The conversation with Harvis ended there.
Afterward, Shien decisively turned and left, parting ways with Harvis.
They had only established a preliminary cooperative relationship. Whether they would continue to cooperate depended on the outcome of the assassins sent by the Raifurut family.
In any case, when Shien learned that they were targeting Diere and intended to take her life, he no longer planned to let them go.
After all, he didn’t want to be a protagonist who passively waited for events to unfold and then dealt with them.
As long as he confirmed that the other party was an enemy and posed a threat, he would eliminate them directly.
Otherwise, it would be a waste of his almost invincible cheat abilities.
With this thought, Shien returned to the royal capital unnoticed. After some consideration, he reluctantly chose to go home.
“If I go to the palace to see Lucy now, my impure motives might be exposed…”
Entering the princess’s bedroom in the middle of the night, if that wasn’t an impure motive, then what was?
Therefore, Shien reluctantly returned to the Buztout mansion.
“Hmm?”
As soon as he entered the gate, before even reaching the mansion, Shien sensed something unusual and turned his head, looking towards the side of the garden.
There, a figure appeared.
“Diere?”
Shien was slightly taken aback, surprised.
It was Diere, whom Shien and Harvis had just been talking about.
At this moment, Diere was holding a sharp blade, concentrating and gathering magic power.
“Hum…”
The air trembled slightly, and ripples of magic power spread, converging on the blade in Diere’s hand, forming a red magic blade.
It was the [Magic Sword] skill.
“Practicing using [Magic Sword]?”
Shien immediately recognized what Diere was doing.
From Diere’s actions, it seemed she was trying to find a better way to use [Magic Sword].
Shien took a closer look and was surprised to find that Diere’s [Magic Sword] skill had already reached level five.
Even Diere’s own level had risen to sixty-six.
“She’s grown again?” Shien muttered to himself in surprise. “This speed, isn’t it a bit too fast?”
It shouldn’t have been long since the Atlus Gorge incident.
At that time, Diere’s level had just barely broken through to sixty, and now it had already risen to sixty-six. Her growth rate was almost catching up to his own when he wasn’t seriously training. ȑaŊΟBËṧ
After thinking about it, Shien walked towards Diere.
“Swish!”
The moment Shien arrived behind Diere, she suddenly turned around, the [Magic Sword] in her hand like a red lightning bolt cutting through the night sky, slashing towards Shien with a sharp whistling sound.
“Clang!”
Shien, without hesitation, reached out and caught the incoming [Magic Sword] blade with his bare hand, the magic blade clanging against his palm as if striking steel.
The sharp [Magic Sword] continued to cut into Shien’s palm, trying to sever it.
Unfortunately, against Shien, who possessed both the maxed-out [Physical Resistance] and [Magic Resistance] skills, a mere level five [Magic Sword] couldn’t even cut his skin.
“Seriously, such strong killing intent?”
Shien looked at the magic blade cutting into his hand and said, a bit speechless.
“It’s you?”
Diere seemed to finally react, abruptly canceling the [Magic Sword]’s power, the red magic light on the blade dissipating.
“What? Did I scare you?”
Shien looked at Diere with a smirk.
“You did scare me.” Diere looked at Shien and said, unusually annoyed, “Being able to catch a [Magic Sword] strike barehanded, if word gets out, not only me, but everyone will be scared to death.”
Saying so, Diere removed her cloak and sheathed the blade in her hand.
Shien looked at this scene, then spoke after a moment.
“Your strength seems to be growing quite quickly.”
“Yes.” Diere seemed self-aware and didn’t deny it, nodding. “In the royal capital, both the difficulty of the missions and the levels of the monsters we need to subjugate are much higher than in Larmigion. After choosing to develop in the capital, everyone in the squad’s strength has been growing rapidly, including mine.”
According to Diere, the strength of everyone in Vivian’s squad had greatly improved after coming to the capital.
For example, Vivian was already preparing to break through to level sixty, and Lumia and Melika were also preparing to break through to level fifty. Everyone’s strength was growing, much faster than when they were in Larmigion.
“You’re also about to break through, right?”