Chapter 404

"We're here."

On the back of the pitch-black dragon, Hua Xia said as he looked down at the bustling city standing on the ground.

"I'm back, the Royal Capital."

Lésia, who had once invaded the Royal Capital as a member of the Old Demons, looked at the bustling city and sighed.

"Roar!"

You Lin roared and flapped her dragon wings, stopping in the clouds above the Royal Capital.

Sean, who was holding Lilith's hand, suddenly smiled.

"Look, that's the Royal Capital."

Sean smiled at Lilith, who was beside him, and introduced her as such.

Lilith nodded and gazed at the bustling city below, her eyes filled with curiosity.

This was the first time Lilith had left the Stringham Dukedom and come to another territory's city.

In the past ten thousand years, although Lilith was not sealed in the Darkness Shrine like her original body, which had lost control, she had a certain degree of freedom. However, this freedom was relative.

She could leave the shrine, leave the independent space that exiled the shrine, and even leave Kosmos. However, she could not leave the Stringham Dukedom, which was too far from where her original body was.

As the only rational half, if Lilith were to stray too far from her original body, it was very likely that her connection with her original body would be severed, and she would never be able to return to the shrine.

Hence, all this while, Jade, who was Lilith's original body, had only been active in the Stringham Dukedom. She had never left the Dukedom.

It was only now that Lilith could finally leave the Stringham Dukedom. The world was vast, and there was no place that this evil god, who was comparable to the demons, could not go.

Of course, she should only go to a place where this hero was by her side.

Lilith had already made this decision long ago. Hence, as long as Shien was willing to stay in the Stringham Dukedom, she was willing to stay there as well.

However, Shien naturally would not want to stay in the Stringham Dukedom forever.

Even though Barley had been dealt with by them, and that place was no longer their opponent's territory, Shien had no intention of staying there.

For the current Shien, the only place left for him to settle down was the Royal Capital.

After all, the Royal Capital was his home, and there were people who missed him. He missed them too.

Shien, who had sworn not to stay in the Royal Capital, was already dead!

How fragrant!

While feeling dejected, Shien noticed that Ai Yi, who was yawning at the side, was frowning.

"What's wrong?"

Shien asked.

"Nothing." Ai Yi relaxed her knitted brows, as if she was not interested, and said: "I just feel that there are more people in the capital, and the city seems to be livelier than before."

"Lively?" Sean was slightly startled, and immediately looked down.

With this glance, Sean also discovered that even above the clouds, he could still see the stream of people that were as tiny as ants. It seemed that they were constantly coming from all directions and entering the capital, making the capital much livelier and noisier than before.

Sean even sensed a decent amount of magic power from those people.

What did that mean?

It meant that the people who came from all directions were all of extraordinary strength.

"Why are there so many masters?"

Shien was surprised.

"Those people seem to be nobles from other places, and the knights who escorted them here."

Lésia seemed to have noticed the scene, and used some magical means to investigate. She was puzzled.

"Nobles and knights from other places?"

Shien frowned.

Why did so many nobles suddenly come to the Royal Capital?

Did something happen?

Shien pondered.

Looking at Shien, who was deep in thought, La Xia said expressionlessly, "Let's go back, Mr. Shien."

"That's true," Shien nodded, "Instead of guessing, let's go back and take a look."

As he spoke, Sean patted Ulean's head under his body.

"Roar!"

You Lin immediately understood Shien's meaning. With a roar, she dove down.

The scene of the pitch-black dragon appearing above the clouds and flying in the direction of the Royal Capital was seen by many people both inside and outside the Royal Capital.

"Dragon …!?"

"There's a dragon!"

"A dragon has appeared!"

"Oh my god!"

Outside the Royal Capital, many people turned pale with fright and panicked.

On the other hand, the people in the Royal Capital, as well as some of the nobles, did not lose their composure when they saw the black dragon descending from the sky.

"Is that the Adol's Black Dragon?"

"The mount that Viscount Porztut tamed …?"

"In other words, that Viscount Porztut is up there?"

"I heard that he recently left the Royal Capital and went to Duke Stringham's territory."

"From the looks of it, they should be back, right?"

"Tsk, he actually came back at this time …"

"Hmph …"

Some of these people were curious, some were scrutinizing, but most of them seemed to be resentful and unwilling for some reason. In an instant, all of them started talking at once.

Even the people in the Royal Capital were like this.

"Viscount Porztut is back!"

"He's finally back?"

"What a lucky fellow …"

"That's right …"

At this moment, both nobles and commoners looked at the black dragon descending from the sky. Some were whispering, some were discussing, some were deep in thought, and some showed the same resentment and unwillingness. There were even some who were full of hostility, causing many to stare at the black dragon descending from the sky as if they were staring at their mortal enemy.

At this moment, Shien, who was on the dragon's back, was also dumbfounded.

The reason was simple.

As he got closer to the Royal Capital and appeared in front of people, Shien realized that his [Enemy Sense] actually had an intense reaction.

One by one, the red dots that represented his enemies appeared in Shien's mind and increased at an alarming rate. This told Shien that there was currently a large number of people in the Royal Capital who were hostile towards him.

These people who had developed enmity towards him almost occupied the entire Royal Capital.

"This …"

Sean was dumbfounded and dumbfounded.

What's going on?

Did I do something wrong?

Why does it seem like I've become the public enemy of the Royal Capital after a few days of absence?

"What's wrong with you? Your expression is so strange. "

Lésia noticed Shien's blank expression and asked in surprise and confusion.

"No … nothing." Shien suppressed the shock in his heart with great difficulty, but he still could not hide the fact that he was shaken. He looked at Lésia and hesitated for a moment before asking softly, "Have I done anything immoral?"

The sudden question stunned Lésia.

She looked at Shien, and the first thing that appeared in her ruby-like eyes was not surprise or confusion, but an indescribable emotion.

Shien seemed to be able to see a sentence in Lésia's eyes.

"Whether you've done anything immoral or not, don't you know it in your heart?"

Shien saw this sentence in Lésia's eyes.

At that moment, Sean fell silent.

He could not refute it!

So, Shien was a little panicked.

"Could it be that something immoral that I've done has been exposed?"

Shien searched his brain with all his might, hoping to come up with something.

Sadly, Shien realized that there were many things that he had a clue about!

This made Shien unable to determine which of them had been exposed.

After some thought, Shien could only think of one possibility.

"It must be because I was too kind to take in Lésia, the wanted criminal of the Kingdom. Now that this matter has been exposed, I've become the public enemy of the Royal Capital!"

Shien immediately used his unique skill — [Shifting the Blame].

So, Shien unconsciously reached out his hand and grabbed Lésia's shoulder.

"… What are you doing?"

"Nothing."

"Why are you grabbing my shoulder if it's nothing?"

"Is it because we have a good relationship?"

"… Is it?"

"Of course, people who have a good relationship often have their arms around each other's shoulders like this. Don't you know?"

"I know, but I don't know why I'm feeling a little anxious now. I feel like you're planning something bad."

"You're thinking too much."

"… Really?"

"Really."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes."

"Then can you tell me what you're thinking right now?"

"Nothing. I'm just thinking that if the matter of me taking you in is exposed, I'll hand you over to the authorities. Not only will I not be punished, but I'll also be rewarded."

"… …"

"… …"

After a short conversation, Sean and Laxia fell silent one after another. Then, they began to wrestle without saying a word.

Just as the two of them were locked in a fierce battle, You Lin flew into the Royal Capital and headed towards the center of the noble district.

There, the Pottutt Family's mansion appeared before everyone's eyes.

However, the crowd realized that there were many nobles and commoners gathered in front of the main entrance of the Pottutt Family's mansion.

The nobles and commoners gathered in front of the Pottutt Family's mansion, and they kept shouting.

"I am the son of Count Sitri! Ask Viscount Pottutt to come out and meet me! Duel with me! "

"I'm the son of Count Kidyuz! Ask Viscount Pottutt to come out and meet me! Duel with me! "

"I am the son of the Marquis!"

"I am the son of the Duke!"

"Please accept our challenge!"

"We want a duel!"

"Yes! Duel! "

The nobles were shouting, and the knights were holding the line. The commoners had also gathered together, as though they wanted to see what the master of this place was capable of. The scene became extremely noisy.

It was as though someone had executed a tyrannical regime, and the innocent commoners could no longer stand it. They stood up and were ready to parade in the streets to overthrow the tyrannical regime and dictator.

"This, this, this, this …!?"

Shien was dumbfounded.

Even the rest of the people were shocked by this scene.

"You … Did you live so miserably in the Royal Capital?"

Lésia was confused.

"… Did you really do something immoral?"

Even Ai Yi looked at him suspiciously.

"…"

La Xia didn't say anything. She only stared at Shien quietly, but she gave Shien the greatest pressure.

“？”

Lilith tilted her head, her face full of question marks.

Shien really wanted to complain loudly.

"What the hell happened …!?"

Just like that, Shien became the public enemy without even knowing it.