Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 614: Radicals in the North
Would the investigation team sent by Perfect be able to deal with the two ancient beasts? Not to mention that Shay was unsure about this question, even Perfect herself would not expect the investigation team she sent to have this ability.

Even if she stuffed two Divine Grace Knights flags into the investigation team, she didn't think that this amount of manpower alone would be enough to deal with two ancient beasts that were as powerful as gods.

In Perfectot's opinion, the investigation team's ability to find traces of these two ancient beasts was already their greatest success.

As for dealing with the ancient beast itself? Perfect planned to do it himself.

After all, the only units in the North that can fight against the gods are the Befa that she upgraded and herself.

When she was creating the artifact-level steam armor for Befa, she also considered the possibility of wearing it in combat herself, so she made certain adjustments to it to suit herself.

When necessary, she will wear this set of artifact armor, and the armor blessed by the god of war will be given to Befa to wear.

In this way, there are two sets of artifact armor that can be used in battle.

It's not that Perfectcot had not considered letting other people wear magical armor to fight, but at present there is no suitable candidate in the North.

Although the old butler is of similar strength, he is a man. If he is asked to wear the magic armor, the size of the armor will have to be greatly changed, and then neither she nor Befa can wear it.

The same goes for other male knights, not to mention that they don't even have legendary strength, so they would be courting death even if they were sent into the battlefield.

The foundation of the North is still shallow. Even if Perfect has a potion that can upgrade the honor to legendary, the North does not have enough honor knights.

As for female knights, there is no need to mention that the strongest female knight in the North is still only a great knight.

Therefore, it was impossible for Perfectot to give the precious divine armor to someone who was not strong enough and not trustworthy enough.

Moreover, in Perfectot's opinion, if she herself cannot win wearing the artifact armor in the battle, then it will make no difference if other people wear it. Those who cannot win cannot win, and those who can win can win no matter what.

What's more, if necessary, Perfecto has one last trick, which is to completely copy a Befa wearing artifact armor.

Although this function of the Emerald Record consumes a huge amount of her mental energy and may even drain her directly, Perfect has tried it and she can copy it if she really wants to.

So in terms of demonstration, Perfect has no more demand for combat power.

As for the fact that even if Befa is on the field, he still can't defeat the ancient beast, then Perfecto can only wait for his genius idea to be put into practice and produce results.

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Shay gave the highest level of reception to the investigation team sent by Perfect.

Although the material conditions of the settlement were limited, the highest standard he could offer was to greet them personally and serve them the best food in the settlement, but this was indeed the highest standard he could offer.

Fortunately, the people sent by Perfectot didn't care about this. Everyone knew what the world was like today. It was already a very good treat that Shay entertained them with meat.

Therefore, both parties can be said to have had a great time.

“Although we are very grateful for your hospitality, Knight Cormac, we are not here to enjoy these delicacies.” The investigation team was led by a civilian official. He solemnly asked Shay, “Excuse me, regarding the two giant beasts that the lord is concerned about, do you have any clues to provide?”

For this civilian official, the most important thing is to complete the task assigned by Perfect.

Compared to this, everything else is unimportant, or relatively unimportant.

"Yes, we have some clues." Shay was not surprised by the other party's attitude. He nodded affirmatively and replied, "After receiving the mission from the Lord, I sent people to survey the area where the broken claw was found.

Although many clues have been buried by the weather, we still found some traces. "

"That sounds good. Have you found the giant beasts? Or any traces of their activities would be fine too." The civilian official expressed more expectations.

In response, Shay just nodded and then shook his head: "We found some traces, which were indeed left by the two giant beasts, but they were not traces of their activities, but traces of their movement.

According to what has been discovered so far, the two giant animals were probably migrating due to bad weather, rather than originally living here. "

The hunters Shay sent out to search for the beasts were his best. They found the hidden traces under the wind and snow, analyzed the source of these traces, and tracked the approximate direction of the two beasts.

"Even if it's just this, it's a huge help to our investigation!" The civilian official was overjoyed. Having clues to follow is much better than starting from scratch like a headless fly. "Thank you very much, Knight Cormac! But please send your best guide to assist us. Tracking these two giant beasts requires their help."

"It's my duty. I will let my best hunters assist you. Everything is for the North, and everything is dedicated to our Lord." Although Shay was shouting a slogan, it was his truest expression of emotion.

Although the other members of the investigation team did not shout slogans, judging from their expressions, they obviously had the same idea.

This was a very common occurrence in the North, especially with the arrival of the last winter. Everyone benefited from Perfectoct's construction of the North, and naturally felt great gratitude towards her.

In fact, this is one of the main reasons why the Imperial Center has no way to deal with Perfectot.

Her reputation was so high that to the people, Perfecto was the one who saved them.

Compared with her, the Queen only has some advantages due to the reputation she had accumulated from leading the empire to prosperity in the industrial age.

Now that the Queen is ill and the heir to the royal family is unable to assume responsibility, it can be said that Perfecto has the conditions to challenge the imperial center, or to put it more seriously, to use the emperor to control the princes.

Even because the political assets left to her by the old prince included a right to inherit the throne, there was no legal obstacle for Perfecto to wear the crown herself.

This undoubtedly led to a considerable number of radicals in the North being eager to accomplish this.

Among these radicals, a considerable number were people left behind by the old prince. These people felt deeply regretful and indignant that the old prince had missed the opportunity to ascend the throne.

Now that the old prince has passed away, and Perfectok is his designated successor, these people naturally transferred their regret and indignation to Perfectok. Before Perfectok had enough possibilities to ascend the throne, they naturally would not have thought of this. After all, the empire's succession law is there. Without sufficient legal support, even if he ascended the throne, it would seem unjustifiable.

As for completely overthrowing the empire themselves? This approach is not impossible, but relatively speaking, being able to ascend the throne legitimately is what these radicals expect.

After all, the old prince had devoted his entire life to maintaining the survival of the empire, and it would be somewhat unreasonable for his heir to directly overthrow the empire.

However, when Perfect had already gained unprecedented prestige and had the full support of his fiefdom in the north, it could be said that he had all the necessary conditions to legitimately ascend the throne of the empire.

The only things standing between Perfecto and the throne were Princess Anne, the first in line to the throne, and Perfecto himself.

This is one of the reasons why things were able to proceed so smoothly when Perfect put pressure on the imperial center and even fell out with Princess Anne.

These radicals would like the relationship between the royal family and Perfectok to break down so that they can put Perfectok on the throne.

Although Shay was not a radical, he did not reject the views of radicals and he supported letting Perfecto ascend the throne.

Although in the past he had sworn allegiance to the Queen and had been loyal to the Empire and the Royal Family.

But as Perfectok gave him the opportunity to revive his family, his loyalty has been completely devoted to Perfectok.

If it was Perfectok who asked him to wield the sword against the royal family, he might refuse, but if it was just to support Perfectok to ascend the throne, he would agree with both hands.

The civilian official that Shay was facing happened to be a radical, which meant that there was no barrier between the two sides in terms of their loyalty to Perfect, and they were both thinking about how to do things best.

It was precisely because of this that, with the concerted efforts of both parties, the investigation team quickly locked down the activity range of the two ancient beasts.

They kept Perfectot's instructions in mind and did not rashly capture the two ancient beasts. Instead, they further confirmed the range of the ancient beasts' activities and then surrounded them to restrict the two ancient beasts from moving further.

In the opinion of the investigation team, although they do not have the ability to capture these two giant beasts, they can still restrict their activities and provide assistance for subsequent capture operations.

And in their opinion it is something that must be done.

Because they already knew that Perfecto would come personally to capture the two giant beasts.

There is no doubt that the radicals will never tolerate that their work is not done properly and that the arrest operation of Perfecto is adversely affected.

They even felt that they were extremely incompetent and dereliction of duty by not crippling the beast and tying it up and waiting for Perfecto to catch it.

If they can't even do things like restricting the activities of the giant beasts and facilitating their capture, then they can all die.

Although it is not popular in Victoria's traditional culture to kill a knight for failing to complete the task assigned by the monarch, for a knight, if he fails to complete the task entrusted by the lord, it is absolutely a lifelong shame, and it is a shame that can never be washed away.

Any knight who had such a shameful experience would be extremely disgraceful in the eyes of other knights or nobles.

The radical civilian official obviously did not want to be labeled as incompetent, so after discussing with Shay, the investigation team, with the help of several hunters, set up a large number of traps and obstacles around the activity area of ​​the two beasts to interfere with the activities of the two beasts.

It cannot be said that their actions were fruitless, but at least they were useless.

The traps set by the hunters were as outrageous to the ancient beasts whose physical fitness was comparable to that of gods as a child digging a mud pit in the ground and trying to trap an elephant in it.

Although the ancient beast did step into the trap, the trap basically had no effect on the ancient beast.

The ancient beast only needs to exert a little strength to easily destroy the trap that seems very solid to the hunters.

Only the Knights of Divine Grace in the investigation team, perhaps because their divine aura stimulated the ancient beast, were able to allow the ancient beast to take shelter temporarily.

Fortunately, their harassment was effective, and the two ancient beasts did stop migrating.

The two ancient beasts did not gather together, or rather, they were in a hostile state and naturally could not live in the same area.

They simply found a sheltered valley as their temporary home, avoiding the wind and snow as well as the harassment from the investigation team.

The investigation team did not go any deeper. After surrounding and restricting the activities of the two ancient beasts with the Knights of Divine Grace, they stopped and waited for Perfecto to arrive in person.

However, they did not just wait there, but tried to observe and analyze the two ancient beasts, trying to find out their weaknesses so that they could provide help to Perfecto when she arrived.

The investigation team quickly identified which of the two ancient beasts was the owner of the broken claw picked up by Shay. It is still easy to identify even if a claw is missing.

It is for this reason that the investigation team feels that this side is easier to deal with than the other side.

After all, the combat effectiveness of a beast with one claw missing should be different from that of one with all four limbs intact. And judging from the fact that one of its claws was broken by another ancient beast, its combat effectiveness is obviously weaker.

Based on these findings, the investigation team quickly compiled a report and sent it back to Langton, which was then handed over to Perfect.

Perfect was undoubtedly satisfied with the actions of the investigation team.

Not only did this save her a lot of effort, it also provided her with the necessary information and references for her subsequent arrest.

However, Perfect did not set off immediately. Instead, she waited for the test specimen she cultivated to grow fully.

This was a field she had never tried before, but since her mother was an excellent master of human transmutation, Perfecto, who inherited all the knowledge left by her mother, successfully completed her experiment and obtained the test subjects she wanted.

However, due to the special properties of the test subject, it needs some time to grow. Fortunately, Perfect can afford to wait.

(End of this chapter)