chapter 18

The person that Ryan felt disgusted about was a man name Stultus Est, he was an ambassador from the Free City Republic that came to their place roughly a few months earlier after the war with the other two nation.

The reason for the Republic making contact with their kingdom is due to the reason that their border had now extended and surround them.

Their goal was a "peaceful" relationship with one another, so they promptly sent an ambassador over to the Evergreen kingdom newly established large settlement near the border.

The moment the man arrived, he began to snooping around the settlement, seemingly trying to find something, however, it was to no avail.

The moment anyone on to what he was doing, he would just use his status as a foreigner and that of a foreign affair personnel from another country and played the fool.

Saying that he was "sightseeing" and "touring".

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Stultus Est POV.

My name is Stultus Est, an agent send by the Free City-State Republic, a country that bordered shared a large border with the Evergreen kingdom.

I was sent by the Council of Elders to secretly gathering pieces of information on the Evergreen kingdom recent expansion, and the ominous rumors that surrounding it.

I was stationed at the newly set-up settlement that was previously their border camp.

At first, I questioned the Council as to why only sending me there, couldn't they just station me somewhere else? You know? Someplace such as the capital of the kingdom or the provincial capital, why put me in a town that is the definition of the middle of nowhere.

But they only told me that the army of undead that was lead by the Duke of the kingdom itself, spawned there after the war- the elders suspect that there might be a powerful Necromancer supporting the duke, the council of elders believes that the upper-echelon of the settlement must have some answers and that person is likely to be in charge of the entire operations, because based on the stereotypical personality of a Necromancer or other dark mages, it is likely that they're exchanging their help for power.

That's where my tasked come in, I was in charge of establishing a good relationship with that person for the Republic- or more secretly, the Shadow Council that ruled the Republic from the dark, based on Stultus guess, it is likely that they wanted to recruit him or her into their rank.

*sigh I let out a long sigh.

Since the day that I arrived here under the identity as an ambassador of the Republic, things got quite tensed for some reason, I tried to make myself look presentable, by first getting on the good side of the ruling party of the settlement, however- that person seem to have a natural dislike for me, and so does everyone else every time I came into close contact with her- yes! The one who was in charge of the settlement is a woman- no, more like a teenager, I was quite surprised when I met her for the first time, If I could describe her, I would say that she was a rare beauty with a somewhat...weird temperament, I tried to flatter her, sending her gifts and everything, but her follower- a long ears, keep getting in between and impeded on my job...quite annoying.

While that was getting nowhere at all, I tried other actions, such as looking around for any sign of dark magic being used, going around asking the people.

However, nothing popped up at all, no sign of undead...evil magic, not a thing, I even look through the graveyard where they buried the soldiers that perished in the conflict with the Rosen and the Church.

I did all of those actions over and over again for many months already, and it's starting to get repetitive really quickly, and as of lately, I been getting a weird feeling that someone is stalking me whenever I go- however, what freaked me out the most was that I could not find out who was the one that stalked me, but I have a feeling that it was the higher up that gave the order.

"Oh no...did they discovered my identity as a spy?!" my thought began to raced one night.

"No no no, it can't be...I mean, nothing I did was that too suspicious right?...oh ancestor, please let me find out who the Necromancer or Dark mage is, so I can just directly tell him of what the hell is going on and go back home! The feeling of being stalk is quite something! The irony...a spy being spied on."

"For now, let just keep doing whatever the hell I was doing for the past six months something."

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Back with Leonard and Sachi, the two of them had been traveling on their Windshear beasts for almost a week already, they have finally arrived at the border army camp, where Leonard first transported away to the world of Sword Art Online.

"We're here… but why the hell does this look so...different from usual? …" Leonard questioned as he looked at the settlement that was right in front of his eyes, he thought that they were playing tricks on him.

The last time that he was here, there was no houses being built, no huge walls, no nothing, it was just tents and bonfires.

Now? This could be compared to that of a small and prosperous town with people coming and go from the Border City, Berlin and some part from the newly conquered half chunk of the Rosen Kingdom.

"Time indeed changed a lot of things...I wonder how Ryan's doing all these time...Mavis and Luminous and lastly Clementine...oh wait- Vandal as well, I hope by building a town here it didn't stress him out too much." Leonard rubbed his chin as he pulled the reign on the Windshear beast and slowly headed to the town gate, which was wide open.

"You absolutely sure that it will be a good idea for me to meet with her...Leonard?" Sachi asked him once more.

"Yeah...don't worry too much about it." Leonard chuckled nervously, he too- was afraid of what their reaction going to be like when Leonard revealed his relationship of him and Sachi to all of them, Don reaction was quite lively already.

They passed the gate and entered the town, surprising, there was no guard stationed to do any check in at all, unlike all the other crazy waiting in line moment that happened in all other places.

"Let go find Ryan now, I'm sure that she would be somewhere in the town-hall building...knowing my brother, he would likely place her and the other there."

"Your brother? Is he someone important in this place?" Sachi asked.

"Uhm, yeah- did I forget to tell you? I mean, he's the one who was in charge of this place before it got turned into this, and it is likely that he's still going to be the one in charge of it- knowing who my father is." Leonard shrugged.

"Up till now, you only vaguely told me about your family situation, I don't know the full details of it…" Sachi lamented.

"Don't stress over it too much, even I don't know much of it, like for goodness sake, I was kept in the dark for most of my life- but enough of that, I'll introduce you to my whole family- or most of them anyway, on the later date."