43 Natural Selection XI (1/2)

”Alrighty! Now that that's out of the way, we can finally make some progress.”

Nero jumped off from the still moving carriage and dissipated his mana cover, he couldn't have the blood smeared all over him after all.

It was still too early for anybody to be awake in the Capital, not a single soul came in sight while Nero ran through the well-kept streets towards the palace.

His plan was simple and dangerous beyond belief.

He was going to sneak into the castle without using mana, wake up the Noble Captain and show off the most basic mana as if he had advanced not long ago. Hopefully, he would achieve Killian's acknowledgement and protection.

The reason he couldn't use any mana was because of Queen Maria, Nero had realised that her mana sensitivity covered at least the whole of the palace grounds and quite possibly even more.

'Demons are such a great jump away from Slayers... I wonder what True Mana is like.'

If Adept mana, when used correctly, could make one invincible to bullets and weapons alike, what kind of abilities could True mana open up? Just thinking about it made Nero pumped for his future.

One might think it was a suicide mission for a boy to sneak into the most heavily guarded place in all of Haron Kingdom but this kid had more than a few tools up his sleeve.

He had previously scanned the whole of the palace from outside the grounds, nobody had a better blueprint of the area than him. Just that alone provided him with enough information to sneak past guards and move through blind spots.

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Then, he had his Ripper, an extraordinarily made weapon strong enough to slice through any normal armour with ease.

Also not to mention, he had Nova and her programs for stealth movement and hardcore parkour abilities.

Nova had been rebooted by Nero while he was racing through the town soundlessly.

'Oh goodness, you're okay!'

'Yeah, what can I say, I'd be god knows where without the chip...'

Nova analysed all the last stored information and sighed with relief. The one thing that she had deduced was that her user was too kind of a man, a characteristic that could lead to demise without even knowing it.

Finally, Nero had lost pretty much all sympathy to other beings. He had experienced first-hand of the demise it brought.

'My user is amazing, almost nobody else would realise the cons of kindness and act upon it immediately. This event was nothing compared to losing loved ones from somebody trusted but he still came to the same conclusion.'

Nova was looking at Nero brain activity in awe of how fast Nero's neurons became rewired to remove unnecessary kindness out of his thought process.

No ordinary being had such an ability.

Cruising at the speed of 20 mph, Nero took only a little while to have the palace gates in sight.

His black hooded figure swooshed over the entrance walls and into the palace grounds. Correlating his knowledge of the area to his view, Nero took the most discreet path into the palace, stealthily walking right past the guards' camp.