THE USELESS PRINCE-Chapter 41: A House

After finishing breakfast, Ash quickly stood up, cleaned up everything, and prepared to continue moving under Canis’s puzzled gaze.

"Wait Prince, what are you doing? Why do we have to put these things away?"

"Isn’t it obvious? We’re moving now." Ash said casually, not even pausing to look at Canis.

"But why sir? Is there a problem if we stay here?"

"Sigh... Hey Canis, yesterday you roared really loudly, right? Loud enough to create sound waves that could shake the entire forest?"

"Yes."

"But don’t you think it’s strange that no more Abyssal Creatures came looking for us? It’s true that I was prepared for that situation, but surprisingly, 15 Abyssal Creatures were all we encountered."

"Could it be..." Dragon Slayer had understood something.

"That’s right, there aren’t any Abyssal Creatures around this place, so we’re forced to keep moving."

After saying that, Ash had already finished packing everything.

Canis’s backpack was filled with fresh animal meat, while Ash’s backpack contained the firewood he had found and a fire starter.

From the start, the two of them didn’t bring too many things.

But thanks to that, they didn’t have to waste too much time packing, and their speed of movement had also become much faster.

"Let’s go, Canis." Ash threw Canis’s backpack towards him.

With a cheerful smile on his face, Dragon Slayer immediately put on his backpack and followed Ash.

***

Five hours of travel had passed, and in these five hours, the duo had also defeated many Awakened Fiends, but unfortunately, those were the only ones they found.

And after killing the Abyssal Creature, Ash and Canis didn’t need to worry about whether they should bring anything back as evidence.

After all, the Academy had their own way to calculate the score, and what that way was, even a veteran player like Ash still couldn’t figure out.

"Should we go and defeat the Unholy Demon that Lecturer Albedo mentioned yesterday?" Canis suddenly spoke up.

The atmosphere was good and the points they had earned were quite abundant, yet he suddenly brought up the idea of ​​killing that Unholy Demon to earn more points.

Was Canis an idiot after all?

That was an Unholy Demon! An fucking Unholy Demon!

In the future, Canis would definitely become one of the strongest, but not in the present.

Right now, he was just a normal person, perhaps even weaker than Ash.

And for Ash, fighting an Unholy Beast was already a problem, yet this Dragon Slayer dared to fight an Unholy Demon?

"D-Did I say something wrong sir...?" Noticing Ash’s indescribable expression, Canis immediately showed remorse.

"Sigh... We won’t go kill that Abyssal Creature. That’s too risky."

"Okay... I apologize, sir..."

"... You don’t need to apologize. Besides, I’m pretty sure that the Unholy Demon was killed."

"Huh? It was killed on the first day? Who could that person be?" Hearing those words, Canis was naturally extremely surprised.

This expression was understandable, after all, even the Third Prince had to admit that the Unholy Demon was very strong to be defeated.

"Lucian Starlight."

Only two words were uttered, but hidden deep within those two words was the utmost respect and admiration.

"Lucian...Lucian...Lucian...Lucian..." Dragon Slayer unconsciously muttered that person’s name.

"LUCIAN!?!?!? THAT LUCIAN!?" Finally, he remembered who it was.

"Yes, Lucian Starlight."

"But wasn’t he the one who lost to you?"

"Yeah, but he’s still very strong."

Ash smiled genuinely, without any pretense.

After that battle, Ash and Lucian had become the two most popular people among the first years.

Ash was known as a dirty player who relied on Relic while Lucian was praised as a brave person who was willing to confront a dirty player like him.

And that was the truth, so Ash had nothing to refute.

If Lucian had used all of his Ability that time and Ash hadn’t used the Sword of Dawn, the outcome would have changed drastically.

"Then, Your Highness, if you and Lucian fight again, what will be the result..."

Canis’s sentence was not yet completed when Ash suddenly covered his mouth and dragged both of them to hide in a nearby bush, as if hiding from something threatening.

Canis’s eyes widened, not understanding what was happening.

However, Ash’s current condition was even worse than Dragon Slayer’s.

His heart was pounding nonstop, each breath was rapid as if about to suffocate in the midst of a storm of fear.

His two pupils were forced to widen as much as possible and forced himself not to breathe and or creature any noise.

The reason was simple, not far from Ash and Canis was a house that looked quite old. But most importantly, smoke was coming out of the chimney of that house.

It proved that someone was living inside.

If that house was in a normal forest, Ash probably wouldn’t have paid it any attention, but, this area was owned by Awakened Academy!

So how could there be someone who dared to live in the middle of this cold and dangerous place?

Before the test started, the instructors had definitely patrolled the area, so there was no reason they couldn’t find this house.

But the truth said otherwise. This house was here, not sealed off or destroyed. And there was even a person living inside.

This was not normal at all.

Ash and Canis had to leave this place as quickly as possible. They had to leave right now! The test must end here!

"...Sorry Canis, but I’m afraid our test will end here."

Ash gripped the flare tightly, raised it up to the sky, preparing to fire it to call for help from the instructor when...

"Hey, what is that? Is that a gun or something that looks like it?" A sinister and vicious voice suddenly rang out behind the two.

Hearing that voice, Ash and Canis’s hearts seemed to stop beating for a brief moment, as if they had truly died.

But that was not all, because right after that, a feeling of fear and...despair welled up inside both of them without them even realizing it.

Neither of them had the courage to turn back.

Ash wanted to pull the trigger right away, but an invisible pressure did not allow him to do so.

He was afraid, afraid of what would happen if he fired this flare.

Could the instructors get here before Ash was killed by the owner of that voice?

Of course not. What a stupid question.

Not caring about Dragon Slayer and Ash’s current feelings, the owner of that voice continued:

"Can I take a look at it?"

His left hand held Ash’s shoulder, not allowing him to do anything while his other hand gently touched the flare.

And with just a simple action, without much effort, Ash’s flare was in his hand.

After that... there was no after that.

Ash had no idea what happened next because the moment the flare was no longer in his hand, both Ash and Canis were knocked unconscious.

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