Chapter 214 - Night Attack (1/2)

It was currently midnight and Cecil was not in his room sleeping. He figured that Lucia was purposefully staying with him to keep tabs on him, but today's activities had thoroughly exhausted her and she was currently in a deep sleep.

Cecil had switched into a darker garment. He was currently jumping from rooftop to rooftop, making a beeline towards the forest areas that served as the Orca-Anglarian border.

When he got past the city's walls, Silver, who was perching on top of his head quickly jumped forward and transformed in mid-air. Cecil flipped on top of him and the two flickered into the distance.

”Let's make this quick Silv...we'll crush those bastards and give those fools targeting us a warning. Good thing I've got Nature's Shift.”

Cecil inwardly thanked the World Tree for giving him such a convenient ability. The technique allowed him to move around without leaving behind any trace of his mana. This way he was able to shake off the eyes that were observing him for the past couple of days.

It was unsettling at how covert those people were. Even when he spread his senses out, they were able to detect him doing so and quickly disappear from his radar.

Whatever technique or tool they were using for counter-reconnaissance, it was without a doubt effective against Cecil's Mana Sense.

He couldn't even move freely during the past few days since he arrived at the city. His enemies were playing around in the dark while he was in the open. Cecil took the safe approach and heeded Lucius and Lucia's advice, taking precaution in whatever he was doing.

He never strayed too far from his friends, but now he had grown tired of it. This was because of the previous event where Lucia and the rest had to dirty their hands because of a couple of fools who didn't care for their lives and only wanted to sow discord between the Empire and Kingdom.

In Cecil's opinion and personal deduction, the Empire had played a hand in the current ruckus being caused at the borders.

Since they wanted to sow discord, Cecil thought that he might as well just wipe out the mediums causing the discord.

Cecil and Silver quickly arrived at the border areas and the two dived straight into the forests. The boy quickly dispersed his senses into the surroundings and picked up on a band of people.

Judging from their gear, numbers, and the fact that they were all beastmen with no visible cargo or trade goods, they were the enemy.

”Let's clean them up...”

Silver howled and rushed straight towards the direction Cecil was telling him to go to. What the boy was doing right now was without a doubt radical and extreme since he was going to go hunt for the lives of people who may or may not be innocent. People who may or may not yet have committed any infractions towards the kingdom.

It wasn't like he felt any sort of radical patriotism for the Anglaria Kingdom, but it was some kind of inexplicable gut feeling, like this was the best and only course of action for him to ensure his safety.

He wasn't only doing this because of some shallow reason like Lucia and his friends tainting their hands with the blood of others. That'd be too narrow-minded of him. No matter what, in this world where power reigned and the person with the largest fist had the largest say, Cecil and his friends will one day with no shred of doubt, have to dirty their hands...

The real reason he was doing this was because ever since he's left the trial, there was a constant nagging feeling in the back of his head. Like an itch he couldn't scratch.

At first Cecil couldn't figure out what caused this, but whenever he trained and was practicing using the World Tree's Thorns, the nagging feeling would suddenly grow exponentially stronger whenever he held onto Providence.

Then there was that one time during training while he was using Providence and he had suddenly blacked out during the middle of it. Cecil then had a clear dream of something...bad happening to him a week later.

To others, they wouldn't actually call this a bad thing, but in the dream, Lucia and Serilla were going to slip into the bathroom while he was bathing and do something weird to him. At first, Cecil thought that it was only a dirty dream. After all, he was already at that age where a boy's imagination would run wild because of hormones. However a week later, his dream, or nightmare, had actually come true!

It was a good thing that he had quickly escaped using Nature's Shift just before the two girls could latch onto him.

Cecil experienced a couple more dreams like this. Of course, it wasn't only bad or lewd things that he dreamt of, but some good things like that one time when he dreamt of picking up someone's lost MID. The MID turned out to be Fina's and she had accidentally dropped it while walking in the blazing heat of summer.

Or the dream where he was sparring with Ainz and he was suddenly caught off guard by a new technique that Ainz had secretly developed in order to surprise him. When the actual event happened the next day, Cecil was able to successfully counterattack the new skill.

This caused Ainz to be thoroughly dejected. Even with a new secret technique he still couldn't even lay a finger on his friend. Cecil apologized secretly because Ainz's secret wasn't much of a secret since he had dreamt of it already.