Chapter 179: Eavesdropping × The trolley problem × A choice
Getting a ladybug onto the Ninth Prince was no simple task.
That was because the First Prince's Guard Soldiers were also stationed around the Ninth Prince!
With Gold Experience exposed, any insect that approached would come under attack. As long as they deployed En, that was inevitable.
However, there was still an opening in the Ninth Prince's Room, a way for Joey to get an insect inside.
The key to this method lay with the people in the Ninth Prince's Room.
All the Guard Soldiers who shared the Ninth Prince's goals had acquired Nen through his Nen Beast's ability.
And because they were inexperienced with Nen, their Ten was incredibly crude compared to that of ordinary Nen users.
That crude Ten provided a natural environment for masking the faint aura of an insect!
So Joey only had to let an insect fly unnoticed onto one of the Guard Soldiers the Ninth Prince had sent to learn Nen Abilities. Then he could easily slip it into Area Nine without the First Prince's people noticing.
After all, Joey's ability had only been exposed to the First Prince's Room so far. The other Princes would not be particularly wary of something as ubiquitous as insects.
And even if the First Prince's Guard Soldiers discovered what he was doing, they would not readily act to eliminate an insect hiding on someone else.
That was because the First Prince's Guard Soldiers were hardly welcome in the Ninth Prince's Room.
Rashly approaching the Ninth Prince's Personal Guards, making contact with them, or using Nen to eliminate a target remotely could all lead to an unforeseen incident.
And once such an incident was mistaken for an attack, the Ninth Prince, Halkenburg, would have sufficient grounds to kill