Why Confirming the Kill Matters

With the existence of the Eight Trigrams Furnace revealed, the undercover knights’ objective changed drastically.

“Leave the inspections to the other knights. We’ll start searching for the Eight Trigrams Furnace and the remnants of the heroes.”

Of course, inspections to check on the emancipation of slaves and the lords’ abuses were important, too.

But everything had its priorities.

[As His Majesty’s shield, eliminate the traitorous faction and uphold order in the Providence Kingdom.]

It was easy to overlook this with top-tier superhumans like Duke and Peter stationed around Rex, but heroes were normally middling baron-level superhumans or stronger.

To commoners and ordinary lords, they were calamity-level threats.

The capital region was safe enough, but the farther you went into the provinces, the more vulnerable people were to them.

If they further strengthened themselves with pills, they could become a troublesome band of traitors indeed.

Accordingly, the mission of Duke and Jane—codenamed “Old Butler” and “Young Lady”—was changed to the extermination of the traitorous faction...