The warden who guards the witches

"Pollution?" Aiden was interested in this topic.

"If you are interested, why don't you use your intelligence network to find out?" Abigail stopped talking at this time.

Aiden thought for a moment and said, "Are you keeping it a secret? Or do you not want to say it?"

"I am also a little hesitant whether to say it. I have a rough plan to obtain the sole authority of "life". I am not sure whether you will become a variable in my plan, and I don't know whether it is good or bad if you become a variable. In terms of personal feelings, I actually think you are a trustworthy person..." Abigail raised her hand and pointed at Aiden, "But reason tells me that positions may not always be consistent with personal likes and dislikes. Even if I have a certain friendship with you, there is no guarantee that our positions will always be consistent."

"It seems that you still don't trust me very much." Aiden spread his hands and smiled.

He heard what Abigail meant. Abigail was worried that he would hinder her plan after knowing too much information about the sole authority of "life" - although they have no conflicts now, it does not mean that they will never stand on opposing positions in the future.

Unlike Chichimora, who is keen on pursuing divinity and sole authority, Abigail, who is already close to authority, seems unusually calm in this matter. Chichimora will actively stick to Aiden and trade with him in pursuit of power, but Abigail is not obsessed with using him as an external force, so she will be more cautious.

"Your Excellency is not the kind of person who will tell everything about himself, right?" Abigail paused after speaking, and added, "We get along very well in this matter."

Aiden was stunned for a moment, and was silent for a few seconds. Abigail laughed softly, and Aiden also laughed with understanding.

They are all the kind of people who will reserve their own intelligence out of caution, but they can all face this situation "frankly". This reserved frankness is the basis for them to establish this strange trust relationship now.

"To be honest, I really want to do you a favor so that you can come back to help me." Aiden shook his head with some regret.

"If you really want to, shouldn't you prepare a 'surprise' for me outside of my plan?" Abigail said slowly, "A gentleman always has to spend some time to give gifts to ladies."

"What a demanding lady." Aiden narrowed his eyes.

Abigail's words were quite clear. Outside of her plan, he should first solve the obstacles to obtaining the authority of "life" and seize the authority, and use it as a bargaining chip to directly threaten him - only in this way will Abigail be willing to take the risk to assist him.

"But for you now, Chichimora is more likely to win than me. After all, her relationship with you is developing quite steadily." Abigail smiled.

"Okay, stop teasing." Aiden sighed, "Didn't I say before that the probability of her getting it... is really low. And getting the only authority is one thing, and being promoted to a ruler is another."

It is not easy to be promoted to a ruler. The only authority is constantly changing hands among mortals, but there are very few rulers who actually appear.

"Indeed, I'll contact Chichimora tonight. After all..." Abigail paused, "Gistas is not very peaceful now."

"Are you talking about the conflict on the southern border?" Aiden recalled the political news he had read in the newspaper. "This matter doesn't have much impact. The two sides in the conflict are just two small countries. The Kingdom of Gistas seems to be secretly manipulating one side behind the scenes... As a price, a lot of refugees have poured into the south of Gistas, and it's impossible to control them."

"It's not this, it's another matter. Don't you know? The king of Gistas died of an acute illness last month, and then the prince ascended the throne..."

"Isn't this a natural thing?" Aiden said.

He had read the news, but didn't pay much attention to it. The birth, aging, illness and death of princes and nobles are actually far less attractive to ordinary people than their gossip.

"But there was a little trouble in the process of ascending the throne. It is said that the minister with great power took out a will of the king, claiming that there is another unknown heir..." Abigail said.

"An unknown heir? Could it be... an illegitimate child?" Aiden was a little surprised.

"Exactly." Abigail nodded.

This really became gossip... I'll have to look through the newspapers again in the past few days.

But Aiden was not surprised by the gossip itself, but Abigail's attitude towards it.

"You are actually interested in this kind of thing?" Aiden asked with a somewhat teasing tone.

"Because this matter is not completely unrelated to the witch gathering, I occasionally learn about political news." Abigail explained, "Now the secret police directly under the royal family of Gistus are running around, and the heresy trial agency is also extremely nervous..."

"I can understand that the secret police arrested political prisoners, but what does the political issue have to do with the heresy trial bureau?" Aiden frowned.

"Because it may involve political assassination." Abigail reminded, "Your Excellency is a former heresy inquisitor, you should understand it, right?"

"Ah!" Aiden suddenly realized.

The struggle for throne succession and national power, even to the point of life and death, always involves some drama of political assassination. Those well-known killers on the road often have one or two murderous skills involving black magic. If the government wants to prevent and arrest these killers, the most suitable unit is the Heresy Inquisition.

Ayden's prison contained the most famous killer on the road in the past few years, and the agency that caught her was the Inquisition Bureau of the Autonomous Prefecture.

"All in all, Gistas is not very peaceful now. Many witches who were originally in Gistas have fled to the Empire and the Netherlands." Abigail said.

"No matter how bad the situation is, Chichimora will not get into trouble because of this." Aiden waved his hand.

With Kikimora's power, it would be very difficult to catch her. Even if he takes ten thousand steps back and catches her and puts her in prison, she can easily escape with her powers. After all, before Aiden got the "Wordless Code", she could come and go even from this Rose Iron Prison. .

"That's true." Abigail agreed, "But with the situation now like this, will the professor with the Hand of Annihilation still stay in Luohui City?"

"It's hard to say. After all, it's been a while since Smiling Balance's intelligence was updated." Aiden shook his head, "If he's not there anymore, no matter what, it's just a wasted trip."