After leaving House Poztut, Shien had originally planned to head to the royal palace to see Roxie.
But having only just stepped out of the house and before he could enter Stealth, Shien discovered in surprise that something seemed to be happening outside his home.
Yesterday, the young noblemen from countries all over the world had gathered outside his house one after another, clamoring about challenging him to a duel. Even with Yulin standing guard there, they had refused to leave.
Shien had thought they would definitely come again today.
They had come, but they had all gathered farther away. Not only were they not shouting like yesterday, but they kept pointing and whispering among themselves.
"What is this...?"
Shien could not help but feel surprised.
But the next second, Shien noticed something else.
In front of those young noblemen, right before House Poztut's main gate, stood a group of people.
They wore standard knight uniforms and identical longswords at their waists. They looked like sharp, capable knights, yet they stood in perfect formation like an army, emanating an air of grim hostility.
With a single glance, Shien discovered that not one of these soldiers who resembled knights was below level seventy.
In other words, the raw strength of this group of Knights was in no way inferior to the Kingdom's Royal Knights.
Of course, compared to the Kingdom's Royal Knights, these soldiers, whose levels were generally extremely high, were few in number—only twelve. Yet each of these twelve possessed enough strength to serve as the Knight Commander of any territory, and now they had gathered under the leadership of three people.
Shien glanced at those three, then could no longer look away.
Because he discovered that the three of them were even more extraordinary than the knights.
The leader