<h4>Chapter 229 Information Gathering</h4>


    “Luna Oswald…” Cedric muttered. “Luna. What a beautiful name.”


    Cedric looked at the scroll that his subordinates had handed to him a while ago. They followed his order very meticulously and even included some information about her family.


    ‘Shees from a Baron Family,’ Cedric mused. ‘Good. She’s part of the nobility, so it won''t be a problem.’


    The handsome teenager closed his eyes as he recalled the angelic beauty that he had seen in the garden a day ago.


    He hadn’t made any moves to make contact with her yet because he didn’t want toe off too strong and scare her away.


    Cedric wasn’t really good when it came to romantic rtionships because he never thought that he would end up falling in love with someone. So for this matter, he was practically helpless and found it hard to think of ways to make a connection with Luna in order to get to know her better.


    She was different from the beautifuldies who would dly fall into his embrace with a single nod from him.


    Although Cedric didn’t stare at her for a long time, he noticed that she didn’t look at him the way the other nobledies looked at him.


    This disappointed him a little, but it only made her more endearing in his eyes.


    The woman he fell in love with wasn’t like those nobledies who only wanted to be with him for his power to increase their family’s rank and his influence.


    While Cedric was deep in thought, the door of his room opened, and a beautiful youngdy with long blonde hair and blue eyes entered with a smile on her face.


    A look of helplessness appeared on his face the moment his younger sister entered his room without permission.


    “How many times should I tell you to knock before entering, Lilian?” Cedric sighed.


    “Brother, I was looking for you a while ago,” Lilian ignored Cedric’s question and sat beside him. “Why are you cooped up in your room? Are you sick? Did your stalkers try to sneak into your bed again? Should we increase your bodyguards?”


    Cedric sighed for the second time before shaking his head.


    “I’m just doing a few things,” Cedric replied. “And no, I am not sick. My bodyguards need not be increased. I am perfectly fine.”


    “Oh? Doing a few things?” Lilian arched an eyebrow before noticing the scroll in her brother’s hand.


    Without even asking for his permission, she snatched it away and read its contents.


    “Luna Oswald?” Lilian frowned. “Also, ady from a Baron Family? Student of Brynhildr Academy…. Second Year.”


    Before Lilian could finish reading everything, Cedric snatched the scroll back and set it on fire.


    Seeing him react like this, a smile appeared on the youngerdy’s face, and she looked at her older brother with a mischievous smile.


    “Brother, could it be?” Lilian lightly tugged on her brother’s robe with great curiosity. “Do you perhaps like that Luna girl?”


    “I do not,” Cedric answered.


    “Really?”


    “Yes.”


    Lilian nodded before standing up. Without another word, she left her brother’s room, but the mischievous smile on her face didn’t fade away.


    Cedric watched his little sister go with aplicated look on his face. He knew that if he tried to stop her, Lilian’s curiosity would only increase, so he decided to stay inside his room.


    The handsome teenage boy hoped that after his sister saw Luna, she would lose interest and not pester the girl again.


    This was the only way that he could protect his crush from his sister’s mischievous tendencies.


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    Ethan walked side by side with Emma as they toured the Academy together. They didn’t need a guide to show them around since they had already memorized where everything was in the academy.


    Their little walk made the youngdy very happy, but she did her best to keep the bored look on her face.


    Their casual stroll led them to a mini forest within the academy grounds, and the air within it smelled refreshing.


    Suddenly, a faint buzzing sound reached their ears as a Baldfaced Ho attacked them out of the blue.


    Emma was about to kill the insect, but Ethan raised his hand to stop her.


    The handsome young man opened the water sk in his possession. At the same time, the emblem of the Sea God’s Trident glowed faintly on his left hand.


    When the insect was only a meter away from Ethan, a needle-like thread of water rose from the water sk and shot out, piercing through the insect''s body and killing it instantly.


    The insect fell to the ground without even knowing how it died.


    Ethan then crouched down to pick it up. A momentter, his eyes glowed purple for a brief moment.


    The dead ho twitched before righting itself. A secondter, it opened its wings and flew away.


    “Let’s follow it,” Ethan said.


    Emma nodded and followed behind her Master without questioning his orders or intentions.


    A few minutester, they arrived at a tree with a nest hanging on one of its branches.


    Dozens of Baldfaced Hos attacked the two teenagers who had barged into their territory.


    Once again, Ethan raised his hand to prevent Emma from doing anything.


    Needle-like threads made up of water from his water sk, shot up from every direction, killing the hos that hade within two meters of Ethan.


    The dead hos all fell to the ground as if they were puppets whose strings had been cut.


    Ethan’s eyes once again turned purple as he waved his hand over the dead insects on the ground.


    A momentter, all of them came back to life, and hovered around their Master, waiting for his orders.


    “Observe the students from the different academies, but make sure to keep a safe distance from them,” Ethan ordered. “If you discover anything worthwhile, report it to me immediately.”


    After giving his orders, all the hos flew away, flying in different directions.


    There were still five days before the Legacy Gate opened, and Ethan nned to use this opportunity to get a better understanding of the people they would be meeting inside the Domain.


    His Other Half had studied the Arts of the Necromancer in the Lands of stor. Because of this, he had the ability to raise the dead.


    However, there was a condition.


    He was unable to revive creatures that were over a meter tall.


    So, at most, he could only revive small animals like dogs, cats, birds, or anything else that met the condition.


    Truth be told, Ethan didn’t like using the power of Necromancy because it reminded him of bad memories.


    Also, he could only use it with the permission of his Other Half. Simply put, this power did not entirely belong to him.


    It was as if his Other Half didn’t want to stain Ethan with the power of the Dark Arts and wanted thetter to remain the way he was.


    However, that didn’t mean that his Other Half would reject Ethan’s request to use the power of Necromancy whenever he needed it.


    Emma sighed in her heart after seeing how much her Master had grown. Although she liked the naive Ethan of the past, she liked this mature and stable version of him as well.


    But the youngdy wasn’t aware that, deep inside, Ethan was still the same.


    He might have lost a bit of his innocence, but that didn’t mean that he had be a cold-blooded person.


    In fact, Ethan would often joke around with Sebastian and his Other Half whenever he was alone.


    He had just learned the art of Poker Face in order to prevent the beautifuldies of the Tribes of stor from thinking that they still had a chance to be his concubine.


    Ethan didn’t want to give anyone false hope, so he acted uninterested whenever a beautifuldy approached him.


    But behind closed doors, his calm facade would disappear, especially when he was with thedies who held a ce in his heart.