Chapter 45: The Princess Class

Chapter 45: The Princess Class

It was easy to dismiss the [Princess] class as just another weak, non combat class, like most civilians' classes. But in the eyes of someone like Sofia, it was all but weak. In essence, [Princess] was a supporting class. A Ruling class.

And it was all thanks to a single skill.

[Commandeering Aura]

The Duke was well informed on what kind of threats King Jevvin could send their way. The army, the royal guard, the church's heroes, mercenaries.

Mercenary groups strong enough to be a threat were all neutral to each other. They had an honor code of sorts. They would never attack Jens group, so this was one less thing to worry about.

The army was mostly composed of soldiers in the low fifties, only a select few generals being above level one hundred. And these were all too weak to be considered a real danger in the short term. The army could only be a problem if they sent a full battalion their way. But this was a logistical nightmare that Jevvin couldnt manage by himself in a short time.

That left the royal guard and the heroes. In the Dukes own words, Jevvin was a paranoid little shit and there was no way he didnt find a way to get rid of the royal guard during his coup. Either way, hed never trust them to go against the duke. Even if they were somehow still here and loyal to him, that would be leaving himself without protection.

Which meant one thing. He could only send the heroes after them. Especially since Aurelia had taken her Seal. Armand had laughed like a madman when she showed them the ring, apparently it was a real blessing that she had it with her. The seals were used to open the palaces heirloom safe. You needed all four of them to do so. He didnt explain any further, basking in the joy of knowing that Jevvin couldnt get his hands on what he had wanted all along.

On the other hand, it also meant that he would double down on his efforts to track them.

The current hypothesis was that all four of the kingdoms heroes would be sent after them.

And that was the whole problem.

The group had been trying to figure out a way to escape or win against them for the last few hours, to no avail, talking in circles throwing ideas around that had no hopes of working.

The heroes were that strong.

Sofia couldnt stand to idly watch this anymore. This was her trial, and she would be the one to lead it.

[Commandeering Aura] : The natural strength to lead. All things fall under the rulers dominion. Your orders have a compelling effect. This effect is several times stronger under dire circumstances.

The shocking thing to the squabbling group wasnt the quiet level one princess suddenly yelling, Stop!. The shocking thing was that they had all obeyed.

Shut up, all of you! If you cant find a way to get through this then I will, she yelled out, getting up from her chair. Then she started pointing at each of them one by one.

This trial

Its way too fucking hard

Duke Armand knew a lot thanks to his position. He had delivered the parchment with the known details of the four heroes during Sofias conversation with Jen.

She had only glanced at it but the first line was enough to make her feel despair.

human, level 299, unknown class stone mage, rarely leaves the church, no additional info

Kuli was at the same level and she had literally stopped and rewound time. Not to mention the light punch that had shaken the whole building and plunged Sofia in an abyss of pain for a second. Unless the duke was above level 250 too it was hard to think of anything that could stop a monster like that.

The next main lines on the document only added to her hopelessness.

Gojin, Four armed tiger beastman, level 200+, [Pugilist] class, alcoholic, violent tendencies, blessing of endless rage

Innocentis, human, level 150+, [Paladin] class, extremely loyal to the church, blessing of the scholar

Gabriela Garcia Fontes, human, level 150+, [Suns Ordinance] class, strong healer, distaste for fighting, blessing of wings'

Of the bunch, Armand only knew Gabriela in person, noting that she was unlikely to agree to hunt them down or show up at all.

Gojin and Innocentis were about sure to come after the seal and they were likely to fight to the death if needed, loyal dogs of the church that they were. The worst part was the level 299 hero. Not much was known about them, but it was likely that they would come, as they had lived under the churchs care for many decades.

How to survive this Maybe if I leave the seal here for them and flee by myself they wont come after me. But then the bonus reward is gone too, cant avenge anything without helpers at my level.

With my group being so weak compared to the enemys, there arent a thousand answers. Weakening the enemies isnt an option right now. Fleeing is bound to fail, outsmarting the opponents wont be enough to cover the power difference

Theres only one way left then. Increasing the power of my group.

I know just the thing.

I had always dismissed it for being crazy, but now Time to see how well I remember the last ritual of the old grimoire.