Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 652 - 614 The Radicals of the Northern Territory_2

The other members of the investigation team, while not shouting slogans, clearly shared the same thoughts judging by their expressions.

This was a common occurrence in the Northern Territory, especially with the advent of the apocalyptic winter; everyone benefited from Perfikot's development of the Northern Territory, naturally feeling immense gratitude toward her.

In fact, this is one of the main reasons why the Imperial Center currently has no countermeasures against Perfikot.

Her prestige is simply too high; to the people, Perfikot is the one who saved them.

Compared to her, the Empress only has some advantage left from the prestige accumulated by leading the Empire into the prosperous industrial era.

Now that it is rumored that the Empress is ill, and the Royal Family's successors cannot shoulder responsibilities well, Perfikot can be said to already have the conditions to stand toe-to-toe with the Imperial Center, or to exaggerate, to seize the emperor to command the feudatories.

Because the old prince left her a share of the political asset which included royal succession, even if Perfikot wished to wear that crown herself, there are no legal obstacles.

This undoubtedly leads to a considerable portion of radicals in the Northern Territory, who are eager to see this happen.

Among these radicals, a significant portion are personnel left by the old prince, deeply regretting and resentful for the lost opportunity to ascend the throne that he had.

Now that the old prince is deceased, and Perfikot is his designated heir, these people naturally transferred this regret and resentment onto Perfikot.

Before Perfikot had enough likelihood to ascend the throne, they naturally wouldn't entertain such thoughts, for the Empire's law of royal succession stands there, and without sufficient legal support, even if one ascends the throne, it would appear illegitimate.

As for completely overthrowing the Empire to have their way? That approach isn't impossible, but relatively speaking, the radicals hope for a legitimate ascension to the throne.

After all, the old prince dedicated his life to preserving the survival of the Empire; if his heir directly overthrows the Empire, it would be quite unreasonable.

However, with Perfikot now enjoying unprecedented prestige and full support from the Northern Territory, she can be said to possess all necessary conditions for legitimate ascension to the Empire's throne.

The only obstacles between Perfikot and the throne are Eldest Princess Annie, the first heir, and Perfikot herself.

This is also why when Perfikot exerts pressure on the Imperial Center, even falling out with Eldest Princess Annie, things progress so smoothly in one aspect.

These radicals wish for the Royal Family and Perfikot to break ties, so they can push Perfikot onto the throne.

Shay, while not a radical, does not oppose the radicals' views; he supports the matter of Perfikot ascending the throne.

Despite his past oath of loyalty to the Empress and earnest devotion to the Empire and the Royal Family.

With Perfikot offering him a chance to revive his family, his loyalty is now entirely devoted to Perfikot.

If Perfikot commanded him to wield a sword against the Royal Family, he might refuse, but he wholeheartedly supports merely advocating for Perfikot's ascension to the throne.

The civil servant Shay faced happened to be a radical, ensuring no barrier between them regarding loyalty to Perfikot, as both are contemplating how to achieve the best outcome.

Precisely because of this, through mutual cooperation, the investigation team soon mapped out the activity ranges of two ancient beasts.

Remembering Perfikot's instructions, they did not rashly capture the two ancient beasts but instead further confirmed their activity ranges and surrounded them to limit the beasts' movement.

As far as the investigation team was concerned, although they themselves were incapable of capturing these giant beasts, it was possible to limit their activities to aid the forthcoming capture.

Moreover, they regarded it as essential.

Because they already knew Perfikot would come personally to capture these two giant beasts.

Without a doubt, the radicals could not tolerate their work being less than perfect, thus adversely affecting Perfikot's capture efforts.

Some of them even considered it a colossal incompetence and dereliction not to have incapacitated, bound the beasts, and merely waited for Perfikot's capture.

If they failed to limit the beasts' activity and facilitate the capture, they might as well slit their own throats collectively.

Although in the tradition of Victory, it's not prevalent to slit one's throat for failing the ruler's tasks, for a Knight, failing the mission entrusted by their lord is an unending disgrace, one that can never be washed away.

Any Knight with such disgraceful experience will be seen as utterly shameful by other Knights or nobles.

The radical civil servant clearly did not wish to bear the stigma of incompetence, hence after discussing with Shay, the investigation team set up numerous traps and obstacles around the two giant beasts' activity areas, with the help of several hunters, to disrupt the beasts' movement.

Their actions could not be said to be entirely without yield, though it was almost of no use.

The traps laid by the hunters were like children digging a mud pit in the ground to trap an elephant, laughably ineffective against ancient beasts with physiques comparable to Divine.

Even though ancient beasts did step into traps, the traps virtually had no restraining effect on them.

With a slight exertion, ancient beasts could easily destroy traps that seemed quite robust to the hunters.

Only the investigation team's Divine Knights, perhaps due to the divine aura they exuded stimulating the beasts, could cause the beasts to temporarily avoid them.

Luckily, their harassment had some effect, as these two ancient beasts indeed halted their migration.

The two ancient beasts didn't congregate, perhaps due to their inherent animosity, naturally preventing them from living in the same area.

They merely each found a sheltered valley as temporary dwellings, avoiding the wind and snow, and concurrently evading the disturbance from the investigation team.

The investigation team did not advance further; after limiting the activity of the two ancient beasts with the encirclement by Divine Knights, they paused to await Perfikot's personal arrival.

Nevertheless, they weren't just idly waiting; they attempted to observe and analyze the two ancient beasts, striving to identify their weaknesses to assist Perfikot when she arrived.

The investigation team soon distinguished which of the two beasts was the owner of the broken claw Shay found; a missing claw is quite easily recognizable.

Precisely because of this, the investigation team considered this beast easier to deal with compared to the other.

After all, lacking one claw should change its combat capability compared to having all limbs intact, and losing a claw to another beast suggests it must be weaker in combat.

Based on this understanding, the investigation team quickly compiled a report and sent it back to Langton, presenting it before Perfikot.

There is no doubt Perfikot was satisfied with the investigation team's actions.

Not only did this save her considerable effort, but it also provided necessary information and reference for her upcoming capture.

However, Perfikot didn't depart immediately; she was waiting for her experimental growth to complete.

This was a novel area she hadn't attempted before, however, given that her mother was an excellent body formation master, Perfikot smoothly completed her project by inheriting all the knowledge left by her mother, obtaining the experimental growth she desired.

Nevertheless, due to the experimental growth's unique properties, it requires some time to mature, though Perfikot can afford to wait this time.