"Where did you hear that name?"

The existence of the Shadow Knights was known to only a very small number of people within the kingdom.

It was a name that someone like Ghislain Ferdium, who had grown up in the remote North and was not part of the central nobility, should have never known.

Marquis Branford furrowed his brow.

He had long suspected that Ghislain Ferdium possessed an uncanny level of knowledge. Sometimes, it felt less like intelligence and more like prophecy.

But even so, knowing such secret royal information was beyond comprehension.

"Did you plant a spy within the …