Chapter 47: Servant Cedric (13) - Redbell's Invitation

#47 Servant Cedric (13) - Redbell's Invitation

Though their father had called them idiots, objectively speaking, second son Ervin and third daughter Mira were not that incompetent.

Compared with most nobles scattered across the Kingdom of Birka, who were, quite literally, trash with nothing to boast about beyond their bloodlines, the two of them could at least properly manage their own domains, and each had made a fair name for themselves in swordsmanship or in social circles.

It was true that they had made several mistakes out of carelessness and impatience, but at the very least, they were not fools incapable of realizing that if they failed to bring Claudia down right now, they would be the ones brought down instead.

So they had prepared thoroughly.

Rank 4. Four fighters who, in other territories, could even serve as the knight representing an entire domain. And nearly thirty more experts on par with Rank 3, prepared to support them.

They also provided a number of scrolls, each one unbelievably useful—darkvision, target detection, noise suppression, and more.

They practically doused one merchant guild with piles of gold coins, forcibly dragging it into their camp.

Compared to Redbell as a whole, it was only a drop in the bucket, but for the siblings, who had not yet fully inherited that power, it was an investment so enormous it was practically like cutting off an arm.

Indeed...