After murmuring those words, the scout with the unusual background immediately looked around warily.
Only after confirming that no one was nearby and no one could possibly have heard his murmur did the scout breathe a sigh of relief. Then, without sparing a thought for anything else, he turned and slipped into the shadows.
Under cover of the shadows, the scout swiftly departed.
To this scout, whatever happened next, however important, could not compare to the news he had just learned!
A murmur before dawn should have gone unheard.
But sometimes, humans were not the only ones who could understand human speech.
There were also...
Ravens and dogs!
Kili crouched in the shadows nearby, watching and listening to everything from beginning to end. As he stood motionless, a faint glimmer of intelligence appeared in his wise eyes.
Muninn glanced at Erha, spread his wings, and vanished into the night in pursuit.
Kili, meanwhile, moved along the wall to watch the next target worth watching.
Something so momentous had happened at Harold Manor that, although the Blood Scion had cleared out one wave, Arthur knew these watchers, covetous lurkers, and scouts were like locusts. There was simply no killing them all.
Besides, rather than kill them, Arthur preferred to get information out of them.
Just like what had happened moments ago-
When the lion grows wings, the time will come for the new king to ascend the throne!
This must be some kind of prophecy!
A prophecy of immense importance to the Golden Lion Family. Otherwise, that scout could never have lost his composure like that!
As Arthur strolled through the night sky, the two ravens and two dogs naturally accompanied him.
In fact, before Arthur left Kirk Street, the two ravens and two dogs had already made a round of