Chapter 94: Siblings
CH94 Siblings
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Between his performance on the perilous return journey and how he held his own during the ambush in Mormont City, Alex had earned the genuine respect of the knights who now escorted him through the castle grounds.
Beyond that, this particular knight could read the writing on the wall—Earl Drake favoured Alex. Only something monumental could shake his standing within the family.
Alex, of course, saw through it.
The knight was kissing ass.
But as the saying went: you can’t punch a man who’s smiling at you. Alex let it slide. He’d be seeing a lot more ass-kissers soon enough, once he began to establish his power base.
Just to be sure, he swept the knight with his Spirit Sight—consciously activating a new feature that had emerged after his True Names first awakened back in the Sanctuary Subspace.
Since then, the scope of energy signatures Alex could detect had expanded slightly. Most notably, he could now perceive negative energy—specifically the kind directed at him.
In other words, he could sense strong hatred or malice directed toward his person. With enough observation, he could even detect deceit, though this wasn’t as straightforward. It required active deduction, not some magical lie-detector.
At first, he hadn’t understood how or why he’d gained this enhancement. Spirit Sight was already a complex ability, and its development had always felt linked to his unique physiology.