Second World

Chapter 1196 1196. Retasking The Investigator Teams

Easycome left. While waiting, Jack sent messages to John. He informed John that he failed to get an audience with Queen Frorryntiar. This prompted Johnʼs mockery.

”Iʼm expecting you to inform me about some sort of a miracle. You truly have disappointed me, expert. You should go hide somewhere and reflect on this. Shame on you.”

Even though Jack had expected it, it didnʼt make this less annoying.

”Cut the crap. I want you to pull out our troops amassing near Hydrurondʼs border,” Jack said.

”Well, since youʼve failed, there is no use having the army waiting there. But instead of sending them back to their respective bases, I would like to continue keeping them as one army. We can just pull them back far enough so Hydrurond doesnʼt feel so nervous.

”Why? Do you think we still have a chance to mobilize this army?” Jack asked.

”That will depend on how long the war in Hydrurond lasts,” John answered. ”Remember my proposed plan to strike once Hydrurond is defeated?”

”All right. Just donʼt mobilize before that happens or before I give the order, and donʼt do any secret maneuver that might enrage Hydrurond. Iʼm serious. I will be angry if you end up offending them when Iʼm trying to earn their trust.”

”Donʼt worry,” John assured. ”How are you trying to earn their trust?”

”There is a situation involving players in this country.”

”What kind of situation?” John asked.

Jack told John what he had learned.

After hearing the story, John cursed. ”Damn our guildʼs spymaster who is in charge of Hydrurond. Iʼm going to have a good talk with him. How can he not report such an important incident?”

”Important?” Jack asked.

”Even though Iʼve said that Hydrurond is most likely Masterʼs main target for expansion, we donʼt know when he will strike. If Iʼd learned about this serial killing earlier, I would have been able to predict that they will be attacking soon.”

”Do you mean that these serial killings are done by the World Maker?”

”Or someone they hired, but Iʼm sure they are behind it. You said Easycome is getting the information, isnʼt he? Check the list of victims, I bet you should find all of them to be members of Hydrurondʼs kingdom faction.”

”What does the World Makerʼs intention with these serial killings?”

”To destabilize the kingdom, disrupt its economy, and halt its military improvement,” John answered. ”I bet the victims are not only kingdom faction members, but they should also be Hydrurondʼs officers. Their absence will cause a reduction in the settlementsʼ stats, which in turn reduced the countryʼs income and their ability to wage war. Hydrurond would be forced to redirect their focus in recovering the settlementsʼ stats rather than on military matters.”

”Do World Maker need to go that far?”

”Even though Hydrurond is no longer the leader of the seven countries, they once were. Their military might not be able to easily take out another country in a one-on-one fight, but their military is still the strongest. They have the highest army count. Even if Liguritudum and Aurebor hit them together at the same time, winning is not a certainty. World Maker will need to cover many angles to increase their winning odds.”

”If only they didnʼt divide their troops... This is my fault,” Jack said.

”If youʼve managed to convince Queen Frorryntiar, we might still turn this around. But you didnʼt, so we can only consider this as bad luck.”

”If these serial killings are indeed World Makerʼs doing, then it is more reasons to stop the killings. Doing this will also allow us to gain queen Frorryntiarʼs trust.”

”You do what you have to do,” John said and ended the message.

Jack then started messaging different guild members via the guild function. These guild members were Jeannyʼs investigator teams. Jeanny had informed Jack of the names of the members she selected for the investigator teams. This way, Jack could contact them directly.

Jeanny had assembled quite many players with investigative skills. Jack told these teams to start crossing the border into Hydrurond and teleported to Messephyria once they did. He would then pass along the data from Easycome.

These teams had just completed the reports on five affairs, helping Jack to get perfect scores from three affairs. Jack received 410,000 merit points and 15 ruling powers from those affairs.

Another four new affairs were available but Jack didnʼt send the investigators to these new affairs. It was a bad rep to ignore affairs but Jack considered dealing with the serial killings in Hydrurond a higher priority. So, he ignored those four new affairs. He would probably just take a shot at one of the multiple-choice answers from the affairs when the time limit was about to end.

From the merit points received, Jackʼs sovereign level increased to level 10.

At this level, Jack could add another royal agent. After thinking for a while, he decided to send the invitation to Robinson, who used to share a jail with Laurent when they were in captivity by the Verremor nation.

Robinson was a high-level rare elite. He also looked trustable, and since he was a good friend of Laurent, they should be able to coordinate well together.

Jack received the notification that Robinson had accepted his invitation. Considering Robinson had just joined the military recently, his rank was still low. He had no reservations about letting go of his rank and joining Jackʼs royal agents.

Jack checked Robinsonʼs data. Robinson was still level 75. But even so, he had the highest level among Jackʼs royal agents. He was one level higher than Duke Alfredo.

His skill traits were dart, dagger, fist, shield, and move. His affinities were light, earth, and wind elements. He had a talent, Fist Proficiency. This talent boosted fist damage by ten percent. It also improved his chance of learning fist skills, and he could learn fist skills with a level requirement twenty levels above his level.

Jack then used the royal agent function and spent coins to upgrade all of Robinsonʼs equipment to super rare grade.

He installed two skills from the kingdomʼs skill library onto Robinsonʼs two free skill slots. He chose Ki Shield for defense and Multi-sided Strikes for the offense. Both were skills he had seen in action. Ki Shield was once displayed by Ramaun, the underworld demon who fought the infernal stormbird. The Multi-sided strikes was a skill used by Umeza, the veteran orcish elder.