The carriage carrying Louis and his entourage stopped after entering the city gate, and a phantom suddenly jumped into Louis' arms.

"Louis, you're not hurt?"

Beatrice took Louis' hand and looked him up and down for a long time, trying to see if he had any injuries.

After finding that he was safe and sound, she smiled brightly and said happily: "Welcome back."

"Sorry for the wait."

Louis chuckled and pecked her lightly on the cheek.

Beatrice blushed slightly, but didn't say much.

"Come on, get in the carriage and tell me what's going on over there?"

Louis' eyes lit up, and he whispered in her ear, "Where's the promised reward?"

"You're going to die, there are so many people here!"

Beatrice tapped his chest but didn't argue.

Louis chuckled and was planning to have a "good chat" with Beatrice in the carriage and replenish some of Beatrice's energy from her.

But after getting on the carriage, his face fell.

"Why are you here?"

Looking at the little swan in the carriage, Louis began to feel a headache.

Seeing Louis' disgusted expression, the little swan put his hands on his hips and said angrily:

"I followed Sister Wang to greet you, but you're still not happy, right?"

"How about I leave?"

The little swan was furious.

She had managed to complete most of the docking work at the White Tower, and when she heard that Louis had returned, she happily came to greet him.

As a result, this bad guy has this attitude.

Louis was just teasing her on purpose, but when he saw that she was getting a little anxious, he still reached out and ruffled her hair: "Just kidding, I'm quite happy."

The little swan's pouting lips softened a little, and he glanced at Louis to confirm that he was serious.

"Hmph, you're quick to react."

She then said happily: "You are smart."

"...I hope you won't disturb the intimacy between me and Beatrice."

Little Swan: ???

Can I take back the words I just said to praise him in my heart? Beatrice watched the two people's play with a gentle look, but after a moment she keenly noticed something was wrong.

Aren’t these two a little too close?

She secretly observed the movements between the two, and after a moment she felt a little relieved.

"Maybe I'm overthinking. Louis has always kept his distance from Olivia."

Even when they were playing with each other, Louis was able to keep a distance between them.

He probably thought Olivia was too cute, so he teased her a few more times.

Beatrice thought this made sense.

After all, her sister is the cutest in the world!

——Although the little swan is actually the older sister.

In the carriage, Louis told the two of them the relevant information he got from Fox.

Not surprisingly, Beatrice looked a little sad but not surprised.

This is normal.

As a princess who is about to inherit the throne, if she doesn't understand some specific situations within the empire, she will be doomed.

It's the little swan.

When I heard the news, my mouth opened wider and wider.

Louis was worried that she would utter "Pretty, why?" from her cherry lips.

Seeing Little Swan's somewhat collapsed expression, he instantly understood that this girl didn't know much about these things.

He looked at Beatrice with inquiring eyes.

Beatrice was also a little confused.

"In the early years, I didn't really want her to know about these things. After all, the pressure was too great."

The little swan looked like he was about to cry:

"What about now? What about now? I am so reliable now!"

That looks so cute.

Beatrice couldn't help herself, so she hugged her and ravaged her for a while, then she said a little embarrassedly: "When I should have told her later, I had already forgotten about it."

Beatrice saw the subtle expressions on her fiancé and good sister's faces as she looked at her, and said awkwardly, "You can't blame me entirely. After all, there are so many affairs in the empire right now."

"I'm exhausted just from dealing with things."

The little swan lay on the carriage bench feeling aggrieved and rolled around on Beatrice's lap.

I'm so angry! Am I the only one who knows nothing? Perhaps because she was so close, Beatrice was able to keenly notice the changes in Louis.

She rubbed Louis's upper body with her hands. The little swan in her arms blushed and whispered to her:

"Sister Wang, I'm still here!"

Beatrice looked at her speechlessly.

"I'm checking Louis' body."

The little swan nodded and said hypocritically: "I understand! I understand! You were checking and then you ran into the room, right?"

She has read a lot of books, so this kind of thing cannot be hidden from her.

Sister Wang, you just want to shiver, right? If Beatrice knew Little Swan's thoughts, she would definitely turn Little Swan over and beat her buttocks.

Fortunately, the little swan was not stupid and did not dare to speak out his feelings.

Beatrice said helplessly: "What do you know? Haven't you noticed the changes in Louis?"

The little swan said nonchalantly: "What changes."

"It seems he has broken through to Hero Level 8."

Olivia: ??? Little Swan’s mind went blank.

What the hell? Did she hear it wrong? She screamed: "Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

The little swan looked at Louis with tears in his eyes, as if he wanted to hear a negative answer from him.

Louis saw her look of disbelief, and while reaching out to grab Beatrice's restless little hand, he said:

"It is true that there was a breakthrough. It happened just yesterday."

The little swan was stunned.

(╬◣д◢) If she remembered correctly, Louis had only been practicing for half a year, right?

In such a short time, it's like taking a shot of gunpowder.

I don’t understand, I’m shocked!

So the little swan turned into a wilted cabbage, lying on the carriage and beginning to doubt his life.

She didn't even notice the little pushing and pulling between Louis and Beatrice in the carriage.

The little swan was completely immersed in his own world.

…

When the little swan got off the carriage in a daze and returned to the room, she finally uttered a cry.

"Damn it, if I had known this would happen, I would have gone too!"

Help! How did Huoguo reach level 8 so quickly? His level is almost catching up with mine!

The little swan rolled around wildly on the bed in a panic.

Why is this guy advancing so fast? This speed is even more outrageous than his previous life!

On this day, when the little swan saw Louis coming back, he felt that something bad had happened.

LV8 is considered a very high professional level even among the younger generation of the entire continent.

To be precise, anyone who can reach this level at the age of 30 can be called a master.

I just didn't expect that there is always a mountain higher than the other.

Now seeing that the strength of Huo Kingdom is increasing rapidly, it is really hard to bear it.

Fortunately, I have another opportunity!

The little swan looked at the flames burning in his palms.

"Hehe, Huoguo, I am a genius, I will never let you catch up!"

——She was referring to the professional level.

But it didn't take long for the little swan to feel something was wrong.

"Wait, something seems wrong."

The little swan discovered the bright spot.

In her previous life, the Huoguo in her memory was an Arcane Knight.

Although Huoguo was considered talented at the time, there were only a limited number of people who could be promoted faster than her.

The simplest example is that if he didn't have the support of the empire and quickly upgraded his level through the Greedy Feast, he might not even be able to suppress his friend Alice at the time.

She is just confused sometimes, but she is not stupid.

Louis's speed in learning the Nine Swords could be explained by his talent in this area.

Then it is not that easy to upgrade your career level.

After all, the Arcane Knight is actually one of the sub-classes of the Warrior.

Its essence is just like its name, a knight who can use magic.

In his previous life, Huo Guo chose this path because he had the ability to learn magic, but it was not strong enough.

It is really difficult to choose a melee magic profession. After much consideration, I finally chose the half-warrior and half-mage Arcane Knight.

But there is a problem. The entire career system of Nine Swords is full of traces of the basic warrior profession.

It can be said that the Nine Swords system itself is an optimized warrior system, and it is reasonable to classify the Nine Swords under the warrior system.

But this presents a problem.

Is there a big deviation between the Arcane Knight and the Nine Swords system?

Answer: Very much. The Nine Swords integrates spells into the use of martial arts, and is not in the same system as the Arcane Knight.

But it's not much, because the blood energy, the source of the Nine Swords' power, is very similar to the source of the Arcane Knight's power.

In other words, if he simply had a natural advantage in learning weapons, that could barely explain why Louis' strength improved so quickly.

“Why did I only discover this now?”

Little Swan was a little annoyed: "His career advancement speed shouldn't be so fast. Before, I thought it was Rimuru's return to him, but now I can be sure that there is definitely something wrong with him."

This speed of advancement is nearly three times faster than Louis in his previous life.

This is no longer something that can be explained by "talent gaps in different professions".

After realizing this, the little swan jumped up.

"Huoguo, there is definitely something wrong with you!"

"No, are you really still the same Huoguo that I know?"

If this were a cartoon, there would be a light bulb hanging on the little swan's head, flickering.

She carefully recalled the past six months she had spent with Huoguo.

Now that I think about it, it seems more and more wrong.

She had doubts about Huguo at the beginning.

After all, logically speaking, he had just been reborn, and there was no reason for him to cause such a big change.

First, the special slime she wanted to buy disappeared.

Then Huoguo suddenly became smart.

Even the speed of practicing the Nine Swords Martial Arts was ridiculously fast.

In the matter of the National Waste Treatment Plant, he also performed quite well.

In fact, she had suspected this guy at that time.

After all, I have been reborn, so it is reasonable to have more candidates for rebirth, right?

But when she tested Huoguo, she found that Huoguo had no reaction to "Sword King Alice" at all.

God have mercy on him. Back then, Huoguo’s neck was almost raised to the sky because he advanced his career too quickly (actually he used the Greedy Feast Ritual from the beginning).

Power that is too easily obtained can easily make people lose their minds.

——And more likely to be beaten.

It’s like having classmates who have always been rich since childhood, it is often more comfortable to get along with them than with classmates who suddenly became rich.

The country that was confused back then was the latter.

Then……

Then he met his old enemy, the future Sword King Alice, at the academy.

From then on, the first half of his life began to be extremely unlucky.

To be honest, in Olivia's opinion at that time, Huoguo was still very powerful.

Being able to control the surging power so quickly is not something that can be explained simply by words.

But there is an invisible gap between being very good and being extremely good.

Excluding Sister Wang, the most powerful young professional Olivia has ever seen in all these years is Alice.

In the future, after Alice begins to assist her brother in taking over family affairs, her strength improves even more dramatically.

Logically speaking, the strength of most professionals will decline to some extent after taking over a family.

But Alice's Ashford family is a little different.

"Wherever there is war, there is the Ashford family."

This is what the Ashford family shouted out openly.

This is what people say and do.

The Ashford family has the continent's top adventure group, the [Death March].

The adventure group has more than 20 sub-groups under it.

Most of the time, this terrible team has been operating outside and unilaterally cutting ties with Enser.

Most of the work they do is as war mercenaries.

This adventure group has always been known for its courage and fearlessness.

So much so that today many countries, when they lack the corresponding troops but still hope to achieve victory on the battlefield, will invite the death march to help clean up the battlefield.

It’s not without reason that the Ashford family is called war hyenas.

Many people even publicly accused the Ashford family of being a disgrace to the Enther Empire and that their titles should be revoked.

Precisely because this adventure group is composed entirely of Unther people, many countries hostile to Unther have blacklisted the "Death March".

Because they didn't believe at all that the Ashford family had cut ties with the Enther Empire.

But the little swan knows very well...

They guessed right.

The Death March indeed never cut ties with Unther.

That is a reserve force that will never be officially recognized by the Enther Empire.

They always charge on the front line of the battlefield just to train their troops.

Only war can train the best soldiers.

The Ashford family loves war, and was once even suspected of secretly believing in the Lord of Khorne, one of the Four Gods of the Abyss.

Such a personality can easily cause unrest in the country.

Therefore, due to some special needs, the Ashford family has always been outside the mainstream aristocratic circle.

Her friend Alice was born into this family and naturally inherited Ashford's blood of war.

Later, after she joined the reserve force of the Sapphire Dragon Slayer Group, she began to gradually shift her focus to the family business.

By the time she became the titled adventurer promoted by the Adventurer's Guild, she had already gained considerable fame in the surrounding countries.

Especially the title of Sword King.

To be honest, it's a bit offensive.

But later on, Alice never cared about these things and would just fight if she wasn't convinced.

Then she became stronger and stronger, until many people began to fear this woman.

Even the term "Red Mad Dog" that some people privately called in the early years has become a taboo.

Only a few people dared to shout like that.

Um.

Huoguo is one of them.

Because he knew that Alice didn't dare to kill him, Huoguo was very angry in his early years.

Although the cause was that Alice felt that Huoguo was too arrogant and beat him up, fights broke out between the two from time to time afterwards, which was completely Huoguo looking for trouble.

Anyway, Little Swan saw Huoguo’s face swollen many times and ran to the palace to get medicine.

Logically speaking, after being beaten so badly, he should have learned a lesson.

But Huoguo's words are extremely hard.

Keep calling me next time we meet.

Then the two continued to fight.

From the 14450th year of the Stellaris Calendar until the 14467th year of the Stellaris Calendar, Huo Guo was promoted to Legend, and only then did he defeat Alice, who was already at level 20, for the first time.

For such a long time, whether in terms of weapon use or professional level, Huoguo was the one who was firmly suppressed.

This can't be fake, right?

The reason why Huoguo was chosen by the Queen Sister as her personal guard to secretly protect her was because she considered that in the long run, Huoguo's growth rate would be beyond everyone's imagination.

The further he gets to the back, the faster he will grow.

But in the early days, when the country had not yet developed the great sin of greed, it was unable to suppress the genius of the time.

Thinking of this, Little Swan was completely certain of one thing.

"Huoguo, there really is something wrong with you!"

After figuring this out, the little swan jumped off the bed and said, "Lummi, I'm going to go find Louis."

I, the little swan, am going to expose the true face of the deceived country!

Lumi had no choice but to follow.

Then……

Arriving at the hotel where Huoguo was staying, Little Swan didn't find anyone? "Strange, why isn't Louis here at this time?"

muttered the little swan.

Lumi was thoughtful for a moment, and after a moment she smiled: "Your Highness, go back and have a good rest. Let's not disturb His Highness Louis today."

The little swan shouted unhappily: "No!"

But Lumi reached out and hugged the little swan's waist, and took her directly towards the hotel.

"You must be joking. If I disturb them at this time, they will really be angry."

She also knew how to make the little swan obey, so she said: "Your Highness, if you continue to act like this, Princess Beatrice will really be angry. They have something else to do today."

"What else can you not let me know?"

The little swan said this, but ultimately did not resist.

It would be so bad to make Sister Wang angry.

But she always felt that something was wrong.

She came to see Louis, what does it have to do with Sister Wang? Sister Wang can't control her and not let her contact Louis, right? Ah, my head is itchy! Don't think about it! Little Swan's brain stopped thinking.

At the same time, in another direction of Louis's camp, a man and a woman were walking on the road.

Louis turned to look at Beatrice and said, "Fortunately, she didn't want to cause trouble today and went back obediently."

Beatrice snickered:

"She didn't mean to cause trouble. She was simply shocked by your promotion. She got off the car in a daze and didn't even notice it."

Louis suddenly realized.

The eldest wife took the initiative to send the little swan away.

etc.

Something seems wrong.

Louis looked at her subtly: "Beatrice, you didn't mean to tell her about my promotion?"

Beatrice blinked and said:

"you guess?"

(End of this chapter)