Just as Edwin wanted, Rein Schwarz introduced him to his contacts in Royal Palace. Edwin met each informant only met a single time, and he connected his Voice Transmission Array Stone with this man.
He recorded their addresses and informed them how he would send them their money. It would be passed to his family at home rather covertly. They had to be very careful in spending it, or else someone might get suspicious.
Naturally, the informants knew how serious the situation was as compared to Edwin.
They trusted Edwin greatly that he would pay them properly because he was introduced by Rein Schwarz.
Rein Schwarz's words had value and credibility.
Edwin asked them a couple of questions. They were rather simple, like where the princes go on a walk. He also gave them a task to find where each minister goes after the courtroom.
Is it really their home or somewhere else?
That sort of information would be useful to him.
Edwin planned to guess which prince's faction they belonged to after grouping these ministers.
Each faction would have its ministers, and once Edwin found out about them, he could plan ahead.
'The most suspicious faction for the King should be the Crown Prince's faction. They possess enough resources and power to have committed such a deed. The other princes are at a similar level. Even if they can resist fate to a certain extent, they can't move many forces without leaving the traces or proofs along the line.'
'Only the Crown Prince's faction can attempt such a thing perfectly and prevent it from spreading.'
'I should try and manipulate them to control the situation in the Capital and the Royal Palace. Also, they might know something regarding this Fate Dragon.'
He never got the feeling of a Dragon Bloodline from Bernado or even from that Demon King Black Hurricane in the fifth prince's body.
Even if Edwin's power was insufficient to sense the presence of the Dragon Bloodline, Azaroth should have managed to sense it.
A Dragon's Majestic Aura was very hard to conceal through some sort of treasure. At the least, Azaroth was sure that Black Hurricane in the fourth prince's body didn't possess a Dragon's Bloodline.
If he did, he would have used it against Azaroth rather than summon his true body.
Moreover, he specifically mentioned that it was the King who possessed this ability.
'Is it some kind of Spiritual Dragon congealed by gathering Fate Energy?' Edwin frowned at this thought.
Edwin shuddered in thought as he estimated the power of that Fate Dragon. The Fate Energy was even superior to a Demon God's Existence. It wouldn't be wrong to say that this power was par to the powers of a Demon Venerable - a 9 Star Rank Existence.
'It's a good thing that the king doesn't know who his son's killer is. He can't take action against me any time soon. I have the time to control the Royal Court.' Edwin was overflowing with confidence.
The Royal Court was assembled every single day.
Each time a different minister would speak up in the Royal Court, giving his own theories on who might have harmed Bernado and their possible motives.
Bernado possessed the trade routes of the raw array materials, connections with the array association, massive wealth, and a deep secret.
The motive of his murder could be related to one of these three things. His enemies most likely benefit greatly from Bernado's death.
It may be someone looking to establish ties with the array association and enter the raw array materials trade industry.
Naturally, all the accused ministers denied those charges. They were innocent, so they had to deny those charges.
Some ministers among them were actually thinking of taking advantage of this situation to enter the array materials trade industry.
These charges against them prevented them from taking advantage of this situation.
If they tried to set up an array materials trade industry now, it would be akin to shouting that they were probably involved in the Third Prince's death.
It was best to reign their greed for now and let the situation cool down.
Until then, the Royal palace had decided to handle the array materials trade industry so that the array association had a stable supply of resources.
The officials were absolutely loyal to the King. And it was risky to approach them with a proposal. Until the situation cools down, that is.
There was a high chance that this was the King's trick to determine who was lusting after this industry.
After the Royal Court meeting ended, the ministers walked out of the Royal Palace. Edwin's informants began to follow those ministers.
They were following these ministers at a rather safe distance. These informants had spent most of their life living in the Royal Palace. Thus, they knew a lot about this place.
They had to act as usual and make the guards think it was part of their routine.
However, these servants had little to no idea that they were followed by a guard.
This guard was one of Inquisitor Cat's informants. Inquisitor Cat had used his personal connections and asked them to check out any suspicious activity occurring in the Royal Palace.
As they were informants, they were very attentive to what occurred in the Royal Palace. Currently, a guard among them found these servant's behavior quite odd.
Almost a half-dozen of them had moved together. The servants' routes were surprisingly the same as that of the ministers' path.
'Something is strange. I should check it out.'
The guy couldn't tell his comrades about this because he wasn't sure about it. Maybe it was one strange coincidence. He couldn't ask them to abandon their tasks and just follow him because of his gut feeling.
A couple of hours later, the moles sent the information to Edwin.
Edwin noted this information and made a mental note to tell Rein Schwarz to send money to their house.
Currently, he had no idea that one of his informants had already been caught by the Inquisitor Cat's informant.
Inquisitor Cat's informant had witnessed the servant sending that information to Edwin.
This confirmed his guess that these servants were indeed up to something. Someone had put them to work.
The informant immediately contacted Inquisitor Cat.
"Miss Nancy, I just got my hand on something. And it might be something big." The informant was rather happy that he could be useful to his mistress.
Inquisitor Cat's true identity was that of a mistress of a wealthy banking family in the Capital. Her true name was Nancy Gill
"What is it? Tell me in brief," Nancy Gill voiced out.
"Six or seven servants had been moved by someone to gather information regarding the ministers. They were following the ministers. I was a little suspicious of them, so I followed one of them. One of them used a Voice Transmission Array Stone to contact his master and inform him of the location of where the minister is staying," The informant immediately gave a basic description of the situation.
"…" Nancy Gill remained quiet for a couple of seconds. This wasn't something that might involve Bernado's death. She believed it might be related to another political strategy from some minister.
Her informant didn't know that she was only looking for information relating to Bernado's murder. And she wanted to keep it that way.
There was no relation between Nancy and Bernado. So it would be strange if someone discovered that she was investigating Bernado's death. Her identity might be compromised.
"Bring him to the base and interrogate him. I want to know the name of his employer."
"As you command, Miss Nancy," The informant responded respectfully and excitedly.
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