'Why is his energy weakening?' Moving through the tal hallway, Es's eyes traced the thin blue lines along which her legs were moving.
But the issue was that those lines, which had been as thick as an inch in radius, were now decreasing to a thin thread.
"What happened, sister? Are you searching for soone?" Mae asked in a teasing tone, aware of those golden pupils frequently scanning the area while Sam moved along, his hands folded behind his head, completely carefree.
"No," Es replied hollowly, not convincing either of the twins, as they knew she was searching for a very familiar individual.
"If you want, I can predict for you," Sam interrupted, aware that his predictions, though they took ti, were long-ranged, unlike Mae's, which only worked within a fixed short distance.
Es halted, causing Sam to bump into her before retreating and lifting his gaze to et hers.
"Do it now," she said in a firm tone, looking down at him.
"Why?" Sam scoffed, realizing it was his chance to make so money just like Mae.
The opportunity was clear.
He would ask for gold coins in exchange for using his ability and beco as rich as Mae, who had platinum coins on her.
"How much?" Es inquired, looking down at him with her arms folded, her eyes fixed on Sam with a slight raised eyebrow gesturing soone else.
"Hm, it will be three gold—BAM!—Kughh!" Before Sam could finish, a punch from Mae to his gut instantly caused his face to contort before he coiled over, falling straight to his knees.
Thud
"Uughh!" He cried out while both ladies looked down on him, Es handing one gold coin to Mae.
"And with this, I saved two gold coins," Es said, handing over the one gold coin to Mae, having accomplished her task with only one spent.
She then turned to look towards the mansion from the glass space inside the battleship, adding, "Do the work, Mae."
Sam, gritting his teeth and realizing that he wasn't going to get anything and would need to work for free, looked at both of them with a trembling voice, saying, "Y...you...all are trait—BAM!"
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"So, he is on the third ship, is that correct?" Es confird the location of Ryuk to the boy carrying injuries: a swollen mouth, one eye darkened by a bruise, and one hand gripping the elbow of the other.
"Y...es," Sam replied, his eyes downward, not wanting to talk to these people, the anest of all.
"He he he he."
A broken giggle from beside him reached his already ringing senses, causing a visible redness to flush over his face from the beatings. He murmured, "I should just run away."
"Here," Mae, seeing her brother getting too worked up, offered him a copper coin.
'Huh?' Sam looked at the coin with a visible glimr in his eyes, clenching it and finally feeling sowhat good.
He knew how impossible it was for Mae to give soone money.
Though the major reason was that he couldn't do anything, so sothing was better than nothing.
"You both stop here," Es gestured for the twins to stop as her eyes fell on the four black-cloaked guards standing, already aware of their arrival.
Es herself approached them.
swoosh
Her golden pupils revealed a passing glint as her exterior was covered by an unknown invisible layer, forming without disturbing the mana in the surroundings, causing none of the individuals to notice any anomaly.
"Where is he?" Es asked one of the n, looking at him with cold eyes, her expression hidden behind the facade of her illusion.
Though exhausted, when it cos to eting soone precious, caring for one's body cos later.
'....' The cloaked man gazed at the woman in front of him, his eyes narrowing due to noticing sothing unusual. Yet, even after careful analysis, his mana sensitivity seed unable to detect what exactly it was. He replied, "I don't understand, exactly who?"
Already following Regina's orders, they remained calm and composed, not giving away any answers.
They were instructed to let her rest for a day.
Having been fooled once and witnessed her strength in yesterday's battle, all of the battalion mbers held respect for her yet also followed their orders.
They could guess that her body was weakest in terms of strength, but her ability seed to possess capabilities of numbing their senses.
For veterans, the first thing that is important is their senses.
So, he tried to see through her while covering his own body in a layer to protect from any ntal attack from her.
"I see, so he is on the third ship," Es stated firmly with a composed deanor, her sharp eyes as if seeing through the man's mind. She already felt that due to the dense layer of mana around him, her ability wasn't working.
'?!'
Man's eyes slightly widened before relaxing.
He cald down, glancing towards his comrades, who nodded, realizing their power was still not working on his woman.
Of course, it was a misunderstanding.
Seeing the dense layer of mana around these people, combined with her exhausted state, Es's ability wasn't able to influence them, leading her to act as if her ability had worked.
"Miss, I would suggest you not go there," one of them inford her with a calm tone, his protective mana layer disappearing. It was clear her ability still worked, and maintaining this phase was inefficient.
Gathering mana around one's skin for long periods causes it to resonate with the outside natural mana, leading to its dissolution and requiring a continuous flow of mana to maintain it.
Though their reservoirs were enormous due to their strength, as veterans, they valued each resource and always tried to save as much mana as possible for ergencies.
"Miss, you see—Commander has ordered us not to let you leave this place." The man felt his mind numbing the mont he wanted to suggest Es rest instead of going outside, but right now, he wasn't able to recall those things and said the truth.
"And why is that?" Es inquired. Unnoticed by them, a thin layer of illusion had surrounded their conversation, making the other three see only an argunt.
"Because your health wasn't fine." The man's eyebrows furrowed, feeling there was no need for him to say these things.
"Hm, what is he doing?" Es again inquired, tilting her head, causing a visible shine to pass through her golden pupils.
"Liege's strength is suppressed by Lady Drishti, and he is in a battle with your grandfather," the man inford her without noticing the subtle widening of the woman's eyes due to the presence of the illusion.
'What is the aning of this?' Es's pupils widened with a slight tremble, trying to understand the reasons for such a situation. She could guess it was so training exercise.
But the issue lay in the fact that she knew her grandfather's personality.
"Follow , you two. We are leaving." Es turned towards the twins, calling them.
They swiftly joined her before all of them left under the noses of the four cloaked figures, who had already guessed sothing was amiss, but it was already too late.
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