Chapter 31 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

Honestly speaking, Gawain was quite surprised to see Amber capturing someone. He would not have been so shocked an hour ago, however he lost hope for her combat ability ever since that shadow master was beaten up by a bank promoter called My Little Pony. Rather than a guard, she was more like an alarm…

It was true that Amber’s shadow techniques were superb, hence it was expected that she would be able to spot an assassin or spy… however little did anyone expect her to capture the person directly.

Just as Amber captured the man, hasty footsteps came from the outside of the study. Immediately after, Knight Byron opened the door and rushed in. “Your Excellency, what happened here?”

He was supposed to be guarding the main door downstairs but he was alarmed by the commotion upstairs.

In contrast, when Melita visited and punched Amber right in her face, not much commotion was caused…

“It’s okay, just a little thief and I have captured him,” Gawain waved his hand at Byron and continued, “you may go back and guard the place because tonight may not be so peaceful.”

Bryon looked at the study with confusion and saw Amber feeling proud of herself and the rogue collapsed on the floor. However, due to the command issued, he nodded and said, “Yes.”

“How did you capture him?” Gawain looked at Amber with surprise after Knight Bryon left and said “Did you win?”

“What does that expression mean?!” Amber was frustrated due to Gawain’s reaction. “Although my combat ability is relatively weaker, but I’m not so terrible that I can’t beat anyone at all, okay? Previously, I managed to tackle a monster called the ‘Mutant’.”

Gawain continued staring at her.

“Of course, this fellow is stupid.” It was expected that Amber had something else to add on. “He could have won if he tackled me face-to-face but he insisted on showing off his shadow moves. I took him down with one kick. He passed out after his spirit shook between the shadow and physical realm.”

Gawain looked at her with shock and thought to himself. “Only a monster like you could think of such barbaric attacks.”

Shadow Walk was the signature skill of the rogues and almost every one of them was skilled but their ability remained incomparable to that of Amber and the difference in their abilities made their skills seem like two completely different skills. Normal rogues could only hide temporarily in the physical realm and shuttle back and forth between the physical and shadow realms(the mages call this the “edge of shadow”). It was an extremely dangerous technique and one had to be as precise as dancing on the edge of a knife. Any mistake could cause one to fall into the shadow side and be pulverized by the unknown things in it. As for Amber… who knew what ability she had.

Under normal circumstances, rogues only need to focus on their footsteps and they did not have to worry as long as they did not take the wrong step. As the “Shadow Walk” was also known as the lonely road, hence every rogue knew that even the most powerful master of shadow would not be able to enter someone else’s path. Therefore, every skilful rogue was able to perfect the skill of “dancing on the edge of the knife”, however that was the usual case…

Things would have been different if you were dancing on the edge of a knife and a monster with combat ability of as high as 1.5e kicked you suddenly.

At this time, Amber was still full of complacency. “It was so interesting at that time, this fellow was in a stupid position and went into the shadow mode with a flash. However, I saw him clearly and he wanted to sneak beside me while waving a small knife. I pretended as though I did not see him and kicked him when he stood next to me…”

Rebecca did not entertain Amber and squatted beside Gawain to examine the unexpected visitor together. “Don’t tell me that he cannot wake up.”

Gawain shook his head and said, “It is hard to say, normal people would become an idiot even if they didn’t die when they got a shock on the edge of the shadow realm.”

As they were speaking, the rogue lying on the floor twitched and he started to slowly regain consciousness.

Under normal circumstances, a trained rogue would pretend to be dead at this moment and control his heart rate and breathing so that others would not be able to tell. However, this rogue could not control himself due to the huge blow and before he realised that there was something amiss, he was already staring at Gawain.

The nameless young man had a dull look in his eyes and everything before his eyes seemed to be unexpected. Immediately after, he wanted to bite the poison hidden in his mouth to kill himself only to realise that the poison had been taken away.

He could only choose to keep his mouth shut and remain quiet.

“What is your name?” “What is your motive?” “Who sent you here?”

Gawain asked him a few questions but did not get any reply and the man pretended to be deaf.

Amber took out her little dagger and spun it. “Should we extort a confession using some torture? Although I’m not very professional, but I have witnessed some techniques in the past, when I sneaked into the dungeon to steal things.”

Rebecca was confused. “What did you steal from the dungeon?”

“I bet you don’t know about this.” Amber started sharing happily. “Many prison officers would hide the treasures which they got from the prisoners in the secretive corners and transport the things away when they are changing shifts to avoid being discovered by the patrolling officers or leaders. I pick those times to do it…”

“Don’t think about it, there is no use torturing him.” Gawain interrupted Amber who was complacent. “The shadow guard of the royals are trained to serve the King hence they are the cream of the crop. Other than outstanding combat ability, their willpower is impressive too. Thankfully you could capture such an expert and I think you can boast about it for more than half a year.”

As he was talking, he looked at the stunned young man and said, “However, when I was alive, the royal shadow guard was only a personal bodyguard and the most they would do was gather information from dangerous places. Why is that they have degenerated into having to pilfer after 700 years?”

The captured shadow guard looked at Gawain in shock and Gawain continued before the former spoke. “You want to ask me how I managed to tell your identity?”

The shadow guard nodded.

“Rubbish, I was the one who came up with the title and set up your training system,” Gawain pat the shadow guard’s face and continued, “I was the training officer of the first batch of royal shadow guards!!”

Amber was dumbfounded and looked at Gawain who was almost 2 metres in height. “As a knight… you became the training officer of the rogues? You taught them how to move stealthily?”

Gawain smiled and said, “No, I trained their stamina and fencing.”