Evan and the two Silent Knights had no intention of intervening just yet. Instead, they watched quietly.
Because the Kordel People had once been extremely scattered and lacked any sense of belonging, and because of the devastating losses the Raven Church had suffered, its outposts, large and small, were widely dispersed. Mulan had encouraged this even further, so the messenger raven soon reached the nearest Raven Church outpost.
Through the outpost's encrypted telegram, Mulan quickly learned what was happening on Evan's end. He immediately sought out information on the Ilkhan Kingdom and the Hillkin region.
Dierjia's intelligence work was truly excellent now. Even for somewhere as distant as the Ilkhan Kingdom, its basic information was at least updated at regular intervals.
At that moment, Mulan used the privileges of his position to visit the Empire's Intelligence Department's public records room, consulting the information he needed in this relatively little-used reading room.
These records were far from sensitive intelligence, nor did they contain any Ilkhan state secrets, but they were detailed in every respect. Compiling them took time, patience, and care, and the Empire's Intelligence Department had clearly done an excellent job.
Mulan read quickly, working through newspapers, books, bound collections of intelligence notes, and even some gossip and rumors marked "unconfirmed."
Since this was not a region of particular interest, the records could only give Mulan a general understanding of Hillkin, but that was enough.
From his reading, Mulan learned that Hillkin ranked among the Ilkhan Kingdom's leading economic regions and was also an important industrial area. Factories filled every part of the city, with a considerable degree of mechanization. The relatively famous Hillkin Arsenal was located here as well.
What struck Mulan as ironic, however, was that this huge industrial city-or rather, the region encompassing the city and its