Chapter 248: The Drastic Move of the Devils?
The voice Aldrian hadn’t heard for days resounded in his mind, bringing a smile to his face.
"Danius, my friend, it’s good to hear your voice. To think you called me first—have you finally realized how genuine my feelings for this friendship are?" Aldrian said.
A vein bulged on Danius’s forehead as he felt an overwhelming urge to strangle Aldrian to death. However, pain began creeping into his soul, forcing him to abandon the thought. In truth, he wanted to withhold the information he had for Aldrian, hoping to exploit a loophole in their agreement.
If he didn’t report anything, he wouldn’t be a spy acting against his family. Even if he had some information, he could simply ignore it without passing it on to Aldrian, and everything would be fine, right?
Wrong!
As soon as he formed this intent, the pain in his soul intensified. The excruciating agony nearly caused him to faint, forcing him to give up and decide to report it. He didn’t understand how this slave seal worked, but it seemed capable of detecting even the slightest intent or thought, leaving him utterly miserable. Whether he liked it or not, he had no choice but to report anything of significance to Aldrian.
"Yes, Brother Aldrian, I realize it now. Anyway, there’s been a development in my family," Danius said. "I just discovered that my father seems to be preparing something significant with some other families in Grand Duke Gouvard’s faction. It looks like they’re mobilizing some of their resources to the capital, including spies and soldiers. They’re doing it covertly to ensure their movements go unnoticed by other families."
Hearing Danius’s report, Aldrian fell into thought.
"Mobilizing their resources? Now, this is interesting... Could it be a coincidence that this happened right after last night’s event?" he wondered to himself.
Aldrian then asked Danius,
"When did your family or the other families start moving?"