Chapter 90 Infiltration
The bright sunlight fell from the sky, illuminating a small village in front of us.

Roland stood under the shade of the tree, slowly looking at the small village in front of him.

This is a seemingly ordinary village. The villagers living here basically limit their activities to the vicinity of the village. They work from sunrise to sunset and rest from sunset to sunrise.

After years of farming, the village's land is flat and wide, the houses are neatly arranged, the field paths are crisscrossed, and the sounds of chickens crowing and dogs barking can be heard throughout the village.

The fertile fields are planted with golden wheat, and the farmers are working hard in them.

Next to the wheat field, there are a few trees planted next to several square ponds. The old people sit under the shade of the trees, happily watching the children playing in the open space nearby.

Amid the noise of fighting, some fish would occasionally jump out of the pond.

In this world full of feudal aristocracy, the rule of the Tower of Truth is relatively human.

Although the main income of the Tower of Truth is still taxation, territory production and trade, the taxes and production provided by civilians only account for a very small part.

Their main taxes and production come from the spellcasters of the Tower of Truth, and their trade income basically comes from the major chambers of commerce in the Silver Empire.

As the place where spellcasters from the Silver Empire gather, it can be said that the wealth of the entire Silver Empire has been pouring in continuously.

Therefore, the Tower of Truth does not care about the little money provided by the civilians, and is too lazy to waste time exploiting them.

The same goes for the spellcasters of the Tower of Truth. They don't want to bother with these trivial matters at all. It would be better to use this time to think about how to improve their own strength or their own research projects.

If you are really short of money, wouldn't it be better to take on a few commissions from schools?
Therefore, the Tower of Truth's rule over civilians is a crude and shabby technocratic rule that prohibits having many children, limits population growth, ensures the balance of the population within the territory, and keeps all civilians in captivity.

Every year, or even every few years, a spellcaster apprentice would be randomly chosen to conduct an inspection and use spells to simply and crudely solve the various troubles that have accumulated in each village.

For example: counting the population and redistributing land, handling and resolving conflicts between villagers, etc.

The former is not difficult. Under absolute violence, no fool would dare to oppose the Tower of Truth. The Tower of Truth will not talk about human rights to civilians. Anyone who dares to question or oppose will be killed.

The latter is not difficult either. The patrolling spellcaster apprentices will basically wear spell rings enchanted with enchantment. No matter what happens to them, they can just call all the parties involved over and ask them once to know the result.

In short, although the autocratic rule of the Tower of Truth is not very good and is full of violence, it is still much better than the aristocratic rule outside.

At least, in the Tower of Truth, as long as you are honest and obedient, you can basically live a stable life. Even if you have any disease, as long as you can hold on until the inspection, you can get free treatment.

Judging from the surface, the village in front of us is just an ordinary little village in the Tower of Truth.

If Roland had not confirmed the location of the Silent Garden from his memory, he would not have known that the village before him would be the core base of the Silent Garden.

Looking at the villagers outside the village who knew nothing, Roland thought for a moment.

Due to the existence of the patrol mechanism, all actions of the Silent Courtyard are carried out in secret to reduce traces of activities as much as possible. At the same time, in order to avoid being exposed, in addition to being well disguised, they will also try not to interact with the villagers as much as possible, for fear that a spellcaster will expose them with a casual question one day.

Therefore, these villagers knew nothing and did not gain any benefits from the presence of the Silent Garden.

After all, they are not like the cultists in the North.

Although as a fourth-ring spellcaster, when attacked by the Court of Silence, even if Roland retaliated by razing the entire village to the ground, no one would say anything.

According to the concept of this world, it is completely reasonable. However, Roland does not like to involve innocent civilians, so he would try his best not to involve them.

Of course, if they were really involved, Roland could only apologize and compensate them as much as possible afterwards.

If he didn't want to harm civilians, then Roland had only one choice: stealth assassination.

Although the incident happened suddenly and Roland did not prepare any tools for assassination, based on his experience in recent years, he did not think that assassinating the Court of Silence would be a difficult task in this backward world in all aspects.

Roland took out some metal materials from the space bracelet and used magic to shape them into the shape of a dagger. Although the rough blade was not sharp at all, its lethality was almost zero.

But it doesn’t matter. The dagger Roland made is just used as a carrier for enchantment.

Roland took out the magic book and enchanted the dagger with positive energy and space spells.

Positive energy strengthens its structure, giving it a special attack that counters the undead.

Space spells enhance its breakthrough and lethality, giving it the ability to tear space apart.

After completing the enchantment, Roland sensed the dagger in his hand.

If it is not used, it can last about a week, after which the enchantment will collapse.

After all, it is not a permanent enchantment. It is already very good if the temporary enchantment can be used for a week.

Roland held the dagger and disappeared under the shade of the tree.

Technique - Shadow Stealth.

In the shade of the trees, a black shadow rushed from the ground towards the village. At the same time, when it came into contact with the sunlight on the surface, the black shadow quickly changed color. In less than two seconds, it turned into the color of the sunlight and completely blended into the surrounding environment.

Since Roland had read the memories of the heir of the Silent Garden in advance, he was familiar with the structure of the village. Therefore, he easily bypassed the outer houses, passed through the secret passage, and directly entered the underground cave of the village and entered the old home of the Silent Garden.

Roland hid above the cave, easily avoiding everyone in the Garden of Silence.

According to the memories he had read, Roland also successfully avoided most of the warnings and defenses. For the few places that could not be circumvented, Roland carefully performed micro-manipulations, paralyzed them briefly, and then quickly passed through them.

Soon, Roland reached the depths of the cave.

Deep in the cave, Roland saw his target.

The current person in charge of the Silent Garden is a fifth-ring spellcaster.

However, Roland's arrival was at a somewhat subtle time.

In the hall at present, almost all the senior officials of the Court of Silence gathered here.

In addition to the person in charge, there are three fourth-ring spellcasters and a dozen third-ring spellcasters.

(End of this chapter)