Small Goals

Flora spent a long time allaying Snow’s worries.

But on the way back to the mansion, Snow insisted on carrying her.

“Today, you will rest properly and not do anything unnecessary.”

After that, Snow unceremoniously carried her all the way back to her room, not even giving her a chance to report.

She spent a quiet night.

As soon as Flora woke up in the morning, she saw the old butler waiting outside.

“Flora, good morning. His Highness asked you to go to the study first.”

The old butler’s face still had the usual meticulous but not stern expression.

There was no change.

“Okay.”

Flora nodded, but found that the old butler didn’t leave, and his expression softened instead.

(Not good.)

However, before she could do anything, the old butler bowed deeply to her.

“Thank you for saving everyone, Flora.”

“Mr. Charlton, there’s no need to be like that. It’s what I should do.”

Flora could only wave her hands in a panic.

But this time, Charlton obviously didn’t intend to let Flora fool him so easily. After getting up, he gently stroked her head.

“Silly child, there’s no such thing as ‘should or shouldn’t’.

The fact is that you helped everyone. Just accept the thanks and don’t feel embarrassed.”

“Okay.”

Considering that Charlton wouldn’t be able to let go if she didn’t accept this gratitude, Flora could only nod her head with a guilty conscience.

After saying goodbye to Charlton, Flora sighed heavily and came to the study.

“Your Highness, are you there?”

After knocking on the door and getting a response, Flora walked into the room.

Snow and Morick were both there.

Snow went without saying, and Morick’s eyes didn’t have any special changes when he looked at her… but considering that Morick knew she was a Guardian Awakener, this wasn’t surprising.

“Miss Haggia, please sit down.”

Reminded by Morick, Flora noticed that a chair had been placed in front of the desk today.

To avoid them continuing to give her special treatment, Flora quickly said after sitting down: “My body is really not tired.”

But neither of them took these words to heart, especially Snow, who had been looking unhappy since she came in.

“Tell me about last night. How did you know the enemies were coming?” Snow asked.

Here it comes!

Hearing these words, Flora was relieved in her heart.

She immediately said the explanation she had already thought of:

“Although I don’t know Your Highness’s detailed plan, I put myself in their shoes.

If it were me, I would never think of confronting Your Highness head-on when you were prepared.

Even if I wanted to sneak attack, I wouldn’t send a letter in advance…”

That’s how it was, but what was the reason for Flora’s special need to hide it?

It was simply to resolve the crisis, but she was able to resolve the crisis mainly because her mental sense and magic power were strong enough—with all the other party’s movements known, and then spreading out the magic silk threads, with the combat power of that group of attackers, they simply couldn’t make any waves.

“In other words, you had this guess when you received the letter?”
Snow frowned slightly.

Flora nodded slowly, she didn’t intend to simply explain the situation.

Or rather, any seemingly confusing thing will seem a bit commonplace after the truth is revealed, and will even give people the illusion that it’s nothing more than that.

So understanding the ins and outs of things wasn’t very important.

When you didn’t realize the enemy’s intentions, how would you know to think and analyze?

“Yes, because I guessed that the enemy’s target, from beginning to end, was His Highness… But His Highness’s mansion is near the imperial capital, and there are dozens of knights and servants in the mansion, and it’s also close to the Black Dragon Knight Corps’ camp… Directly attacking His Highness is obviously an irrational and low-probability behavior.”

“Then, what should we do when the main target cannot be directly achieved?”

“The most effective approach is to break down the big target into countless complementary small targets, and then choose the simple ones to achieve first.”

“If there are no simple ones, then create them, use other small targets with stronger relevance but currently difficult to achieve…”

“As for the other party… Actually, Flora didn’t even sort out any big or small goals, she just did it subconsciously.”

“Because their ultimate goal is still to deal with His Highness, and people who know the difficulty retreat, but they are reluctant to give up, so they can only choose simple things that can affect His Highness to do…”

Having said this, Reyn and Morick naturally understood what Flora’s thinking was.

“Again, some truths sound very commonplace, but if no one summarizes them, they will always be confused and unable to grasp the direction and focus.”

“This is really amazing, Miss Haggia.”

Therefore, Morick sincerely expressed admiration for Flora’s thinking.

(So, is this another foreshadowing for you to leave here in the future?)

Reyn once again noticed Flora’s true purpose.

“So, the reason why the other party’s plan was successful was because my intentions were too obvious and too impatient?”

At the same time, Reyn also realized his real problem.

“Yes, Your Highness’s main target is too clear.

Although there are pre-plans to break it down into small targets, if I’m not mistaken, they are all for the main target, and the priority is not high.

I don’t focus on the small targets. I put all my energy on achieving the main target that is currently impossible to achieve…”

Flora said insincerely.

Reyn didn’t feel offended or ashamed, and nodded gently, silently reflecting in his heart.

To put it bluntly, it was doing white work.

Treating the other party as if there was no formed theory, but people with no formed theory would subconsciously start with targets that were easy to succeed.

And he was subconsciously arrogant, and wanted to eliminate the other party all at once, uprooting them, so he made many meaningless arrangements, and was led by the nose.

Recalling it, he had made a similar mistake when he went to save his teacher at that time, and he was more concerned with how to protect the teacher all at once, so that he became difficult to move early on.

And Flora weighed the pros and cons, and after persuading the teacher and the duke, she successfully achieved the ultimate goal.

“I will pay attention to changing my thinking in the future and consider it more comprehensively.”

Flora showed a heartfelt smile.

(When I do that, you won’t need me, right?)

Reyn secretly interpreted in his heart.

Last night, he noticed that the blonde girl standing alone in the yard was so lonely and sad.

But she was invisibly exuding an aura that rejected ordinary people from approaching.

Just like he used to be.

Too afraid of everything in the outside world.

Wanting to escape at every turn.

But still longing for someone to pull him.

Fortunately, he met someone.

So he had to show more trust in the other party and bring the same luck to the other party in the future.

“By the way, what is the origin of those people?”