Raising the Northern Grand Duchy as a Max-Level All-Master

140. Building Soft Power as a Max-Level All-Master (6)

“In fact, there are even rumors in the Imperial capital’s social circles that Chairman Jin is preparing to leave Renslet and defect to the Empire.”

This was the latest news from Entir about Imperial high society.

“What? How could the rumors get so twisted…”

I started to protest but quickly stopped myself.

If modern Earth, with its vast communication networks, couldn’t avoid the chaos of fake news, then this world, with its rudimentary systems, was bound to be worse.

‘But how did I not know about this? Even if the preparation was done in secrecy, the Frost Knights or our company’s intelligence division should have caught wind of it. Could Arina and Isabelle be involved?’

Currently, the key members of Arad Group’s intelligence division are the Frost Knights. Officially, I was the leader, but in practice, the real authority lay with Arina and Isabelle.

‘I’ll need to gradually reorganize things.’