Maybe?

The atmosphere remained in this frozen state for a while, until Dulir turned away and started chatting with his students, which also broke the awkwardly tense atmosphere and the guards also loosened a bit. Only slightly, since they had heard from the one who had run away and the few who stayed with Dulir, about how Merlin had slaughtered the guards with Dulir previously for showing some hostility.

Within around half an hour, Merlin finally twitched as he stood up slowly and took a long stretch while yawning.

"Damn I feel sleepy after doing all that meditation. It feel tiring even though my mana has increased. How odd."

Hearing this, Dulir sighed before standing up in the middle of teaching his students about some nearly forgotten parts of understanding laws, and patting the dirt and dust off his clothes before asking.

"Did you fix your personality in such a short time?"

Hearing this, Merlin flinched slightly.

"So you knew…"

"…"

"I get it. Tch. Why would you help someone who had just killed your guards. It's fine. And yes, I fixed it. Now let's get moving."

"Alright." Dulir nodded and began moving.

However, Merlin completely stopped in his place at this very moment. As soon as he woke up from mediating, and while Dulir was slightly distracted from dusting off the dirt from his clothes, Merlin had used [Inspection Lv 5] on the old dwarf.

However, he had not gotten the chance to read it until just now, which made his entire body freeze on the spot.

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Status

Name: Dulir

Race: --Cannot be read using the current level of the skill--

Class: --Cannot be read using the current level of the skill--

State: Intrigued, Tired, Injured

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Titles:

--Cannot be read using the current level of the skill--

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Strength : 3000 (+?) (-?)

Dexterity : 1000 (+?) (-?)

Vitality: 3000 (+?) (-?)

Mana: 1000 (+?) (-?)

Intelligence : 1000 (+?)

Sense : 2000 (+?) (-?)

Evasion: 50 (+?) (-?)

Critical: 1000 (+?) (-?)

Soul: 2000 (+?) (-?)

Toughness: 3000 (+?) (-?)

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Skills

--Cannot be read using the current level of the skill--

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Tier 4

Lv 5 (500/500)

Note: Only Tier 4 beings will be considered

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Not only was the Lv 5 Inspection skill not enough to see a lot of the important parts of this guy's status, but what was revealed was more than enough for Merlin.

'This old man was hiding his strength. He is easily stronger than me and could have stopped me from kill those guards. Well maybe not all of them, but he could have saved at least half of them from being killed with only minor injuries, and blocked off most of my casual attacks by simply using that ridiculously tough body.'

'But wait, why would he not?'

It was at this moment [1], That Merlin noticed the 'injured' status, along with all the '-?' status debuffs that he could not see.

'Maybe…?'

[1] He knew, he f*cked up. So tempted, but controlled since I needed to move the plot along.