After choosing to leave, they regretted it.

As the other party pulled back his hand, his body fell to the ground with a thud, and bright red liquid stained the study floor.

The owner of the hand was Hecate.

As a half-succubus, she has inherited the succubus's very strong physical fitness. In the long and brutal battles, she has honed her pure physical strength to the extreme.

Therefore, unlike the knights, she did not use common weapons such as guns or swords to fight, but relied on steel claws to engage in extremely brutal close combat.

Even if the steel claws were not in his hand at the moment, it would be easy for him to dig out the heart of a person without armor with his bare hands.

And, as mentioned before, succubi feed on the emotions of various intelligent creatures.

Based on this trait, Hekate is able to locate her enemies directly through intense emotions, without relying on traditional senses.

The smoke bomb was completely ineffective and instead blinded the assassins themselves.

However, the opponent's movements were also quite fast.

While Hecate killed one of them instantly, the other two jumped out of the window without hesitation and disappeared into the dark night.

"Tsk, a rat who can only sneak attack and run away——"

Hecate wiped the blood off his hands and shook his head in disdain.

"Wait!!! Stop right there!!!"

It was at this moment that Heidi, who had finally recovered from her shock, jumped out of the window and chased after him in uncontrollable rage.

For the assassins, it was natural to take advantage of Heidi's arrival and Aze's distraction.

But for Heidi, who was exploited, this kind of self-righteousness was extremely disgusting.

Although Aize has not yet expressed his opinion on the results of his first completed related work, judging from his expression, he should be quite satisfied.

Heidi was in a good mood because of this and even looked forward to receiving praise.

Who would have thought that this group of people would dare to target this node and cause trouble.

The shock was so intense that Heidi, who had seen a lot of things and was usually calm, was so confused that she only came to her senses now.

The purpose of the incident is to harm Aize.

Even before, when Heidi was still in her crazy period, she would not allow anyone to hurt Aize.

Not to mention now, when he realized that he loved Aize and felt sorry for her, these bastards actually dared to use him to assassinate Aize.

This threw her into an unprecedented rage.

If anything were to happen to Aize...

No, I dare not think about it.

Heidi gritted her teeth and decided to catch those two bastards first.

However, it is counterproductive.

The current security of the palace is really no different from that of a public toilet in that people can come and go as they please.

The other party obviously had a plan in place and kept using the darkness to hide his body.

After quickly escaping from the unopened area, he took off and threw away his equipment without hesitation, revealing the worn civilian clothes he had been wearing underneath.

They then split up and mixed into the huge number of refugees accommodated in the palace, and disappeared without a trace in an instant.

When Heidi caught up with amazing momentum, only a group of refugees were left looking at her in confusion.

“Damn it, damn it—”

The anger that had nowhere to vent accumulated in the heart and fermented at an alarming rate.

Heidi stomped the ground with her foot, rushed towards the crowd regardless of anything, and grabbed a refugee nearby.

Without even seeing the other person's face clearly, he shook without a care in the world.

"Tell me! Where are those two bastards?"

"me……"

The man who was grabbed was at a loss as he looked at the helpless and furious princess with a confused look on his face.

Such abnormal behavior also made the other people watching around show expressions of confusion and fear, and some even stepped back subconsciously.

The palace servants, guards, and others who were sent to complete various tasks looked at their boss with worry.

But they didn't know what was going on and didn't dare to move forward.

After questioning without any results, Heidi threw the man to the ground with red eyes, and looked around with gritted teeth, as if looking for the next target to interrogate.

Everyone looked away, afraid to meet her gaze.

Just when the situation was about to get out of control——

"Your Highness, what is the matter?"

A familiar voice came from the side. Heidi turned her head and found that Constantine had rushed over from the outer defense line at some point.

Of course, Heidi doesn't have the energy to think about this matter now.

"You're just in time! Hurry up and seal off the palace with your men. Search everyone here one by one! Aize was just assassinated!"

Unexpectedly, Constantine did not show any panic.

He even frowned in confusion.

This made Heidi even more angry:

"What are you waiting for! It's okay in the past, but this time, Aize's life is involved. Are you still refusing to obey orders?!"

"Your Highness, regarding this matter..."

Constantine pointed behind him expressionlessly.

Only then did the princess realize that there were several knights following behind the hooded leader of the knights.

A strange man in tattered clothes was tied up in the middle, with several pairs of hands pressing on him so that he could not move.

"……well?"

This completely stunned her.

Almost at the same time, Hecate caught up from the direction he came from and said hurriedly:

"Don't waste your energy, Princess. Everything is fine over there. Let's go back quickly!"

"……What?"

The anger just now was so great that Heidi couldn't recover for a while.

My legs even felt weak and I felt dizzy, and I almost fell to the ground.

Fortunately, Hecate stepped forward to support her, preventing her from falling to the ground with a "plop" in front of so many refugees.

Then, in a daze, he was taken back to the study along with the captured criminal.

Heidi just saw Aize, who was hit by a hidden weapon and fell to the ground, was now sitting in his seat unharmed.

He was even looking seriously at the plan that he hadn't finished reading before the incident.

When he saw the group of people coming, he raised his head, sighed deeply, and said to Heidi:

"You ran too fast. I couldn't even call you back even if I got up from the ground and called out to you."

"Uh……"

Looking at Aize in front of her, Heidi still couldn't believe it and shook her head subconsciously.

"What...what on earth is going on? I...I clearly saw their hidden weapon hit your chest, why...why..."

If Aize is killed, he will die, which is different from me who has thick skin and flesh.

I didn't see him wearing any armor or anything under his clothes, so how could he be unharmed?

"because this."

Aize took out a small object that looked like a crystal pendant from his pocket.

Heidi had never seen such a thing.

"what is this?"

"During the Tafia incident, I seized a small toy from Brian. Holding it in your hand makes you invulnerable for a short period of time. It's very useful for assassinations, so I brought it with me."

Originally, it was a life-saving prop that Brian prepared for himself in order to prevent Alicia's assassination.

It utilizes the technology of the Supreme God Realm, and is similar to enchanted weapons. Its essence is to use the user's own magic power to activate the defensive spells engraved in it.

Ever since entering the royal capital, Aize has been keeping it wrapped around his wrist in order to deal with the possible impolite locals.

The result is not bad.

At this time, Heidi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Think about it too.

In the past two years, how many people has Aize offended, and how many people has assassinated him?

After so many messed up things, how could it be so simple that at this moment, it would be overturned because of a few scoundrels?

I cared about him so much that I lost my basic judgment.

This is what they mean by "worrying too much leads to confusion".

Heidi wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, tried to calm her confused mood, and asked:

"So you expected the assassin?"

"I expected...I didn't expect it."

Aize shrugged.

"Ever since I targeted the guild for investigation, I've assumed they'd go all out and attack me at some point, but to be honest, I didn't expect this moment."

After all, in the eyes of the guild's top brass, they are still in control of the situation.

Logically speaking, you shouldn't do such a dangerous thing.

Thinking of this, Aize sneered:

"Did they discover something was wrong, or was there someone else instigating them to do this? Never mind, we'll find out soon enough anyway."

Chapter 81 Priority

For the Adventurer's Guild, Aize's investigation is far from pushing them into a desperate situation - at least not in their own perception.

In theory, such radical measures should not be taken in this situation.

Considering what happened tonight, the only possibility Aize could think of was Arthur as the regent.

A few hours ago, he was actually dismissed and sidelined by Heidi because he contradicted her.

A few hours later, this is what happened.

Considering his very close relationship with the guild, it would be a bit of a stretch to say that this situation was a coincidence.

The question is, is he simply venting his anger because he doesn't understand the situation, or is he the one who is behind the current situation in the capital?

"that……"

"Um?"

While Aize was still thinking, Heidi couldn't help but speak first.

"What should we do next? We have three assassins, one escaped and one died. Should we first interrogate the one we captured? Or perhaps take control of the guild's top brass?"

Even if Aize is fine, the fact that he was used to assassinate him does not change.

Heidi is now in a state where her anger has subsided, but not completely.

Not to mention, just now, in order to chase someone, she, as a princess, made such a big fool of herself in front of so many people.

Even though she doesn't care about royal dignity as much as before, from a personal perspective, this is not something that can be laughed off.

Of course he was eager for revenge.

However, Aize just spread his hands:

"This? Don't worry, this is how it was designed from the beginning."