In another alley not from Shien’s group, Limgir, Julius, and Sunir were currently leading a group of knights and were heading toward the direction where Shien’s group was.
“Are you sure it’s this way?”
Julius calmly confirmed with Sunir as the walked.
Now that Cosmos’s structures has turned so chaotic, where even the streets were filled with various building, the difficulty of reaching a specific location or finding a specific person is far higher than it was before.
Add in the fact that Shien’s group hasn’t even found a place to stay at yet, the difficulty of confirming where they are at any moment and catching up to them is all the higher.
Therefore, the First Knight Order could only set up watches at various high points in Cosmos, have them confirm the geography, location of buildings, and where everyone within the city is from a high view point, and have them monitor and report in real time. This is how they maintain communications and find their targets.
Thanks to that, the First Knight Order managed to confirm Shien’s group’s current location without much issues.
“Around five minutes ago, there were eyewitness reports of a young noble with a maid and young girls. The people responsible for monitoring this area even saw the person in question enter their watch zone, so they should be here. We should be able to meet up with them if just continue forward.
Sunir replied with such a report.
“That’s good then.” Julius nodded before turning to Limgir, “You’ll need to control your emotions in a bit. Don’t let them detect your hostility, got it?”
“Don’t worry, uncle.” Limgir spoke without showing any emotions, “All members of the Royal Knights have undergone a certain training to control their own hostility. It’s for the sake of avoiding detection by skills like [Enemy Detection], and it’s a required class for any Royal Knight.”
After all, if one’s hostility is too obvious, then it would immediately triggering a reaction from detection skills like [Enemy Detection] and letting the enemy know their position. It’s quite a disadvantage in battle, and even more of a disadvantage when it comes to any covert operation.
Therefore, it’s not just the Royal Knights, but any high quality, high leveled knight order would have such training to make sure its members are capable of hiding their hostility toward their targets.
The First Knight Order has this kind of training as well, so Julius and Sunir naturally knew all this.
Only…
“To not expose the slightest hostility even face to face with one’s enemy. That’s easy to say, but…”
Sunir’s frustrated words showed just how difficult this mandatory class really is.
To put it bluntly, aside from the Royal Knights who are the pride of the Kingdom, it’s extremely difficult for anyone else to master this ability.
If not for the fact that everyone who enters the Royal Knights are level 70+ powerhouses who all have very high amounts of combat training, there would have been no way that even they would have been able to train this ability to a satisfactory level.
Limgir was an especially talented youth even among the Royal Knights, so he did master this ability.
If not for that, then there was no way that Limgir would have been able to act so calm and not suspicious in front of Shien before.
Unfortunately for him, Limgir did end up making a mistake. Back in the Capital, there were several times when he had met Shien where he had ended up exposing an instant of his hostility toward Shien by accident.
If it was anyone else, then those instant flashes of hostility really might have gone undetected. Only Shien, with his max leveled [Enemy Detection] skill could have caught it. Otherwise, he really might have been fooled by Limgir the entire time.
Limgir himself definitely hasn’t imagined that Shien’s [Enemy Detection] skill has already been maxed out a long time ago. It really was nigh impossible for him to not expose his hostility.
Of course, Limgir still doesn’t know about this yet. He had no idea that he had long since been exposed and had been put on Shien’s blacklist.
Thus, Limgir spoke the following.
“Father had told me. Right now, we can’t touch him no matter what, so I’ll bear with it.”
Limgir’s words made Julius nod in satisfaction.
“I believe in your ability to do that.”
Julius patted Limgir’s shoulder with no doubt in Limgir’s words.
Julius knows full well just how capable his nephew is.
It can be said that Limgir has never disappointing anyone before. If not for Shien suddenly coming out of nowhere, then not even Bali would have considered Limgir’s pursuit of Lucy slow.
That’s the reason why Limgir wants to hurriedly remove Shien so much.
It’s all because Shien is a obstacle to Limgir, someone that Limgir cannot allow to exist.
This is for the sake of both his responsibilities and personal reasons.
(Just wait…)
As he thought back to that peerless princess’s unmatched beauty, Limgir once again swore.
(I’ll definitely crush you and take away her highness Lucilosti’s favor and affection.)
This is something that Limgir wanted to do no matter what.
Even if Shien had the Dragon Demon backing him up. Even if the Moon Demon, the sovereign of the demon race, is watching him, Limgir still won’t give up.
How could he possibly give up?
Ever since he first saw that princess, Limgir’s heart could hold no one else within it. Even the centuries long wish of his family would have to rank below that of the princess in importance to him.
(I have to have the princess!)
Only by having her could Limgir gain all that he had wanted. Be it his own personal love or his family’s wish, all of it can be realized then.
For that sake…
“I have to hold back now.”
Hold back!
Hold back!
Hold back!
Limgir continuously told himself that to drill it into his subconscious.