70: Miral's death, the secret compartment opened

In the shadows.

Watching Mirar and Daniel enter the room and close the door.

After a while, Roen emerged from the shadows and quietly made his way outside the house.

At this moment, the sounds from the second-floor bedroom inside the house were very loud.

Even standing in the corner of the first floor, he could vaguely hear them.

Roen's eyes flashed, his expression unchanged.

He merely observed his surroundings, waiting for the opportune moment.

Then, he activated the Thief Breathing Technique, silently scaling the wall like a gecko and flipping onto the second floor.

On the second-floor balcony, Roen flipped his hand.

Two items appeared in his previously empty palm.

They were a bottle containing a potion and a blowpipe with a filling port.

Roen silently combined the two items.

Then, through a crack in the window, he extended one end of the blowpipe inside.

At this point, Roen held his breath and activated the mechanism.

The catalyst in the blowpipe dripped into the bottle.

The next moment, the potion reacted, as if boiling, and transformed into gas.

It floated into the bedroom through the slender blowpipe.

Two minutes later.

The sounds in the room gradually faded, replaced by even breathing.

Roen waited a while longer, seeing that nothing unexpected occurred.

Only then did he change into his tight-fitting suit and dust-proof shoes, and put on a specially treated mask.

Using a clever thief's technique, he opened the window and slipped inside.

And he left no traces whatsoever.

When Roen looked up and saw the folded figures on the bedroom bed.

His expression was normal, but a cold glint flashed in his eyes.

Immediately, he tiptoed, like a nimble black cat.

Avoiding the clothes scattered on the floor, he stepped through the narrow gaps to reach the two.

Mirar and Daniel were sleeping soundly at this moment.

They were even snoring softly, completely unaware of his arrival.

Roen was not surprised, because the glass bottle earlier contained the [Sleeping Potion] he had refined.

An ordinary person only needed to inhale a little to feel their eyelids droop, involuntarily become drowsy, and slowly fall into a deep sleep.

Moreover, this potion also had a certain effect on Knights.

“Heh heh, this slut really plays it wild!”

Roen's peripheral vision caught sight of some items on the table, and his mouth twitched involuntarily.

“However, this way, Mirar’s death will be even more logical…”

Roen thought to himself, then to ensure everything was foolproof.

He took out the [Sleeping Potion] again and lightly sprayed some on both their noses.

Following that, Roen put away the sleeping potion and took out another bottle of potion.

This was the [Excitement Potion] he had refined earlier, which also contained two toxic herbal ingredients.

If consumed in small amounts, it could cure illnesses and save lives.

But if consumed in excess, there was a risk of blood vessel rupture, cardiac arrest, fainting, and sudden death.

At this moment, Roen, wearing gloves, gently cupped Mirar's cheek.

Then he opened the potion bottle and, using a clever massage-like technique.

He made Mirar unconsciously swallow about ten milliliters of the [Excitement Potion] while she was in a deep sleep.

Even a normal adult would die of cardiac paralysis if they drank this concoction.

What's more, Mirar had just experienced a fierce battle.

Her body was highly tensed, and her blood circulation was accelerated.

So, for the next five minutes.

Mirar's face became redder and redder, and her breathing grew more rapid.

As if suffocating, her body began to twitch involuntarily.

Until five minutes later, Mirar's body suddenly relaxed, and her breathing abruptly ceased.

Her originally rosy complexion also slowly lost its color.

Roen reached out and checked Mirar's pulse; it had indeed stopped beating.

“This old slut is finally dead…”

Roen's lips curved upward, and he smiled silently.

Killing Mirar this time was completely different from the last time he had engineered Barto's death.

After all, this time he had personally killed someone.

However, perhaps because the method of killing was too gentle and clean, with no blood or severed limbs.

Therefore, Roen felt no panic or excitement in his heart; on the contrary, he became even calmer.

In front of a corpse, he carefully took down a self-portrait from the wall.

Behind the painting was a secret compartment that required a password to unlock.

Roen used the techniques from the Thief Breathing Technique to open the secret compartment without damaging the password dial.

The first thing that caught his eye was a pile of valuable jewels.

Next, there were three notebooks and a bag of coins.

Roen opened the money bag and saw that it contained both gold and silver coins.

In total, it was probably less than thirty gold coins, not a significant amount.

Following that, Roen picked up the three notebooks and briefly flipped through them.

The first notebook contained Mirar's daily work log.

The content seemed very regular and normal, with nothing unusual.

However, Roen had already reviewed Barto's hidden ledger last night.

Therefore, he was very familiar and sensitive to certain numbers and dates.

So, when Roen took out Barto's ledger and compared it with Mirar's work log, one by one.

“What a cunning vixen…”

Roen thought to himself, this log looked ordinary.

But in reality, Mirar had written it using a special cipher.

Most of the content inside matched Barto's ledger.

“It's just a pity that this is a cipher system designed by Mirar herself.”

“And she didn't leave a translation key, so ordinary people can't understand its meaning…”

Roen shook his head. If Mirar hadn't taken so many precautions.

Like Barto, if she had simply written it in plain text.

Then it would have become irrefutable evidence that could be mutually corroborated!

But now, without a translation key or codebook.

Even taking this log would be useless.

So, Roen temporarily put down this log and picked up the second notebook.

“Hmm? Is this the diary where Mirar previously recorded the secrets of Kura City's nobles?”

Roen's eyes flashed, and after a brief perusal, he put this notebook into his pocket.

Following that, he looked at the third notebook.

This notebook was different from the previous two.

Not only was it exceptionally thin, only about half a finger's thickness.

But as soon as he opened it, he found several golden rectangular slips of paperinclusions inside.

“These are… gold notes?”

Roen was startled, then overjoyed.

The so-called gold notes were a type of paper currency issued by the Mand Royal Family in conjunction with banks.

Because the royal family endorsed them, the value of gold notes was very stable.

And because they were thin enough, easy to carry, and could replace heavy gold coins.

Therefore, they circulated widely among various nobles and powers, and were very popular.