Exaggerated

The people from Wasen Fort were interesting too. It had been agreed that Aixi's whole family, including her father, would come, yet in the end Awei arrived instead, leading an entire legion that had set up camp outside the city. They had only arrived yesterday, and he had not come to report in today, supposedly because they needed to rest and reorganize.

Aixi's own older brother—his status was certainly not low.

Dole did not concern himself with them. He cast everything aside, shifted his consciousness to Albis Mountain, and focused wholeheartedly on comprehending the laws of magic.

Du City.

"I heard the people from the Internal Affairs Office have arrived?"

The middle-aged man looked sternly at his subordinate and asked doubtfully, "The people from Roderick City didn't intercept them either?"

His subordinate answered with a bitter smile, "They did intercept them, but it was useless. Besides, those people had actually been moving very slowly on the road. They set out in February and only arrived in April. The journey had already been stretched out for a very long time."

The middle-aged man raised a brow. It seemed that someone in the imperial capital was stirring the pot as well. This was rather intriguing.

After thinking for a moment, he said, "Prepare a horse for me. I'm going to Albis City to meet this City Lord Dole. Also, notify the Roderick City Lord's Manor. He should be going too."

The man nodded. "Yes, I'll have someone send the message immediately."

At the same time, in the wilderness outside Roderick City, Rikdo welcomed his own reinforcements. No—rather than reinforcements, it would be more accurate to call him the one taking over. He was a handsome young man with a sharp, icy gaze, and he looked even younger than Rikdo.

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