Velin unfolded the letter.
Lilia's elegant and nimble handwriting leaped from the page.
In the letter, she first described the splendor of the Royal Capital, the tedious social climbing at the noblewomen's afternoon tea parties, and the young Knights' ostentatious displays.
Then, her tone shifted as she got to the main point—Count Leman's business strategy for "The Last Knight's Grand Tournament."
This was precisely what Velin had requested.
The Count's methods were masterfully cunning. He had chosen an old, frail Count, who was worried about the issue of succession, as his breakthrough point.
That old Count's only son, famously weak and sickly, had displayed a "virility" in the bedroom after taking the potion that even his wife found difficult to adjust to.
In just a few weeks, joyous news arrived: his wife was pregnant.
This affair stirred up a storm within the Royal Capital's highest social circles, becoming the talk of the town.
