<h4>Chapter 552: Road to Kingdom ⑨ I Am Now —Preview</h4>


    Trantor: Nat


    I encounter a mere four guards when I enter the pce through the front door.


    They must have hurried to check what’s going on after hearing the noise.


    Their white armor and silver-decorated swords are no different than usual.


    What’s different is me.


    I have never stepped into the pce fully dressed in armor geared for actualbat.


    Not to mention it’s absurd to be wearing blood-stained armor and dragging around a blood-stained sword.


    I proceed as though the frozen pce guards don’t exist and give them a sidelong nce as I pass by.


    「H-heee!」


    「Au……aau.」


    They back away without touching their swords.


    I can safely ignore them.


    「I thought there would a barricade in the pce, but there’s nothing.」


    Don’t tell me the king and the nobles are leisurely acting like everything is fine in this situation.


    I expected the nobles in the pce and the bureaucrats to also help the guards to defend.


    「The situation may not have beenmunicated to them yet――hah!」


    Celia lowers her body as she runs and then leaps.


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