Catalina dressed up as a common girl, wearing a linen dress and carrying a basket, wandering around the city. She always had a way of blending in with the residents around her naturally, and obtaining all kinds of information from the discussions on the streets. To be honest, the nobles and mages in the capital rarely paid attention to such a small person who lacked "value", so even though the city was searching for Javier everywhere, Catalina was still able to move around in the city.
Taverns and markets are always the places where news spreads the fastest among civilians. However, these days, the taverns in the city are frequented by a large number of guards, city guards, and even knights of the Temple of Nature, so it is not a good place to go. However, the atmosphere in the market is much more relaxed. Most people will say a few words to acquaintances when they meet. Maybe some are true and some are false, maybe just a few words, but valuable information may be hidden in them. Katarina has several informants who are vendors and gangsters in the market area. They don't know her identity. There are many people in the royal capital who like to inquire about news. Everyone follows a rule that one hand pays the other hand, but never asks the other party where they are from.
What's more important is that Gabriel had severe burns on his body, and none of them were good at healing magic, so they needed herbs to recover from his injuries as quickly as possible.
"Have you heard? The king is dying. There was such a big commotion the night before last, but he didn't show up." Catalina walked past a bacon stall and heard several men talking together.
"Her Royal Highness will soon take charge of the country. I think this is a good thing." One of the young men said, "I have met the princess before. Although she is very young, she looks very calm."
The other middle-aged man sneered, "You've seen a princess? I guess you just caught a glimpse of her from a distance at some ceremony. We've seen princesses like this before."
"So what? I can feel it from far away," the young man emphasized.
"Whether she is calm or not, she is too young." said the middle-aged man.
"So what? The king has no younger heirs. She is better than Prince Javier. The prince is too young, and the Queen's Tower of Brilliant Wings has collapsed. He can't hold on to the throne..."
Catalina listened for a while and found that most people had a good impression of the princess. As for the attitudes of the Temple of Nature and the Royal Magic Tower, ordinary people did not know much about them and said very little.
She walked around for a while and saw a thug squatting by the wall with a grass stem in his mouth. Looking around, looking for prey to attack in the market, Catalina quietly approached him, swung in front of the thug, exchanged glances with him, and walked into an alley.
The gangster seemed very happy to see her. He stood up, dusted off his body, and followed her into the alley.
"Ah, Miss Bailing, it must be that the god of nature took pity on me today and sent you here when I didn't even have a copper shield in my pocket." Bailing is Catalina's pseudonym, just like the pseudonym of this gangster is Stump.
Katarina said: "Of course I have a bronze shield, and I even have a silver spear, but it depends on what information you can bring out in exchange for me."
"What do you want to know?" Stump looked greedily at the silver coins rolling in Catalina's hand, and asked respectfully while bending down.
"Which strong men died in the battle the night before yesterday? Which ones were seriously injured? Tell me everything."
"So you care about these things." Tree Stump licked his lips and said, "You're right to ask me. I have a close brother who is a captain in the city guard. He was in charge of digging the ruins of the Shining Wing Tower that day. He even dug out a crushed temple priest with his own hands. Later, he also transported a seriously injured knight to the Healer's Tower. No one knows the situation that day better than him."
"Just say what you know and don't brag. Don't talk nonsense if you don't know," said Catalina.
"Hehe. Miss Bailing, how can this be nonsense? He also has a lover who is an apprentice of the Healer's Tower. A lot of news came from there." Tree Stump smiled slyly while staring at the silver spear. "But before I say anything, you know the old rules."
Katrina grabbed the silver spear and put it away, then took out two bronze shields from her pocket and threw them to the stump. The latter happily stuffed them into his pocket and began to tell the intelligence: "Many people think that only one saint died that day, but that's not true. Two saints died that day. In addition to Gibran from the Temple of Nature, Saint Sasso from the Sky-Splitting Tower was killed outside the city long ago."
Catalina's eyes narrowed and she asked, "Are you sure?"
"Of course, my brother's woman heard it from the high-level wizard of the Healer's Tower with her own ears. The high-level wizard heard it from Benegas himself when he went to heal the Thousand-Ren Sword Master." said Stump.
“Is the news reliable?”
"You know, in our line of work, we just tell what we hear. You have to figure out for yourself whether it's true or not. But I heard a piece of news from another person, even if I give it to you for free. Another person I know handles excrement in the palace dungeon. He said that the person most hated by the newly imprisoned prisoners is Julian, the master of the Sky Rift Tower. They all call him a shameless traitor. They say he is a betrayer of his teacher."
"It turned out to be like this." Luo Ling, Mei and the others analyzed the current situation with Katarina. They were all very surprised that Saint Sasso of the Sky-Splitting Tower was absent from the battle that night. The worst guess was that he had surrendered to the princess. The best guess was that he was on a temporary trip and might return to the capital later. But they didn't expect that the princess and her men would be so ruthless that they actually killed the saint of their own country. This was a matter of cutting off one's own limbs.
"It's really strange, aren't they worried that the saints of the empire and the kingdom will lose balance?" Catalina said to herself.
Stump shrugged and said, "Who knows? But if you ask me, these big guys will definitely think about their own positions first. They will kill anyone who opposes me taking the position. It's like I have to become the boss of the Giant Hammer Gang before I worry about whether the Giant Hammer Gang will be swallowed up by the Wild Bear Gang. If I can't become the boss, then what does the life and death of this gang have to do with me?"
"And who else lost their lives?"
"Of course the worst was the Shining Wing Tower. All the big shots in the tower died except for those who escaped. But I heard that a lot of minor figures also escaped. The Royal Guards are now searching for them. It is said that half of the people in the Spirit Refining Tower died. Four or five high-level mages died alone. The tower owner, Master Kona, was captured and taken to the dungeon under the palace."
"What? Master Kona is not dead?"