Chapter 32: A Big Fish Arrived
“So fast?”
That was Leon’s first reaction.
He had long expected that the Inquisition would eventually discover the Mana he was selling on the market, but being exposed this quickly was still far beyond his expectations.
Ten days—just ten days—and the Church forces of South Harbor County had already noticed that higher-purity Mana products had appeared on the market.
They immediately began focusing their investigation and had even roughly grasped the flow of the Mana.
He had originally thought that it would take at least until his next batch of goods entered the market before it drew the Church’s attention.
Judging from Leon’s experience of working within the local Inquisition, this efficiency was extremely abnormal.
Although it was possible that the Inquisition in Caster Town was simply more diligent than usual, and Caron’s sudden change in attitude might have been because he cared about a new large-scale Mana transaction in his jurisdiction that he had not yet grasped and wanted to identify it quickly for profit, the fact that both sides were coordinating and tightening their efforts at the same time felt distinctly suspicious.
Caron had mentioned earlier that he was heading to the county for a meeting—could it be specifically for this matter?