The Witch Hunter System

Chapter 962: Upheaval in Silverscale City (2)



"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, someone 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 confirmed.

"НАНАНАНАНА!"

After a brief moment, 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 Department.

Such an ungrateful city and department 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 department that decided to go with the Silverscale Lord's dirty scheme 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 immediately focused on the facial expression of the remaining members of the Spirit Observation Department.

"Give me the latest report!"

"Yes, Sir Ethar!"

"Wrong! It should be Chief Ethar to you now!"

"Yes, Sir-I mean, 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 become 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 department.

"Contact the sea patrols and have their men pay a visit to the Black Serpent Clan for an inquiry," Sir Ethar instructed the Nautican communicator before mentioning, "Since the Black Serpent Clan's members were also killed, they may have some 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 some merit."

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 become 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 immediately denied before saying, "Just tell them to send some 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 some of them died.

"Understood, Chief," the Nautican communicator complied.

...

Silverscale City, Border Garrison

"Captain, we got a new request from the Spirit Observation Department; it wants our men to visit the Black Serpent Clan for an inquiry," a Nautican soldier informed.

"Oh?" the Nautican captain casually stretched as he asked, "Did Chief Kroksi mention the reason why?"

"Er... It wasn't Chief Kroksi's request. The Spirit Observation Department 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 informed about this! Someone 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!"

"Something 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 department, 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 implementation of martial law during the great immigration deprived the civil government of its authority. The military government had taken over control of all matters ton/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

ensure the survival of their civilization.

Even though their civilization eventually settled down in Pangea, central authority was never returned to the civil government.

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 members of the civil government 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, time 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.