Chapter 369

Chapter 311: Anonymity Headquarters

“Oh… Nothing much, I’m just quite interested in this statue. What exactly does it depict? It can’t be the Holy Mother, right?” Gregor asked his guide beside him. The guide thought for a moment and then replied to Gregor.

“This? This is definitely not the Holy Mother statue… But I don’t know what it represents either.”

“You don’t know either?”

“Yeah, not just me, no one in the entire Anonymity Headquarters knows who this statue is of. Whether it’s a person or a deity, this statue has been here since long before the Anonymity Bureau was established… No, even before the kingdom was founded. Although it is clearly a deity statue, it might be some heretic or even an Heterodox God. Our headquarters could even be its temple, but every bureau chief never ordered it to be removed, and the church has made no statement about it, so it has remained here all along.

“Though we don’t know the origin of this deity statue, we privately call it the Moonlight Saintess Statue… Of course, it’s just a joke, don’t take it seriously.”

The guide explained to Gregor like this. Listening to Mafudi’s words, Gregor looked at the statue in front of him with deep thought for a moment, as if pondering something, but couldn’t come up with any conclusion. Afterward, he had to retract his gaze and continue following Mafudi.

Following Mafudi, Gregor crossed through the hall and after wandering around the building for a while, he arrived at the place where he was being reviewed, a specialized unit that began the review process for Gregor.

The face-to-face review process for Gregor lasted for several hours. Even though Gregor was well-prepared on all fronts, due to the lengthy review process, he eventually felt somewhat exhausted. During this process, he couldn’t help but think that if the member of the Eight Pinnacle Nest who planned to impersonate him really passed this review, they must have memorized his experiences thoroughly.

Finally, after the review ended, Gregor sighed in relief. Mafudi smiled and spoke to Gregor sitting behind the desk.

“Mr. Meyshos, your review results are being processed. However, I have read through all the materials, and there should be no issues. Now, please follow me to another place.”

In the review room, Mafudi spoke to Gregor who was drinking water. After putting down the cup, Gregor couldn’t help but ask curiously.

“Another place? Is there anything else to review?”

“No, it’s not a review, but someone else wants to see you.”

“Someone wants to see me?”

Listening to Mafudi’s words, Gregor felt puzzled, but he stood up without hesitation and followed Mafudi out of the review room.

After wandering around the underground building for quite a while, he was surprised to find himself not taken deeper underground, but instead brought up to the surface.

Through the window outside the corridor, Gregor could see the sunlight and forest outside, as well as the tall walls and soldiers on duty, with cannons on the walls and patrolling soldiers on the stone-paved roads below. He seemed to be inside a military fortress.

‘Is the location of the Anonymity Headquarters within a fortress in the outskirts of Tiwyan forest? Or is the fortress a disguise for the headquarters? Just like how the Igwente branch uses a department store as a disguise?’

Gregor thought to himself, but continued to follow Mafudi forward. Along the way, he encountered not only hunters and clerks but also soldiers wearing standard Prit red-and-white uniforms.

Finally, under Mafudi’s lead, Gregor arrived at a rarely visited corridor within the fortress. In front of them stood a double-door wooden entrance.

Standing before the door, Mafudi straightened his collar and gently knocked on the door. Soon, a voice full of vigor came from inside.

“Come in.”

Hearing the response from inside, Mafudi pushed open the door and walked in. Before him and Gregor appeared a lavishly decorated large office, complete with carpets, sofas, coffee tables, bookshelves, and several high-quality oil paintings on the walls. There were also a few animal head specimens. On the ceiling of the office was a large Radiance Lamp, and on the wall behind the large desk hung a map of the entire Prit region.

At this moment, there were two figures standing in front of and behind the desk. Standing in front of the desk was a middle-aged man with a slightly plump build, dressed casually with a balding head and two small mustaches.

Sitting behind the desk was a younger man, appearing to be in his early thirties, with short golden hair, clean and tidy features, a long face, handsome appearance, prominent nose, sharp eyes, and wearing the uniform of a high-ranking officer in the Prit army. On the shoulders of the uniform were rank insignia, which Gregor, unfamiliar with the Prit military system, did not recognize.

“Since the Church has proposed it, let’s arrange it that way. Ap, if that guy wakes up sooner, we can question him sooner.”

The man in the military uniform said to the man named Ap in front of him, who nodded and immediately responded.

“I understand. I’ll go inform them right away.”

Then, the man named Ap turned and quickly left the office. At this moment, the military officer turned his gaze toward Gregor and Mafudi at the door. Mafudi saluted and said,

“Bureau Chief, I’ve brought him. The review was unproblematic.”

Hearing Mafudi’s words, Gregor’s heart skipped a beat, and he looked at the man behind the desk, slightly widening his eyes.

Mafudi called him Bureau Chief, and this was the Anonymity Headquarters. Therefore, his identity was clear—this was the Bureau Chief of the Anonymity Headquarters, the real power holder managing the entire Anonymity Bureau system! The head of the secret countermeasures system of the entire Prit Kingdom government!

I was summoned by such a high-ranking official on my first day at the headquarters!?

Realizing the other’s identity, Gregor felt a bit dazed. He never expected to meet his immediate superior right away. His promotion didn’t need such a high-ranking official to personally handle it, did it?

And this Bureau Chief looked so young… Around thirty, not yet forty. Much younger than Mr. James. Could someone of this age become the Bureau Chief of the Anonymity Headquarters?

Gregor thought confusedly, and at this moment, the man behind the desk nodded and waved for Mafudi to step back. Mafudi understood and stepped back, closing the door. For a moment, the office was left with only Gregor and the military officer behind the desk.

In Gregor’s eyes, the man slowly rose from his seat, walking over to Gregor in military boots, and sizing him up. His gaze made Gregor feel tense.

“Hmm… Bureau Chief sir… You…”

“You are Gregor Oss. Meyshos, I am Harold Despenser. Nice to meet you, a promising young man from Igwente.”

The man named Harold said to Gregor and extended a hand for a handshake. Hearing the other’s name, Gregor was startled again. The reason was simple—he was familiar with the other’s surname.

No, not just him, the entire Prit Kingdom’s people were familiar with it—Despenser… This is a royal surname, a surname of the royal family!

Gregor suddenly realized that the seemingly military-affiliated Bureau Chief of the Anonymity Headquarters was actually a member of the royal family!