After hearing Kant's question, Bestur didn't answer immediately.
He respectfully said to Kant:
"My lord, please allow me to learn more about the information."
Kant nodded, with a serious voice:
"Can!"
Kant knew that Bestur attached great importance to information and intelligence.
Although Kant himself had guessed and understood the information of these nobles just now, he did not specialize in the study and analysis of intelligence after all. In this respect, he was slightly behind Bestour.
It was precisely because of this consideration that Kant asked Bestur.
Bestur came to the Swadia Royal Knight who first reported the situation.
With a serious face, he asked the Swadia royal knight:
"Your Excellency, may I ask where you found the sleeping nobles, servants, warriors, knights, great knights, etc. in the noble mansion, where are they?"
The Swadian royal knight, after serious thinking for a while, said:
"Lord Bestul, the nobleman, we found in his bedroom, and the servants, warriors, knights, great knights, etc. were also found in their resting places."
"In fact, we were all taken aback at first, thinking they were sleeping in the bed."
Bestur nodded, and said:
"So, have you found any traces of battle in the noble mansion?"
The Royal Swadian Knight replied without thinking this time:
"No, we didn't find any traces of battle."
Bestur nodded:
"Okay, knight! Thank you for your answer, which allowed me to confirm part of my guess."
Bestur came to the mage of the Enfas Empire who answered Kant's question again, and asked him with a serious expression:
"Dear mage, I want to ask, can the archmage fly?"
Bestur came from the continent of Calradia, which is different from the continent of Pendor, where the mages of the Ernfas Empire came from.
The power system of mages is rarely seen in Calradia.
The Enfas Empire mage mage pondered for a while and said:
"This scoring faction, if they are evocation or transformation system archmages, they can fly. The other factions' archmages do not have the ability to fly."
Bestur nodded clearly, and continued to ask:
"Then, the archmage you mentioned who released the mind-confusing spell in the entire noble mansion, can he fly?"
The Enfas Empire mage said with some hesitation:
"Spiritual imprisonment is not a spell exclusive to a certain faction. In fact, wizards with strong spiritual power can cast it."
"However, since that archmage can specially develop this type of new spell, he is probably an archmage of the illusion department. If he didn't study evocation or transformation at the same time, he should not be able to fly. .”
Bestur directly concluded:
"So it's possible that it won't fly?"
The Enfarth Empire mage nodded:
"It can indeed be said that the world of magic is difficult and obscure. It is not easy to become an archmage in any department. Even if you have achieved it, you should continue to study it in depth. Instead of wasting time on other factions."
"Therefore, it is very likely that the magician of the illusion department is specialized in the illusion department."
Bestur understands:
"From this point of view, it is unlikely that the archmage flew out of the closed noble mansion."
He went on to ask:
"So, can the Archmage release a spell and trigger it after a specific time?"
"Well, what I mean specifically is, is it possible for the archmage to perform mental imprisonment on other people, and let those who were mentally imprisoned by him perform normal activities for a period of time before falling into a deep sleep."
The Enfarth Empire mage nodded:
"Master Bestur, the situation you mentioned belongs to super magic skills-spell delay. People who can become archmages generally have more or less mastered some super magic skills."
"Therefore, the situation you mentioned is entirely possible."
Bestur thought for a while, and continued to ask the Enfas Empire mage:
"last question!"
"How strong is the archmage? Can he deal with 300 soldiers and 30 great knights in this noble mansion at the same time?"
The Enfas Empire mage thought for a long time this time:
"If it is an archmage of the summoning or evocation system, it is somewhat possible. However, the illusion system is biased towards assisting and controlling, and it is difficult to deal with so many people at the same time, especially the 30 great knights. Their will is stronger , stronger resistance to magic spells of the illusion department."
Bestur nodded:
"Okay, thank you for your answer, respected mage!"
Bestur asked some specific details to verify his conjecture, and then came to Kant.
"My lord, I think we can lead the army to move on!"
Kant listened to Bestur's question and answer about the Swadia Royal Knights and Enfas Empire Mages, and he understood what Bestur meant. He was indeed not as good as Bestur in terms of details.
However, Bestur is completely loyal to him, as long as he can control Bestur and let him display his talents.
Like now.
"Tell me about your analysis!"
Although Kant also made the same conjecture in his heart, he still needed to listen to Bestur's opinion. Perhaps Bestur considered it in more detail than him.
"My lord, based on the known clues, I judge that the people in this noble mansion were all voluntarily imprisoned by the archmage. Perhaps the nobleman sent the archmage out of the mansion himself, and then ordered the soldiers to close the door. After opening the door, I returned to the bedroom and fell into a deep sleep."
Kant also had this idea. Otherwise, even if an archmage has the ability to imprison so many people mentally, those people are not wood. As long as they resist together, the archmage might not even be able to imprison a single person successfully.
Such a situation can only happen if the people in the noble mansion actively cooperate.
"The analysis makes sense, but it doesn't serve as the basis for your decision whether we move forward or retreat."
Bestur was refreshed and continued:
"My lord, there are only two situations that can make people so obedient."
"One is the absolute crushing in terms of strength, the gap in strength is so large that the weaker side has no idea of resistance at all.
"We have ruled out this situation. After all, the combined strength of these nobles is quite powerful."
"The other is the absolute suppression of status. The high-ranking people have an extremely powerful deterrent effect on the low-ranking people, even to the extent that the high-ranking people can control the fate of the low-ranking people with just words."
"The law of the jungle applies to the first type, but ethnic groups with a ruled social system are often more applicable to the second type. It comes from the crushing of status and the crushing of power."
Kant Interface says:
"But status and power need strength to guarantee!"
Bestur nodded and said:
"Yes, my lord, status and power do need strength to guarantee."
"But it doesn't necessarily need to be stronger than the combined power of all low-ranking people, it just needs to be stronger than every low-ranking person. Behind the archmage who made these nobles cooperate almost unconditionally, there may be such an existence behind him. "
"According to my speculation, he is very likely to be your father—the Duke of Lion Cameron."
(end of this chapter)