Chapter 18 The Secret Seal

When the players checked into the hotel, they disguised themselves as travelers from afar, booking several double rooms. Of course, they would gather together for meetings.

The group bought newspapers from the recent period and formulated a plan to gather information that night. During this process, Frederick the Lumberjack volunteered to help contact high-level personnel in Mori City.

After the Kingdom of Lema was conquered by the Ice Queen, many of the kingdom's nobles and high-ranking bureaucrats fled to various kingdoms.

Relying on their wealth, abilities, and original connections (nobles have always had a habit of intermarriage), many of these people have done quite well, even becoming dignitaries in various kingdoms.

The people in this fairytale world have relatively traditional and simple ideas. After the Ice Queen gradually faded from public view, these scattered dignitaries of the Kingdom of Lema secretly searched for Frederick's whereabouts.

Not to kill him, but to get Frederick to admit his mistake to the current officials—the Ice Queen was relatively tolerant of her enemies and did not directly kill the entire families of the royal nobles when she conquered various countries.

She only killed a portion of those who resisted extremely fiercely and exiled a portion of those who resisted more fiercely.

The Ice Queen could not exile all the nobles who surrendered completely, leaving many of them to continue to hold important positions (many nobles in the kingdom held important official positions).

The king was gone, replaced by the city-state's chief administrator.

Now that the Ice Queen no longer cares about worldly affairs, as long as Frederick is willing to admit his mistake, with the help of the old ministers of the Kingdom of Lema, he might be able to return to Lema and become the chief administrator of the capital.

In the past, Frederick was unwilling to yield even if it meant death, and he was unwilling to meet or contact the old ministers of the Kingdom of Lema who had already "defected to the enemy."

However, this group of monks from the East brought him new hope.

He personally witnessed Li Ang's superb ability to deceive and confuse right and wrong. This kind of eloquence that could fool the dead was not much different from the Ice Queen's brainwashing ability.

Perhaps this monk can really subvert the current situation.

Having made up his mind, Frederick showed the players a seal he had treasured all these years—this secret seal belonged to the royal family of the Kingdom of Lema, and the former ministers of Lema would definitely recognize it.

The person Frederick wanted to contact was Gunther Leonard, the current Minister of Finance of Mori City, a former Marquis of the Kingdom of Lema,

And Frederick's own cousin.

The two were extremely close. According to Frederick, when they were young, they were inseparable and played together all day long, almost making people think they had some kind of relationship beyond friendship and kinship.

Anyway, it wouldn't hurt to try. Li Ang asked Frederick to write a secret letter to his cousin to see if he could arrange a meeting.

The others continued to interrogate old Dorothy.

This forest witch was indeed an old hand who had been stirring up trouble in several major kingdoms for many years and was still safe and sound.

She had a good understanding of almost all secret organizations, knew their underground strongholds in major cities, and knew their contact methods—whether it was running away or buying supplies, it had to be done through these secret organizations.

After Li Ang squeezed out the contact information of several major secret organizations in Mori City from old Dorothy, he took the gold and silver (courtesy of Carpenter Hornburg) and, taking advantage of the night, changed his appearance and went to the strongholds of the secret organizations.

He spent money to buy various magic potion seeds, finished products, cultivation methods, and two corpses of spellcasters.

The spellcasters in this fairytale world were a bit like gifted people with special abilities. Medical dissections showed that their body structures were no different from ordinary people.

However, some secret organizations did not think so. They would preserve the bodies of dead spellcasters to conduct various experiments, trying to figure out the source of their special abilities.

However, after so many years of exploration, these spellcasters did not seem to have figured out the mystery of the source of their power, nor did they figure out how spellcasters could systematically increase their power.

After Li Ang got the things from the secret organization, he went to the outside of the cathedral and squatted for a night, observing the terrain, defenses, and guard rotation times.

The others in the team were not idle either, leaving one person to watch over old Dorothy.

The other players took advantage of the night to go to various parts of the city, delivering secret letters and collecting intelligence. It would be best if they could get some private photos of the priest in charge of the cathedral, or the city administrator's secret diary.

The next morning, all the players returned to the hotel. After taking turns resting for a while, they heard a knock on the door at noon.

"Knock, knock, knock."

Carpenter Hornburg's voice sounded outside the door, "Is the monk here?"

"Yes."

Li Ang opened the door and saw Carpenter Hornburg standing outside in a suit and leather shoes. He nodded, "Come in and talk."

The paper mill owner entered the room and saw the Eastern monk's disciples, as well as the forest witch tied to the chair.

Li Ang closed the door and asked, "What's the matter?"

Carpenter Hornburg suppressed the thought of asking the other party what he wanted to do with the forest witch. He knew that the more you interfered when dealing with transcendents, the faster you would die. "I went to see the personal secretary of the Mori City administrator this morning. He said that the city will be holding an anniversary celebration for Her Majesty the Queen's birthday recently, and it is estimated that there will be no way to arrange time for you to visit the church separately."

"Alright."

Li Ang nodded, not too disappointed.

They still had Frederick's relationship as a backup, and even if they couldn't get permission from the authorities, they had other ways.

For example, creating a big explosion in a secluded place in Mori City to attract the spellcasters away, and then directly rushing into the church to seize the magic mirror fragment.

Anyway, among the remaining three fragments, two are very close to Mori City, and it is not difficult to seize three fragments in one day.

"Anything else?"

Li Ang asked when he saw that Carpenter Hornburg had not left.

"Uh,"

Carpenter Hornburg's expression was a little awkward, "That personal secretary of the administrator, after hearing that you are monks from the East with mysterious powers, made an invitation"

"Huh?"

Li Ang was stunned when he heard this, "What invitation?"

"The son of the Mori City administrator, a few months ago encountered some, uh, rather supernatural things. The secretary's intention is to ask if you have any exorcism methods."