Wu Heng and the Wraith Empress faced off from afar, both wearing the confidence of certain victory.
"Let's set a deadline! If you don't find the place I mentioned before then, you let me go, and you're not allowed to trouble me again afterward." The Empress looked into his eyes.
Without a time limit, he could keep searching forever, and the whole matter would lose its meaning.
"You name it! Just don't say tomorrow." Wu Heng leaned back in his chair.
"One year! With your Hero-level strength, that's more than enough time to travel across the continent." The Empress's spectral body glimmered faintly beneath the lamplight.
Wu Heng agreed immediately. "Fine! If I can't find the place you mentioned, I'll set you free. I can even introduce you to a suitable Necromancer."
His ready agreement made the Empress narrow her eyes at once.
She drifted closer and stared straight into his eyes. "You... wouldn't go back on your word, would you?"
"Do I need to cheat a Captive?" Wu Heng shrugged, sounding magnanimous.
In truth, the condition she had proposed was likely part of her Unfinished Business as well.
Even if he refused now and forcibly established the bond between a wraith and a Necromancer with the Empress, he would still have to help her complete her Unfinished Business later.
This approach was simply more amicable.
"Hmph!" The Empress snorted and drifted away again. "I don't need you to find me any Necromancer. Just make sure I never have to see any of you again."
Wu Heng set down his teacup and asked, "Can you tell me where you want to go now?"
The Empress's spirit body rippled slightly. "A country. I once lived there. The people of that country called themselves Dayi Shang."
Wu Heng's pupils contracted slightly.
Dayi