462 Spying (2/2)

”One month isn't long. That amount of time could easily pass by through just a single meditation. I'm also aware that I won't have any breakthroughs during this short period of time. I've also perfectly recovered my entire energy reserves. Which means that I don't have any pressing matters as of the moment. Hmm, what should I do then?”

Raven was lying on his bed, staring at the ceiling as he carefully thought about what he wanted to do.

”Touring the ship? Nah, the accessible areas to us are mostly the boring ones. I have no actual need to see those areas. Making friends? Yeah right, as if. Train? Eh, what progress will I have within a month anyway? Not to mention that I'm technically a different breed from other knights. I've also memorized everything on the books that Senior Brother Henry handed to us. So? What do I do then?”

Raven's expression was dull. He felt bored out of his mind. He wanted to do something but also doesn't feel like doing anything at all, it was weird.

Even if he's not physically doing anything right now, his Avatars are very occupied. It might look like he was relaxing but even right now, his understanding of Destruction Laws are constantly being pushed to its very acme. He only needed a single spark of inspiration to trigger his next advance, but finding that spark is almost a difficult as finding a needle within a haystack.

Technically, he could enter the Crown Space and beat living crap out the remaining enemies left for him to handle but he couldn't do so right now since he was being monitored.

'Why did this guy follow me anyway? He thinks that he's staying away from the spying influence but he's not. I could see him like a burning torch within a dark cave. What does he want?'

In truth, Raven was aware that he was being followed from the get go. As soon as he separated from the other disciples, he already sensed that this guy was following him. But instead of confronting the stalker, he just acted as he wasn't aware of his presence at all.

Had it been a fellow disciple who followed him, then he would've put them in their place already. Unfortunately, this guy was one of the Envoys accompanying Henry.

It was the elder with a long gray beard. Raven has no idea as to why this guy was here but he acted as he wasn't aware of anything while also observing the Elder as well.

Elder Graybeard never showed any animosity towards him. Well, at least he didn't feel any so far. The old man just followed him in this room like a wisp of invisible smoke, and from then on just watched him from afar.

The old man stayed twenty miles away from him. He must've been thinking that Raven has absolutely no clue that he's here but it actually quite the opposite.

Ever since the seal on his Cosmic Energy had been released, his spying range extended to a full fifty miles. And this is without the help of his ocular technique, which could easily double that range.

'If he's here just to observe, then it'll be fine to let him be. But if does something that I don't like, then it's going to be a problem.' Raven thought to himself as he closed eyes while in deep thought.

'Honestly, what's up with all of this monitoring? Back at the Twin Star Academy, they tinkered with some arrays to capture our spiritual mark, the lodgings were also being closely monitored which prevented me from trying out other things. I thought I escaped all of that now that I'm boarding the ship, yet this old man is doing the same thing.'

'There's also the matter with those twins.' Raven sighed, 'They kept bugging me and asking me to return something. I haven't gone senile yet so there's no way that my memory is failing me, I don't recall taking anything from them. What exactly do they want from me?'

”Ugh, I can't think of anything to do. I'll just sleep I guess.” Raven grumbled softly as he covered himself with the soft duvet whilst entering a deep state of meditation.

This was just him feigning sleep. Due to the visible relaxation that deep meditation causes to someone, it's almost similar to falling asleep. Since he's lying down as well, then this will make the old man outside think that Raven was truly sleeping but in reality, Raven was still observing him.

It won't hurt to be careful. Even though the old man was just observing him from afar, he still didn't want to drop his guard since he had no idea why this old man was here in the first place.

Time passed and on the fifth hour since 'he fell asleep', Raven was astounded to see that the old man suddenly retreated and exited his room.