Why must the devil be Defeated?

Chapter 340: 339 Chaos in the Cosmos

In a small path not far from Shane and his companions, at this moment, Lymco, Yuri, and Sona were leading a group of knights toward the direction where Shane and the others were.

“Are you sure it’s this way?”

As they walked, Yuri casually confirmed with Sona.

Due to the current chaotic arrangement of Cosmos’s buildings, with streets piled with the structures, reaching a specific place and locating specific people had become much more difficult than before.

Moreover, since Shane and his companions had yet to find a place to settle, to ascertain their current whereabouts and hurry there, the difficulty sharply escalated.

Fortunately, the First Knight Order had already placed informants at strategic high points throughout Cosmos. They monitored the terrain, building locations, and the whereabouts of every person in the city and reported in real-time for purposes such as transportation and target location.

It wasn’t just the First Knight Order that did this; the Broken Blade Knights from the Empire also did the same. Thus, the current state of Cosmos was such that any slight movement was noticed and reported, making its leaders aware.

Thanks to this, the people of the First Knight Order had not expended much effort in ascertaining Shane and his group’s location.

“About five minutes ago, there were reports of a sighting of a young noble with a maid and a little girl in the vicinity, and nobody responsible for monitoring other areas reported them entering their zone. So, it should be this way; if we keep going forward, we should encounter the target.”

Sona responded with such a report.

“That’s good,” Yuri nodded, then turned to Lymco and said, “You’ll need to control your emotions later, so don’t let them sense your hostility, alright?”

“Don’t worry, uncle,” Lymco replied expressionlessly, “Members of the Guard Knight Order undergo training to control their own hostility to avoid detection by ‘Enemy Detection’ and other Perception Skills. Mastering the control of one’s enmity is a compulsory course for any Guard Knight.”

After all, excessive hostility would easily trigger a reaction from those with Perception Skills like ‘Enemy Detection,’ thereby revealing one’s presence, which is unfavorable for combat and even more so for covert operations.

Thus, not only the Guard Knight Order, but any high-scale, high-level Knight Orders would undertake such training to achieve complete concealment of their enmity towards others.

The First Knight Order also conducted this training; Yuri and Sona were naturally aware of it.

However…

“It’s not easy to keep your hostility hidden even in the face of an enemy,” Sona said with some distress, illustrating just how challenging such a so-called compulsory course was.

Without a doubt, except for the Kingdom’s pride, the Guard Knight Order, it was extremely difficult for others to master this skill.