Rein Schwarz was instantly excited upon receiving that offer from Nancy Gill. A woman of her beauty would rarely approach him.

For a few minutes, he felt that the situation was too unbelievable. However, after that, he slowly calmed down and began to think of the possible reasons.

'Maybe my current fame is much greater than I think. Her father might have asked Nancy to approach me and build good relations between us. When I become the President of the Merchant Union, her family would benefit greatly if the two of us have good relations.'

Humans were creatures who liked to accept the facts that appeared to their way of thinking.

It was similar to the situation of Rein Schwarz here. He didn't want to know the truth. He simply accepted the facts presented to him and aligned them to his way of thinking.

His laziness, lust, and greed won against his cautious nature.

After the party, Rein Schwarz went to the Gill Estate.

Since Rein Schwarz was a Vice-President of the Merchant Union, Nancy Gill knew she couldn't use the rough methods.

She had already prepared some drugs to make it easier for her to extract information from Rein Schwarz.

These drugs were custom-made by the Alchemy Association. Nearly all the Inquisitors had such drugs available with them at all moments.

There was no telling when these things might become useful. Thus, the King had provided it to them already.

He allowed them plenty of leeway in how they used it.

Naturally, these drugs were beneficial. Rein Schwarz had no idea how his night had passed, and he was suffering from a severe headache right now.

Meanwhile, Nancy Gill had a rather serious look on her face.

She had extracted a lot of useful information from Rein Schwarz.

'Edwin Rhodes has an intimate relationship with Spencer Russel's daughter?' This information wasn't all that shocking for Nancy. She didn't care much about the relationship between the two youths.

It was the next bits of information that utterly shocked her.

'Edwin Rhodes is Dark Shadow?!'

'Dark Shadow is considered a 5 Star Array Master. This means that the Rhodes Family's Heir is a 5 Star Array Master… How could this information have remained concealed for so long?! Is this one of Jonas Rhodes's tactics?'

'Moreover, it was him who wanted all the information about the ministers from the Royal Court?! Why would he use Rein Schwarz's contacts instead of his Noble House's contacts?'

This entire situation was far too confusing for Nancy Gill. She sent that information to her supervisor and asked him whether she should inform the King. She believed it would be best to inform the King about this sensitive issue.

However, Inquisitor Cat never gave that information to the King. This was because she received a message from a homing pigeon.

When Inquisitor Cat read the message, she destroyed all plans of informing the King about this information regarding Dark Shadow or Edwin Rhodes.

The name of the sender read Tronte. This was naturally Edwin Rhodes's friend in Wrihull City who had sent the message to Inquisitor Cat.

Tronte already knew more or less of what was occurring in the Sinyalian Kingdom. He had his contacts in very important positions, just like the Inquisitor Cat here.

Even the King would find it impossible to believe that Inquisitor Cat had sworn her allegiance to someone else other than him.

Another surprising event occurred in the next couple of days.

The Law Enforcement Branch had suddenly acted and placed several dozens of ministers in detention under the pretext of illegal trading.

The ministers weren't given a chance to resist arrest, and all of them were taken to detention centers within Mesenana City.

Many ministers in the court were surprised by this sudden arrest of their ministers. They knew it was the King who had made his move.

Meanwhile, Edwin sitting in Sophie's mansion, couldn't help but smirk when he heard this information.

The second prince's faction had made its move just as he wanted them to. Now, it was time for him to make his move as well.

With the mask in his hands, Edwin stepped out of the mansion.

He had already used Bianca to find the detention centers. He knew where these ministers had been taken.

It was time to 'free' them.

In the evening time, the law enforcement officers had gathered around, and they were all talking about their recent grabs.

This was the first time, so many ministers had been captured like this. Even if it was related to illegal trading, it shouldn't have spread so much.

This indicated that the King was merely looking for an opportunity to apprehend them! The charges about Illegal trading would only become clear after investigation, but these ministers couldn't return home until then.

These ministers who had been captured by the Law Enforcement Officers found this entire situation completely unbelievable!

"Do you know what you are doing? Do you even understand who you are talking to?! How dare you barge into my house?!"

"You will arrest me?! What illegal trade are you talking about?!"

"You will regret it! You all will regret arresting us like this! When the Crown Prince returns to the mansion, you all will be publicly executed."

Naturally, the Law Enforcement Officers didn't fear those threats. They had received the King's order.

They dared to even capture the Crown Prince with the King's support, let alone these ministers.

All these arrests were made on the same day, and another spicy event occurred in Mesenana City! Naturally, its news only spread a day after this event occurred.

Three detention centers in Mesenana City had been attacked, and the captured ministers had escaped!

It went without saying that this was a serious offense against the Sinyalian Kingdom. The severity of this offense was far greater than the offense of illegal trade, which was still under investigation.

The King and the entire city soon heard of this news.

Needless to say, it was a stunning piece of information. Something so shocking that it made people doubt whether they heard it correctly.

However, this was indeed the truth!

Three detention centers had been attacked in a single night!

The second prince's side was taken aback when they learned of this, but they were overjoyed soon enough.

They believed it was the Crown Prince's faction that had moved out to bring out those ministers.

Most people in Capital believed the same.

At this moment, the second prince of the Sinyalian Kingdom was thinking with a gleeful face, 'The Crown Prince's group has become accustomed to being able to do anything they want that they didn't even think about the repercussions of their actions. Now, they have just committed a massive blunder. Hahahaha…'

Edwin was not done with his plan, though. This was merely the first part of his plan. To frame the Crown Prince and make the king very suspicious about the Crown Prince.

The second phase of this plan was to deal with the 5th Prince and further frame the Crown Prince!

After this event, no matter how sharp the King was, a faint suspicion planted in his mind that the Crown Prince wanted the throne. Or, accurately speaking, the crown prince wanted more power.

And he was unwilling to wait for it any longer. Thus, he was taking action and seizing power.

Currently, he was only making his move against his brothers, who couldn't resist his faction as it had grown too strong under the King's influence. But he would soon lock onto the King as his target.

And this action of attacking the detention centers. The King didn't know whether it was the Crown Prince who conducted this attack or someone else. However, according to his knowledge, only the Crown Prince possessed the resources and boldness to attack those detention centers.

This displayed that the Crown Prince wanted to break free from the King's control now!

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