Chapter 124:
Lieutenant Colonel Frayzer eventually obtained permission to enter the Blood Vulture Halls and investigate the situation on the ground.
Murphy did not obstruct this “enemy spy” from acting, although Old Finoch was already dead, and the Witch Hunters were severely diminished. Theoretically speaking, the force protecting this man had almost vanished, but the vampire did not intend to keep him as a “souvenir” of brutality that would only serve to anger the Goldflower Kingdom without any other meaning.
The necessary reason for this decision was that the Goldflower Kingdom’s actions in Transia needed a dignified conclusion and wrap-up, and the investigation report written by Lieutenant Colonel Frayzer himself could bring an end to all of this, allowing Murphy to achieve a more stable external environment more quickly.
Secondly, regarding the Carpe family.
This was an ancient power known even to Tris, a fallen woman for over a hundred years.
During Tris’s heyday, this family already had a certain influence in the political sphere of the Silan Kingdom, and it seemed that the Carpe family’s ancestors had even had a small encounter with Tris. In any case, given the current situation in Transia and Kadman City, Murphy would never make the choice to provoke an enemy over a temporary grievance.
“Behave yourself, I’ll be watching you!”
The vampire dispatched his most loyal servant to accompany Lieutenant Colonel Frayzer into the collapsed Blood Vulture Halls. Faced with Maxim’s threat, Frayzer chose to sneer at it.
As he grasped the rope and descended through the damaged spiral staircase, he said to Maxim: