Chapter 553 Escaping The Conversations



As the newly arrived Transcendents in Peters City were going after Lothur, the young people from outside the Province who would participate in the Secret Realm were already in that city.

The Secret Realm of Linn Province didn't only have openings for citizens of this territory. It had 9 slots for locals: 6 slots for the Morning Star Academy, 2 slots for the family of the winning group of the team fights of the Province Conference, and 1 for the winner of the individual fights of this competition.

Besides these slots for people from Linn Province, the Secret Realm also had room for 6 more people, which the imperial family chose according to their preferences.

Currently, the Leopoldine family had chosen six prodigies from their empire, two of them from their own royal house and four youths from different noble families of the empire, from provinces that didn't have their own Secret Realms.

The Secret Realm had a limit on how many people it could receive in each edition, something its observers had realized when trying to send more people there.

When anyone beyond the 15th person tried to enter that place, that person would be expelled and suffer a lightning punishment, something that even Transcendents would prefer to avoid.

Therefore, only 15 slots were distributed, and besides the nine local youths, six individuals had come from different parts of the empire for this event.

The six were staying in the same hotel in Peters City, where normally, these young prodigies used the opportunity to meet and even make deals.

Young prodigies were the future of their families. So every opportunity to get together could generate future benefits and opportunities.

But not only that, they were about to enter the notorious Secret Realm, a dangerous place where people like them would be in constant danger.

Therefore, it was also interesting to get together to find people with affinities and form teams!

Because of this, they were in the same place, and when they met early this morning, they soon heard unexpected information about the local situation in Peters City.

"What? Are you telling me that someone finally developed a vehicle independent from animal force?" A young formation master, level 14, who had heard about several failures regarding this, asked in surprise the young woman in front of him.

The woman, who was supposed to be the same age as Elke, level 14, nodded and said. "As my group arrived earlier, we saw what the local people call a car. Then I said I heard the rumors about these carriages in the coffee shop I passed by before coming here."

The bodyguards of this woman and the other individuals in the hotel meeting hall were also talking about this, as surprised as their masters.

"I saw that pick-up car earlier. It is an imposing vehicle!" One of the men said. "I'm planning to buy one for myself soon."

"Yes, but I liked the SUV model the most. It looks nicer to drive..."

Some of them had already gone to the Ritter Motor Company store to bring more information to their young masters, so they knew a little more about the existing car models.

Meanwhile, the young men of the imperial family had strange looks on their faces, as they had never heard about any of this from their family.

The imperial family should be notified about this kind of thing. But still, the local vassals of House Leopoldine seemed to have forgotten to do this service!

Naturally, the two were somewhat angry about this!

One of them said. "We must warn the family to send members and question the Duke and the local patriarchs. There are already dozens of cars driving around the streets of Peters City, and none of this has reached the family elders' ears!"

The other agreed and asked. "So what should we do locally? We will enter the Secret Realm tomorrow morning, so we won't have time to pressure the local leaders."

"Let's go see this Lothur Ritter guy. He must have somehow pressured the local leaders to keep the information from leaking out to us."

"But..." The other thought that made no sense since anyone in this city could easily see the cars going locally and get the information out.

But his cousin was stronger than him, and this level 15 fellow simply agreed to follow the orders of that peak 2nd-stage youth.

...

After a few minutes since the departure of the Koch family man who had practically woken him up, Lothur received a message about what the more-than-expected arrival of experts for this day in Peters City was all about.

Knowing what was behind the unusual movement of specialists in this city, Lothur immediately left his home next to Viktoria and Annaliese so as not to be disturbed.

He had no interest in receiving Transcendents and patriarchs of noble families from other provinces in his house demanding to receive cars more quickly.

These people should stop by the Ritter Motor Company store and place their orders. He didn't have to waste his time on a matter his people could handle!

With that, when those people arrived at his house, there was no one there but Ice, who was trying to advance to level 15 with some pills prepared by Lothur.

As for Lothur and his wives, Annaliese and Viktoria went to the second factory of the Ritter Motor Company, and he left the city to carry out an academy mission, something he wanted to do before going to the Secret Realm.

In the last few days, Lothur had done several missions and improved his position in the student rankings, having reached rank number 91.

Unfortunately, he was still far behind Viktoria and Larissa, who was at the top of that ranking. So even though he had finally managed to elevate the Ice Feathers faction to the number one spot, surpassing the Angelic Feathers faction, he failed in his promise to his associate.

After this day, Larissa would enter the Secret Realm, and her name would be removed from the student rankings the day after her return.

To take the opportunity of many people wanting to bother him in Peters City, Lothur intended to do some missions and try to overcome the 5,000 merit point difference between him and her.

That way, no one would find him in Peters City this morning or even during the afternoon as he raced to get as many merit points as he could.

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Mid-afternoon...

The Ritter Motor Company store had finally received the Transcendents from outside the province, who had given up on talking to Lothur.

They had looked everywhere for him, but strangely enough, he seemed invisible, and no one had any idea where he was.

To the misfortune of these people, Lothur had several local organizations on his side, as well as the espionage of the Koch family, who had warned their allies how to behave towards these people.

With no other alternatives, these people couldn't help but come to this place to get to know the cars better, but with no chance of talking to him and gaining some preference.

Most outraged were the imperial family's young men, who felt that Lothur was being very disrespectful to the powerful Leopoldine family.