Chương 1723: Second Life (Part 1)

Lith informed Jadon and Brinja of Hogum's visit and Raaz about the presence of one or more informants among his farmhands.

"The Hogum household is easy to crush for someone of your status. Do you want me to order their execution?" If the Baronet could hear Brinja, he would have regretted his arrogance.

"Without a plausible reason, I would get rid of one enemy just to make ten more." Lith shook his head. "The rest of the nobles of Lustria would consider me a madman and the commoners would resent me even more than they already do.

"On top of that, the Association doesn't like me at all and I've just fixed my shaky standing in the Royal Court. What I'm asking you to do is to dig up all the dirt you can about the Hogum household and see if there's a way to take them down after destroying their reputation.