At night, Dennis, the city sheriff of Kalmar City, was standing by the window and looking at the brightly lit mansion not far away.

His right-hand assistant and friend, Thomason, who used to be a bounty hunter, sat on a sofa behind him.

In the case of the murder of Andre, the strongest warrior in the Kingdom, Thomason judged the outline characteristics of the murderer with his outstanding experience. As a result, Denison discovered through these clues that the real murderer was William's subordinate. He was so scared that he was half-dead, but he was persuaded by Danpiel, who has now become William's first think tank, and he also defected to William.

Thomason, who has no official status and is closer to Dennis's personal aide, naturally defected to William.

The whole city is not very peaceful now, and the public security problems in slums are already stubborn diseases. The environment in civilian areas is getting worse and worse due to the wall-building tax, and there are more and more criminal cases. Even the noble areas are now in panic because of Clow and his investigation bureau.

Dennis took the Thomasons family to his own estate, where Thomason usually provides protection for the two families.

"How is it?" Thomason asked.

Dennis sighed, "It's another family." After he said that, he put down the curtains, unable to bear to see the nobleman who was dragged out of the mansion like a dog dragged by an agent from the Bureau of Investigation.

Although Thomason and Dennis are good friends, their backgrounds are very different. Compared with Dennis's feelings of seeing other nobles encounter sadness, Thomason has no feelings about the current incident.

"That…," Thomason looked at Dennis, whispered towards the dock, and asked, "I heard that he is back. Do you know what his attitude is now?"

"He went to the shore during the day today, first met the Earl Reard, the Minister of the Interior, and then met the Earl Arcadio, the Minister of the Finance, and then returned to the barracks near the dock. His attitude seemed to have not yet settled." Dennis sighed again.

"Who is he waiting for is higher?" Thomason said. "Now, whether it is Alcadio or Reard, they need his support. Reard has many people and many military personnel. Alcadio wants to get rid of Reard and needs the support of the militia. If Reard wants to get rid of Arcadio, if he does not get his approval, he will also have to worry about being wiped out by the militia."

"Stort and his militia are so important?" Dennis asked skeptical.

Thomason grinned: "Who made Storte have the strongest force in this city? He didn't stand out before because the palace was barely able to maintain peace. You also know that our captain seems to have some problems with his origin. If he uses force to suppress the top leaders of the kingdom, he may be paid attention to or even intervened by the world government and the navy. But now, whether it is Arcadio to get rid of Reard or Reard to get rid of Arcadio, he has an excuse to send troops to wipe out the surviving party. Do you think other people need to win him over, or rather, to appease him?"

The result of class solidification is that promotion only depends on origin rather than ability. The closed small circle culture leads to insufficient vision and insight.

As a king, Norton I never even walked out of the palace several times in his life, and how good can the nobles in the royal city be?

Thomason has worked as a bounty hunter, traveled many places, and also seen various characters. His knowledge is naturally higher than that of Dennis and a group of nobles.

Because the nobles' status and wealth come from the social order led by the world government, they naturally think that this order is supreme and natural.

But Thomason knew that maintaining this order was the force in the hands of the world government, and force was the hard currency in this world and the key to ensuring wealth.

So Thomason is more concerned about running for William than Dennis usually, because he has more confidence in William.

William has already had force, but what is missing is a name, and now it is also a name. In Thomason's view, William's rise is just around the corner, and he and Dennis will definitely benefit from it.

...

In the military camp in the dock area, William was holding his hands behind his back to check the night guard post.

Perhaps one of the things that satisfy William the most is his energy. As a power fan, his favorite thing is to interfere in everything and not delegate power easily. If you want to do this, it is impossible to do without an energetic body.

William experienced a bumpy sea in the morning, and the comfort of the clipper was absolutely not good. Then he went to meet the Interior Minister Reard and the Finance Minister Arcadio one after another, and accompanied the young soldiers in the barracks to train in the evening. Now at night, he had to visit the barracks, check the guard posts one by one, and at the same time do a performance of tucking quilts.

From morning to night, he showed no sign of fatigue, both physically and mentally.

"What did Rielde and Arcadio say?" asked Sherlock, who was half a step behind William.

"I was disappointed by Rield. It may be that they have not adapted to our new identities yet, so they only said a lot of nonsense, and there was nothing useful," William said, "but our Chancellor of the Exchequer is a smart man. I care about military power and title. He agreed without saying a word, maybe because he has received the news that I have been to Rield Manor before."

When the two walked to the corner of the west side of the military camp, a slightly childish shout suddenly came from the secret: "Command!"

"Advocate." William replied expressionlessly.

"Honor." The figures of two young soldiers turned out from two different places, one light and one dark. Seeing that it was William, he quickly saluted.

After William returned the greeting, he talked with the young soldier, checked it, and left again.

"That's to choose to help Arcadio first?" After leaving the post, Sherlock pushed his eyes and continued to ask, "Don't talk to Rielde anymore?"

"I'll just talk about it twice. For me, I'll stop talking about it. Rielde and his group are just bargaining chips. How could I help them? Barbarossa and Roy are both solved by myself. I will miss the initiator Alcateo and hand him over to others to solve it?" William sneered, "But it's a bit strange that the old guy Alcateo agreed so well."

Sherlock thought for a while: "He doesn't really want to usurp the throne, do he?"
Chapter completed!