Chapter 153

The High Priest stared into empty space with cold eyes and clicked his tongue.

Completing the compass required obtaining materials through contact with a Dragonblood, and the current circumstances were far from favorable.

At present, the only Dragonbloods in the entire Empire were the Duke of Asheln, his two nephews, and, finally, the young lady the Duke had claimed as his daughter.

Since the Duke himself was unapproachable, they'd tried targeting the young Dragonbloods instead, but with all three refusing to so much as step outside the estate, there was no viable approach.

With an ordinary noble family, approaching under the pretense of offering a blessing or treatment would have been simple enough, but House Asheln alone was the exception, and that was precisely the problem.

If it weren't for that traitor Ernst, things never would have come to this.

House Asheln had always been reclusive by nature, but even…