"As far as we know, he is just an ordinary human," Maya answered the queen's inquiries. "And currently, the one leading the company is his wife, Viktoria Frost.
My family is also just an ally of this group. It doesn't mean we are supporters of this Lothur. So even if he is a hybrid, we have no relationship with him."
"Are you confident of that?" The queen looked more closely at the person in front of her.
Maya nodded.
She honestly did not believe that Lothur could be a hybrid. After all, creatures of that type were very violent and chaotic. There was no way that a person who seemed as rational and calm as he was could be such a dreadful creature.
If Lothur were such a creature, there would probably be stories of entire families disappearing in Peters City during his stay there. However, there were no such cases.
And that significantly removed his new business partners' suspicions about his nature.
Seeing the confidence in Maya's eyes, the queen felt that this woman was not taking a gratuitous risk with this.
"I see... So you are confident in this Ritter Motor Company business? Does it really have potential?"
Maya replied with a smile. "I believe it does. I don't know if we will one day have that company's vehicles all over the continent. Still, they will circulate all over Leopoldine and the neighbors of this empire.
Maybe someone will be able to copy the business at some point, but we will already have a great advantage when that happens.
One way or another, there is a big market across the continent, and the Ritter Motor Company alone leads that business."
...
Meanwhile, in Cesha...
After days of traveling, Lothur was in the central area of this empire, resting at this very moment in a local forest.
As he finished his training session, something he had been doing once every 2 days, Lothur looked at his status and saw his training progress since his escape from the Imperial Prison.
[Name: Lothur Ritter]
[Physique: what doesn't kill you makes you stronger]
[Bloodline: Life Devourer]
[Soul Cultivation: level 20]
[Body Cultivation: level 19]
[STR: 701.8 -> 830]
ραΠdαsΝοvεl ƈοm [CON: 1,690.2 -> 1,705]
[DEX: 640.1 -> 795]
[AGI: 769.9 -> 905]
[INT: 374.2]
[PER: 865.9 -> 880]
[WIL: 582 -> 660]
[SOU: 1,881.8]
[EVF: 2]
Seeing these numbers, Lothur smiled as he devoured the piece of meat in one of his hands.
'Excellent. I'm improving rapidly.' He thought. 'In a few weeks, I will reach level 20 of body cultivation.
Unfortunately, I don't know how much I need to improve to reach level 21.'
"Uh?"
As he was thinking, suddenly Lothur heard someone approaching him and immediately looked in the direction where noises of leaves being stepped on were coming from.
His eyes sparkled, and he saw a group of 5 people moving towards him, 2 women and 3 men, each with smiles on their faces.
They were all Transcendents, between levels 17 and 18, and were dressed in armor, armed with different types of weapons.
'What do they want by approaching a stranger like that?' Lothur wondered.
He was hiding his cultivation so as not to attract powerful Saints.
Since he was traveling through a state with reports of Supreme Saints, Lothur preferred not to call risks and was demonstrating cultivation of only level 18.
With this level, he could keep most problems out of his way without running into any being who thought they were powerful and decided to stand in his way when he looked like a mere mortal.
Looking like a mortal had its advantages. Being underestimated opened up many possibilities!
But all the time, being disrespected and having low-level creatures trying to stand in his way was not comfortable, so Lothur did not hide all his cultivation.
'They want trouble with me?' He got up from where he was sitting and closed his eyes.
"What do you want by approaching me like this? Is that a declaration of war? Do you want to fight?"
Lothur's voice spread through the surroundings, reaching the ears of these people.
Hearing him, the men and women near his position changed their smiles, looking among themselves, less sure of what they were about to do.
"Did he see us?" Someone asked in a low voice.
"He looks strong... He's standing in the middle of the Arcroft Wilds, even without equipment or people." One of the two level 18 cultivators commented.
This place they were standing in was called the Arcroft Wilds. These were dangerous lands in the central region of the Cesha, where there was even the presence of Saint Beasts.
This was an area of great opportunity, but it contained extreme dangers for people of only 3rd stage traveling alone.
"That's true..."
"What do we do, boss?" A level 17 man asked that level 18 person.
"Let's surround him and test him." The one level 18 woman replied in place of her companion, feeling that such a person would not talk to them now that he had figured them out.
"OK!"
They all said simultaneously, moving through the surroundings to approach Lothur from different directions.
They were already close to Lothur, so in a few seconds, they were all surrounding the black-haired young man traveling through these forests.
Lothur had been taking pills daily to alter his appearance. After all, he was a wanted man of the Seraphim Church.
When he saw these people surrounding him, Lothur kept holding the piece of meat in his hands, wondering if it was worth it to give up his moment of rest to teach these people his place.
But he decided no, and went back to eating.
Pow!
A powerful attack formed above Lothur, with a huge hammer falling on his body, moving with such force that one could see the air being displaced by the weapon's movement.
Lothur didn't even look at this attack and took a step to the side, dodging it in time to avoid being hit by such a thing.
He bit into the meat in his hands and felt a sharp aura approaching his body, from which a level 18 woman threw several spiritual blades in his direction.
Lothur then stepped to the side so fast that the woman momentarily thought he had teleported.
However, that had not happened, and the level 17 woman realized this clearly as she used her Physique skill, which blocked the space in her surroundings, capable of preventing escapes through the gaps in space.
'That's an interesting skill.' Lothur looked toward a black-haired woman, seeing her on bent knees while having her hands joined in a seal.
Then a giant fist approached from one side of him.
Pow!
"Hold it!" That level 17 man shouted as he used his Physique skill, Colossal Body, to strike Lothur.
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