In the end, even if it turns out to be nothing, it’s only a conclusion.

She did not just let the unease pass.

The attack that had her running full tilt in the moonlight.

It wasn’t an assassin, nor was it targeting her, the princess, but it was an unsettling incident nonetheless.

She did not want to let go of this nervewracking incident.

Of course, she did not particularly trust her senses, but she had to prevent a war for “purification” against an ancient god who wanted to kill and “purify” all humans on the continent.

So, it’s better to knock on a stone bridge once, no, several times before crossing.

“Dig a little deeper.”

She felt like she had already sold her arm, but the investigator bowed deeply to Olivia’s command.

Even after the investigator left the office, Olivia meticulously reviewed the documents.

“Hmmmm. Not many servants had interactions with the excessively excited woman.”

Among them must be the servant she tried to kill, the servant from whom Olivia had temporarily borrowed clothes.

Unlike other clothes, the ribbon was a bit peculiar….

But she didn’t actually give an order to find the owner of the dress.

There should be no need to give such an order specifically.

If you call for a servant who works in the princess’s palace and wears a distinctive ribbon, it should be enough.

But Olivia did not call her.

After gathering all the possible information, questioning her would yield better, more truthful information.

Didn’t the woman who attacked her shout in a voice boiling with hatred?

There must be a grudge relationship that the palace investigator did not discover.

So, calling in the owner of the dress that Olivia borrowed that night will have to wait a little longer.

Olivia, who had been tirelessly reading through the documents, paused.

“Huh?”

A familiar name, ‘Taren,’ caught her eye.

Although he was a person who seemed to have almost no relevance, being a friend of a friend of a friend of the victim, nevertheless, it was surprising that the name of a person from the Taren family appeared in the report.

“Since I asked for an investigation related to the stone, let’s meet him first.”

Having made up her mind, Olivia did not delay and immediately called for Ambuh Taren.

Not long after, an entirely unexpected answer came back.

“Lord Taren is in the Nordern Kingdom?”

“Yes. The Taren family sends their deepest regrets for not being able to respond to your summons, and they sent these.”

There was a carefully rolled parchment, but Olivia did not even try to unroll it.

Instead, she narrowed her eyes and sank into thought.

The Taren family would not refuse Olivia’s command.

If it hadn’t been for her, the only heir of the Taren family would have been missing and assumed dead.

Moreover, didn’t Ambuh say he wanted to be ‘helpful’ to Olivia and Cryer?

After all, it must be true that Ambuh went to the Nordern Kingdom.

“Why?”

She did entrust the investigation of the stone to him, but why would the heir of the Taren family need to go to the Nordern Kingdom?

As she tilted her head, Olivia murmured suddenly.

“If it’s the Nordern Kingdom, Isaac is there, right? I wonder if the two of them met…”

At the heart of the Nordern Kingdom’s palace.

The palace, which contained the history and traditions of the Nordern Kingdom, had been long demolished, and a new building was being erected on the vacant lot.

“Hey! Block it off here!”

“No, not yet! Not yet! If you remove the support there, it will collapse!”

Workers were busy running around near the entrance leading to the newly constructed underground, but to the uninitiated, it would not look like an ‘entrance’ at all.

The shouting of many people, the rolling noise of wood and stone.

It was a chaotic construction site filled with dust and noise, but the workers’ faces were quite bright.

That’s because the completion was not far off.

And amidst the bustling workers, Isaac’s face was notably dark.

He had been watching the nearing completion of the building, even cutting down on his sleeping hours.

“What the hell is that?”

Isaac squinted his foxlike eyes and murmured.

The stones brought in from outside the palace were transported without much secrecy.

Despite this, it was truly ‘magical’ that no one knew what was happening inside the palace.

At any rate, stones that took several strong men to move, and smaller stones than that, were piled up to form a structure.

“What is this… It’s blatantly a shrine. No, is it a shrine only in appearance and used for something else? No matter how you look at it, it looks like a shrine. If it’s not a shrine, it’s a structure that can’t be used for anything else.”

That’s why Isaac was confused.

He moved quite clumsily, but very few knew about this situation, whether he used magic or what.

Why would they keep a secret by using magic, and yet the structure is blatantly a shrine?

Even a passing monkey could see that the shrine, which was about to be completed in front of his eyes, was not for the ‘completely different god’ that is commonly worshipped on the continent.

At first, he watched in hiding, but he couldn’t gather information that way, so he disguised himself and mixed in with the laborers.

Fortunately or unfortunately, whether it was due to the influence of magic or not, he didn’t distinguish the faces of those who work every day, so he easily mingled among them…

“What are you staring at! Grab that end!”

“Oh, yes.”

Isaac, who was moving a neatly cut stone, opened his mouth as if asking about tomorrow’s weather.

“It looks like it’s almost complete, what do you think it’s for? It doesn’t seem like an ordinary palace.”