The room was adorned with a sky-blue carpet, equipped with large bookshelves, valuable oil paintings, and silver lamp stands. Marquis Belk Loren stood respectfully in front of the desk, reporting his experiences in the eastern lands to Edmund Moen, seated behind the desk.
Wearing a black coat and now sporting a beard, the young prince listened gravely and seriously to every word of the report, while Belk maintained genuine respect, not wanting any flaw in his report:
"The bandit problems in Hall County and Runtatel County have been quelled. A batch of unmarked gold coins was found at one of their hideouts, preliminarily judged by search spell as indeed originating from the local leader—after you issued the relevant control decrees, some local nobles are still secretly raising 'black gloves'..."
