Chronos was the Minister of Internal Affairs of the neutral country, Luomoxi. Compared to the other officials, he could stay in the city lord's mansion for a long time. In a sense, he was closer to the city lord and was also the target of many people's flattery. As a matter of fact, he did hold a considerable amount of authority. Other than the solemn and rigid personal guards, he did not fear any other officials in the city.
However, at this moment, this minister who could be regarded as second only to the city lord had also fallen into a considerable degree of dilemma.
Everything stemmed from the sudden theft that happened some time ago.
At first, the culprit only targeted some of the nobles. Even if those people had any opinions, they would only target the city guards and officials. It had nothing to do with him. Naturally, Chronos would not ask for trouble and get himself involved in these matters.
In the end, he did not expect that the culprit would be so bold as to steal from the city lord's mansion.
Even some of the precious jewelry that the city lord usually cherished were stolen.
Immediately, Chronos arranged for his subordinates to investigate this matter.
However, no matter how hard they investigated, they could not find any trace or clue of the culprit. It was as if the culprit was an invisible ghost.
No matter how he looked at it, it seemed to be the masterpiece of those amazing people who possessed extraordinary powers.
However, even Chronos would not believe that those arrogant people would commit such a disgraceful act of theft. As long as they revealed their identity and demonstrated their abilities, there would be a lot of nobles who would invite them to be their guests or even court mages …
As time went by, there was still no progress in the case.
Although the city lord had not yet blamed him, if there were no changes, his political opponents would definitely not hesitate to attack him. Those who coveted his position would also kick him when he was down.
So the top priority now was to find the culprit.
For this reason, he did not hesitate to split a part of the property under his name and applied for a baron title from the city lord as a reward for the person who caught the culprit.
After all, he could intervene and manage most of the affairs in Luomosilli. If the one who received the reward was just a powerless commoner, he could just find a random reason to take back the property from the other party after the storm calmed down after some time.
If it had been another noble who had caught the thief in the end, then the loss of his property would not have been a huge blow to him. He could just treat it as an investment to build a good relationship with the other party.
Therefore, after the castellan sent back the application form with the word 'Approved', Chronos announced the reward that would allow a normal person to soar to the sky.
Instantly, the Responders rushed to the top like a flock of ducks. This was not surprising. In this era, the channels to rise up were basically controlled by the nobles. Uneducated commoners had very few opportunities to rise up. It was precisely because of this that the reward this time caused such a huge uproar.
He thought that it wouldn't be difficult to find the culprit in such a situation where almost everyone was mobilized. But in the blink of an eye, a week had passed. Although many people enthusiastically reported suspicious people and even gave false information about the criminals, after verification, none of them were the real culprits.
On the other hand, many thieves were directly sent to the guard camp because of this incident, which boosted the public security in Luomoxi … It was estimated that the ones who hated the culprit the most now were not the guards, but the other petty thieves who were implicated by the incident …
As for the idea of finding a scapegoat to fool the castellan, it was not that Chronos had never thought of it before. But every time this thought surfaced, he would wisely extinguish it.
Although the castellan wasn't too interested in the management of the affairs in the city, as long as his subordinates didn't mess things up too badly, he would almost never intervene in the management.
But that didn't mean that the castellan was easy to fool.
In fact, the castellan was smarter than anyone else. Although he seemed to be lazy all the time, his sleepy eyes were sharp enough to see through everything.
No one had ever been able to play tricks in front of the castellan.
The reason why Chronos was able to take up this position wasn't because of how talented he was. In fact, in terms of talent, the previous two castellans were far better than him.
However, many people had a problem. After obtaining a certain degree of power, their ambition would further expand and they would want to seize more power. They would even have a contemptuous attitude toward the leader who delegated power to them, thinking that the leader wouldn't be able to see through their tricks of abusing power for personal gain.
It was the same for the other two. They felt that they could cover the sky with one hand and began to curry favor.
If it were any other monarch, there was an eighty percent chance that they would be overthrown and succeed, causing the country to be in a foul atmosphere.
But this castellan was different. He killed the two of them with thunderous means.
That's right, he killed them. Chronos felt that he would never forget that tragic scene for the rest of his life.
However, the castellan knew the crimes of the two like the back of his hand. After killing them, he announced their crimes one by one, making it so that no one dared to resist him.
It was precisely because of this that even though Chronos was a little greedy, he definitely wouldn't use any messy means to fool the castellan.
"Lord Chronos."
While Chronos was still immersed in his thoughts, an attendant came up to him. "Someone claimed to have found the culprit."
"Is it true?"
"I don't know …" The attendant looked a little awkward.
Chronos, on the other hand, didn't look too happy.
"Didn't I tell you? Unless you verify the authenticity, you don't have to report to me. If it's a fake, just break one of his legs and throw him out! "
"Ugh … That's where the problem lies." The attendant looked even more awkward. He said softly, "We can't beat him."
Chronos was shocked to hear that. But soon, he returned to his calm self. "What about the city guards?"
"That man has taken down two large groups of them. There should be a few more groups on their way here … But the man seems to have plenty of time to spare. He even posed in a strange posture and said something like 'I want to take on ten of them'."
"…"
It wasn't that there weren't any ordinary people who could take on a group of city guards alone. But the man who could do it so easily was most likely not an ordinary person.
Could it be that someone with extraordinary powers had entered Luo Moxi?
Chronos was having a headache, but he still looked extremely calm on the surface.
"I'll go out and have a look. If necessary, I'll use words to calm him down. Hurry up and inform the guards of the castellan. Tell them to inform the castellan."
"Yes, sir."
The attendant quickly left Chronos's office.
Only then did Flonos' face crumble.
"Damn it! Am I that unlucky to be involved in the battle of those strange people …?"
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