"You have sent a Seventh-class Land Investigator to his death. You have also placed an
incompetent watchman in charge of the Spirit Altar, which resulted in a serious loss of critical intel."
"Furthermore, you caused the indirect death of another three Land Investigators of higher
classes due to such negligence. If you resist arrest, that would be another charge."
"Need I say more?" Sir Ethar smirked.
"You are spinning lies to suit your selfish agenda!"
Chief Kroksi's eyes turned bloodshot with rage but he didn't resist the Divine Knights' capture.
After all, he couldn't beat them, and dying here would be pointless. He could surrender quietly and wait for rescue from the military.
Nevertheless, he couldn't believe how blatantly ridiculous the nobleman was.
"Yeah, so what?" Sir Ethar uttered nonchalantly before saying, "Your incompetence has caused the death of four precious Divine Origin realm experts and weakened Silverscale City." "The people have also learned about this matter and are very dissatisfied with you. So, whether you are guilty or not, soone has to answer to the angry citizens."
"What do you think of this, Chief Kroksi?" Sir Ethar smiled.
"Is that true?" Chief Kroksi frowned.
"Obviously," Sir Ethar confird.
"НАНАНАНАНА!"
After a brief mont, Chief Kroksi suddenly laughed madly and raucously, so much so that it was grating to everyone's ears.
The matter was so ridiculous and infuriating to the point that he no longer cared what would happen to Silverscale City after the nobleman took over the Spirit Observation Departnt.
Such an ungrateful city and departnt did not deserve his loyalty.
After all, how could the news reach the Silverscale Lord and Silverscale City so quickly when even he had barely found out about it?
There was obviously a rat or two within his departnt that decided to go with the Silverscale Lord's dirty sche to remove military authority from the city. Maybe even everyone was in on it!
As far as Chief Kroksi was concerned, everyone could go to hell!
"Heh!"
Sir Ethar snickered after seeing Chief Kroksi's unconcerned and dispirited look. After the latter was taken away, he imdiately focused on the facial expression of the remaining mbers of the Spirit Observation Departnt.
"Give the latest report!"
"Yes, Sir Ethar!"
"Wrong! It should be Chief Ethar to you now!"
"Yes, Sir-I an, Chief Ethar!"
After getting reprimanded, the Nautican data analyst quietly fixed his attitude and handed the report over subserviently. Sir Ethar smiled satisfyingly with the respect and fear he received.
The noble district had beco rather boring after staying there for thousands of years. As such, he needed to flex his power and authority elsewhere to relieve his boredom.
Fortunately, he had a good relationship with the Silverscale Lord.
After Sir Ethar finished reading the report, he quickly grasped the situation and began taking charge of the departnt.
"Contact the sea patrols and have their n pay a visit to the Black Serpent Clan for an inquiry," Sir Ethar instructed the Nautican communicator before ntioning, "Since the Black Serpent Clan's mbers were also killed, they may have so useful information."
"I don't believe this Vaan Raphna will ignore the spirit knowledge of region DSE after coming into contact with it. If we can lure him to us and finish him off here, we might even earn so rit."
In Sir Ethar's eyes, a First-stage Divine Knight-level threat was trivial to a Fifth-stage Divine Star realm expert such as himself.
Since a trifling land-dweller challenged the Celestial Kingdom's authority, why couldn't he beco everyone's hero in reclaiming the Celestial's honor?
"Do you have any specifications I should convey to the sea patrols, Chief? Should I ask them to send a Divine Origin realm expert?" the Nautican communicator asked.
"Nonsense," Sir Ethar imdiately denied before saying, "Just tell them to send so Heaven Ascension realm experts."
Silverscale City had already lost four good Divine Origin realm experts. If it lost another one due to him, wouldn't the previous faults and the new one all get pinned on him instead?
Heaven Ascension realm experts were incomparable to Divine Origin realm experts. So, no one would care much if so of them died.
"Understood, Chief," the Nautican communicator complied.
...
Silverscale City, Border Garrison
"Captain, we got a new request from the Spirit Observation Departnt; it wants our n to visit the Black Serpent Clan for an inquiry," a Nautican soldier inford.
"Oh?" the Nautican captain casually stretched as he asked, "Did Chief Kroksi ntion the reason why?"
"Er... It wasn't Chief Kroksi's request. The Spirit Observation Departnt seems to have a new chief. It's Sir Ethar from the noble district," the Nautican soldier said hesitantly.
Bang!
The Nautican captain abruptly stomped the ground with outrage.
"What! I wasn't inford about this! Soone from the noble district replaced Chief Kroksi? That must be a colossal joke! Those clean freaks have no place in the military; they simply have no discipline at all!"
"Sothing must have happened to Chief Kroksi!" the Nautican captain frowned.
"Then... should we refuse the request, Captain?" the Nautican soldier asked nervously.
"What? No. Of course, we have to accept. It's a request from that departnt, after all," the Nautican stated before adding, "However, I have to inform the higher-ups of the situation in
this city."
"I'm afraid the Silverscale Lord has begun to take action," the Nautican captain sighed.
The friction between the noble faction and the military had been an ongoing problem since the earliest stages of the Celestial Kingdom's founding on Pangea.
The implentation of martial law during the great immigration deprived the civil governnt of its authority. The military governnt had taken over control of all matters to
ensure the survival of their civilization.
Even though their civilization eventually settled down in Pangea, central authority was never returned to the civil governnt.
Instead, the birth of the first-generation Ocean Master only facilitated the shift of the democratic Celestial Federation to the current dictatorial Celestial Kingdom.
Although mbers of the civil governnt were granted titles to honor their old services,
they held no decision-making power over their civilization. To add salt to their wound, they weren't permitted to join the military or raise private forces.
Their feudal ranks were just empty titles.
Nevertheless, ti had allowed the noble faction to grow while the military faction declined.
The military simply couldn't maintain its iron grip on the Celestial Kingdom when they had to tackle worldly problems while guarding against the secret machinations of the noble faction
in the dark.
Many Celestials anticipated an age of chaos would eventually descend on their civilization when the noble faction and military faction decided to bond through marriage to maintain
peace in their society.
The result of that decision back then led them to their current-generation Ocean Master, who has blood ties to both the noble faction and the military faction.
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