Her gaze sneaked a look at Grace, who had been staring blankly since the scene began.

She seemed a bit dazed, lost in thought.

She began to feel a headache coming on.

His Highness Louis, you need to find a way to make others give up their covetous thoughts about you.

Boys can crave beautiful girls.

Girls can also crave handsome boys.

For some reason, she felt a sense of impending turmoil for the Empire's future.

She hoped these people wouldn't cause any trouble in the end.

"I must find time to remind His Highness Louis!"

Lumi thought to herself.

But soon, a touch of sadness flashed through her heart.

She turned to Olivia and asked, "Your Highness, you plan to enter seclusion for training next, right?"

The little swan grumpily replied, "Yeah."

But moments later, she looked up at Lumi with surprise:

"Sister Lumi, do you have plans recently?"

Lumi nodded and said:

"I might have to leave for a month."

"A month!" The little swan was shocked, "Sister Lumi, are you abandoning me too?"

"Silly girl, it's so I can accompany you better."

Lumi ruffled her hair and said, "I want to try breaking through to legendary status."

The attack from the divine-forged incarnation had stirred her up.

The challenge level of the divine-forged incarnation was about LV30.

This challenge level was incredibly astonishing.

Challenge levels measure the difficulty of tasks or monsters.

It's not that a challenge level of LV30 means a LV30 practitioner can defeat it.

Take for example the legendary sapphire dragon couple, Sean and Fafnir.

Their challenge levels were LV22 and LV21, but their creature levels were above LV26.

More precisely, the challenge level should be called "a level with a slim chance of victory against this monster."

This mainly indicates a lower bound.

The divine-forged incarnation's level was too high, and it completely overwhelmed Lumi.

If it weren't for her having numerous trump cards, she wouldn't have been able to suppress that being at all.

In fact, if it were a conventional legend, it wouldn't have been that difficult for her to fight.

The deadly weapons supported by the royalty were just that outrageous.

Not to mention she's a former member of the Hero Squad herself.

But she was still pressed to the point of spitting blood.

Her gaze turned to Louis.

The temporary boost in power of this prince in her family was too astonishing.

"Maybe that's what a genius is?"

In the Star Continent, there are temporary items to boost professional levels, though they're rare, they exist to be used.

If even the Ense Empire doesn't have them, then other great powers would find it even harder to possess them.

But using these temporary level-boosting items on others and on Louis are two entirely different concepts.

Far too outrageous.

Temporary level boosts are like castles in the air.

Unsteady foundations make them prone to collapse.

Simply put, your level matches, but your skills can't keep up.

If your skills can't keep up, you're destined not to exert full power, let alone transcend the limits.

She looked at Louis meaningfully.

At least this showed one problem.

That for His Highness the Prince, when his level increased, his skills could also further advance.

Because it's the professional level that is the shackle limiting the destructive power of his skills.

It's just unknown if the Prince is aware of what this means.

The situation where "even without breaking through to higher professional levels, one can still exert the power of higher professional skills" has a specific term in the Star Continent.

In Ense, such people are called Sword Saints.

In Lokeshi, they are called Sword Masters.

In Tunisia, they are called Great Mages.

...

Yes, this is also the high value that these beings inherently possess.

Sword Saint Kulin Yodel of Ense, when receiving items for temporary level boosts, could unleash the ultimate power of legends once reaching legend status.

Even if elevated to demigod status, he could still exert demigod power.

This is the privilege of such "extraordinarily skilled" prodigies.

And now, she saw this talent in Louis.

No…

In strict terms, it was even more terrifying.

"The Mask of Greed... this ability is somewhat over the top."

She certainly knew that Louis's ability to exert this power was largely related to the Mask of Greed.

After all, this skill could forcibly break the limits of skill efficacy, allowing His Highness Louis to effortlessly use skills beyond what he should at his level.

This essentially means that the path of the Sword Saint is naturally open to His Highness Louis.

Adding to that the learning effects from his greedy thirst for knowledge…

Calling him a born Sword Saint is completely accurate.

Because his performance surpassed that of an ordinary Sword Saint.

Ordinary Sword Saints must also have temporary level boosts to exert stronger power.

But the Mask of Greed allowed His Highness Louis to exert most of the power of advanced skills at his current level.

And the potential of the human body would compel His Highness Louis's body to continually adapt to the power from above.

——This is akin to the self-improvement brought by Jino's breathing technique.

"That kid Jino continually digs out his potential by relying on the effect of his breathing technique to keep tapping into power beyond his current limit."

"His body is always battered by exceeding limits, yet continually adapts to those limits, even breaking through them."

"A proper level-twenty professional, who can survive from the legendary dragon species with challenge level LV21 and creature level LV26!"

She recalled the confrontation between Jino and the legendary dragon species on the Burning Smoke Mountain Range earlier.

——Frankly, it was quite outrageous.

Being able to survive with only minor injuries, that kid Jino was hiding a lot of things!

Could it be he's also nearing the Sword Saint realm?

Lumi's thoughts wandered slightly.

But she quickly pressed the thoughts down, patted the little swan's head, and said:

"When I'm not around, you have to take good care of yourself. If there's anything you don't know how to handle, don't be afraid to disturb Princess Beatrice or His Highness Louis."

"They are among the most trustworthy people for you in the Ense."

"Of course, if His Highness Louis tries to pry open your window again, remember to hit him with your magic staff!"

The little swan hummed.

Just kidding, my staff work is awesome!

Last time, it was because I fell for Louis's trick!

Lumi looked at the smug little swan.

This silly little girl really does worry people.

"I hope His Highness Louis becomes a bit more aware; this little dummy seems increasingly unable to refuse him."

Lumi pondered whether to tell Beatrice about this.

But that might cause conflict between the engaged couple.

If the worst-case scenario occurred, she feared the finger-pointing might turn back and target the little swan.

After much thought, she could only anxiously bury the matter in her heart.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

Louis was tightly holding Beatrice.

Golden hair spilled from under the hood.

Beatrice gently hugged Louis, her steady voice came:

"Welcome back."

Louis said, "Beatrice, I missed you."

He was not good with sweet words, only expressing his thoughts plainly.

Beatrice's cheeks were tinged with pink, but her eyes shimmered as she held Louis's face and said:

"I missed you too."

The two locked eyes for a moment.

Suddenly, they overheard a child nearby exclaiming:

"Mommy, are that brother and sister going to kiss over there?"

As soon as the words were out, their faces blushed slightly, and they instinctively turned away.

But soon, Louis reached out to tidy Beatrice's slightly disordered hair.

And Beatrice calmly straightened Louis's turned-up collar.

"Take a good rest for a period of time now that you're back."

"Okay."

But suddenly remembering something, Beatrice sighed.

Louis knew she wasn't one to sigh easily, so he asked softly:

"What happened?"

Beatrice replied softly:

"Have William come home."

Louis's heart skipped a beat.

This tone... it sounds somewhat...

"Lord Rudolph has left us."

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