The Billionaire's True Heiress From Fake Jewel to Real Crown novel Chapter 1511

"Rory James and Jace James, reporting to the Clan Successor!"

Claire was slightly taken aback by the title.

"Are you from the James family as well?"

She had never seen either of them back in The James Village.

Rory, the stern-faced woman, replied, "You haven't seen us because we belong to a branch family."

"We don't live in the village."

That explained it.

Claire decided not to ask too many questions in front of the others.

Silas and Elias, however, were burning with curiosity about her background.

Wasn't she just a girl from the countryside?

Why was she being addressed as a 'Clan Successor'?

Her rural family must have some serious hidden depth if they could produce bodyguards like these.

They were young, yet their combat skills were clearly top-tier.

If they could be recruited into the department...

Little did Claire know, Silas was already scheming to poach her bodyguards after just one glance.

With the team fully assembled, they wasted no time and headed straight for their destination.

The Aila Highlands sat at the border of five counties, boasting an elevation of over ten thousand feet and an eighty-five percent forest coverage rate.

The peaks were perpetually shrouded in thick mist. Aside from a few developed tourist zones, the region was strictly off-limits to humans.

It was terrifyingly easy to get lost in those woods.

Locals called it a ghost mountain—easy to enter, impossible to leave.

Every year, reckless thrill-seekers ventured into the highlands. Very few made it back out alive.

When the local military outpost heard that Silas's team was planning to go in, they vehemently opposed the idea.

One of the officers, who seemed to be an old comrade of Silas, tried fiercely to talk him out of it.

"Hawk, I know you've got a mission, but it's one thing for soldiers to go in. Taking civilians is a death sentence."

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