Sword Sorcery

Chapter 302 Undercurrent
"After some investigation, I roughly figured out the other party's situation."

Claude narrated bluntly: "The red-eyed boy is called Aaron. He is the same as Miss Angelie. Both of them were born in the Kino Kingdom. Of course, the Kino Kingdom no longer exists. It was replaced by Karas The empire was swallowed up in its entirety"

"Choose the point."

Prince Lied interrupted Claude's narration: "I want to hear the details of how he met An Geli!"

Claude took a peek at Prince Liede, bowed his head and said respectfully:
"Yes, my subordinates understand."

Although Lied Finn is the seventh prince who is not favored among the many descendants of His Majesty Arthur, the other party is after all a direct prince of the Finnish royal family, and he is by no means someone that Claude can neglect.

In addition, the port of Kowo was nominally part of the Empire of Finland.

Originally, when Duke Charles was alive, the Finnish Empire had a 'stocking' attitude towards the port of Corvo.However, after the death of Duke Charles, the attitude of the Finnish Empire towards the port of Corvo began to become 'ambiguous'.
To put it simply, the Finnish Empire wants to swallow the Corvo port completely and reintegrate it into its own system.

It was for this reason that the Finnish Empire sent the Seventh Prince, Lied, to try to make friends with the nobles in Corvo port, so as to gain the support of some local nobles.

In the end, Rieder used this part of the noble power to take Corvo Port from the hands of the Baker family.

After the Baker family lost Duke Charles Baker, only Charles' daughter and an ordinary noble son-in-law were left in the whole family. None of them had enough political power to compete with Prince Lied, who represented the Finnish royal family.

The political strength gap between the two sides is too great.

This is fully reflected in every large-scale ball held by the nobles. As soon as Prince Liede arrives, many nobles at the ball swarm towards Prince Liede like flies smelling the cake.

According to this situation, it will not take long for Prince Liede to win over most of the local nobles and complete a centralization of political power.At that time, Prince Lied only needs to launch a political action, coupled with the enthusiastic response of most of the local nobles, he can easily overthrow the rule of the Baker family and become the true master of Corvo Port.

At that time, as the 'loyal' servant who had been following Prince Lied all along, Claude's status naturally rose.Therefore, Claude showed his loyalty to the future owner of the Corvo port in front of him——

"That Aaron was originally a fairly ordinary city guard in the Leo territory of the Kino Kingdom. His adoptive father was a small captain. That adoptive father disappeared on the eve of the Karas Empire's invasion war."

"Further on, Aaron's team was also attacked by the army of the Karas Empire. I don't know what happened. Only Aaron and another soldier survived and escaped back to Leo Castle."

According to the other party's thoughts, Claude carefully narrated: "Later, that Aaron and Viscount Steve Leo escaped from the castle together, and organized a group of people to escape from the territory together - at that time, An Geli Miss is also in this team."

"According to what I heard, that Aaron was a powerful knight at the time, and he seemed to have a good relationship with Miss Angelie."

Hearing this, Lie De squeezed the teacup in his hand, and said coldly: "How good is their relationship?"

"It is said that."

Claude lowered his head further: "I heard that the two lived in the same carriage every night on the way to escape from the war."

boom! ! !
Lied abruptly crushed the porcelain teacup in his hand, almost bursting into flames from his eyes——

"Go on!"

Claude poured beans directly, and poured out everything: "That Aaron came to Corvo Port with Miss Angelie, and later, under the arrangement of Duke Charles, he went to sea in the name of studying—— The time to go to sea was three years ago."

"Going to sea? Studying? Three years ago?!"

Prince Lied was stunned for a moment, and temporarily suppressed the anger in his heart: "Could it be that Aaron is a mystic? If he is really a mystic, this matter will become more difficult."

As he said that, Prince Liede suddenly thought of a key point, and immediately refuted his guess:

"No! It's about a week before the return of the spaceship, as far as I remember. It's always been this time in previous years, and there has never been an exception—"

"Because it is impossible for anyone to get through the fog around the sea before the "ebb tide" appears! "

Prince Red turned to look at the old steward: "Claude, I remember there is a record book about the time when the mysterious ship returned?"

Claude got up immediately after hearing the words, found a thin booklet from the bookshelf, and handed it to Prince Lied.

Prince Liede took the booklet and flipped through it, and said with a sneer, "Sure enough, it's only been three years since the return of the mysterious ship last time. It seems that the spaceship has not returned, and that Aaron is not mysterious." Or—he’s just a knight returning from school.”

"Even if the spaceship really returns early, the team leader wizard will definitely find the person in charge of the port. Claude, have any suspicious people in and out of the Baker family recently?"

Claude shook his head and denied: "Your Highness, the people coming and going from the Baker family are all normal, except for Miss An Geli who brought Aaron into her manor, no other strangers have entered the manor under the Baker family's command. .”

"Your Highness, Duke Charles is a mystic after all. Could it be Aaron who he arranged to go to sea?"

"Hmph, you don't want to tell me that Aaron is the team leader wizard?"

Prince Lied shook his head, directly denying this guess in his heart - don't be kidding, how powerful is a team leader wizard?How could that Aaron have grown into an official wizard in only three years?
What a ridiculous joke!

What's more, the spaceship from the Wizarding Continent has not yet returned, and that Aaron is obviously not a mystic, but at most a powerful knight.

Even if the other party went to other places, being a wandering mystic for three years would at most make him a low-level mystic.

A low-level mystic is not even as good as a powerful knight, and Prince Liede is not afraid of such a thing.

Of course, Prince Lied maintained the usual caution of the royal family, and asked cautiously: "That Aaron, is there any information showing his knighthood?"

As a result, Claude reported the information that was on the surface back then: "According to what I heard from the Leo family, that Aaron was suspected to be an official knight when he left Hong Kong to study."

"A formal knight?"

Prince Lied couldn't help but sneered: "Ha, then he's not even as strong as An Geli?"

Back then, Angeli helped Aaron deliberately conceal the information of the 'Knight of Will', causing Steve, Joanna and others to mistakenly think that Aaron was just an official knight.

Later, the fact that Aaron helped Angeli 'separation' was also not disclosed to others. Others thought that Angeli had reached the "quasi-subversive" state by relying on her own talent, and called Angeli For the 'once in a millennium' girl genius.

Therefore, except for An Geli, no one else knew the true situation of Aaron.

As for the witches who got off the cloud elephant whale ship, they rushed back to their hometown one by one, and they left Corvo port quietly, and the intelligence network of ordinary people could not catch them at all.

"Your Highness, what do you mean?"

Seeing Lied's ferocious expression, Claude immediately understood what the other person was thinking, and asked a question as a matter of routine.

Prince Liede nodded lightly: "What I mean, you understand now, tonight is the birthday of the heiress of the Baker family, we have to prepare a 'gift' to send to—"

"You inform Kelly and they get ready."

As he said that, there was a gleam of coldness in Prince Liede's eyes:
"In the name of arresting 'spies'!"

at the same time
A luxurious and spacious noble manor,

in a room

An Geli took off her iron armor and put on a black aristocratic dress. She sat opposite Aaron and told about what happened during this period.

"I see."

Aaron nodded softly: "Since Duke Charles passed away unfortunately due to physical reasons, the situation in Corvo Port has become what it is today. For this reason, you too."

Aaron looked at the calm and composed An Geli, and couldn't help sighing:
"You have severed ties with Steve and the others."

(End of this chapter)