After searching several times, Unknown walked out of a seemingly very shabby inn and said, “Let’s stay here for tonight.”

Princess Felicity poked her head out of the carriage again, glanced at the inn, then quickly pulled her head back inside and shouted loudly, “I don’t want to stay in such a rundown place! I want to stay at that inn we passed by earlier!”

The many young nobles also looked at Unknown with troubled expressions. For those who had always lived in luxury, staying in a place like this truly felt beneath their status.

“I only have six gold coins on me; the rest have already been exchanged for Shenlong Kingdom gold notes,” Unknown said quietly. “And those are all for a one-year term, so for now, we only have these six gold coins.”

The young nobles’ faces grew even more unsightly. Felicity even lifted the curtain and said, “I don’t want to stay here! I’d rather sleep in the carriage!”

Unknown replied with a relaxed and serious look, “Alright then, that will save us some lodging expenses.”

Princess Felicity’s mouth instantly formed an O shape, and the young nobles all cast shocked glances at Unknown. Someone even whispered, “You’re bold! You actually dare treat the princess like this.”

“I don’t care, I just want to—” Before Felicity could finish, Unknown had already walked silently into the inn and started booking rooms with the innkeeper.

Seeing that crying and fussing was useless, Felicity had no choice but to get off the carriage and walk up to Douglas Baker, looking extremely displeased as she complained, “It’s all your fault for being useless, making me lose so much money. You’re always bragging about how amazing you are, how you’re the descendant of some hero, a genius of your generation. You can’t even beat a common soldier…”

Douglas Baker watched Felicity complain as she walked into the inn, his face darkening to the extreme as he glared at Unknown, who was prepaying for the rooms, and muttered through gritted teeth, “It’s all your fault I was humiliated. I’ll make sure to get rid of you.”

Knight Gregory wanted to remind Douglas Baker that the main reason for his defeat was the princess announcing the start of the match at the wrong time, but seeing Douglas Baker’s gloomy expression, he knew that hatred had already made Douglas Baker fixate on Unknown.

After entering the inn, the young nobles saw their rooms and once again voiced their complaints. They never imagined that Unknown would actually book them the cheapest shared rooms, reserving only a single room for the princess.

Staying in a place where peasants lived, the young nobles all frowned and secretly glanced at Douglas Baker, who had caused them to become paupers, even if only temporarily.

“Good for you, Unknown, using this kind of lodging to stir up resentment against me,” Douglas Baker muttered as he tidied up his bed, glancing at Unknown from time to time. “To avoid being ostracized, you even made sure to stay here yourself.”

After tidying up their beds, Knight Gregory and the others went out into the courtyard to practice their daily training. Unknown glanced at their practice and immediately left the courtyard.

Ever since he first saw them training, Unknown had intended to kindly point out the flaws in Gregory and the others’ combat techniques. But instead, Gregory and his group had subtly warned him that knights’ training was not to be seen by commoners. If a commoner was caught watching, and it became known, the penalty was beheading. As for this time, they could pretend not to know, but they didn’t want it to happen again.

At that moment, Unknown realized that even if he fought alongside them, even if they all disliked Baron Douglas Baker, these people could never become his companions.

At the time, Unknown quietly said, “I understand.” Ever since, whenever they trained, Unknown would always deliberately avoid them.

“Ahhh—!” A shrill scream from Felicity on the second floor interrupted everyone’s training and stopped Unknown just as he was about to leave the courtyard.

“Douglas Baker, I don’t want to stay in such a shabby place,” Felicity shouted loudly out the window. “No matter what, you have to find a way to make money for me as soon as possible. Didn’t you always brag about how smart you are? And the rest of you, too—figure out a way to make money for me.”

Douglas Baker’s face immediately turned even uglier. The greatest skill these young nobles from the imperial capital had was spending money. Usually, in the capital, they relied on their family’s influence to bully others and collect protection fees to make a little money—that was the only way they knew how to earn.

But now, having just arrived in Pons City, that method clearly wouldn’t work. And even if they bullied commoners, the protection fees collected would never be enough to cover the princess’s expenses.

Thinking of these headaches, Douglas Baker once again fixed his hateful gaze on Unknown. The other young nobles, having just been scolded by the princess, now stood on Douglas Baker’s side again, all glaring resentfully at the commoner who had cooked for them these past days and was now providing them with lodging.

Resentment aside, the princess’s orders still had to be carried out. The young nobles gathered together, frowning and discussing various plans.

Unknown stood quietly to the side, listening to the young nobles’ so-called money-making discussion. At first, they were still talking about collecting protection fees, but Douglas Baker quickly vetoed that idea, saying that method was too slow and couldn’t meet the princess’s needs.