My body grew barely. The lack of nutrients in my body couldn’t support my transformation, but my focus was not on obtaining the strength to begin with.
My focus was entirely on growing out a horn that stabbed into the mouth of the beetle that dared to hurt . And when it died, all I saw was it turning into dust and disappearing from the world.
"This... a being like ?" I looked at where the beetle was, a beetle that retained an aspect of mine that matched my faceless head. "A nightmare in the real world." I knew what this thing was. I knew what this attack on ant.
And I knew that I had been found out by him. "Hoho... my idol attacked just now." I felt happy for a bit, then sowhat worried. Such conflicting emotions made almost feel human. Then I turned and looked at Lord Emotion and bowed my head. "I thank thee for my protection."
"I just did what I was ant to do, protect the people of this land against intruders..." Lord emotion laughed at my words, and I laughed as well. "I do appreciate your help, otherwise I don’t know what might have happened to ."
Lakyus, the Pri Daemon of Nightmares. I know of that man and his goals. But what I can’t seem to understand is his problem with .
I was a fan, he showed his way here, and if not for him. I would have been nothing and would have been claid by the fog of death long ago. So why does he keep hunting ?
Why?
Well, I can partially predict a part of the reason, but it’s not like I ever wish to harm my benefactor even if I beca a nightmare.
"Worry not, he just knows the general location, he doesn’t know that you have obtained a body by now." Lord Nightmare explained, but it didn’t make happy at all. This ant that my activities in the capital would co to a pause and I couldn’t leave a single clone here anymore in fear that he might catch up to .
’This is troubleso.’ The only good news is that Lakyus as much as annoying he is. He can’t gain the help of gods, as unlike , he is the one that shouldn’t even exist on this land anymore. So no matter what happens, he can’t co out in the open. He is limited in his options and can only ambush like he did this ti.
But that doesn’t make him weak. Even if he can’t reach the level of Daemon through his mastery over Nightmares, he is still a walking nightmare himself. A being who would eventually find a new way to walk the path of a daemon or soone even greater.
That’s how dangerous of a being he is.
’There is a reason the gods of old pushed him out of this world.’ Lakyus is dangerous from the very fact that he can attack any part of the world he desires by his understanding of the dream world.
And I bet he can send the whole capital into deep sleep if he so wishes, without ever setting a foot here.
It’s why I have to move again. I can’t stay here and make him think this place holds any importance in my heart. I have to move and hide from him.
Thanking Lord Emotion again and this ti with so genuine emotions. I started to wonder one thing.,
’I can’t take refuge in the world of dreams for now.’
I need to find a new place for and my n. A place where I can operate freely without worry of that man hounding .
And I just have a place in my mind.
’Durum it is.’
******
Leshen was established right under the nose of the Radiant order. A place mostly filled with the Knight’s family mbers and those who co here looking for hope. This place was a refuge of sorts with next to no criminal activities as none dared to act foolish in the territory of Radiant Knights.
But this day, sothing odd was happening in one of the Tea Palaces, which was mostly frequented by the rich to discuss important etings.
"Ho shit... be calm, why are you guys attacking ." The man appeared drunk, swaying from one side to another and barely dodging the attacks of what seed to be a Knight in training who was not even granted a trace of Radiant Blood, but they were still above the strength of normal people due to the physical training they go through alone.
But the man didn’t mind them swaying their wooden swords at them. He just dodged from one side to another before he suddenly stumbled due to a glass on the floor, which made him dodge a direct strike on his head.
"This bastard, he is playing with us." And the Aspirant Knights were not foolish, they could see that this Drunkard that harassed them and ruined the little ti they earned after a week of hellish training was just toying with them for his own amusent.
No way in hell can soone be so lucky and dodge so many strikes in one go.
Which made them even more frustrated, causing them to swing their wooden swords even more widely. Before a harsh warning ca from the side. "Enough of the farce." The authoritative voice belonged to a woman with long hair that she bound in a ponytail.
Causing the Knight aspirants to suddenly stand straight and do a proper knight’s salute while shouting "Sir!"
"At ease... I will handle this man, the rest of you. Go enjoy your ti elsewhere." This was Remira. Now living in Leshen under the identity of a normal Adept Knight Osana due to all the international scrutiny and to her shock, so politics among the Radiant Knights, so of whom seem to suggest that she leaves this continent for the Land of Azad where the true ho of Radiant Knights was.
But she had refused, choosing to abandon her old na and going into hiding temporarily to hide from the intrusive eyes. But it doesn’t an she had abandoned her old habits completely.
Her nose was still strong, and when she slled that sothing was off about this drunk man, she knew that the foolish aspirants were just used by this man to attract attention by this man.
"Oh thank you, Sir Knight." The man got up from the seat and appeared erratic and almost like a hobo with how long his beard was grown. But Remira didn’t buy this act one bit, nor did anyone among the Radiant knights. Those movents were just too perfect to be ignored.
"If not for you, I would have probably bled today."
And such a ga, Remira was not interested in at all. This was Leshen, this was the place where barely anyone dared to cause issues, but this man beca a nuisance for others just to attract attention.
But the issue was, what kind of attention this man was looking for. Was it the attention of Radiant Knights, or was he looking for Remira’s attention? The latter of which can be problematic as she was diocre on the surface and if this man were to know her true identity, then it would be sothing to be worried about.
"Stop with the act and sit in front of ," Remira warned the man, before turning toward the aspirants and making them leave the café.
******
The Emperor of Cynark had three brothers, among which, two were twins by the na of Deimos and Phobos, also called the twin moons of Cynark, considering they were nad after the two children of the Moon.
They might both be born with the sa face, but the talent they shared was much different.
Deimos born the youngest was considered a monster due to the innate strength he was born with. Making him have the strength of an adult by the ti he was just three.
While his brother Phobos, the older of the two was just average was always compared to Deimos, causing a rift to be born between the two brothers and causing them to drift apart with ti.
But a Prince of the Royal family is not soone who can remain diocre for long, Phobos on his own was much more adept at sothing that none in the royal family ever were. He was a good businessman who held control of the foreign ministry for decades, which beca the reason why Cynark is the powerhouse it is today.
It’s due to Phobos an untalented descendant that Cynark can see such prosperity.
But such success still could never let Phobos forget his past, he can’t forgive his brother. As fate has it, due to his lack of talent in the bloodline, Deimos’s brother Phobos couldn’t live as long as Deimos did and died a few decades ago, but through his death, he refused to let his brother visit him on his deathbed.
Which was the mont that Deimos was aware of the mistakes he made in his youth.
’Hope my grandson doesn’t make such mistakes.’ Ludwig was a descendant of Phobos, and in a way, Amir can be considered an uncle of Ludwig more than a cousin. But due to the fact that the royal family trees were kept secret in order to protect descendants. All the princes and princes were considered cousins.
And Amir’s job was to make this cousin of his into his subordinate.
A cousin whose first sentence to Amir’s servant was. "You are a woman, aren’t you?"
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