Employee Onboarding

"She's from the Fishmen Race. She's my apprentice."

"We're both craftsmen. We heard the Silver Queen established her capital here, so naturally we wanted to find respectable work under the light of her glory."

Linsey and Alvitte found the inspection point for entering Silver City.

This was a stationary floating island. The pavilion beside what had once been the Sky Bridge had been converted into an office. Outsiders were inspected here before boarding the floating islands responsible for transporting people.

At this moment, an inspector stood before Linsey.

Having fought Law Knights just a day ago, Linsey easily recognized the man's identity—he was also a Law Knight!

"..."

After Linsey finished his introduction, the Law Knight merely gave him an indifferent glance.

There was neither contempt nor preferential treatment, neither joy nor hatred. The man simply took a scale from beneath the table beside him and held it in his hand.

"..."

Linsey's mind instantly went blank.

The words he had prepared were already on the tip of his tongue, but now they could only come to an abrupt stop.

Because Linsey had seen that thing before.

It had been in the Hidden Borderlands, a treasure controlled by Lord Anrui. It could discern lies, and supposedly had only ever been used once on a merchant riddled with suspicion.

This was the second time he had seen it.

The scale of the City of Law sat before Linsey, ready to check whether he was lying.

He carefully examined the scale in the man's hands.

Human male—Awakened, suspected Law Knight.

Law Balance—a magical item with the power to distinguish lies.

Under Linsey's gaze,

the Law Knight held the scale in his left hand, while his right remained beneath the table, perhaps resting on his thigh or gripping a sword hilt:

"You two,