Clyde immediately took Miss Morais back to his palace for treatment. He found Alchemist Rebecca who immediately took a sample and went to prepare an emergency antidote.
Generally, after smearing poison on their daggers, it was very unlikely for high-level assassins to carry an antidote with them. All of them were determined to die, so it would be very difficult to obtain the antidote from those assassins either through interrogation or force. Thus, Clyde gave up this plan and urgently handed the matter of creating an emergency antidote to the skilled alchemist. This method tested an alchemist’s judgment. On the basis of the analyzed poison’s composition, they had to find corresponding detoxification drugs and adapt in accordance with the proportions present in the poison. The closer their potion matched the proper antidote’s composition, the better the detoxification effect.
As for how close it could reach, it depended entirely on the professional skills of the alchemist. In this urgent situation, there was only one chance. Rebecca didn’t dare to neglect anything, immediately preparing an antidote without wasting any time. She didn’t even concern herself with the identity of this beautiful young girl. As she saw it, Clyde bringing back a lady wearing just a bathrobe at midnight was normal a circumstance and nothing strange.
“Sire Clyde, it’s too late. I…”
“Don’t speak. How is this too late? Leave everything to me. Sorry, I will compensate you for your clothes in the future!”
“Eh, compensate… Wait, this is too…”
Before Morais could understand the meaning of his words, Clyde directly grabbed the hem of her robe and suddenly yanked, tearing that thin bathrobe from her, exposing her enchanting white **. In the next moment, Clyde leaned forward and used his mouth to suck out the poisoned blood from her wound. Morais’s face became bright red because the wounds were at the peak of her breast and her white thigh. With a man ** this kind of place, it was impossible to remain calm.
Clyde didn’t give Morais any chance to speak. He conveniently found a red apple on a table and used it to block her little mouth. Morais was so touched that she momentarily ignored her misgivings about Clyde taking cheap advantage of her. As she imagined it, the other party was risking his life to help her suck out the poisoned blood.
Clyde himself was immune to poisons. However, he wasn’t Lucifer, that Bloodkin specialized in sucking blood. His actions provided some mental comfort to Morais, nothing more. After a little while, Rebecca came over with the emergency antidote she had created and fed it to Morais. After Morais took it, her complexion eased a little. After undergoing such tribulations, she was rather tired, so she soon closed her eyes and fell asleep.
“Rebecca, was it effective?”
“Yes, the other party used… It cannot be considered a poison. In fact, it is a kind of…”
After finishing her treatment, Rebecca hesitated a bit and told Clyde everything. The poison that had affected Miss Morais before was a kind of fake poison but very well disguised. The actual effect was not really that lethal. At most, she would only lose her consciousness despite her initial reaction somewhat resembling being poisoned. Rebecca guessed that among the assassins who had come to assassinate her, some might have had selfish motives. He hadn’t wanted to kill Miss Morais but rather capture her. What he had wanted to do to her after capturing her, just a little bit thought quickly let one know that it had absolutely been nothing good.
“Rebecca, can you make a similar potion? I have a great use for it.”
“I can… I should be able to. Merely, it takes time.”
“No problem. As long as you can make it, that’d be fine.”
When the sunlight of the next morning illuminated “Moston” Hotel’s main hall, it had already been cleaned up. The blood staining the ground and walls along with the stench of blood were all removed as if nothing had happened here. Those over 200 assassins had quietly disappeared as if they had never existed.
Only maids were left to act as attendants of the hotel. All the male attendants had resigned overnight. In addition, these maids had already been turned into blood servants. After that night, they had turned into low-level Bloodkin due to being embraced by those bloodkin beauties. This was the most economical method. According to Clyde’s plan, next time, if someone came to “Moston” Hotel to pick a fight, before the guard regiment of Steinbeck Fief arrived, these blood maids could welcome the enemies and stall them until the arrival of reinforcements.
“Mister Clyde, did younger sister Lucifer truly help me change my clothes last night?”
“Of course, I was not at the scene. You can rest assured. I wouldn’t lie to a little girl.”
The members of Light Church’s secret envoy squad woke up early in the morning and found that they were barely dressed. Then, they had discovered the key that Clyde had placed on the table, opened the wardrobes, and taken out their robes. After the four saintesses saw Clyde, the most innocent “Ice Saintess” Shirley kept confirming Clyde’s story with him, worried that he had seen her undergarments. Among the four saintesses present at the scene, the one who had worn the sexiest and most open undergarments was Shirley. Clyde was well aware of this, but he was quite wise, so after taking advantage of her, he pretended to know nothing.
“Clyde, your Suzerain seems to be planning to send troops to the Needham Plains! Is it fine to seek trouble with Marquis Charles with just over 10,000 troops? He has over 120,000 troops.”
“Even if he had a million troops, what about it? Sometimes, number advantages are not absolute.”
“In that case, you… Sire Clyde, please accept this.”
The saintesses didn’t know that the real ruler of Steinbeck Fief was Clyde. They believed that he was just a simple administration officer, and the Suzerain was Princess Saras. When they went out and saw the deploying army marching through the streets, they guessed that the Suzerain had decided to start a war. As saintesses of Light Church’s, they were not allowed to openly participate in the politics of any nation. They couldn’t speak out of turn. After briefly discussing, “Radiant Saintess” Suhiya obtained the agreement of the other saintesses and gave a seal that symbolized the status of a high-ranking priest from Light Church to Clyde.
Once Steinbeck Fief was defeated, as long as Clyde took out this seal, he could quickly escape the battlefield using the guise of being a Light Church member, relying on the exclusive protection privilege of the clergy. This was the first time these saintesses had done this kind of thing. They looked nervous and somewhat fidgety as if they were committing a naughty act for the first time. After all, their current actions counted as breaking the rules of Light Church.
Suhiya and the other saintesses were too young and innocent. Not to mention other people, just Bishop Nichols had privately sold many such seals for a profit according to Clyde’s knowledge. These saintesses couldn’t compare with him. Simply out of kindness, they had given it to Clyde for free without taking a single cent. If other Light Church higher-ups had been in their places, they would have sold such a seal for at least 10,000 gold coins, and there was no ceiling for how much they would demand.
As for Miss Morais, she temporarily rested at the palace. After the attack on “Moston” Hotel, it was still uncertain whether the other party would attack again. Therefore, Miss Morais couldn’t take risks for the time being. The current situation of Adrian Empire was grim. As the commander of Imperial Knight Regiment, Paladin Luolan had been recalled to the empire’s capital, Samuel City. There had been no news from her after that; it was unknown whether something had happened to her.
After a brief period of quiet, Steinbeck Fief was about to start a war once more. This time, before seizing the Needham Plains, Clyde had to deal with “The battle of Three Earls” at Leopold Lake first. The area where these three parties were entangled blocked his course of advance. Without breaking through them, it would be too time-consuming to make a detour.
“Lord Clyde, do you plan to march to the Leopold Lake area? That place, however, has over 150,000 troops gathered. If by chance, they cooperated, then it would be even tougher than dealing with Marquis Charles.”
“We don’t need to attack them. Our target is Marquis Charles. Everyone else will be left for our friendly forces to take care of.”
“Friendly forces? Do we have friendly forces?”
“Princess Saras, we definitely don’t have any friendly forces of the Human Race, but we do have allies from other races. As long as no one knows that they are connected with us, they can move freely.”
In the palace of Steinbeck Fief, after sending off the secret envoy squad of Light Church, Clyde discussed the matters of war with Princess Saras. After a round of recruitment, the number of Steinbeck Fief’s troops had increased to just over 12,000 from the original 9,000. Nevertheless, that just meant that over 3,000 troops were novice recruits.
Steinbeck Fief mainly lacked time. The recruited new troops lacked training, but there were no issues in their equipment. According to the current wealth of the fief, equipping over 100,000 troops would also not have been a problem. However, Clyde didn’t want to be too high-profile and eye-catching; thus, he had deliberately restricted the number of troops. In addition, he wanted elite troops, not a miscellaneous mob that relied on numbers.
“By the way, how should Princess Verly and Demon Princess Andrea be treated? They tried to escape several times, but Ancient Demon King Andrisno stopped them every time. Now, Verly says that she wants to see you. She went on a hunger strike and won’t stop until she’s seen you.”
“That girl, truly acting as I don’t dare to ride…Forget it. I’ll go to see what she wants.”
Under Princess Saras’s directions, Clyde arrived at the sleeping quarters deep within the palace. He saw Sacred Moon Dragon Knight Verly sitting face to face with Ancient Demon King Andrisno. Andrisno, however, completely ignored Verly’s reactions with a calm expression. Verly’s face was a little red. She already didn’t care about her moral integrity. Even though she was completely bare, she wanted to run away. Unfortunately, every time, just when she was about to succeed, she would be captured and brought back by this Lolita Demon King. Now, in order to avoid Princess Verly and Demon Princess Andrea cooperating in secret, they had been imprisoned in seperate locations.
“Princess Verly, what’s wrong? Why are you going on a hunger strike? The food here is delicious! Look, that place is well-developed.”
“You… where are you looking? So hateful! Let me go. I won’t say anything. I… I pledge by the name of Light Goddess.”
“However, I don’t believe in pledges unless you truly become one of my people!”
“You… change your conditions. Other… Wait, don’t go away so quickly! In any case, listen to me until the end!”
