Staying The Night

Lucas's plan was simple: he wanted a knighthood for many reasons. The most important was that being a noble would give him many opportunities to access various resources and intermediate-tier knowledge and information, as compared to being a simple assassin.

Lucas planned to get Yin-Yang City for himself after becoming a knight, as it was nearest to Planet Alios. In this way, he would have control over both of these planets and also gain access to the Alis technology. Lucas initially planned to rule over some other planets, but he found out that after becoming a knight, only the ungoverned planets would be conferred. If a knight wanted to gain control of another planet, he/she would have to have an honorary duel with the governing knight of that planet and come out as a winner.

So Lucas's plan was to build a strong foundation for himself by exploiting Yin-Yang and its resources first and then grabbing other planets.

Of course, the main goal was to get into the competition of nobility. The higher his deeds, the more ranks he could climb up. Being a god in a previous life, Lucas didn't find his long-term goal of becoming the Holy Emperor too ambitious, but if his thoughts were made public, almost everyone in the whole universe, including the planet's allies and enemies, would start vomiting blood. Lucas's ambitions were indeed this great.

Lucas, after leaving Thomas's chambers, started looking for Eva's room to request a room for himself as it was getting dark. He planned to stay here tonight and go back tomorrow morning.

Eva, on the other hand, was shocked after hearing the news of Lucas's plan to become a knight. It was not a major issue if someone became a knight, but that someone was not from a noble family in this case. This was very rare, given the intense competition among the nobles. How could they let a commoner rise up among their ranks? The news had already spread, after all, as much as three hours had passed since Lucas had been sitting with Thomas.

The outer ring nobles were a little surprised, but as for the inner and central nobles, they wouldn't even give a single thought to something so minor.

Lucas knocked on Eva's room door after searching for a while. She opened it and was surprised to see the smiling face of the man she was thinking about.

"What do you want?" she asked.

"Can you arrange a room for me to stay tonight? Traveling at night would be pretty rough, so..."

Eva interrupted Lucas. "Sure, you will be notified after the preparations are made."

Eva then turned to close the door, but Lucas held it back. She looked at him with frosty eyes. "What's the meaning of this?" It wasn't that she was a petty person to hold grudges for something minor, but seeing Lucas reminded her of the time she had lost face. So she was pissed off right now after seeing him go even a little overboard.

Lucas leaned closer to her. She started moving back and was ready to strike. Lucas then went past her face and whispered in her ear.

"You are wearing your gown inside out."

"Huh?" Eva was surprised as this was totally out of the blue. She looked at her gown and indeed noticed she was wearing it the wrong way. She squinted her eyes, her face red with anger.

"You bastard, get lost!" Thumph! And she closed the door.

"I will never forget that precious expression of yours. Hahaha."

Lucas was laughing very hard right now. Initially, he had planned to leave right away. After all, he was aware that nothing could happen in such a short time between them. Lucas knew with girls the formula was to begin flirting slowly but speed up exponentially as time passed by.

But in Eva's case, just as he was searching for an opportunity to keep up a conversation, he noticed a major fault in the girl's clothing. All he needed to do was exploit it. Although the result was him being shut out, he didn't regret it, as creating an impact on Eva was also a way to go.

Eva had clearly heard what Lucas said and blushed deeply. She removed her gown and threw it on the bed angrily, then turned to get a new gown from her wardrobe. She had never lost so much face before; being nobility, she never had to face such situations.

Lucas was given a decent room due to his status as Lord Thomas's guest. He was tired from all the activities that happened today, so he went to bed directly.

The next day, Lucas called Max at the airbase near the facility and took his leave. He wanted to give Shiv a ride back home, but he knew the more he associated with Shiv, the more the risk of increasing suspicion upon him.

The jet lifted up. Lucas then started discussing stuff with Max, but he didn't notice that the girl he had teased yesterday was looking at his jet angrily before turning around to leave.

"That bastard... it's good that he's gone, or else I would have kicked him out today."