Hearing Chen Cheng's self-reproach, Adolf merely showed a bitter smile and said:
"What is there to apologize for? If not for the sacred healing medicine Your Majesty gave us back then, along with Miss Emil's aid from her origin source, these two old bones of ours would probably have long since become a handful of yellow earth."
"Besides, this cannot be said to be entirely because of Your Majesty's identity. Although there has still been no response regarding that alchemical puppet we handed over back then, Pembez and I both knew that the Academy Alliance simply did not want to involve itself in this matter."
At that moment, Pembez snorted and said:
"Why put it so tactfully? In my view, those old fellows simply lost their nerve. That alchemist could not harm them anyway, so naturally they did not want to stir up this trouble.
"They might even be cursing the two of us in private for not knowing what was good for us, for bringing them a calamity of heaven-shaking proportions."
After Adolf and the others reminded him, Chen Cheng recalled the alchemical puppet that had nearly destroyed Hui Dun City.
Because of that puppet, the few of them had spent quite some time trembling in fear.
Looking back now, that fellow was probably one of the people who had hunted him down back then. Otherwise, it would not have set its sights on the Sword of Kings he carried from the very beginning.
Thinking it through carefully, the place that fellow had been hiding might have been the Hall of Attendants within one of the current Five Great Kingdoms. Perhaps before long, they would meet face-to-face in their true forms.
"Only your eyes are so venomous. Look at you showing off.
"Do you know that one sentence of