Azel sighed, rubbing the bridge of his nose.
'Is there any more information about this mission?' he asked inwardly.
But the system gave no answer.
As expected.
The [System] loved throwing him into death pits without explanation, then patting his back for surviving with rewards.
He wasn't new to this.
Still… assassins inside the royal palace?
In the original, they wore the robes of one of the opposing Empires so the suspicion was on them but the thing was that these were trained assassins…
Did the author not want to flesh out the backstory properly? Well since it was a minor arc, it was probably so.
And there was only one person bold — and petty enough to pull off something like hiring assassins was…
The first Empress, Clara Starbloom.
Azel turned to Edna, who was seated near the sunlit window, still gently braiding Lillia's hair.
The little girl was giggling every few seconds, kicking her legs as her "Mama" tried to keep the strands neat.
