186 Bitterness along with sweetness. (2/2)

Over the days, the number of people working directly for the organization kept increasing. Only a month had passed, and there were already over a hundred members of the Three-Eyed Strangers.

And it was all without counting the people who only sold valuable information on a daily basis for rewards.

Haley did not forget to weed out the bad apples among the bunch. If these people seemed sincere in their work but were not talented enough, she only changed their duties.

During this time, Ozul would occasionally go out in the nights to roam around the Royal Palace. Since he did not have Mana, people were not able to sense him around the palace.

He wanted to see if he could observe and find out what formations were used behind the walls in the meantime.

Talking about formations, he had already started reading that book. Although he hadn't yet become an expert, it let him get some ideas that were not there in his mind before.

The book was too thick and long for him to finish it in one day.

'Well, these aren't really hard to understand...' Ozul thought inside his mind as he stared at the book.

Even after reading a few pages, Ozul had slowly started to learn about the formations. It let him understand the usual workings of formations, which would be really useful once in battle.

. . .

Meanwhile, at a faraway distance.

In the mansion, Alver was having the tea again in the garden. Ever since then, it had been like this for him. He could not concentrate on other matters at all.

Just at that moment, Raymond seemingly appeared out of thin air with excitement visible on his face.

Alver stood there in a daze since he had never seen his elder brother smile so brightly after the death of their sister.

”My men came back! They spent almost an entire month searching for anything relating to the Ashfall family, but there was nothing. Nothing at all!”

Alver also smiled at his words. It meant that Ozul could really be the child of their sister. He could not contain his curiosity but patiently listened to everything.

”You see, although there is no definite proof. My men confirmed that the name of Ozul Ashfall had indeed been there. Some people testified to know a young Ozul in cities far away from the capital. The ages match as well. It could only mean that he really did grow up in the Silverbird Kingdom.”

Raymond explained with unusual enthusiasm. This was his own nephew! How could he not be excited at this news?!

”What about his cultivation...” Alver muttered. He was not the only one with this question. Even Raymond had questioned the same thing.

”What else could it be? Our nephew is just a genius!” Raymond said while puffing up his chest with pride. At the same time, he reminisced about the time with their sister. It turned his mood around, but the happiness from finding his nephew to be alive was greater than anything else right now.

”A monstrous genius. Now we only need to tell him...” Alver said, making Raymond quiet down as well. Even with both of them being monsters in their own league who almost no one dared to offend, they did not think that it would be easy telling everything to Ozul.

”Who will tell him about this, how he survived, and what happened to him in these past years... These questions will have to wait once we meet face to face again. For now, just don't let the information about this get out.” Raymond said, making Alver nod his head.

It might cause trouble for Ozul if they publicly announced something like this.

Alver turned around and looked towards the woman in uniform and said, ”This won't leak out. Whatever happened here will remain here.”

The woman hurriedly nodded her head to indicate that she understood and he did not have to put so much Mana pressure on her.

'If it is so sensitive, why do you even do something like this in an open garden where just about anyone can eavesdrop!?' The woman thought in her mind, but her expressions did not change even a little bit.

The two brothers remained silent for a few moments before a few smiles broke out on their face as they thought about being uncles again.

At the same time, along with the sweetness, there was also a bitterness that their sister was not with them today.

'If you were alive, you would have been proud of him...' Raymond thought while looking at the sky.