You call this the mastermind?

When Kevin was looking for Mellen, his "partner", and was about to give away his beloved boots.

As the villains in the manor attack, the "waiter" and the "cook" were gathered in a basement somewhere in Graham City to reflect on the action.

Or, to summarize the failure of an action-

At the banquet, the sudden reversal of "Egg's" words caught them off guard.

And then the snakes that emerged from the ground caused heavy casualties to their members.

"The disgusting reptiles raised by Isabella Chelsea seem to have become stronger again."

In the dim basement, the two sat on both sides of an old wooden table, separated by a slowly burning red candle.

The candle light was dim and flickering, and black smoke slowly rose from the wick, covering their faces hazy and gloomy.

Combined with the two narrow shadows reflected on the wall behind them, this place seemed like a haunted scene.

"If this goes on, I'm afraid the nun won't be able to suppress her anymore."

"If the assassination not long ago could have succeeded, all this would not have come to this."

"Yes, without a master, the reptiles are just a group of beasts with only instincts left..."

As they said this, the two felt very depressed.

There are times when human power is limited, and even the top extraordinary people can't beat four hands with two fists.

So some wizards who are strong and have resource advantages will cultivate some "magical animals" for their own use.

For example, the dense group of reptiles they encountered tonight looked like a group of "trash fish" that could be easily killed.

But in fact, they are not only immune to magic attacks, but also very tough. Except for crawling slowly, there are no other defects.

However, this defect, combined with the ability of Mrs. Chelsea, is not a problem-

Based on some special means, where she is, the snake group is there, but it is invisible on the surface.

This means that if you want to use force against the lady, you must first eliminate the tens of thousands of snakes.

However, it is easy to kill ordinary small snakes. As long as you put in a certain amount of effort, you can always kill them.

But there are not only small snakes in the snake group, there are medium, large, and even giant pythons thicker than the waist of an adult, which are everywhere!

Some of the strong ones with unique abilities even chased the two of them and made them retreat step by step!

If it weren't for the fact that Mrs. Chelsea was concerned about the many young wizards present and didn't release a bigger giant snake.

If it weren't for the hidden injuries on the lady's body, she couldn't take action herself and could only drive her "pets" to resist the enemy.

They couldn't even escape from the manor at all, and they were inevitably wiped out.

However, even though the two had escaped from Ernest Manor, they were just the two of them.

The others basically didn't escape the fate of being swallowed by the snake group.

Even if there were a few lucky ones who ran away in the chaos, they couldn't escape the fate of being captured afterwards.

It can be said that this incident was a complete failure.

However, what made them feel particularly heavy in their hearts was that similar failures had occurred more than just this one in the near future!

Initially, their plan was to assassinate Isabella Chelsea while she was weak.

As long as she died, Graham, a city that was very friendly to mixed-bloods, would be in chaos.

Then, with their secret instigation, some extreme pure-bloods would inevitably come to the fore and use Mrs. Chelsea's death to launch a political movement that excluded mixed-bloods.

However, this plan, which had been prepared for several years and cost them countless efforts, failed inexplicably...

As a last resort, they could only use the backup plan and use the possibility of that lady sending people to investigate the Mixed-Blood Association, where they buried a dangerous bomb.

As long as the time was right, the bomb would suddenly explode, and then trigger a break in the relationship between the Mixed-Blood Association and Isabella Chelsea.

But the accident happened again.

Not to mention detonating the bomb, they didn't even have time to light the fuse, and the bomb was dug out by someone very abruptly!

Although the cracks left on the "surface" after the bombs were dug out also had some effect.

But compared with the situation after the plan was successful, it was much weaker.

In order to spread the cracks, we have to continue to work hard and invest more resources and energy in this matter...

Finally, it was tonight's event.

The preparation of this event was actually based on a success before their failures.

At that time, they absorbed a girl named Martha and made some careful arrangements based on her identity and situation at the time.

So the Arthur incident, which made the mixed-bloods feel extremely humiliated, was born.

The Arthur incident was regarded by them as a prelude to a series of split plans, and its success was tantamount to a "good start".

Therefore, when Martha came to report that Kevin of the Felix family was asking his friend Jim to use her to attack an unlucky mixed-blood.

They believed that the opportunity to replicate the Arthur incident, or to start an incident that was more violent than the Arthur incident, had appeared!

Unfortunately, they thought they were hunters, but they became prey in the eyes of others without realizing it...

Unprepared, their team's strength in Graham City was basically wiped out...

"Kevin Felix..."

Muttering this name, the waiter's face became more gloomy.

He did not doubt the words of the half-blood named Egger, who was actually called Mellen, at the banquet.

It can even be said that the other party's words made him feel a sense of sudden enlightenment-

The assassination of Mrs. Chelsea, their people had reported that Kevin had talked with Isabella Chelsea for a long time the night before the assassination.

But at that time, they thought that the two were talking about some trivial things related to the marriage between the two families, so they didn't care.

After the assassination failed, they didn't think about it.

Instead, they thought that Isabella was lucky and escaped death because she saw Mellen easily playing tricks on her "son-in-law" at the banquet that night, which aroused her vigilance.

There is no place to reason about this kind of thing, you can only blame yourself for being too unlucky-at least that's what they thought at the time.

As for the Mixed Blood Association incident, Martin Boswell, who sneaked into the association that day and found something wrong, then reported the abnormality to Isabella, and finally completely destroyed their plan, also had a good relationship with Kevin.

Because his grandfather was Isabella's housekeeper, Kevin would even go to play with him every time he arrived in Graham, hoping to get some information about his fiancée's preferences and recent situation.

However, although they knew that the two sides had this relationship, they still didn't think that this matter was related to Kevin after the failure of the Mixed Blood Association incident.

They didn't even realize that Kevin from the Felix family had been watching them in the dark.

So in the end, the so-called "teaching a half-blood a lesson" plan was formulated and completed under their noses...

They were still very confused when this plan started.

Because they had investigated that Mellen because of the failed assassination before, and he was not a mixed-blood wizard at all.

And even if he was, if they wanted to teach him a lesson, it seemed unnecessary to use such a roundabout means as setting up a banquet to humiliate him.

Moreover, even if this method was used, the teaching steps formulated by Jim should not be so "gentle".

So although they did not find anything wrong with Kevin at that time, they did not lose their vigilance.

However, they found new clues in their in-depth investigation of Mellen afterwards -

The boy had been communicating with a lady named Juliana every now and then for nearly a year.     And when they wanted to investigate the specific content of the letters, they could not find any useful traces at all.

It seemed that those communications were all cast under the famous "crazy talk spell" in the wizarding world, and only the two parties in the communication could see the specific content covered by the spell.

After further investigation, they found that the lady named Juliana was very likely the new vice-president of Oak Academy under Saint Grant Castle, Eugenie Sommer.

This clue was discovered by them after contacting their own people lurking in Saint Grant Castle and spending a lot of effort.

It is said that when the female vice-president was still a wizard apprentice, she often called herself Juliana.

So, in line with the rumor in the Mixed Blood Association that "Egg" was the illegitimate son of a big shot in Kevin's family.

And in line with the fact that "Egg" had used magic to play tricks on Kevin in front of Isabella Chelsea earlier.

Then they compared the similar appearances of both parties, both with black hair and blue eyes.

They vaguely guessed that Egg was very likely a relative of the female vice president, or even an illegitimate son.

The constant correspondence between the two parties was that she was secretly teaching this mixed-blood son who was wandering outside!

This is actually a very common phenomenon, because there is a general trend of "chaotic private life" in the current wizard world, otherwise there would not be so many mixed-blood wizards born every year.

And this can also explain why the illegitimate son ran to Kevin to provoke, and why Kevin wanted to suppress the other party so "gently".

However, just when they thought that the truth was like this, and they were relieved to start the plan, and even secretly laughed at the big family wizards for having too chaotic private lives, and the high-ranking husband of the vice president was stolen by his wife without knowing it.

The more realistic truth, however, came to them cruelly...

The so-called plan to suppress illegitimate children, is fake!

The rumor that the so-called "illegitimate children" are not talented is fake!

Even the fact that Kevin stayed in the Mixed Blood Association for an entire afternoon is a complete lie!

How could he be tricked by the illegitimate child?

He was clearly discussing the details of "hunting" them with the other party!

And this group of people, being fooled without knowing it, were complacently waiting for the success of the plan, but were hit on the head with a stick, and have not completely recovered until now...

Because this is really too unexpected.

Kevin, who seems to be hostile to his half-brother illegitimate child, actually joined forces with his mixed-blood brother who he should have looked down on, and teamed up to trick them! ?

Presumably, the illegitimate child who entered the Mixed Blood Association before was also secretly instigated by him?

Is it to cooperate with that guy named Martin Boswell?

Or is it intended to be a long-term move to keep an eye on their possible small moves there in the future?

"At such a young age, he has such a cunning mind... He is worthy of being born in a big family."

The waiter thought for a long time with a gloomy expression, and finally thought that he had seen through everything, but his tone rose with admiration.

"It's a pity, it's a pureblood..."

"Where did we get exposed?"

The "cook" sitting opposite him didn't think so much, she was struggling with this question.

"It must be that Martha did something too much, and Kevin found something unusual."

The waiter said affirmatively: "Jim is the person involved, Kevin and Jim are good friends, it's easy to know some of the details."

"But, this can't explain the exposure of the assassination plan? It also can't explain why that guy can even detect the affairs of the Mixed Blood Association..."

"Of course it can be explained."

The waiter firmly believed: "If Kevin can recognize that there is a group of people who are secretly provoking the relationship between mixed blood and pure blood in the case of Arthur, then he can associate it with Arthur's birth in Graham City, and Graham City is the most friendly to mixed blood among the major cities in the United Kingdom."

"He can also think that if we want to destroy the relationship between mixed blood and pure blood here, Assassinating Isabella Chelsea is the simplest and most direct way. "

"From this, he can imagine that if our assassination plan fails, we will only focus on the Half-Blood Wizard Rights Protection Association. After all, this organization is very representative of the half-blood class. "

"Then, Kevin, who was unwilling to respond passively, began to use the first move he discovered, that is, our lovely Miss Martha, to set a trap for us in the name of "suppressing illegitimate children." "

"In addition to becoming famous, the purpose is naturally to please his mother-in-law and his fiancée..."

At the end, the waiter sighed, "I can only say that Kevin is too cunning, and we did not lose unfairly."

You said so much, you should just make excuses for your failure, right?

The cook glanced at him when she heard it, but did not refute it.

There is no substantial evidence for the companion's conjecture, but they just need a reason to explain to their superiors why the mission failed.

Now that Kevin from the Felix family has jumped out, he has clearly pitted them once.

Then, what's wrong with putting the blame on him for the two previous failures?

After all, this sounds reasonable...

"What should we do now?" She asked.

"We can only hope that the backup plan of the backup plan of the Cuckoo will work."

The waiter replied helplessly, "Otherwise, no matter how good the reason is, we can't explain it to the nun at all."

"What is the plan?"

"I don't know, but since the nun regards this plan as the final trump card, she will definitely win in one blow!"

As he said this, the waiter smiled, "We just need to keep looking forward to it."

"But don't you want to retaliate?"

The cook was unwilling to just wait like this. She was still very upset about this tonight and needed to vent urgently.

"We can't beat Isabella, but the damn Kevin and his bastard brother won't let them go, right?"

"Don't act rashly for now."

The waiter shook his head and said, "How could they not be prepared for such a trap? We have already suffered heavy casualties, and we can't have any more accidents."

"Maybe the defense of the illegitimate child will be a little lax?"

The cook had actually sorted out her thoughts a long time ago, and said without hesitation:

"After all, he is an illegitimate child. Even if he is highly valued by Kevin, the Felix family behind Kevin is unlikely to think much of him, let alone leave him any treasures for self-defense."

"This..."

The waiter was moved by what he said.

Not only did they suffer heavy casualties tonight, but the conspiracy of the organization was also completely exposed to the public, and there will be endless troubles.

They will inevitably be punished by their superiors afterwards.

So it is impossible to say that they don't want to retaliate.

But facing the top wizard family of Felix, it is difficult for them not to feel daunted.

After thinking about it, it seems that the only soft persimmon that can be squeezed is the illegitimate child.

...

An action against the "illegitimate child" seems to be brewing.

However, as the person involved, Mellen has no time to think about whether he will be retaliated.

At present, he has said goodbye to his teacher and is looking for Arthur who has been missing for a long time around Ernest Manor.

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