132 NUMBER ZERO

BRIGITTE felt an unusual burst of divine power coming from the training ground behind Blanco Palace– the Crown Prince's official residence.

Worried that the royal prince might be in danger, she went out of her room to check what was happening outside. Nowell Elwood, her official guard, escorted her. He must have also felt the strange yet powerful aura that spread in the area a while ago.

"You felt it too, didn't you?" Brigitte asked her cousin while they were walking to the direction of the training ground. "I felt the Crown Prince's aura. But why did it feel like…"

"Like there were two Prince Nero?" Nowell asked, finishing that sentence that she didn't get to finish because she thought it was ridiculous. But when Nowell, a no-nonsense man said it with conviction, the idea sounded less silly now. "That's what I also felt, Princess Brigitte. It's strange because as far as the whole continent knows, His Majesty only has one child."

She nodded in agreement.