Chapter 119: You Lot Dont Understand ‘Infiltration! (1/2)

“Why are they having a feast at a dazzling hall while we hide in such a place to eat dry bread and corn biscuits?!”

“This quest is stuck…”

“At least let us see what a noble banquet is like even if we don’t get to eat! I can’t even get a forum livestream going like this!”

“You’re still actually doing that, Gou Dan?”

The players who were basically locked inside one of the rooms at the adjacent buildings of the Silver Eagle Castle were all voicing their discontent.

Even Eleena, the little Saintess-in-training was puffing her cheeks. Shrinking herself on the couch, she was quietly voicing her dissatisfaction. “Milk pudding…”

“Edward, aren’t you going to say something?”

After half a day’s worth of grumbling, Gou Dan had suddenly noticed that Edward hadn’t said a word from the start—he had only been frowning as he sat on his chair thoughtfully.

“I’ve actually felt that things were weird in the very beginning.”

Edward did not keep quiet since Gou Dan asked, and began to reveal all his suspicions. “This is His Lordship’s old home, correct? Reasonably speaking, this would be a safe place for His Lordship even if his father is not a believer of the God of Games.”

“Are you asking why His Lordship would hire players as escorts?” The pudgy Terrosche who had slipped himself into the same quest replied cheekily. “It’s definitely so that he won’t be ambushed by bandits. In my experience, those criminals love groups of carriages with weak defenses—just look at our journey this time: with us as escorts, no bandits dared to attack us!”

“Impressive! As expected of you, Brother Terrosche!” The skinny Silva promptly licked Terrosche’s boots.

“No. What I want to ask is why is everyone here ‘neutral units’? Shouldn’t they be allies?”

Edward impassively put out the suspicions he was holding back. “Remember, the frogmen were neutral units even though they surrounded us the instant they found us and could have attacked at any moment.”

Through his reveal, the players finally reflected on it and realized that unusual things were happening.

With every creature and stranger that weren’t attacking them deliberately would be marked in yellow as neutral units so frequently, everyone had gotten so used to it that they didn’t think of things that way.

On the other hand, it was definitely bizarre if the soldiers at the lord’s own home were marked as potential foes by the System, and the hostility wasn’t low either…

“Doesn’t that mean those people have bad things in mind for His Lordship?” Vela asked nervously. “Shouldn’t we think of some way to inform him about this?”

“Stay calm. He must know that himself, or he wouldn’t have enlisted us in a hurry. Moreover, that girl is present at the banquet and it shouldn’t be a problem.” Edward calmed them.

“By the way, who is that girl?” Gou Dan could not help asking in curiosity. “It feels like even the lord’s father respects her, even though she looked so young…”

“I found out from the other guards before coming in.” Edward said, having been readied for it. “Her father was Count Ainsworth, a former friend of the Silver Eagle Duke. However, the count had passed away without a male heir, which is why his lands are reclaimed by the Empire. That’s not the main point, of course, because the main point is that Kinley Ainsworth is taken in as an apprentice by the best alchemist of the continent.

“The best alchemist of the continent…” Gou Dan salivated, stunned by the title. “How did you find out so much? I only remember her glaring jealously at Joe’s chest.”

Joe made a bodybuilder’s pose at that, but was ignored by everyone in taciturn.

“That’s not all. There’s also another gossip.” Edward continued, seemingly insistent on stunning everyone before he finished. “Lady Ainsworth was our lord’s former fiancée, but that alchemist completely disregarded the Faust family’s dignity and called off the wedding when she was chosen as an apprentice.”

Xi Wei almost spat out the watermelon he was happily eating in his Divine Kingdom when he heard that tidbit.

What on earth? So not only Angora was belittled by his own family, a noble son who had attempts on his life before becoming a lord, and even had an engagement called off? What character background is that, hello?!

Who knows? If Xi Wei didn’t reach out in time to save him, Angora might have become a Transmigrator after the bandits killed him, reincarnated as the most powerful being of a world who slayed gods and divine beings alike.