234 False alarm? (1/2)

'I don't care either way...' Ozul thought inside his mind as he slowly made his way to another side of the wall from where he kept an eye on Jinx as she slowly approached the gate.

The guards didn't notice Ozul in the dark and minded their own business.

From Irvin, he had heard that even a man with almost no Mana at all was detected by the formation. It could only mean that anyone above a certain size trespassing the estate would automatically set off the defenses.

Ozul figured that they had probably manually disabled the formation when he had briefly entered the estate to talk with Rufus previously. It also meant that the control of the formation was basically in someone's hand and they could turn it off and on anytime they wanted.

The part which he focused on was the fact that the guards had to find that man for sometime all around the estate. The people with Mana, on the other hand, were spotted in an instant as if the guards just knew where the infiltrators were.

Taking all of these points into account, he could form a basic conclusion that there were two formations or the formations had two separate functions. Considering the latter to be true, one function would set off in case anyone above the designated size regardless if they had Mana or not, entered the estate without whatever the proper method was.

In contrast, the second function located anyone under a certain range or inside the walls, but the condition was that the person should have Mana.

These were his basic conclusions that probably many others had reached as well. However, for them, it was all the same even if the second function couldn't detect the location of a person without Mana.

They could possibly never get an average man to infiltrate the Royal Palace and succeed.

That was the sole reason that people hadn't managed to infiltrate the Royal Palace of Silverbird Kingdom even after all this time.

And that was also the reason that Ozul had the chance to get in the Palace without setting off the tens of lethal formations that would even give Rank-9 Mages a hard time.

Unlike what was supposed to be the absolute law in this world, Ozul hadn't used Mana to grow stronger at all!

With no Mana inside his body, the formation that detected where the infiltrator was, would never be able to find him.

In the end, it would be up to the guards to find the culprit, but Ozul was confident in his strength. After Emperor Luthien had left the Palace, there was not a single person who could stop him there.

The only reason that Ozul wanted to get more information was that all of these were just his assumptions.

Though it would get chaotic if that happened, and he didn't like creating such a mess.

'Let's see...' Ozul muttered as he noticed Jinx was just about to cross the gate when one of the guards again shifted his attention to her.

”Go away!” the guard waved his hand in a lazy effort to drive off the black cat. In any case, the two did not pay much attention to the cat.

Though Jinx remained unfazed and ignored them.

'Do it...' Ozul muttered inside his mind as he noticed Jinx stopping just a single step away from the entrance.

As if Jinx was able to understand his command, she stepped inside, and at the same time, Ozul also jumped to the other side of the high wall.

*Ti'n!*

”!!!”

Immediately a sharp noise resounded throughout the Royal Palace, alerting all the guards on duty!

Every team that had previously been circling around the Royal Palace began to run back to the entrance.

Most of them had never heard this sound before, but they knew that it was some kind of alarm. Immediately, the whole Palace woke up and guards were seen running almost everywhere.

Meanwhile, the two guards stationed at the entrance looked at each other in astonishment. To them, it looked as if the strange black cat was the reason that the formation had set off.

But the formation was supposed to ignore a creature of that size! What happened? Did the formation somehow break down or was the cat a Magical Beast with Mana?

The two weren't able to come to any answer. Just as they were thinking about what to do, a strict voice entered their ears with a refreshing scent invading their nostrils.

”What happened?”

Just as they heard the voice, a slightly old looking man suddenly appeared in front of the guards, making them stumble back in fright.

Only when they noticed his appearance did the two hurriedly stood up and composed themselves. With a shout, they saluted, ”Sir Rufus!”