"I don't understand what you're talking about, but I will report today's events to the Captain in full detail."
Mekas snorted.
Chen Cheng Two, however, glanced outside the hall before saying with a half-smile, "Mekas, are you really going to tell him? How about I have Smog come in right now?"
Seeing Chen Cheng Two's utterly fearless expression, Mekas—already unsettled after he had exposed her origins—felt her heart skip another beat.
Smog was called a guard, but was in truth a watcher. How could he possibly have failed to notice the oddities of the false emperor before him? At the thought of the force Smog represented, a chill ran down her back.
Watching the constant shifts in Mekas's expression, Chen Cheng Two gained another measure of confidence.
"You can go back and think carefully about whether my earlier proposal is worthwhile.
"Don't forget, you are no longer an ordinary person. You are already a Legendary powerhouse."
"Hmph. It sounds nice enough, but what can being Legendary do? Samlet was so strong, yet isn't he now still like a rat in a gutter?"
With a flick of her sleeve, Mekas left the hall.
Seeing Mekas emerge with anger on her face, Smog asked in a low voice, "What happened?"
Mekas steadied herself, then said, "Nothing. If there's nothing else, I'll be leaving first."
Smog frowned slightly. "Did he humiliate you? If permitted, you may teach him a lesson."
Smog's words only made Mekas feel even more humiliated and furious. They were undoubtedly an insult to her.
"There is no need to trouble the Captain with that. My lord should keep a close watch on him instead."
With that, Mekas left without looking back.
"How utterly baffling."
Smog watched her departing figure.
He then knocked on the hall doors and pushed them