Draiss waggled his hand. "I can ask, but the construct is sentient, and those are few and far between. I can request that it focus on the short term ones, and later come back for the longer term ones, or you could send some guards to each house tomorrow to pick up their book records. But the problem is that it needs data to work with, since it is having to find patterns. But yes, about a year if that long of a record check, more than likely. We can get a full record auditing later. Though you can arrest any merchant that does suffer the loss of their records that way, and charge them for evading justice, failure to assist in an official inquiry, obstructing justice, and likely a few dozen other things as well."<br/><hr/>Draiss was out for a walk when the assassin's struck, heading out to the more outlying farms, knowing that the assassins were there and inviting an attack where no one else would get caught up in it. He let them strike first, though he deftly inserted himself into the initiative behind the two dispellers, casting time stop, and then moving around behind the assassin with the repeating crossbow, before casting a magic missile massacre, dividing the wrist sized bolts between the three targets, changing the spell to deal subdual damage to the assassins, and he would question them before he killed them.