Reincarnated as an Energy with a System

Chapter 1701  Accidental Eavesdropping

Ning was surprised to hear about the war taking away the sugar. "Are the sugarcane fields destroyed or are the sugars sent off to the battlefield instead?" he asked. n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

"Uhh, I'm not sure entirely, actually," the woman said. "I think it's a mix of both. The fields have been replaced with some other crop to keep the army fed while what grows directly goes to them."

"We are lucky someone even managed to make corn sweet," the woman said.

Ning nodded and the maid went on her way.

"Are you that surprised about sugar not being available?" Shara asked. "I didn't think that was an issue."

"No, that's not the issue," Ning said. "I'm more so surprised about the war. In the duchy, we couldn't really feel any effects of the war. But here, the reverberations from the war are quite clear to everyone."

"It is a thing of great luck that this country hasn't started facing famine yet. But if the war continues going on like this, I fear that will be the case."

Shara nodded, now slowing down on eating her food. "Isn't the war getting close to ending though?" she asked.

"They don't know that," Ning said softly. "There is infighting between the rest of the countries itself. Before they even think of attacking the republic, they will first need to make sure they won't have people that will fight back against them."

"The Kingdom of Marsh and Olvia," Shara said slowly.

Ning nodded.

"Well, that doesn't matter to us right now. We need to go find out about your parents as soon as we can," he said.

Shara nodded.

They finished their breakfast and left the tavern to go find the city office that would hold information about people's deaths. It took a while to find the place, but they did.

That building was also responsible for all other human documentation, so the amount of people gathered there by the time they found it and arrived was enough to make them feel scared.

The sheer length of the line and the speed at which it moved made them understand that they would be waiting around here for a while. They did it, standing in the grueling sun until it was their turn at the front.

"Hello, we're looking for information or any records of a couple that died here around 12 years ago," Ning said. "Do you have any documents?" the woman who was working in the office asked.

"No, I'm sorry. Just a name," Ning said. "It was her parents. We came a long way to see if there was any information at all. Maybe a place where their remains were buried since it wasn't sent back to her home."

"If they weren't identified, I cannot help you, I'm afraid. There are too many deaths that happen that we can't identify," the woman said.

"But they were identified," Ning said quickly. "Their news of death was sent back, so they must've been identified."

"Oh… then you can request someone to check the records," the woman said, opening a large file. She looked through it for a while and wrote down something.

"There is no time today. Come back tomorrow just past noon. I will set you an appointment with someone to help you," the woman said, writing something on the piece of paper. "Remember to bring this tomorrow."

Ning took the piece of paper and saw that it included the date and time for when they were supposed to come and the person they were supposed to meet.

"Will we have to stay in the queue again tomorrow?" Ning asked.

"No, if you come back with that paper, you can directly go meet the person who will help you find that out," the woman said. "Anything else?"

"No, thank you. This is it," Ning said and left.

"So… tomorrow," Shara said softly. "I guess so."

They walked out of the office and looked at the outside sky, the sun moving past the zenith. "Are you hungry? I am famished right now."

"I can grab a bite," Shara said. Ning nodded. "Let's go find a place to eat," he said and the two walked away.

They paid better attention to the city they were in now, looking at the large stone and mortar buildings along with a long line of tall green trees around the roads.

There were a lot of carts, wagons, and carriages being moved around the place, some seemingly poor, some seemingly belonging to nobles. They saw the clothes and recognized how good they were.

The kingdom had everything of much better quality than the duchy, even though the duchy was closer to the empire. Well, in truth, this kingdom was much closer to the real empire, which had now turned into a republic of the people after the new emperor had nearly taken the empire down with him.

They entered a restaurant and sat down to eat a few things. As they ate, they listened in on the conversation of the many that ate in the room and Ning ended up eavesdropping on a peculiar bit of conversation between two bald men.

"Who knows when they will find them? The guards are useless anyway. They couldn't even follow a bunch of prisoners into the mountains."

"If it was me, I would've captured them all by now. Why aren't they getting any awakened person to go find them?"

"Send who? Anyone with remotely battle-oriented powers is sent off to fight in the war. Be glad that they at least left behind the doctors if nothing."

"Still, we should gather up a bunch of fighters of our own and go hunt those criminals. We can't live in constant fear that they might come back in the middle of the night and attack us. They have nothing to lose and we have everything to lose."

"Honestly, they should've been executed the moment they were caught."

"Yes, but some necromancer probably wanted corpses that were in good shape. They were being fed well in order to kill them at a proper time I think."