Dear Broom Knight

"Have you forgotten that many shattered divine artifacts, before obtaining a body that allows them to unleash their power, have countless silent and unnoticed fertilizers like him?" Travis sneered. "That guy is indeed useless, but at least he can imbue the fragment with the aura of our royal bloodline.

If once isn't enough, we'll try several times.

After replacing a few more fertilizers, who knows, one day, it might even reach me... well, someone of your status!"

Arsalan rolled his eyes at him, then immediately retaliated: "Then, what's the deal with Rosalind?"

"Can't you think of anything serious for once?" Travis couldn't help but scold him sharply, provoked by the hint of suspicion in his eyes. "Rosalind's identity is definitely not a problem!

Besides, she was born when he was only 14 years old!

I'll say it again, only my bloodline will be judged as the royal bloodline by the magic array.

If it were my grandson, the bloodline's color would be one shade lighter!

Damn it, don't you know that?

How did I get caught up in your train of thought... You're really something... How could Laurie be so proper under your tutelage?"

An enraged Travis pulled out a three-dimensional map from a pendant on his chest.

But I can't reduce her staff, especially the number of dragonkin servants.

So, I specifically chose a palace that looks remote, but has a shortcut through the palace."

Arsalan couldn't help but take a look and quickly understood what Travis meant by the shortcut.

The huge, uninhabited area in the middle is Ruthcania's dragon's nest.

To reach Rosalind's palace as quickly as possible, one must pass through the dragon's nest.

However, even servants who enter the dragon's nest at the scheduled times for cleaning might be swatted away by Ruthcania if she's in a bad mood!

Over the years, Arsalan had only seen one person who could freely traverse the dragon's nest, even daring to brush past Ruthcania's tail... his student, Laurie Montes.

Of course, none of this would affect Travis's own movements, but if others wanted to go to Rosalind's area, they would have to go a long way around, passing by several council halls and a dozen princes' and princesses' palaces.

Those without ulterior motives probably wouldn't think of going. Those with ulterior motives wouldn't dare to go easily.

This does protect Princess Rosalind from the influence of that greedy maternal clan... However, similarly, if something really happened to her, it might go unnoticed.

"It seems your dragonkin servants can't keep an eye on everything." Arsalan watched Travis's finger slowly slide to the palaces of Leon's unfortunate mother and son, shaking his head helplessly.

Indeed, the area where Rosalind lived only had a few princesses' palaces, and the only prince's palace there had only been built in recent years.

But to the right of Ruthcania's dragon's nest, on the outermost edge of the royal palace, was a small palace complex where Leon's mother and younger brother lived.

This area was actually no longer considered part of the inner palace area.

The main residents were basically close relatives of the royal family.

Such as uncles like Arsalan, or the king's own siblings.

Both the left and right wings had such residential areas, but the left wing area was larger and also closer to several commercial streets in the royal city, so most of the royal family members lived in that direction.

The right wing was a bit inferior; it was no problem to go out, but to go to the commercial street, one had to go a long way around.

In a normal royal city, the main commercial streets would never be located directly in front of the royal palace.

Although the road there was long and wide, it was the only way for the king and the army to travel; how could a group of merchants be allowed to sit there and watch the movements of the army?

Therefore, the areas on both sides of that long avenue, closer to the royal palace, were basically government departments.

A little further away were some departments that were considered important, but didn't need to conduct business in the royal palace.

Beyond that were the military camps and the inner city walls where the military was stationed... and the military camps were located in the right wing area.

A proper royal city would definitely have inner and outer cities.

Therefore, the inner city area would definitely not have commercial establishments set up for civilians.

The reason why the commercial streets appeared there was because most of the nobles lived in the left wing.

There was no choice; except for the families of the soldiers themselves, no one wanted to live too close to the military camps.

Therefore, the right wing had more small shops in the alleys, which didn't suit the tastes of the great nobles at all.

In the end, it became the current situation.

All the prosperous areas were basically on the left side, while the right side was quieter.

Although Travis's eldest son had passed away early, his palace had not actually been reclaimed.

But after what happened to Leon, Travis could no longer let his eldest son's ex-wife's son live with this ruthless, selfish, and foolish wife.

Yet, he couldn't possibly allow his grandson, who was still a cub, to be taken outside to be raised by such a mother.

That would simply be sending him to the slaughterhouse.

Therefore, he could only choose to have that woman take the child and move to that sparsely populated area.

Rosalind lived on the far left of the back row of palaces, while the two of them lived at the end of the left wing.

They didn't seem to be in the same area, but in reality, they were only separated by a few walls.

Perhaps from the top floor of Rosalind's palace, one could see the gardens of that palace complex... Although Rosalind's palace wasn't as large as the mother and son's, it was taller.

According to the law, the tallest buildings in the inner city could only be two stories high, regardless of who owned them.

But the princesses' residences were still considered part of the royal palace, so their palaces were basically three stories high.

Although the King's palace was also three stories high, each story was one and a half stories high.

As for the Queen's palace, only the first floor was one and a half stories high.

"Even the most perfect design can't withstand luck!" Arsalan looked at the two palaces so close at hand and couldn't help but shake his head.

"At least, we know what's going on." Travis tapped the map. "That thing was probably activated a long time ago."

"That woman from the Hissar family, her firm belief that her youngest son could become her hope, more worthy of her love than Leon, was that influenced by that thing?" Arsalan glanced at His Majesty the King.

"Probably." Travis laughed absurdly. "Well, at least it lets me know that the madman is indeed truly mad, and not just pretending to be crazy.

The Hissar family has probably been controlled by that thing for a long time."

Arsalan thought for a moment before asking, "What's the deal with the awakening array?"

Normally speaking, such an abnormal thing would definitely be detected by the awakening array, which has the laws of the world as its foundation, let alone allowing Hissar to marry a prince and give birth to several children!

"Just look at Laurie and you'll know!" Travis replied simply, "Although Laurie has been using that thing all along, he hasn't been controlled at all, nor has his soul been devoured, so the awakening array won't react no matter how it tests him."

"Hissar is like this, and that's not considered being controlled?" Arsalan was taken aback.

"Of course not!" Travis replied seriously, "Divine artifact fragments, to put it bluntly, are just a kind of magical oddity with intelligence, only a bit more powerful.

Or rather, some things are so powerful because they were used by gods.

It's impossible for the laws to think someone is guilty just because they used that thing.

To put it bluntly, the Churches of the Gods, and even our royal family, all have a portion of cleaned-up fragments in use.

Their souls haven't been replaced, they've just been subtly guided onto that path of no return.

Even those who sacrificed their own flesh and blood weren't necessarily forced to do so.

You should understand, Arsalan!"

"Hissar's agility!" Arsalan couldn't help but sigh. "Garcia..."

"I don't know if they played any special roles in this." Travis said calmly, "But, I won't regard them as enemies for the time being.

After all, it's more likely that they were deceived."

He glanced at Arsalan: "Don't avoid the topic.

Back then, you were digging up people's graves everywhere in search of magical scrolls..."

"That's called relics!" Arsalan lost his composure and directly interrupted him, "Damn it, they weren't buried inside!"

"Tsk~ It's almost the same as being buried inside." Travis responded with a sneer.

"What exactly do you want to do?" Arsalan stared at him coldly.

"Something that can provide people with mink-like agility, has the ability to mentally seduce or control, and is coveted by the Seberfia family, this is the only clue we can know now." Travis said softly, "The divine artifacts from the outside world are not only countless, but also very unfamiliar to us.

Otherwise, the Temples of the Gods wouldn't have judged those fragments to be discarded items.

So, I have two things I hope you can help with."

Arsalan looked at him cautiously: "Tell me first!"

"One, I need you to re-examine those discarded fragments to see if there are any clues inside, and also, whether anything else is starting to stir.

Since they can be wrong once, they might be wrong a second time."

"And then..." Arsalan crossed his arms, looking at the White Dragon King with a cold expression: The first thing mentioned is definitely the easiest one.

This already made him want to curse out loud, how disgusting would the second one be?

"Hehe... Actually, the second one isn't something you can do, it's just... you know, dragons know everything."