Chapter 897

In the next few days, Leo and Sylvia stayed in the archives, looking through various materials within their authority, and sometimes applying for some materials outside their authority. Generally, as long as the information does not involve some secrets, Both of them were mostly able to apply successfully.

The whereabouts of the two people these days have been carefully reported to the superiors of the Special Operations Department by the aides, and the Special Operations Department is obviously very satisfied with their performance at the moment, and has no doubts about them. He said, how many rewards should be given to Leo and Sylvia.

For the evaluation of meritorious rewards and punishments, the Special Operations Division has established plans, but the current situation cannot be solved with this set of plans, because their merits cannot be quantified with this set of plans.

This is mainly because the Special Operations Department does not know how valuable the bone is. They just know that this bone is highly valued by Louis X. Even the main contributor, Colin, was broken by Louis X on the day he arrived in the imperial capital. Granted a knighthood.

Although jazz is only the lowest title among the nobility and cannot be hereditary, but an ordinary person can get the title of jazz, which is considered to have crossed the status level, and the difficulty is something that some people can't cross even if they spend their entire lives.

And more importantly, after Louis X ascended the throne, he consciously idled the number of nobles. He not only relied on the establishment of the United Kingdom, but also cleaned up a large number of nobles who were not in the same heart as himself, and also made changes to the conditions for conferring nobles. , greatly increased the conditions required for the canonization of nobles, even for soldiers who have made great achievements, most of the time they are rewarded with money and some noble privileges, and will not directly confer noble titles.

From Louis X's enthronement to the present, he has only conferred seven nobles in total, and these seven nobles, without exception, were the loyalists who helped him the most during his ascension to the throne, and people like Colin who were born as low-level fighters No matter how you look at it, you are not qualified to be a nobleman, but things often go beyond anyone's expectations. Louis X personally decreed to bestow the title of nobleman on Colin, which surprised all the onlookers and was also curious about that bone.

It is no exaggeration to say that if Leo and the others were not in the special operations department, someone would have come to ask them for specific information about the bones.

The people in the Special Operations Division were also curious about what that bone was, but they were able to suppress their curiosity, because they knew very well that if they inquired about things they shouldn't know, the only result would be to disappear.

It was precisely because the value of the bones was unclear that the Special Operations Department didn't know how much credit should be given to Leo and Sylvia's disguise.

If it is given lightly, it will inevitably cause a backlash from the bottom of the Special Operations Department, because the merits that are enough to make people knighted are only given such a small reward, so how much credit do they have for the tasks they completed? How many rewards can you get? Will their achievements be swallowed up by the above? Waiting for questions will appear in their minds. Once doubts about the upper management arise, then various tasks assigned by the Special Operations Office in the future may be passive and sabotage, and may even be used by the spies of the United Kingdom to instigate rebellion front line members.

But it’s also not good to give it too heavy, because if there is this precedent, then all subsequent tasks that cannot be quantified are likely to be used by the people below to obtain the maximum merit reasonably and legally, then the originally designated reward and punishment system will be useless. up.

Therefore, how much rewards should be given to Leo and Silvia has become the most discussed issue among the upper echelons of the Special Operations Department these days.

"In addition to promoting their positions and rewarding them with some money, let's give each of them a qualification to study at the Royal Academy!" An official from the Special Operations Department who was in charge of training for agents suddenly proposed in a new meeting. made a suggestion.

After listening to his suggestion, everyone felt that it was feasible. Although going to the Royal Academy for further study could not directly give Leo and Sylvia an aristocratic status, it could give them another identity in another sense. One who had studied at the Royal Academy In terms of promotion and salary increase, it is far easier than other ordinary detectives.

Almost on the day when the decision was made, the relevant merit award notices had already fallen into the hands of Leo and Sylvia, and there was also a notice for advanced study at the Royal Academy, but this notice was different from normal notices. The column of the subject of the notice was not filled in, obviously this was to let Leo and the others decide the subjects to study.

In addition, the Special Operations Department has also found a residence for Leo and Sylvia in Winterrin City, which is near the Royal Academy, an apartment in the lower city, and they can move in at any time.

Now, Leo and Silvia have obtained the temporary residency rights in the imperial capital, and they can live there until the end of the training, and their training needs to go to the headquarters of the Special Operations Division every ten days in addition to further study at the Royal Academy. Other aspects of training, such as establishing a management branch, using new weapons, learning about new mutant abilities, and more.

After receiving the notification, Leo and Sylvia immediately went through the relevant check-in procedures, and filled out the mystic research in the subjects of the Royal Academy. The Special Operations Department was not surprised by this, because they chose the mystic study Things are also within their expected subjects.

After the formalities were completed, the Special Operations Department sent the two of them into the city in a carriage, sent them all the way to their assigned apartment, and then handed over the apartment keys, living expenses, relevant documents, and a thick booklet to Leo and the others left.

Leo took a look at the booklet, then handed it to Sylvia, and said with a smile: "This saves us a lot of trouble."

After Sylvia took it and looked at it, she also smiled.

It turns out that this booklet was specially written by the Special Operations Department for the agents who came to the Imperial Capital for further study. Although the booklet is not large, it contains a lot of content, such as who are the big nobles in the Imperial Capital, which officials with real power, and which places are forbidden areas. Can't go, what things can't be done, etc. Even in order to prevent the agents from entering some restricted areas by mistake, they even drew a very detailed map of the imperial capital, marking which places are considered forbidden areas and where the nobles live.

It is no exaggeration to say that even with Leo's ability to collect the complete information in this pamphlet, he not only needs to visit the entire imperial capital, but also must avoid the eyes and ears of the special operations monitors, and avoid being caught by the imperial capital. Secret agents in various secret departments suspect that it takes a lot of energy and time.

Now this booklet can save Leo a lot of time, allowing him to concentrate on investigating the palace. By the way, he can also squeeze out a lot of time to see if he can learn anything useful from the French Royal Academy. thing.

The apartment that the Special Operations Department arranged for them was not very big, it was a very ordinary two-story apartment. In addition to two bedrooms on the second floor of the apartment, there was also a study room. The kitchen, living room and bathroom were all downstairs, because before The Special Operations Department had already packed up the apartment. The two just put down their salutes, tidied up their clothes, and left the apartment to go to the Royal Academy not far away to go through the admission procedures.

Because they had passed the audit, the Special Operations Department did not monitor the two of them any more, and the attendants assigned to them were also recalled, treating them as ordinary training agents.

It's just that the removal of monitoring is only for the special operations department, but the monitoring of the Imperial Security Bureau has not been removed. Leo can still find some security bureau agents disguised as ordinary civilians around the apartment, and they are not entirely for monitoring Leo and the others more wanted to use the two baits of Leo and Sylvia to see who was curious about that bone and wanted to find out.

Because the Special Operations Department had greeted in advance, Leo and Sylvia went through the admission procedures smoothly without any trouble, and got the tutorials and class schedules, and the two also went through the reading in the Royal Academy Library certificate.

When they left, Leo and Sylvia hired a student under the introduction of the tutor of the college's admission department, and asked the student to lead him to tour the entire Royal Academy and get familiar with the surrounding environment inside and outside the academy.

In fact, Sylvia stayed in Winterrin City for a period of time, and also studied in the Royal Academy, but she was a noble lady at the time, and she arrived at her destination by carriage when she came out of her residence, and returned by carriage when she left. At home, she has never visited the imperial capital, and she has not even visited the interior of the academy. She only knows about some noble mansions and a few academy buildings. She doesn't know much better than Leo about other places here.

The Royal Academy student who was employed obviously came from a poor background, and from the whitewashed clothes on his body, it can be seen that his family background is not very good. In addition, due to his identity as a Royal Academy student, he also You can't just find something to do outside, so you can only accept some jobs similar to guides under the introduction of your instructor.

In the entire Royal Academy, there are still many students from poor backgrounds like him. This is mainly because the Royal Academy opened up the admission quota for civilian students.

In the beginning, the Royal Academy did not recruit from civilians, but only for nobles and soldiers who had made military achievements. Later, due to some reasons unknown to outsiders, the Royal Academy opened up the number of civilian admissions, and the number increased every year. Now the number of civilian enrollment has exceeded the sum of nobles and military meritorious persons.

Also because of the increase in commoner students, factional struggles between commoners and nobles have occurred within the Royal Academy. On the contrary, military exploiters like Leo and Sylvia pretending to be neutral, so this commoner student led Leo When visiting the academy with Sylvia, they will deliberately avoid the area where noble students live.

The entire Royal Academy is very large, with hundreds of teaching buildings. More than 50 subjects in the entire academy are taught in these 100 teaching buildings. In addition, there are a large number of teachers’ apartments and other living facilities. This is just the main body of the academy. , In addition, the college also has branches and laboratories for some subjects, which are set up in other blocks of the imperial capital and other surrounding cities.

All in all, it is difficult to visit the entire academy in one day. In one afternoon, Leo and Sylvia only walked around the teaching building area of ​​the subject of occultism, and they also walked around the lower city under the leadership of that student. Take a moment to learn about the situation in the lower city.

Seeing that it was getting late, Leo and the students agreed on a time to continue the tour, paid the guide fee, and returned to their apartment with the textbooks.

"Are you really planning to study here for a while?" Sylvia asked after Leo said that there were no monitors around.

Leo nodded and said: "The old man Rembrandt once praised the collection of the Royal Academy of France, and also said that in the subject of occultism, the Royal Academy of France has advantages that other national academies do not have, even the Orthodox Church does not have the advantage." It must be comparable to it, because the Frank Royal Academy is backed by the most mysterious Black Forest in the world, so I want to stay here for a while and take this opportunity to collect some information."

"Then our previous plan...?" Sylvia asked.

Leo was able to distinguish between the primary and secondary, and said: "This will not affect our previous plan. As long as the time is right, we will do it, and all the previous plans will be the priority." He asked Sylvia: "Have you found out what you wanted to check before?"

"Not yet." Sylvia shook her head and said, "Because there are people watching, it's not appropriate to investigate clearly, but we have already found the direction of suspicion, and I believe it will not be long before we can find out."

Leo asked again: "Can you tell me what you are looking for? Do you need my help?"

"No need for help! Some small things." Sylvia shook her head and said, "It's not really a big thing, it's just a few family artifacts handed down by the Belmont family. The establishment of the United Kingdom was so sudden that I didn't have time at all. Back to the empire to transfer the properties of the Belmont family. The Belmont family's mansion in Winterrin City was confiscated on the day the news of the establishment of the United Kingdom came. Several Belmont family artifacts stored in the mansion were all It disappeared at that time, and it should have been taken away by the confiscated person, and now I am investigating the whereabouts of those artifacts so that I can get them back."

"If you need my help, you..." When Leo was about to say something, his voice suddenly stopped, and then he looked out the window.

Sylvia quickly understood that Leo's reaction must be because she found something outside, but she couldn't find anything when she looked outside, so she asked Leo, "What did you find?"

"I didn't find anything?" Leo gave a confusing answer, perhaps because he knew that his answer would not be able to solve the confusion, and added: "I feel that there should be something outside, but with the eyes of reality Nothing out of the ordinary was seen."