thousand Imperial Guards. Led by Barthomeloi, they stepped onto the lift platform leading to the surface.

She herself, under the protection of fewer than eight hundred trusted guards, arrived at the lift platform leading underground.

Seeing that the platform was still stopped on this level and that the magecraft she had set up earlier remained untouched, Mordred determined that the people below had yet to notice the deaths of the man and the counterfeit.

Now all that remained was to wait for the results of the search above.