They Hated Me in My First Life, But Now I Have the Love System

Chapter 333: Surprisingly Barely Guarded

Meanwhile, behind the dumpster, the remaining three, Nnenna, Ekene, and Karen, moved with precision.

At Nnenna’s signal, they slipped away from the alley’s cover and circled around silently, entering the castle through the side gate just as the guards were fully distracted by the staged fight.

Back at the gate, the performance continued flawlessly. The two guards, now convinced they were just witnessing and separating a love fueled brawl, let their guard down. One even chuckled, shaking his head. “Idiots, fighting over a girl,” he muttered.

Then, in a blur of movement, Abuchi spun on his heel and delivered a clean, powerful punch to the first guard’s jaw, years of training behind the strike. Almost simultaneously, John landed a sharp elbow to the second guard’s temple. Both men crumpled to the ground without a sound.

The two young men didn’t waste a second.

“Nice one,” Abuchi said, breathless, extending his fist.

John bumped it. “Could’ve gone pro.”

Working quickly, they dragged the unconscious guards into a large, rusting dumpster nearby, but not before stripping them of their uniforms. The clothes were slightly tight in some places, loose in others, but they would pass.

They tied the guards up with thick rope they had hidden earlier, gagged them, and tossed a dirty canvas over them for good measure.

Then, adjusting their caps and straightening their stances, Abuchi and John took their positions, just two regular castle guards, stationed like nothing had ever happened.

John gave a subtle glance to the small gate behind them.

“They’re in,” he whispered.

Abuchi nodded but kept his gaze forward.

The infiltration

castle, every footstep measured and soundless. They followed the layout of Purlit Castle exactly as they had

a young man had won an exclusive online competition that granted him a tour of the famed castle. What the Kingdom didn’t anticipate was that the boy had a

he also posted it online in a viral thread, blueprints, descriptions, even

But not before Nnenna, ever resourceful, exchanged a

through the deleted web archives and downloaded every image and note straight to her phone, preserving the leak before it was scrubbed from

how they had learnt about the side gate, only

how they now crept through the twisting corridors, carefully avoiding the main chambers and instead heading

at a crooked painting on the

rendered from memory. “The dungeons are three

but Karen looked uneasy. “Let’s just hope no one’s updated the

cautiously, adrenaline thick in

the bottom, Nnenna peeked around a corner. Her heart

before them. Just

she breathed.

distant boots echoed down the hall, closer than

Someone was coming.

to react as the sound of approaching guards

whispered, motioning sharply toward a shadowed

rounded the corner. The guards paused, muttering about a missing patrol shift,

then did Nnenna exhale. “Let’s

avoiding detection as they slipped through quiet

saw John and Abuchi, now dressed as guards and posted at the entrance, the

dungeon,” Nnenna said, catching

stay here and guard the exit. Act natural. If anything