The First Magic World War

Chapter 433: 400, Missing Captain Huntington

Charles had become increasingly busy lately.

After receiving the promise from his “father-in-law-to-be,” he discussed with Antonio the transfer of the eleven cities in the Red Dragon Strait, which would now be managed by personnel dispatched by Antonio.

The location of the Red Dragon Sea was crucial, facing the beastmen from the southern continent, and also being a commercial route; entrusting it to anyone else was certainly not reassuring for His Majesty Brittany, making Antonio the best choice.

In the eleven cities of the Red Dragon Sea, Charles left no one behind, whether they were beastmen or humans who had recently sought refuge, he took them all with him.

These people could not be integrated into the South Serif war zone.

Indeed, South Serif would transform into an Earl’s Domain after Earl Brittany’s coronation, and Charles also received a portion of Behemoth, with most being sent to Cappadocia.

Just before the handover, Charles did not forget to transform these eleven cities into labyrinths. Although there was still some time, he had to start preparing for his journey to the Agres Sea to challenge Agmilas. Charles couldn’t understand, what was the difference between him heading to the Agres Sea to challenge the Evil God and being forcibly thrown into the Evil God Coliseum? But he decided to go there himself.

Charles planned to sail to the Agres Sea on the Holy Light Divine State Title if it could be repaired; otherwise, he would use the Queen Bee.

Sophia Garanord should now be a qualified captain, just right to be a new member of his adventure team.

Well, Menilman’s senior sister works too, he’s not picky!

When Charles was mobilizing the Westwind Knights, he discovered something; after leading the army to besiege Strasbourg, his forces did not decrease but increased by twenty to thirty thousand people.

He enlisted the private knighthoods of Prince Redmiel and Duke Mosleyd and collected all the gang members in Strasbourg, causing the “military swell” of the Westwind Knights once again.

Especially the knighthoods of the two great nobles, which were all elite, even including Transcendents.

With Redmiel dead and Duke Mosleyd escaping, leaving their knighthoods behind, Charles suddenly found himself with many more talents, and these individuals were all extremely cautious and humble in their demeanor.

Indeed, they were all worried about being treated as rebels and getting their heads chopped off.

Charles gathered the Labyrinth Guardians and the most elite combat teams to Sedona City at the front line of South Serif. Although he hadn’t returned there, he somewhat missed his old opponent Chloe.

Charles planned to have the Old Goat make a move to capture this High-Level Transcendent alive when the war started.

Well, he could attempt to persuade her to defect and even if he could not persuade her, he could still offer her a way out.

After all, their lengthy covert warfare had built up a degree of camaraderie.

They had indeed accumulated some mutual respect.

While Charles was busily managing his Knighthood and territory, he had not forgotten to comb through the Central Government Office from top to bottom, although in Fars’ administrative hierarchy, the Central Government Office was not very high ranking, situated far below the ministers, and the director was merely a twelfth-grade, fifth-level government official. However, it was still a core department of the Empire.

Now, as an Imperial Earl and son-in-law and confidante to His Majesty Brittany, Charles had the authority to forcefully intervene in the affairs of the Central Government Office; not to mention this particular department, no one in the entire imperial administrative hierarchy dared to object!

A few days after the Countess’s funeral, while processing documents, Charles unexpectedly discovered the oath of allegiance documents from the Imperial Rose Fleet and the Eastwind Fleet.

Charles hurriedly sent copies of these documents to the Royal Family’s Office.

The central administrative departments of the Empire had always been the Central Government Office, the Royal Family’s Office, and the Queen’s Office. Now, Antonio managed the Royal Family’s Office, while as Fars temporarily had no queen, Mama Karen was acting on behalf of the Queen’s Office.

After copying these two documents, Charles also drafted awards for Menilman and Sophia Garanord.

While drafting these documents, he suddenly felt a sense of change, as if nothing was the same anymore.

Charles Mecklen, could now decide on many of the promotions and demotions of the empire’s officials.

Many orders did not even require approval from above; he was the ultimate decision-maker.

After dealing with government affairs for a while, Charles felt dizzy and left his work to look through old documents.

The Central Government Office had many top-secret documents that Charles had never been able to access before, but now he could browse them at will. There was a vast amount of ancient secrets, imperial top secrets, and even many legends about deities. Charles needed this intelligence.

While browsing, he found a top-secret document from Kilmainham Prison dated three months ago.

Charles, who had once worked at this prison, could not resist his curiosity and opened it.

Generally speaking, there’s nothing notable about prisons. A top-secret document from three months ago might already be obsolete.

Charles glanced at it, and a chill ran down his spine!

The content of this top-secret document was, “A riot occurred in the sub-dimension of the basement of Kilmainham Prison, and more than a dozen people disappeared!”

The sub-dimension at the basement of Kilmainham Prison is one of the empire’s big secrets, held by only a very few senior figures, and many nobles not in key positions may not even be aware of it.

Every year, the empire would transport a large number of prisoners here, erase their memories, forge their identities, and make them residents of this place, exploring ruins and extracting wealth for the empire.

This was a one-way passage; all prisoners came but never returned, and no one ever left.

The empire also absolutely forbade the public from knowing about this.

Even most imperial bureaucrats were not permitted to know.

However, these were not the important parts.

What was important was that Captain Huntington was on the list of people who disappeared during this riot!

Even the current warden did not know Captain Huntington’s identity.

Originally, only a few people in the world knew that Captain Huntington was Zimmerman Axel Robin, such as the old Emperor, Julius Axtel VI, and it was certainly he who had issued the orders.

Indeed, Charles now understood why Julius Axtel VI did not kill Zimmerman, but simply erased his memories and exiled him to the sub-dimension; because he was the old emperor’s grandson.

But now, the people in this world who knew that Captain Huntington was Zimmerman Axel Robin might only be Menilman and him, Charles Mecklen.

Charles was at a loss on who to discuss this matter with for a moment.

“How could Zimmerman have disappeared?”

“Wasn’t he stripped of all his memories?”

“Or perhaps, did he just vanish normally? After all, the basement of Kilmainham Prison is a sub-dimension abandoned by the gods, once home to a splendid civilization.”

“But…”

Charles always felt that there was more to this matter.

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