Elvia’s face turned several shades paler.
As a member of the Carter royal family, she understood far too well how terrifying an Inspector was.
Initially, she had guaranteed to Lin Gui that if she became the King of Carter, she would ensure Theia’s safety.
However, the single word "Inspector" from Lin Gui had shattered all her confidence.
For a marginal city-state like theirs, located far outside the impact zone of the Central City-States, the deterrent power of an Inspector was immense.
In terms of authority, it far exceeded the Carter throne she had spent her life pursuing.
After figuring everything out and deciding to join Lin Gui, she had intended to face those she once looked up to and feared.
She thought she was prepared to face an Inspector.
But she wasn't.
The fear of the unknown regarding an Inspector gradually outweighed her logic.
However, before the hairs on her neck could stand on end, a strange sound echoed in her ears.
Crack.
Crack.
Elvia’s lip twitched as she looked at a certain "Spark" remnant, the very person who should have been the most afraid.
She didn’t know when he had finished packing everything.
He was currently sitting on the counter, one leg dangling and swaying.
In his hand was a handful of melon seeds, which he was munching on with gusto.
He watched her while he ate.
His gaze made it look like he was watching an entertaining performance.
Elvia asked crossly, "What are you looking at?"
Lin Gui spoke candidly, "I'm looking at you."
He tilted his head as if correcting his wording. "Er, no."
"I’m looking at a death-fearing princess shivering in her boots."
Elvia punched his shoulder.
She said irritably, "Be serious."
"This is a life-or-death crisis."
Lin Gui rolled his eyes at her and asked, "Where’s the life-or-death?"
"Where’s the crisis?"
Elvia grew anxious. "We’ve been targeted by an Inspector!"
"That’s an Inspector!"
Lin Gui asked, "So what?"
Elvia’s voice rose half an octave in anger. "Don't forget what we're doing!"
Lin Gui looked at her speechlessly, his gaze as if he were looking at someone who hadn't woken up yet.
"But the problem is..."
"We haven't actually started doing anything yet."
That one sentence left Elvia completely thunderstruck.
She opened her mouth to say something.
Then she closed it.
Then she opened it again.
Finally, she squeezed out a sentence: "That makes a hell of a lot of sense."
Thinking about it carefully, their revolution hadn't even unfolded yet.
Although she claimed to be Lin Gui’s accomplice, they really hadn't done many things that rebels were supposed to do.
She paused. "But... why did that guy come to our door on his own initiative and target us?"
Lin Gui looked at her.
That gaze carried a naked, undisguised look of 'you're an idiot.'
This gaze was extremely insulting to Elvia.
Her face flushed.
She swatted at Lin Gui furiously. "Don't look at me like that!"
"Spit it out already!"
Lin Gui hopped down from the counter.
He took out his oak staff and held it horizontally in front of him.
Then he patted the staff, signaling for Elvia to sit on it.
"Let's talk as we go."
Elvia hesitated for a moment.
But she still sat on it, wrapping her arms around Lin Gui’s waist.
Lin Gui controlled the staff and drifted to the post office entrance.
He reached out and flipped the sign that said "Open."
The back of it said...
"Closed for letter delivery."
Then, he carried Elvia and drifted out through the back door.
In the alley outside the back door, the four wooden boxes were stacked neatly.
Lin Gui reached out.
The power of Shroud of the Gloomy Night spread out, enveloping those wooden boxes.
In the next instant...
The wooden boxes vanished.
They drifted along right behind Lin Gui.
In the night, the staff carried the two of them and the four invisible wooden boxes as it silently ascended into the sky.
Lin Gui controlled the direction, drifting toward the city limits.
In his mind, the system’s Letter Retrieval had already finished.
He didn't check it too closely.
The night wind blew past his ears, carrying a trace of chill.
Elvia buried her face in his back, her voice muffled: "Tell me."
"Why would an Inspector come to the door?"
Lin Gui steered the staff, his voice very calm: "I'm only surprised that the other party came so quickly."
"But I'm not surprised by their arrival at all."
He paused.
"Ever since that revolution three years ago..."
"The Alliance has been very sensitive toward rebels, revolutions, and resistance from the bottom tier."
"The purges and searches regarding this area have become colder and even more cruel."
"And an act like 7-Copper, which benefits the commoners..."
"In their eyes, there is a very high risk of it becoming the next revolutionary seed."
"If it weren't for my non-existent transport team..."
"The other party would have used dirty tactics long ago."
"Fabricating charges, inducing crimes, and eventually sending us to the execution grounds."
Elvia’s voice was muffled against his back. "Then isn't it still very dangerous?"
"Your transport team is fictional."
Lin Gui replied indifferently, "It's fine."
"We can make it real."
"And even if the fictional transport team is exposed..."
"I have many ways to deal with it."
He paused. "Many ways."
Elvia pressed further, "What ways?"
Lin Gui’s voice was very flat, as if he were stating something very ordinary: "I’d use Shroud of the Gloomy Night to flee to the Transport Guild headquarters in Dawn City."
"Expose my chantless Levitation."
"And then let a top-tier transport team..."
"Take out that Inspector who wanted to touch their newly joined darling."
Elvia’s lip twitched.
She mocked him speechlessly: "You sure have a vivid imagination."
"How could a top-tier transport team offend an Inspector just because of your Levitation?"
"Would the Transport Guild lack mages who can use Levitation?"
"Especially for top-tier transport teams."
Her tone carried a sense of 'what kind of daydream are you having?'
However, what she didn't know...
Was that if Lin Gui really did that, the eventual reaction of the Transport Guild might be far more ridiculous than what he had said.
While there were few who could use Levitation, some did exist.
But... those who could use chantless Levitation...
According to what Freya had said, Lin Gui was likely the only one in all of Akara.
The appeal of chantless Levitation to a transport team was something Elvia couldn't even imagine.
Lin Gui didn't explain.
He only smiled.
In the night, the staff carried the two of them and the four invisible giant wooden boxes as they silently drifted.
They passed over low rooftops.
They crossed the towering gray-white city walls.
Silent as a shadow, they left Whitecliff City.
Meanwhile, around the 7-Copper Post Office, those observers who had been silently monitoring...
They were huddled in corners, crouched on rooftops, and hidden deep in alleys.
Their eyes stared at that closed wooden door without blinking once.
All through the night.
Until the break of dawn the next day.
When the sunlight hit that sign.
Only then did they see the words written on it clearly...
"Closed for letter delivery."
Everyone’s faces changed.
They rushed forward to check, and after confirming that the people had left, they fell into a long silence.
Right under their noses.
Under their constant, unblinking surveillance for an entire night.
They had left soundlessly.
There was no shortage of Transcendent Rank powerhouses among the observers.
But in their perception, that post office had been like an empty house.
There had been no movement.
No magic fluctuations.
No one entering or exiting.
And yet, the people were simply gone.
This kind of concealment ability could only belong to a Legendary mage.
Thus, the existence of the transport team behind Lin Gui was proven once again, and it became even more credible than before.
At the City Lord’s manor.
Adams sat in a side hall, a cup of wine in his hand.
The wine had already gone cold.
He hadn't drunk it.
A report sat on the table before him.
It was regarding yesterday’s surveillance.
The proof of the Legendary mage's existence made his expression quite unpleasant.
But what truly made him restless wasn't that.
It was that man.
The man who had been sitting in his primary seat, wearing a tattered gray robe.
The Inspector.
He was gone.
He had left before dawn today.
He hadn't greeted him.
He hadn't left a single word.
He had just vanished silently like that.
Adams didn't know where he had gone.
He didn't know if he would return.
He didn't know if the man was satisfied with his "assistance" during this period.
He only knew that when that man left, there had been a smile on his face.
That smile made his back feel cold.
Like a hunter who had finally found the trail of precious prey.
And was preparing to begin enjoying the thrill of the hunt.
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