Chapter 382: Emergency

After that night, Mo Li volunteered to get more information about the upcoming competition while she stays inside the palace and continued working with King Agostos. Of course, she didn't tell the old man about Mo Li.

Days passed.

As the day of the competition drew nearer, her anxiety also worsened. She did her best to gain more information, but the other part of the palace was heavily guarded. She didn't want anyone to suspect her, either. After all, she was just a new maid. Because of this, she was almost completely reliant on king Agostos for information.

"His highness just gave you permission to serve during the competition. You will serve him." Rudy, King Agostos's shadow guard, said. "If you make a mistake…"

"You will kill me. I know." This wasn't the first time that this man threatened her. From the information that she has so far, she knew Rudy was the son of King Agostos and that maid. Apparently, this was kept as a secret to keep Rudy safe.

Not even the maids here knew about Rudy.

While King Agostos didn't mention anything, she had assumed that King Agostos has secret soldiers who were the ones that trained Rudy. After all, the man's skills were pretty good. There is no way that he just learned this on his own.

"You will be serving the tea." Rudy said. "Be very careful. The King will be there."

"Alright."

"Your disguise…"

"You don't have to worry about this. The King won't recognize me."

Again, Rudy glared at her. "I'm not worried about you! I don't want that man to hurt my father if he discovered father knew."

"That's simple. In case someone will capture me. I can tell them King Agostos didn't know about my existence in his palace." She squinted. Judging from his eyes, it was pretty obvious that he does not trust her. Of course, this does not concern her at all.

It was only natural for him to doubt her. After all, her father hurt his father.

Now that she thought about it, Rudy was just a little like Mo Li.

"How about the one that I asked him?' Anna said. She leaned against the tree and looked at the moon. It was a good thing that the tree branch was strong enough to support the two of them.

"We found nothing."

"That's impossible. I know that something was wrong."

"Well, we didn't find anything."

"Did you check the participants this time?" There were three Lycan academies that would join the event this time. One was the Royal Academy, the second was the Nesca Academy, and the third was Hunter Academy. Among the three, Royal Academy was the strongest and was well known to produce brave warriors. The Nesca Academy was composed of Lycans who specialized in assassination, and the Hunter Academy mostly specialized in defense.

However, unlike the other two academies, Nesca accepts rogues and weaker Lycans. Their reasoning was simple. They specialize in assassination tactics. They said that they specialized in hiding and speed.

"I did. All top students. We also investigated their backgrounds. As always, Nescans were composed of rogues, people who lost their packs from dark ones and demons, and people whose parents were killed by other Lycans. Nothing noteworthy."

"Do you have the lists?"

Rudy shrugged and got a paper from his pocket.

"Six participants. Strong, fast, and killers. Why are you focusing on them? These people aren't royals and only started training at Nesca lately. They aren't that special."

She said nothing.

'They aren't that special'

That was precisely the reason she wanted to investigate them.

They are so ordinary that people would easily miss something. Of course, this was to be expected, as they were trained to be assassins. They were trained to move in secret, to kill in secret. They are not supposed to attract any attention.

She pursed her lips and thought about her father's teachings.

Her father also taught her a few assassination lessons. It consisted of hiding her presence and other things like that. She sighed and removed those thoughts from her head.

'Hm?'

"What? Is something wrong?' Rudy asked.

"They are already sent to do some missions even if they haven't graduated yet?"

"Ah… those aren't real missions. They are just sent to kill bears and such. As you know, animals have really sensitive instincts. It would be hard to approach them. They were trained to completely hide their presence."

She nodded at that. After that, Rudy agreed to let her borrow the information. Then he left.

In a few days, the competition would happen. She needed to find out what was wrong with this competition. After a few seconds, she jumped to another branch and used invisibility.

It was close to midnight.

As always, she is going to stroll around the palace and looked for some ways to get inside the east palace and the main palace where the King and important people live.

'Hm?' Anna halted her steps when she spotted someone running out from the… kitchen of the east palace. The man looked distressed. He was wearing all-black clothing that made him blend into the night.

Seeing that the guards weren't stopping him, Anna followed the man until she reached the main palace of the east palace.

This was the first time that she was able to come here because of the strict security. For some reason, the people who occupy this place were very important, not even the maids and guards knew who it was. When Anna tried to ask King Agostos about this palace, he said that it was the wives of the King. But some other maids said that the wives lived in the main palace.

This actually made her confused.

"I need to see him!" A sharp voice reached her ears. Anna was standing a few meters away from the man, but she was still able to hear the conversation.

"He is not available."

"This is an emergency."

"I said…"

"This is about… the Shadow Pack!" the man uttered in a low, hurried voice. "I need to see him… now!"