"No. Tell about the base location of Arkaves instead."
June hesitated at the Young Lord's question, but only because she knew that the answer would displease Asher. However, she wasn't left with much of a choice and knew that she still needed to answer.
It was better to incur his wrath with a reply than not give one at all and be dealt with a greater punishnt.
"There is no base of locations for the Arkaves, Young Lord." June said.
"And what do you an by that?" Lucius narrowed his eyes.
"What I an to say by that, Young Lord is the reason why I said that it's difficult for to truly know everyone." June weakly said. "There is no fixed base and the mbers are spread around, not necessarily eting that often."
"How does one receive their orders then?" Lucius asked and crossed his arms.
"We would simply get a letter that specifies the mission, Young Lord." June answered. "And once we receive it, we are then obliged to do it. We normally don't see our superiors at all, and I've mostly only co across the sa rank or lower ranked than myself."
"Because it would be unnecessary for lower ranked mbers to see their superiors when there are other thods to relay information and orders from them." Lucius nodded. "Yes, that makes a lot of sense."
June nodded, feeling a little relieved that the Young Lord was pleased and accepted her words.
However, unbeknown to her, Lucius was mulling over the situation with Arkaves. It would have been simple if there was one fixed base for Lucius to head to, then he could simply send his n to deal with it.
But it wasn't just the Arkaves rcenary group that they were dealing with.
"Do you know what other rcenary groups will be hired to abduct and kill the remarkable soldiers of Inanis Family?" Lucius asked.
"N-no, I don't know anything." June desperately shook her head. "Like with Cine, Young Lord… I only know that he went on a mission but not the details. For this, I was only sent to do my job and gather information, but the actual process and forces that are to be involved afterwards is out of my knowledge."
"Of course." Lucius said.
He had expected that much of an answer. It was exactly the sa to what he had done with the Dionysia Brewery a couple months back.
Each of the construction worker, guards and even suppliers who brought the Carom fruits were all unaware of what was happening and only knew enough information to do their jobs properly.
They were sotis even given the wrong knowledge to spur on nurous rumors and cause confusion among the nobles. All of this was done in order to fully hide what they were actually doing and keep their cards from being revealed.
What the Arkaves had done was along the sa lines as Lucius did and that made him think. He rubbed his chin lightly and mused about it.
It wasn't strange for noble and royal courts, rchants and even the church itself to think of thods and perform even downright duplicitous acts to gain the upperhand from others.
But the actual number of people who actually thought of and ca up with these things were far lesser than you expected.
The only reason Barrom Clan rose to great heights of power to challenge the Tharian Theocracy was not simply because of the raw power of its clan mbers, it was also the leaders that strictly implented their visions to the less capable ones.
Not everyone was born to be a leader, and most were more than happy to just copy the crowd and didn't deviate to the norm.
"And yet it seems like Arkaves is being led by a smart individual, soone who knows how to use their head." Lucius silently acknowledged and glanced at June.
Once again, if it were not for the superior senses of the Lost within the battlefield, June's careful preparations would have actually made her mission successful even without the original condition of the Inanis Family losing the war.
Nobody was aware, or even suspicious enough to think much about a nurse who simply wanted to treat others.
And even a low ranked mber of Arkaves, Cine was capable of actually observing the Count of the Inanis Family without alerting anyone for at least a week without interruptions.
He had done that even when his gift was not actually suited for spying at all, which spoke much of his training.
The only reason why the man was even stopped was by the chance that Lucius had been testing Doyle's capabilities back then.
Lucius tapped his finger idly on the armrest of his chair. It was easy for him to feel as if everything had gone well because of all the plans he had made and implented working for him…
But with the slightest off chance that Lucius hadn't done a particular thing, the outco might have already changed drastically.
The Arkaves rcenary group was already proficient enough on its own and it was only possible with the direction of a capable and intellectual individual.
"Well, well… I suppose this is a sign for to be sharper than ever, the chance that there's a worthy adversary in the realm of foresight is sothing that can't be ignored." Lucius muttered.
Lucius had the advantage now with the Lost and their capabilities, but people from across the kingdom were going to hear about the Masked Legion as a new rcenary group.
That would put anyone with even half a head on their shoulders on guard, especially when news that the entire army of Count Drew was annihilated alongside powerful and gifted people who weren't supposed to be there in the first place.
And that wasn't even Lucius thinking about the other things on his plate. Well, this situation was taking precedence for now.
He turned back to June, there was still a lot more he could gain from her.
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