Chapter 478: Borrowing the Right Elf
“You?” Derek asked. “You can help us sneak through multiple encampments full of some of the entire kingdom’s strongest guards and fighters? I’m sure you hit it off with them, but I doubt they like you enough to allow you to bring a human through.”
“Oh, no, it’s nothing like that,” Ryven replied. “You forget, I am not only the Duke of Indria.”
“Mhm…” Derek nodded seriously. “You are also a very bad military commander.”
“That…” Ryven sighed. “I am in charge of the kingdom’s information network. But before that, I was part of the kingdom’s information network. Like my daughter would have been had the invasion succeeded.”
“So you’re saying you’re a…” Derek muttered.
“He was also a spy,” Alanah said. “But I don’t see how any of that helps us right now.”
“Well, as a spy, I would need a way to go undetected, right?” Ryven asked. “Especially since I do have a very recognizable face.”
“And your way of going undetected?” Derek asked.
“Simple,” Ryven said. “Reflective barriers and pass-through barriers. The Elras’s barriers are useful for things other than defense.”