Beginning of the Attacks 

While Isabella was notified, so were the supreme elder and other high-ranking individuals in the imperial palace.

When he received the same news as the local heiress, the old regent paled at what could be the beginning of the dark confrontation ahead for this family.

If this were Mortimer's doing, as the core of the family already imagined, most likely, they would face the danger that a Spiritual Sage was aiming at their heads from now on!

Due to the difficulty of acting against someone at the level of the leader of the Saints Killing Sect, fear and anticipations were the most common and expected feelings to be felt by the members of the imperial family.

But even in terror, the regent promptly activated his family's emergency devices, ordering all ranks of his forces to go on alert from now on.

If Mortimer were starting the silent war against the Edwardstone family, they would do anything to hinder his actions!

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