A month had passed.

A letter arrived from the Holy Empire. The letter was from Rohanna Celles, Kristina's childhood friend from the monastery. 

The letter didn't say much. She said she was having a quiet and peaceful life after she had spent months wandering around Samar.

After skimming down the letter, Eugene grabbed Akasha.

“I guess she hasn't forgotten how to use it,” Eugene said. 

The letters were scribbled in such a way that they actually formed a magic formula.

Any given group of wizards tended to know at least one or two encoding spells, which also applied to the Red Tower. Lovellian had taught Eugene about the Red Tower's enciphering magic, and Eugene had taught Kristina in turn. Even in the Red Tower, the only people who could use this enciphering magic were Lovellians' right-hand people, including Hera.

Kristina didn't distrust Rohanna Celles; however, there was always that 'if.' She had also mentioned how her letters might be monitored. That was why Eugene had taught her the enciphering magic.

At first glance, it looked simple. It was actually simple, for that matter. However, the magic formula was weaved with various traps everywhere. However, the traps were simply meant to record that someone tried to snoop, and did not show any visible changes whatsoever. That was why only the letter's recipient could see the trap and find out that it had been triggered.

Following the decoding formula, Eugene infused the mana and deciphered the code. The words in the letter were immediately replaced by completely different ones.

Kristina was not able to interrogate the pope and the cardinal herself. Taking the bulls by the horn to see their reaction was too risky. If they were the ones behind the ambush, of course, they would be alert against Kristina returning alive. Therefore, she was keeping an eye on them.

‘Yeah. If she presses them hard about the ambush, the pope and the cardinal will pull their ranks and take action.’

The very Saint of the Holy Empire had been attacked by the demonfolk of Helmuth. Although the ambush had ended in failure, that would not prevent the relationship between the Holy Empire...