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All I can say is that the mole within our eldest princess's ranks is exceptionally diligent.

Ye Xiao could tell from the other party's forced smile that he had ill intentions, so he became impatient and quickly moved past him.

Before the two students could even see what was happening, Ye Xiao's figure had already slipped through the narrow gap between them. But in that short delay, the girl in black, who was already at the end of the line, had already turned into the corridor on one side of the main hall with Cui Xiu.

Ye Xiao hurriedly squeezed through the crowd in line to catch up, causing a group of people on the street to glare at him angrily.

But by the time Ye Xiao arrived at the corridor, Su Xiyun and Cui Xiu had already disappeared.

"Tsk." Ye Xiao curled his lips in displeasure. Although it wasn't that he absolutely had to accept Su Qianyun, he had at least done a quick check on her character.

If it were someone else, we would have to spend more time testing them.

"Hey, you're pretty fast!" Two burly students followed behind, weaving through the crowd.

At the same time, two more male students suddenly appeared in the corridor, and the four of them formed two walls, blocking Ye Xiao in the middle.

"Running? Why did you stop running, Sir Knight?" The burly student, slightly out of breath, chuckled as he caught up from behind.

Since Susie Yun couldn't be found anytime soon, Ye Xiao could only sigh, "Ah... alright. The four of you, let's find a quieter place to talk."

He was, after all, a student under the First Princess, so it was somewhat inappropriate for him to resort to violence in public.

"Alright, hehehe, it seems you're quite sensible." The student blocking the way laughed.

Four tall students flanked Ye Xiao, like four prison guards escorting a prisoner out of the main hall where admissions were being processed, and led them through the courtyard behind the main building until they reached a secluded room in a corner of the corridor.

Ye Xiao watched as the lead student pushed open the door to a room without any sign. Inside were some dusty materials and a long-abandoned piano.

The long, narrow room had only one small window at the top of the inner wall, through which a dim light shone through the iron bars, casting a hazy, dreamlike glow.

"This place is nice. Does it usually not get very crowded?" Ye Xiao asked.

"Heh, this place is only for us... no, why am I telling you this?" Before the student could finish speaking, he suddenly realized that Ye Xiao, who had just been walking ahead, had disappeared again.

He subconsciously turned around, only to see that Ye Xiao had appeared at the very back of the group at some point, closing the door to the storage room and locking it.

The old door bolt made a grating sound. Four burly trainees stood together, looking at the thin figure who had silently turned back to look at them after the door closed. For some reason, they suddenly felt a chill.

"Which faction do you belong to?" Ye Xiao asked.

Seeing that Ye Xiao completely disregarded them, one of the hot-tempered students immediately shouted, "Commoner, this is not your place to ask questions..."

With a muffled thud, the tall figure of the student slammed against the wall like a ball, and a splash of warm blood landed on another student.

"Which faction do you belong to?" Ye Xiao asked the next student.

How dare you...!?

The student was also thrown out, crashed against the wall, and fell into a baby-like sleep.

"Which faction do you belong to?"

"Your Highness Raymond! We are following Your Highness Raymond!!! Mr. Ye, spare our lives!!!"

"Who told you that I am Skadi's knight?"

"Hai... it was Heloise who told us! Please let us go, we're all classmates!"

Who is Heloise?

"A... a third-year senior, she's also following His Highness the Fourth Prince, just like us!"

Seeing their two companions laughing and joking one second and then suddenly becoming lifeless the next, the remaining two were so scared that they wet themselves.

He couldn't even come up with lines like "I'd rather die than surrender," and just spilled everything out like beans from a bamboo tube.

The students of the noble academy, who had never been on the battlefield, did not have much psychological resistance, especially after seeing their comrade being smashed to pieces like a tattered sack with a single punch.

Of course, in reality, Ye Xiao was just beaten unconscious by the two students, but he was sleeping so soundly that he looked like he was dead.

These are just two trainees, after all; it wouldn't be appropriate to use too much force.

After asking a few important questions, Ye Xiao also inquired about the names, classes, families, and even dormitory locations of these individuals. "Don't be so startled. You two brothers are still breathing. Take them out of here later. Also, please relay any instructions your seniors give you to me."

"Ye... Ye... this isn't appropriate... we should still obey His Highness the Prince..."

“That makes sense.” Ye Xiao nodded. “Then you should tell me which prime location outside the city you’d like to choose.”

"Wh...what treasure land?" The pale-faced student was stunned.

"A suitable burial ground for you all," Ye Xiao said, spreading his hands. "You're all so loyal; what if letting you go back harms me?"

"No, no! Absolutely not!! You have to believe us, we won't say a word about what happened today!!"

"But there's no point in letting you go back like this. We'll just have four more enemies next time we meet... Since we're going to be enemies anyway, why don't I eliminate them beforehand?"

"No, classmate, no matter what, this is still an academy, and we must abide by the laws of our empire..."

"It's alright, it's not like we'll be discovered." Ye Xiao smiled heartily. "Besides, you all know I'm a knight, Her Highness the Princess will protect me."

Chapter 44 Player Guards

Seeing Ye Xiaozhen's nonchalant attitude, the two students were almost in tears.

What kind of new knight is this?

"But...but what about those two who fainted over there..."

"Of course they wouldn't know. Oh, I see, you mean why they didn't inform me?"

The two trainees nodded frantically.

“You’ve reminded me.” Ye Xiao stroked his chin. “Then bring these two back to this place at this time tomorrow. I’ll give you another talking-to, and this will also serve as our first small meeting about His Highness Raymond.”

"what……"

"Can't understand?"

"I understand!" "I get it! I get it!!"

The two men, their faces ashen, agreed to Ye Xiao's request.

As for how to contact them, Ye Xiao told them that he could know their location at any time and would naturally have a way to contact them if he wanted to.

Of course, these words sent a chill down the spines of both students.

After saying that, Ye Xiao took the room key from the leading student and then opened the door.

Seeing the dazzling sunlight outside, the two students immediately ran out like prisoners released from their cages, but before they could take two steps, Ye Xiao shouted to stop them.

"Hey! Take these two away from me, or I'll feed them if they stay here!?"

As soon as the words were spoken, two bruised and swollen figures landed on either side of the two trainees on the ground.

Watching the two men stagger away, each carrying one person on their backs, Ye Xiao curled his lip.

Such a simple deterrent can only fool their simple-minded brains for a short while.

Before long, these students will probably go back and think about it and wonder why they were so afraid, and they will doubt how Ye Xiao could possibly dare to really kill them.

But that's exactly what Ye Xiao wanted, because it meant that once they understood, they would be angry and would try to get revenge.

He'll find a way to retaliate, and the next day he'll bring over helpers with even greater power and status.

This way, Ye Xiao won't have to go looking for each of these low-level trainees' superiors and their superiors one by one. These lower-level trainees know too little. It would be best to bring some influential people along so he can take them all out at once.

At the very least, he could use even more outrageous methods against enemies who were beyond his trainee status.

This big, burly guy started crying after just a couple of punches, making Ye Xiao feel a little embarrassed to even interrogate him.

Although Su Xiyun's chances were snatched away, it wasn't entirely without reward. She could find out the other party's class and ask them again tomorrow.

Ye Xiao stretched, turned around and examined the first little territory he had established in the academy, then closed the door and locked it with the confiscated key.

After all that commotion, when they returned to the main hall where admissions were being processed, there were only a few candidates left.

Ye Xiao scratched his head helplessly and walked alone to the desk where the processing was handled.

……

Unlike Ye Xiao, who was still hungry and alone in the main hall completing the formalities, Ella was led by a professor from the mage academy and his assistant directly to the dean's office on the top floor of the main building.

Boan Bazel, the court mage whom Ella had met once during a royal council meeting, and also the dean of the National Noble Academy, was now shaking hands and talking with Duke Heville in his office.

The Duke was once a student at the academy, and although he was trained at the swordsmanship academy, he had a close relationship with the headmaster.

The higher up the noble class, the more connections they had with each other, regardless of whether they were friend or foe.

Even if they had no prior relationship, there will always be occasions that force them to get to know each other.

In front of the Duke, the headmaster naturally praised Ella highly, even though he knew that Ella had obtained many of her grades in the previous academic year through "inappropriate" means. But why should he offend the Duke for that?

Moreover, it was a certainty that Ella had defeated the swordsmanship prodigy, Princess Skadi, in the previous duel. Duke Hevil had naturally already learned of this from other family members in the capital, but he was overjoyed to hear others, especially the headmaster, talking about it.

“I never expected, Derian, that your daughter is just as talented as you were back then.” Dean Boan stroked his beard and laughed. He was older than the Duke and had been his “teacher” before, so even though his rank was lower, he didn’t need to use honorifics. Of course, the main reason was that this made their relationship closer. “Although I am the dean, I still have to show some favoritism—it’s a good thing she enrolled in the mage academy, otherwise, with such talent, that old man Osborne would definitely have lured her to the swordsmanship academy, hahahaha.”

“Professor Boan is joking. I wasn’t that good back then, hahaha,” the Duke waved his hand. “I still remember how Andrew beat me up in that duel back then.”

As for Ella's ability to defeat Skadi, it was not surprising in the Duke's eyes—my daughter gets perfect scores in every subject and is the Holy Maiden of Light, so she is a genius by nature. It's only natural that she could defeat the First Princess if she performed well!

"Hahaha, that kid was young and impetuous back then, Derian, you can't possibly remember that now."

"No, I admire that guy's diligence. He should be a professor by now, right?"

"Of course, he's already working as Osborne's assistant."

"Vice Dean? Impressive, impressive. I knew he was no ordinary person back then, and now it seems his defeat wasn't unjustified, hahaha..."

The two were just joking around and talking nonsense, which wasn't very informative, and Ella, who was listening from the side, was getting a little bored.

Even though she was already starting to doze off, she still had to pretend to be well-behaved and sit on the sofa, trying her best to maintain an elegant and dignified posture.

Since she was already lost in thought, she simply shifted her attention to the rat and crow familiars, using these familiars that she had spread throughout the city to see if anything had happened in various parts of the imperial city.

However, everything seems to be calm for now. From the air, the people walking in the streets and alleys are just ordinary citizens.

She then turned her attention to the familiars that had been placed in Gray Gold Town. She had been keeping an eye on the strange town for some time, but apart from the strange flesh and blood that would hide in the house at mealtimes and eat some unknown thing, she hadn't seen anything else unusual.

Ella also considered using her familiar to trace the origins of that strange flesh and blood.

However, for the past two days, she had been using a rat to guard a family in the house, but even after the fat corpse was almost completely stripped down to its skeleton, the family still hadn't gone looking for a new source of flesh and blood.

This puzzled Ella. She couldn't keep an eye on things all the time, since she wasn't a 64-core super-performance CPU and couldn't spare so much attention to monitor every familiar's field of vision in real time. Sometimes she would inevitably miss some information.

But this time, just as she switched to the perspective of a crow in the sky above Greygold Town, she saw a small team dressed in the uniforms of Aslan's court guards riding horses to the entrance of the town.

Aslans? What are they doing here?

Ella was puzzled, but then she noticed that most of the people in that small group had black hair, carried all sorts of weapons, and were quite casual in their demeanor, unlike the well-trained guards of the Aslan court.

These aren't Aslan people, these are players dressed as Aslan court guards...?

Palace guards usually serve as attendants and bodyguards accompanying members of the royal family. When it comes to the Aslan royal family, Ye Xiao can only think of one person—the second princess, Femihir Aslan.

Come to think of it, it seems that when that guy was challenging Ye Xiao, he did indeed have a court guard named "Charles" throw a sword at him.

But that was the second palace guard she called out. Logically, the first name she called out should also have been a palace guard's name, but the first person she called out wasn't there at the time.

Ella remembered Femihill's words very clearly—

"'Stop talking nonsense! Where's Xia Lian!?... Charles will do, just throw him your sword!'"

Chapter Forty-Five Fellow Villagers

Ye Xiao initially thought it was just a coincidence that they shared the same name.

But now that Ella has seen this group of players with distinctive attire through the familiar's vision, their names are probably not a coincidence.

This group appears to be players who were "born" in Aslan and later became the princess's attendants, accompanying her to Loren.

Ella controlled the raven familiar perched on a branch to quietly fly to a rooftop near the group of players in order to eavesdrop on their conversation.

The team consisted of four players, but they did not see the player with fiery red hair named "Xia Lian" whom Ella had previously met in the arena.

"...Chen Yao, wasn't Graygold Town supposed to be the central hub connecting Loren Imperial City to Stormport? Why does it feel so deserted? Could we have gone to the wrong place?"

"How would I know? I wasn't born in Loren either." The player who spoke up this time, called Chen Yao, was probably a knight based on the sword at his waist and the shield on his back.

Although he was wearing the dark green uniform of the Aslan court guards, he had thick metal armor embedded in his chest and shoulders.

He walked at the very front of the group, seemingly the leader of this small team.

"You can see smoke rising from the mine in that direction, so the location should be correct."