What Sharky was most worried about was that the king manor was just making up an excuse to chase away unwanted guests. As such, he went around a corner, and when he saw that there was no one around him, he jumped over the courtyard wall. The courtyard wall had some defensive formations, but with his master rank cultivation, avoiding them wasn't particularly difficult.
There were some guards patrolling the surroundings, but compared to human residences that were typically heavily guarded, the fiend races' security was crude; it could even be considered sloppy. Even the security of a king's manor like this couldn't compare to that of a mid-ranked human minister's home.
He initially planned to seize a random maid to ask about Natasha's room, but he suddenly saw some maids rushing toward a room while carrying teacups.
