LTBE - Chapter 621: Unease

Alarmed, Lilian shot to her feet and pricked up her ears to focus on all sounds in the vicinity.

With her keen senses as an Origin Level 2 transcendent, she picked up many sounds: the crackling campfire on the city walls, the metallic clanging of the armored patrols, and even the hastened heartbeat of the astonished Audrey.

However, the child’s fleeting voice was nowhere to be heard.

“Your Highness?” Audrey asked worriedly.

“…” Lilian didn’t answer right away. There was a long moment of silence before she replied, “…It’s nothing.”

She slowly settled back into her chair, but her previously composed expression was replaced with a contemplative frown. She hadn’t expected that the events transpiring in the Austine Empire would actually affect Roel. She had even told him that she would handle the issues happening in the Austine Empire by herself.

Roel’s standing was different from before, and the Ascart House had considerable influence too, but it would still be unwise for them to interfere in another country’s politics, especially the xenophobic Austine Empire.

Bringing a foreigner into their internal affairs, especially one from the Saint Mesit Theocracy, would indubitably damage Lilian’s reputation and incite vehement opposition from the nobles. That was also the reason Roel kept his distance from Lilian on the surface.

However, it looked like the Ascart House, or at least Roel himself, was going to be dragged into the Austine Empire’s affairs because of Paul.

What’s going on? Lilian gave the matter some thought before raising her head to look at Audrey. “Is there anyone who might harm Paul?”

“Harm His Highness Paul? This…” Audrey was perplexed by the question.

Paul Ackermann, as an illegitimate child, was a shunned prince in the Austine Empire. No one wanted anything to do with him, and he didn’t pose any threat in the fight for the crown either. There was nothing to be gained from harming him, not to mention that harming a member of the imperial family was no joking matter.

Who would be so foolish as to

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