Two days had passed...
Lothur and his group had traveled a long distance since they left the Imperial Prison.
At the present moment, they were already in Holland Province, quickly approaching the second-largest city in this central Leopoldine territory.
In the meantime, nothing out of the ordinary had been reported to the imperial family. For all intents and purposes, the Imperial Prison remained intact as it had always been.
The biggest escape in the history of this state would go unnoticed, and only in the future would the new inmates of that unit realize the problem.
As such, for the moment, nobody in this state was investigating the escape of 102 people from that imperial unit and the death of all the other inmates.
The main forces of the empire were still searching for Daemon's group, while the groups of princes were trying to act after their recent defeats.
Some people from these groups were still doing this in the city Lothur was approaching, preparing for the next steps in their plans.
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"Very well, I want you to wait for me here. I will be quick in what I intend to do."
Lothur told his slaves, and especially Rebecca, while their group was standing in a forest next to the city, that he would make this last stop before going to Peters City.
Most of those people accepted his orders without question, but Rebecca approached and hugged him, saying apprehensively. "Be careful. If anyone notices your cultivation, I'm afraid..."
"Don't worry." He smiled at her. "When someone reaches the 4th stage, Becca, that person will be able to control their powers to the point of being able to hide their own cultivation."
As he said those words, the spiritual fluctuations around him disappeared, and he became like a mortal in a split second.
Just as he could hide what he was using his spatial abilities on his body, he and any other Saint could do the same to hide their soul cultivation!
All those people watched what he had just done, noting how dangerous the Saints' abilities were.
'Hmm, with the existence of abilities like that, we must always be vigilant and not despise anyone who looks like a mortal...'
Several people thought similar things.
If they didn't know Lothur, many felt they could easily despise him because of the lack of spiritual fluctuations in his body.
Knowing how big a mistake this would be, they couldn't help but swallow their saliva and feel they needed to be more humble and cautious.
Rebecca sensed that and felt reassured. "Then I wish you good luck."
"Don't worry. I'll be back quickly. In the meantime, try not to leave this area. I'll leave something in the surroundings to keep people away, but that won't work if you wander around."
That said, he soon set off toward the city less than 15 kilometers away from this forest.
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Upon entering the second largest city in Holland Province, one of the five largest in the entire empire, Lothur had no difficulty due to his lack of cultivation.
Also, given his spatial manipulation skills, Lothur had entered that city without passing through the local guard posts, merely invading the city.
Appearing on a busy street at one end of that city, he took advantage of the early evening to make his way to where he sensed the strongest people.
He had never been to this place before, so he didn't know the area, much less know what the local powers based in this city were.
But he judged that the Welzel family was the strongest locally, so he put the place with the highest concentration of local experts in his focus.
'Such a place is really rich...' He thought as he moved around.
'There are Nascent Soul Transcendents in this city.
There are several level 17 cultivators. I bet there is a level 18 cultivator or more here.'
Lothur was impressed. The largest city in Linn Province had merely three Soul Core Transcendents. But in the second largest city of this province, there were almost 10 level 17 cultivators and more than 30 level 16 cultivators.
With this information, he realized the difference in power between the provinces of this state and imagined the power of the imperial family and those behind this organization.
'There are probably organizations with Saints at the same level as me in Leopoldine. Is Larissa's family one of them?' He remembered this young ally of his was a member of a family that lived in the shadows, and few knew of their existence.
Considering this, Lothur couldn't help but be curious about why these families lived like this.
Leopoldine had no resources or spiritual energy density rich enough for 4th stage cultivators.
Without resources from outside, people at Lothur's level couldn't raise their soul cultivation!
It was even possible to improve their body cultivation, but that wouldn't raise the power of people with Soul attribute as powerful as Lothur's.
From knowing the shortcomings of that state and now imagining the level of those powers in Leopoldine's shadows, this silver-haired young man couldn't help but wonder why.
'I'll see about that later... Time to see if what Anne told me was really true.' He made his way toward the interior of a grand estate in the city's center.
As he came across that place that looked like a palace, he went towards one of the outer walls of that place, where few were paying attention at the moment.
Then he went through the wall, quickly invading that property without difficulty.
However, even inside that headquarters, the system gave no warning of the proximity of another leaf.
Lothur frowned and tried to look at the strongest person on that property at the moment.
Identifying a group with some level 17 cultivators gathered in a business room, he immediately moved there.
He was unnoticed as he walked the halls of this property and, whenever necessary, manipulated the space to get closer to the room he was interested in.
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In the room that Lothur was quickly approaching, the young master Welzel was reuniting with Fritz, continuing with the plans they had begun to draw up days ago.
No plan could be approved after the idea came up. They had to go through the hands of the official planners of these groups, especially to be approved by their faction leader, Lars.
But after only two days, the details of young master Welzel's plan had been thought through and approved by Lothur's 2nd uncle.
As such, Leon and Fritz were meeting again to combine their actions in Linn Province!
"All right, let's prepare to take the Ritter Motor Company from those bitches of the finished Frost family!"
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