Since the Minister of Finance, Florence, had left the capital to mediate between the two major lords, there were only three ministers left in the capital.
At night, Gregor sat in his office reading through the compiled reports on the empire's public safety.
The refreshing tea brought by the servants had cooled at some point, leaving a slight bitterness when he drank it.
Besides the recent assassination case, Gregor had also investigated all records of injuries or deaths possibly caused by magical devices since their inception.
Over the past decade, including both accidental and intentional incidents, the empire had recorded over a thousand cases of injuries caused by magical devices.
And this was just the recorded number; many more incidents lay hidden beneath the surface.
Considering that magical devices were only popular among the nobility, this number was not insignificant.
