Deyanin walked out of the grand hall with his hand on his head.

The meeting itself went smoothly.

In Orazen’s mountains, there were rangers who belonged to the hunting department, but there were also civilian hunters who went around hunting wild boars, pheasants, or carbuncles. In other words, the forest wasn’t some obscure place no one visited.

Deyanin had decided to find Manun by questioning those people if they had seen Manun, or gotten attacked or suffered damage because of Manun. And once Manun’s location was identified that way, Deyanin said that he would gather the palace guards and bring Manun back to the royal palace by luring Manun with cows, his favorite food.

The commander of the palace guards did express discontent since he would have to lend Deyanin some of his troops, but it wasn’t possible to gather new troops just to catch Manun. Due to the story of the huge Drake protecting the royal family, the citizens favored Manun quite a bit, but public sentiment would certainly make a turn should Manun cause a big problem.

King of Serenity and the other ministers also acknowledged that realistically, they wouldn’t be able to bring back Manun with a small number of troops. Thus, he gave full authority to Deyanin to capture Manun and asked the other ministers to actively cooperate. That marked the end of the particular matter on the agenda.

Due to the order to hurriedly catch Manun, Deyanin was allowed to leave the grand hall earlier than the other ministers, before the meeting...