Ivita looked perplexed. The underlying message of this letter was that the Lombardy Duchy itself didn't know who it was, and was now calling out to all those who had the right to inherit the Iron Crown. This could potentially have been done through the Iron Crown law.
Ivita asked Wilson. "What was the situation when you received this letter?"
Wilson pondered for a moment, replying, "A man in a black cloak delivered it… yes, he had no signs of life about him. By the time I tried to call out to him, he had vanished into the forest, leaving behind an indescribable, rotten smell."
"Now that I think about it, he probably wasn't human."
Ivita turned to the Hearthstone Witch, who pulled out a Magic Book. The book flipped its pages automatically, eventually stopping at a rag-clad man's image. The man was hunched over, appearing severely deformed as though he had a shell on his back. He was hobbling through the forest with the help of a cane.
