Chapter 1645

Ms. Galina was indeed as busy as Xia De thought. Even if Ajelina wanted to see her, she had to wait for a full 30 minutes at the door of the office. But there was no way, because the one talking to her great-aunt was her father, Larus III, and the Earl of Hunteril, the Minister of Health and Social Security of the Kingdom.

The little princess held the silver cat and sat on the bench in the corridor, swinging her legs under her skirt, basking in the sunlight from the window on the other side, enjoying this peaceful afternoon. Servants walked and stopped, and attendants carrying documents shuttled through the office building of the palace.

Everyone would greet Ajelina, and Ajelina Cavendish was not in a hurry for such waiting, but hoped that the waiting time could be longer. On this unexpected Wednesday, she got what she thought was the best gift.

Around two o'clock in the afternoon, the office door was pushed open by a servant. His Majesty the King walked out first. Seeing Ajelina who stood up from the bench in the corridor, he smiled kindly, and then walked toward the west side of the corridor with the Earl following behind him.

Ajelina let her maid help smooth the wrinkles on her skirt, and only then walked into the office.

The Duke's servant was tidying up the meeting minutes on the desktop. The red-haired Duchess sat behind the desk, looking at the sunlight outside the window boredly, while Tifa was holding a stack of cowhide document bags and stuffing them into the bookshelf on the wall behind her.

"Good afternoon, Great-Aunt."

Ajelina's voice made Ms. Galina turn her head:

"Good afternoon, Ajelina, didn't we finish talking about you accompanying to the Green Lake area?"

She said, and then saw the cat in the little princess's arms:

"Oh?"

Frowning slightly, because this transformation technique was so brilliant that even she couldn't see through what it was at the first time. This was also why Xia De dared to break into Yodel Palace directly in broad daylight.

"Oh!"

If she saw this kind of cat on the side of the road, she would at most sigh at the beauty of the coat color, and then no longer take it to heart. But since it was brought in by Ajelina, there must be a problem. She looked carefully, and sure enough, she saw some clues, and then judged some traces of the transformation technique.

"Oh~"

Only then did she remember that this was clearly the appearance of the cat Xia De turned into after drinking the "Cat in the Bottle" last time.

So the Duchess stood up from her chair immediately, and the maids also looked at the cat held by the princess. Xia De saw that the situation was not good, and the door was already closed, so he jumped out of Ajelina's arms immediately and restored to his human form:

"Galina, don't even think about it!"

"Really, Ajelina can hug, but I can't?"

The witch expressed her dissatisfaction slightly, and then was hugged enthusiastically by Xia De.

The smile on her face became more and more brilliant, and the annoying emotions generated when discussing problems with men also disappeared.

"Your transformation technique is very brilliant, when did you learn it?"

"Last week in Midhillburg."

Xia De said:

"In addition, I have a few encrypted texts from Green Lake here, see if they are useful."

"Sit down and talk. Tifa~ have tea and snacks sent over, it's time for afternoon tea break."

"Great-Aunt, then I'll leave first."

The little princess said sensibly, and also waved goodbye to Xia De playfully.

"Ajelina is going to Green Lake with you?"

Looking at the little princess's departing back, Xia De asked curiously, and the witch nodded:

"Yes, it was a decision she made after considering for a long time. That's fine, letting girls of this age go out more will make them mature quickly. You see, Yiluna and Ajelina are the same age, only half a year older than her, but they look completely different."

This sentence Xia De agreed with very much:

"Has Ajelina's impending awakening been told to her father?"

Xia De asked again.

"Not yet. Rixia said, it's not too late to talk about it after she completely awakens. In this way, there is no need to worry about causing other trouble. Don't look at me like this, there may indeed be trouble. Royal family, especially a royal family with many offspring, anything can happen."

She said with a smile, and unfolded the three encrypted texts Xia De took out.

Xia De had already decrypted the encrypted text from the Military Intelligence Section 6 by relying on three books, which was not complicated for him. And the content of the encrypted text showed that the Military Intelligence Section 6 tried to buy off Rotten Eye Barry and use these gangsters to find a few people during the negotiations in the Green Lake area.

"This list of personnel is the Grey Glove agents lurking in the Green Lake area that our spies in Karsenrik learned about. Sometimes it is more convenient for gangsters to find people than professional agents."

Ms. Galina said, putting this document aside:

"But why did that Rotten Eye Barry leave such important documents everywhere? If it wasn't taken by you, but by others and deciphered, the situation of Section 6 would be very embarrassing."

"He actually hid it quite secretly, it's just that he couldn't stop me and Megan... and his mind wasn't on this either."

Speaking of this, Xia De thought of the scene where the two fell into the lake last night. The heart that had been pierced throbbed faintly. Of course, this was just phantom pain. His injuries had long been healed in the lake water because of the blessing of the 【God of Deep Sea Drowned Ones】.

"Megan? Called by name directly? I'm really looking forward to seeing her in Green Lake next week."

The red-haired witch's smile remained unchanged, and she looked at the encrypted text of the Grey Glove again. Xia De had already learned the decryption method of the Grey Glove encrypted text from Margaret, so he had also deciphered it.

The content was not very important, probably meaning that the Grey Glove gave Rotten Eye Barry a large sum of money and hoped that he could use his subordinates to regularly collect information on the border defense troops in the Green Lake area and report it to the Grey Glove's informant.

"But that cultist is already dead, the value of this information is not great."

Ms. Galina said again, and finally looked at the encrypted text of unknown origin. There were complex patterns on it. Because he didn't know the decryption method, Xia De didn't crack it either.

The witch looked at it for two glances, and her expression gradually became serious. So she said to Tifa:

"Go and ask if Director Anluosi of the Military Intelligence Section 6 is in Yodel Palace now. Regardless of whether he is or not, let him come to see me now."

"Yes, Miss."

Tifa walked out hurriedly, and the Duchess explained to Xia De:

"On the night of last Thursday when your group made a big stir, you remember, right? Section 6 discovered a Delarion noble meeting with Karsenrik people, but didn't catch the other party."

"Yes, of course I remember. I also met the director last Saturday night, and he revealed that the noble might be a prince of the royal family again."

Xia De hadn't forgotten the prince who broke into Yodel Palace with a gun last year.

Ms. Galina nodded:

"Although Section 6 hasn't been able to find out who it is, they have at least found out that this matter is indeed unrelated to the Grey Glove of the Karsenrik United Kingdom. According to the current investigation, they have initially locked onto the enemy this time. Dak Anluosi's judgment was very accurate at the beginning, multiple forces joined together, intending to stir up the negotiations between the two countries, and even push for a full-scale war between the two major human kingdoms in the Old World."

She signaled Xia De to stand up and came to the map on the wall of the study with him. This map contained the entire Old World, as well as the east coast of the New World, and landmarks, terrain, and various other signs were quite accurate:

"Look, Xia De. My ancestor and the ancestor of Princess Margaret used hundreds of years in the Sixth Era to unify the southern and northern regions respectively. Since then, the Old World has possessed the most basic order, but what followed was the full-scale North-South War in the Old World."

Xia De stared at the map, he could imagine what kind of history the Duchess described in just a few sentences.

"Now that the two countries in the north and south have stopped fighting, more than 70% of the territory of the Old World belongs to the two countries. The remaining land, except for the uninhabitable large deserts, primeval rainforests, and extreme northern glaciers, has nearly a hundred small countries. Some of them are affiliated with the two countries. If I can make Saladir County independent, I will also establish a principality in the future. Others maintain relative independence, such as the Lagson Principality where the headquarters of the Diviner Association is located."

Xia De's eyes moved on the map as the witch's finger pointed. The map used short black thick lines to identify the borders of each country. Compared to Delarion and Karsenrik, those small countries were indeed quite inconspicuous.

"The order of the entire Old World now revolves around the two countries of Karsenrik and Delarion, and the vigorous steam industrial revolution is also promoted by our two countries. But does everyone recognize this order? No, Xia De, the ambitious people have long been waiting for an opportunity, waiting for the opportunity for the two major northern and southern kingdoms to go to war again, so as to reshape the world order."

Her finger pointed out the direction for Xia De:

"In the New World in the west of the Old World, people who have seized opportunities and wealth are trying to obtain more. What is more attractive than establishing a country in the New World far away from the old order?"

The wealth and power of the New World, even an outsider can imagine, and the disputes and wars in the Old World can give them opportunities.

"In the south of the Rommel mountain system in the Old World, Karsenrik-Delor County, the former Kingdom of Delor was annexed by Karsenrik fifty years ago, but the restorationists are still restless, waiting for the opportunity to take back their homeland and power. Jungle, desert, guerrillas are still lurking. Compared with them, the 'Francois restorationists' you encountered are not worth mentioning. At its peak, the Kingdom of Delor was known as the third largest kingdom of mankind."

The witch's hand pointed again to the area below the huge mountain system spanning the east of the Old World, marked as "Delor County," which is also the second largest county-level administrative division in the eastern part of the Karsenrik United Kingdom. And before the Kingdom of Delor disappeared, this was only three-quarters of their land area.