Chapter 944: Intelligence from Maple Leaf Territory

Time slowly passed.

The originally sunny weather also began to become increasingly colder.

Unlike the Karim Continent a thousand years later.

The climate of the continent a thousand years ago was still within a normal range.

Although it didn't have four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter like Blue Star, it still had its own seasonal rhythm.

The Imperial Capital side was also slightly surprised after receiving the heir submitted by Lan Qingyou.

After all, no one expected that this upper-class noble who had just become a Marquis not long ago would actually hand over her title, territory, and Knight Order to a little girl who was only ten years old.

And this little girl was just picked up a few months ago.

Although they had a master-disciple relationship.

However, this kind of matter of designating an heir didn't have much to do with them either.

As long as it wasn't some plot of subordinates overthrowing superiors, the Council of Nobles usually wouldn't interfere in the internal affairs of other people's families.

And this was even more true for the Emperor's side.

After knowing the heir was Lan Qingyou's disciple, he felt it was even more a matter of course.

Having been Emperor for decades, he naturally knew very well how much Alchemists valued inheritance.

Let alone this little girl obtaining things like Lan Qingyou's title.

Even fully inheriting Lan Qingyou's knowledge wasn't a difficult matter at all.

One must know that Lan Qingyou's marquisate belonged to a technical noble.

She was an existence other nobles all wanted to curry favor with.

So in a sense, the value of alchemy was far higher than anything else.

Especially since the other party was someone Lan Qingyou had taken a liking to.

He knew very well how high the standards of someone of Lan Qingyou's level were.

Regardless of character, just speaking of potential and aptitude alone, that little girl named Feng.

Just being able to be favored by Lan Qingyou already indicated that this girl had extraordinary qualities that others didn't have.

Otherwise, how could Title Holders whose eyes were above the top of their heads take in disciples?

Thus.

With the recognition of the Emperor, nobles, and other parties.

Little Feng officially became the Title Heir of the Marquis of Maple Leaf.

To show his authority, the old Emperor even sent people to deliver ten carts of gifts and a letter of commitment regarding the heir.

Upon seeing this, the rest of the nobles also followed suit.

Those with less money sent one cart, those with more money sent nine carts.

Most of these gifts were limited to materials; actual treasures, Gold Coins, and the like were extremely rare.

After all, everyone knew Lan Qingyou was an Alchemist.

And a very powerful Alchemist at that.

Of course.

The main reason everyone was so generous was still because of the notice Lan Qingyou had posted a few months ago.

What a joke.

The recruitment of ten thousand people, how could such a large movement be hidden?

In fact, within half a month after the notice came out, its contents were known by various nobles and wealthy merchants.

It was also starting from then that they constantly infiltrated spies into Maple Leaf Territory.

After all, it was a recruitment of a full ten thousand people.

No matter how one looked at it, they were conducting some large-scale experiment.

As a result, they didn't expect that after more than two months had passed, the result they waited for was actually an heir issue?

Was this an issue?

Of course it was!

But compared to the other party's research project, it was irrelevant.

After all, if the research yielded any results, it would mean new commodities or opportunities and the like.

But there was nothing!

There was absolutely nothing!

Apart from the issue of the heir, no news came out of Maple Leaf Territory.

The spies they sent one by one didn't send back any intelligence at all.

This point was highly unusual.

After all, let alone every week, spies would at least contact them every month to talk about the current situation or something.

If they encountered urgent matters, they would also use special channels to send the news out.

But this time was different.

The spies under their command one by one seemed as if they had vanished.

Let alone any news.

Not even a single piece of paper was sent out.

Thus, some nobles who felt it was fishy went to sound out other nobles they thought might have dispatched spies.

Who knew they were the same!

This was bad.

After communicating a bit, everyone discovered that none of their spies had sent any news back.

What did this mean?

It meant all these spies were done for!

Although an Alchemist's research results indeed belonged to their secrets.

Such large-scale, direct suppression had never happened before.

They didn't believe someone who could become a Marquis in a short time wouldn't know what those spies of theirs represented.

But the other party still did it.

Then it could only explain one problem.

That was, the experiment that fellow, the Marquis of Maple Leaf, was conducting this time was the kind of experiment that absolutely couldn't, or rather, wouldn't be leaked.

What the content was, what the process was, what the results were, there was no intention of leaking any of it at all.

One must know the other party didn't even care about that magic array for summoning a Goddess.

But now she made this kind of reaction.

Then they couldn't help but be suspicious of Lan Qingyou's experiment this time.

As for the object of suspicion, that was of course the importance!

No matter how one looked at it, its importance in Maple Leaf Territory had to be greater than the magic array for summoning a Goddess.

Thus, a few nobles put their heads together and simply found another batch of spies to go in and check the situation.

Not to mention anything else, at least they had to bring out some intelligence.

Even knowing the other party's magic barrier was there.

Curiosity could always drive people to do things they clearly knew were impossible.

However!

To their absolute surprise, this mentality of just giving it a try unexpectedly yielded results.

It was just that the news was brought back by merchants.

Accurately speaking, some smart spies chose not to enter the barrier but gathered information at the edge.

Thus obtaining news from the merchants coming and going from Maple Leaf Territory.

After those ten thousand people were recruited, they were sent to the camp next to the Marquis's villa in the back mountain.

Over the past two months or so, their merchants had delivered quite a bit of supplies inside.

But they didn't really see anyone.

However, the camp seemed to have lifted its lockdown recently.

The people inside also started coming out one after another to move around.

It's just that they heard those people were no longer experimenters now, but had officially become members of the Maple Leaf Knights.

The spy at the time asked if there was any related news about the Knight Order.

As a result, the head of the merchants shook his head, indicating that apart from knowing the Knight Order was officially established, those members hadn't said anything else.

They were very tight-lipped.

The camp recently lifted its lockdown?

Recently?

Speaking of what matters related to Maple Leaf Territory had happened recently, it definitely had to be the matter regarding the heir that was just sent over.

Heir, Knight Order, title...

Some quick-witted ones had already sensed something from these pieces of news.

But they couldn't grasp that flash of inspiration.

"Did the people from the merchants mention anything else?"

Someone continued to ask the spy.

"Yes."

"What is it?"

"Those members of the Knight Order all have a tattoo of Maple Leaf Territory's Maple Leaf Hourglass Emblem on the back of their left hands."

The spy who came back to report took out a Maple Leaf Hourglass Emblem from his clothes.

"Hmm?"

"A tattoo?"

The nobles present all frowned.