After choosing to leave, they regretted it.

"You all go help too. Use your puppets and dragon forms to demolish as many buildings as possible around the defense line and clear out a clear area!"

These abandoned buildings become hiding places for blood slaves during the day.

At night, it will block the view and provide the enemy with an opportunity for a surprise attack.

Clearing each building one by one would waste a lot of time and put the soldiers in danger.

So, they were demolished directly, leaving not a single building behind.

This will reduce a lot of pressure and make defense at night more convenient.

The defenders lacked the manpower and resources to do so.

But with the help of Villian's puppet and Alicia who transformed into a dragon or some other large monster, the goal was easily achieved.

As for the buildings around the palace and the personal property disputes involving some dignitaries, that is not a problem that Aize needs to consider now.

Let Heidi worry about it in the future.

"Yeah, leave it to me~"

"Understood. Execute immediately."

The two nodded, without any hesitation, and immediately left with the knights and began the action.

After completing these two tasks, we can buy a little more time for Wang Du and his people.

But the problem still needs to be solved fundamentally.

Aize turned to Heidi again:

"Please lend me your study. And by the way, send me all the information about the city starting from a week before the outbreak of the blood plague, including public security, prices, and the flow of people in and out. Don't leave any of it out!"

This request was quickly met.

Under Heidi's personal guidance, Aize quickly passed through the refugee camp built around the palace and came to the slightly quieter interior of the palace.

Finally, he sat down in the study that originally belonged to the previous king and now belonged to Heidi.

On the gorgeous special shelf of the study desk, there is even a crown that symbolizes the highest power in the country.

It is worth mentioning that the previous king passed away exactly five years ago.

As the surviving person, he is undoubtedly the first in line to the throne.

According to convention, Heidi should have inherited the throne as early as that time.

But in fact this is not the case, the coronation and enthronement ceremonies have never been carried out.

Until now, Heidi is still a princess, not a queen.

The initial statement made to the public was that the princess was too young to shoulder such a heavy responsibility.

For this purpose, a regent was even chosen from the royal family's side branch as a vase.

In fact, of course, it was to avoid provoking the nobles who were ready to make a move.

As a result, due to various reasons, the crown has been placed here for several years and has not been worn by anyone.

Now even the person working in this position has changed from Heidi to Aize.

It's really ironic when you think about it.

In short, soon after Aize sat down, mountains of information were brought in continuously, occupying almost every corner of the room.

And Aize, as always, is performing with extremely amazing efficiency.

Almost every few minutes, a new order is issued from here.

Review existing defenses and improve them to make refugees safer

Assess material inventories and redefine allocation criteria to last longer.

Then we need to redeploy staff to mobilize as much manpower as possible to be put to more useful uses.

In the few hours from the time he arrived until the sun set, the instructions issued by Aize easily surpassed the total of what Heidi had done in the past half month.

This made Heidi, who was standing by, unsure whether she should be happy or embarrassed at the moment.

I stayed with the idea of helping him, but as time went by, I found that I was completely unable to keep up with his pace of thinking and doing things.

Gradually, it turned into sitting on the side and staring blankly.

Not really any help at all.

Looking at Aize's silent and busy appearance, Her Royal Highness the Princess felt more and more complicated.

Strange to say.

This wasn't the first time he'd worked himself to death in front of him.

Even compared to those real 007s in the team who could last for several days, the current workload is not even enough to get started.

But now she feels unhappy about it.

This has never happened in the past two years.

why?

Is it really because of the difference in mentality?

Because Heidi in the past was extremely proud of her status, and she even thought it was an honor for Aize, who was born in a commoner family, to work hard for her?

Maybe.

Now Heidi is not very willing to think about her thoughts at that time.

Because once I do this, everything I have seen and heard in the past few days surrounding the so-called aristocracy and the royal family will pop up in my mind uncontrollably.

Then I feel nauseous.

So disgusting that I want to vomit.

Now, what can I do?

After a moment of hesitation, Her Royal Highness sighed softly and stood up from her seat.

In order not to disturb Aize who was working at full speed, she tiptoed out of the room and walked along the dim and deserted corridor to the kitchen of the palace.

This luxurious and exaggerated kitchen was responsible for supplying daily snacks, meals, etc. to the entire royal family in the past, and it can be said to be extremely bustling.

But now, Heidi had already sent the extra staff outside to help.

So there is no one here.

In this unusually large space, Her Royal Highness the Princess groped around looking for what she wanted.

Coffee and snacks are provided.

When he was in the team, Aize would always eat and drink these things after high-intensity work.

If you can't help at the decision-making level, then do something about these trivial matters... Although it seems a bit tedious, it's better than just watching.

probably.

However, the process was not smooth.

"Coffee, coffee... I remember there should be some left before I left. Where did I put it?"

The pampered eldest daughter of a royal family has never compromised in her life even though her family has fallen on hard times.

If you can get someone to do anything for you just by talking, how can you understand the layout of your own kitchen?

After a lot of searching, nothing was found.

Because he was not tall enough, when he tried to pick up a jar from a high place, his shaking hands caused it to hit his head.

Damage, nothing, doesn't break the defense at all.

But as the can shattered, the powdered mixed spices inside were all scattered all over Heidi.

"I...ah--A-choo--"

Heidi, who was confused, sneezed several times in a row before she could react.

Along with the sneezing came an unprecedented feeling of irritability and even self-loathing.

After all, it doesn't matter if I can't help with the important matters.

How come I can't even make a cup of coffee?

After all, I have lived for so many years, what have I learned and what have I mastered?

What a waste.

Under the interweaving of various complex emotions, Heidi, who was already suffering from nervous breakdown, was even a little dazed for a moment.

Then came an uncontrollable rage—but she couldn't quite pinpoint what she was mad at.

In short, the princess, who was somewhat exasperated, jumped up from the ground, picked up the remaining half of the jar, and wanted to smash it to the ground with her face flushed and her teeth gnashed.

"Princess? Uh, what are you doing?"

Just at this moment, the slightly worried voice of his subordinates came from behind him.

----------

After reviewing the current situation, the work came to a temporary halt.

Aize stood up from the luxurious armchair and stretched widely.

From the time he arrived in the afternoon until now, he has issued dozens of orders, covering everything from military to order to material distribution and so on.

If these are implemented properly, the situation in the royal capital should be temporarily under control.

It can give me more time to deal with this incident from the beginning.

But having said that, where do you begin?

After a brief review of what happened, the first confirmed case of blood plague was confirmed a month ago, shortly after the Tafia incident ended.

After that, it broke out and spread at an alarming speed.

As mentioned before, ever since being severely damaged by the blood plague in the war five years ago, humans have developed a set of effective procedures to deal with the blood plague.

Heidi also followed this process and did not find any obvious problems during the execution.

But the epidemic still broke out.

Moreover, the intensity of the outbreak was astonishing, even unprecedented.

There must be problems that have not yet been discovered.

Aize breathed softly.

Feeling a bit tired.

You know, this amount of work was not even a fraction of what it was before.

Since leaving the team, apart from other things, it is an indisputable fact that I have become more and more tired.

It can't be the effect of the protection being damaged, right?

The core content of protection is to enhance overtime ability?

That's really... quite funny.

"Well--"

The excessive brain strain caused by high-intensity continuous work made Aize dizzy.

And only a very small part of the information piled up in front of me has been processed.

There's no point in being anxious anyway, so why not take a break?

With this thought in mind, Aize sat back in his seat, leaned back in the chair and closed his eyes.

Think about taking a short nap before continuing.

At this moment, it was already late.

The night completely enveloped the already dim city, and the harsh and noisy roars of the monsters echoed one after another in the city that had turned into purgatory.

And at this moment, the window of the study, which was originally closed, opened by itself in an inexplicable strange wind.