Although the citizens were able to get influenced by the king's magic, the people who was stronger like the royals could withstand it. Though the magic worked slowly, but it would be paid off.
...
Ena was sitting in front of her desk thinking about how to expose the Valor family.
The problem was that there was only a few plans that would work, but the chance of the plan being successful was below 10 percent.
Nonetheless, a chance was a chance, no matter how small the percentage was.
The first plan was trying to expose them by accusing it on them, while the Valor family would make up excuses. We would try to find anything suspicious in between the lines of what they were saying, something similar to a slip up.
But it was quite the illogical plan.
The second plan was to fully investigate the Valor family. By using sensory alarms, they would easily be able to avoid the guards if there was any. But due to it being the third on the rankings, they were bound to have a guards everywhere. Except...we have no knowledge on where their residence was.
That's where the back up plan comes up, there were multiple names of the people from the Valor family with pictures of them. If she was able to at least find 2 of them, then follow them to their residence without being spotted.
But if all of those plans didn't work, then there comes to final plan.
This would reveal Ena's genius ability.
By memorizing all of the documents of the Valor family that was held in her father's office, there was bound to be the history of Valor somewhere. And that was exactly what Ena did, she looked through every document related to the Valor family even if it was just a small connection, and that paid off.
The Valor family was known for their intellect as well as their capability to pass on their knowledge, however, there had been no recent updates on their knowledge since 5 years ago. That was when they released a document about an upcoming project, but that quickly died down since it's been five years.
However, there was no information given by the project which means....
'Yue, could this project be the same as this one?'
「 Not likely, however there is some connection towards it. They were both experiments but the first once used adults instead of children. 」
'Was Azazel here five years ago?'
「 Impossible, at most, he's been here for 2 years. Anything beyond that is abnormal. 」
'But this situation seems abnormal, I'd say double check just in case.'
「 Well, I guess so. 」
Looking through the dozens of documents, there was crucial information displayed.
Throughout the 12 royal families who's contributed to the city, the Valor family has contributed the least for the past 10 years. Throughout the entire decade, they've only participated in the designs of certain buildings. Which leads to another hint, the buildings they've designed could be their residence or hideout. Their green eyes represented their main magic, wind. Their control over wind was spectacular, even being able to bend the air easily and was able to fly easily.
The most suspicious thing about them was how much information they leaked about them, from their projects, their family, and even some of their private matters. The documents had everything Ena wanted to know, but it was as if she knew too much. By leaving a lot of information about yourself, there were 2 main events that could happen.
One of them being the people would look into the projects they did and investigating everything they did, obviously the Valor family didn't want that. Then there's the second event, the event the Valors wanted and successfully achieved it. The people would turn a blind eye to them because of how much information they had, meaning they were probably open and was innocent.
Like they told us what they were doing, but the people never looked into exactly what they were doing.
So to expose them, it was too pry into their projects.
But obviously she wasn't going to be able to do this herself.
She would ask her family for help and give them a brief summary.
But instead of her doing all the work, she would stay in the sidelines instead of being in the frontlines.
It was much better to stay hidden.
Then the door suddenly opened.
"Ena, what're you doing here?" asked mother.
'A good time, yet a bad time.' thought Ena.
"I was looking through documents."
She quickly putting the documents away and stood in front of it.
"Ena, now's not the time to play around. Which documents?" asked mother.
Her serious expression and stern voice was scary, it was as if she was being confronted by a lion.
"The...the documents of the Valor family." Ena confessed.
Elizabeth was surprised, but she didn't show it on the outside. She still had to maintain her queen demeanor and find out exactly what her daughter was doing.
"Why are you looking at their documents?" asked mother.
She narrowed her eyes and crossed her arms, it was as if she was trying to pry into her and look into her mind.
At this point, Ena decided to confess since there was no way she could hide anything from her mother who was the queen. Her ability to read people was abnormal, so she definitely knew she was hiding something.
"I was looking through their documents since the Valor family seems suspicious. I think you already know, when the royal families were surveying the city. The Valor family was the only one's who went a different route, if they actually needed something then it was my fault. However, what was there to do? The city was basically on lock down and they were doing something else."
"Also, during the first meeting with the 11 royal dukes. I'm sure you've recalled what the duke of Valor was like during it, as if he was waiting on something. And during your meeting, that was when the culprits attacked. It was easy to piece together, the Valor family used wind magic the most, that was probably why the damage done to the house was weak when they shot fire and ice."
"However, when they switched to their wind magic, it was as if they were masters at it. I realized that now since I've grown and learned a lot. Then there's the documents, there was simply too much information about them which caused the royal families to turn a blind eye to them. Even the fact that two decades ago, most traitors of our nation came from the Valor family." said Ena.
As Elizabeth listened to her daughter, it was as if she was speaking to one of the smartest adults. But that wasn't possible since she was just a kid, but the stuff she said hit Elizabeth hard. After deciphering all of the information Ena said, she understood it easily.
"Well said, as expected of my daughter. Would you like to be the one taking credit if we solve this case?" asked mother.
"Nope, leave it to Alice. It'll be much more beneficial to her since she was more popular and I'd rather be known for my creations." said Ena.
Elizabeth wondered how long her daughter was this smart, she could probably rival the smartest children of the royal family. Thinking at what Ena said, it was definitely more beneficial for Alice since Ena couldn't use magic, all she had was her creations. But that itself helped the city a lot, the security was upgraded and there were fewer crimes.
She was proud to have a daughter like Ena, perhaps because of how smart she was, god didn't give her magic.
Balance was still needed in the world after all.
Unknown to her, Ena was basically up, down, left, right.
A cheat code.