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Samlet's eyes shifted at those words. Only then did he take a careful look at Jin Hong.

"You must be the eldest son of a high-ranking family in the Imperial Court. Why would you want to befriend someone like me, who has no one?"

Samlet wasn't blind. He could tell Jin Hong's standing from his clothes.

Jin Hong smiled.

"It's simple. You could tell from my clothes that I'm no ordinary person, yet you ignored me every time I tried to speak to you. Doesn't that tell you why I want to befriend you?"

It was a clever answer, but Samlet felt no admiration for the young man's intelligence. Instead, a faint urge to kill stirred within him.

As always, enemies in the real world did not simply admire each other from opposite sides. They fought until one side was dead.

Jin Hong came from a prominent family. There was no way he would act against his own interests and those of his Lineage to help Samlet restore his kingdom.

On the contrary, he would put that intelligence to work against Samlet and Chen Cheng.

But Samlet hid his killing intent so well that no one noticed.

"You've got the wrong idea. I'm just the son of an ordinary country tailor. I was lucky enough to get into the Royal Academy's Warrior Institute."

Samlet wasn't making that up. It was exactly what his student identification said.

After all, the only way the Guild could slip someone into the academy was through students of the Warrior's Path, whom no one at home cared about.

Jin Hong laughed.

"I knew I was right to befriend you. I still don't know your name. Mine is Jin Hong."

"My name isn't important. If you can, just take me back to the academy. I want