Su Wen looked at the old man coughing up blood and smiled as he offered the most appropriate analysis a scholar could make:
"However, if you want me not to kill you.
You can first tell me
what exactly you know."
The old man was awakened from his stupor by him, but he did not dare say a single word. The next second, flames ignited at Su Wen's fingertips and clung to his body:
"Jupiter Dawnfire.
It will only burn the parts of your body contaminated by the abyss.
Of course, I deliberately turned up its output."
The pure white flames instantly burned away the abyssal prohibition within the old man that constrained his answers.
But because the abyss was also one of the sources sustaining his life force, his already grievously injured body seemed to weaken another layer in an instant.
In order to survive,
he could only kneel on the ground and speak while coughing blood:
"Cough, cough.
Today is when those thugs from Black Wave come to collect interest.
They are protected by the gods and can bestow the gospel upon others, curing diseases and even extending their lifespans.
But the price is this:
Before their banquet begins,
our large settlement must provide them with one child every day.
The man of this household once organized people to resist our atrocities, so I came straight here."
Hearing that, Su Wen slowly considered:
(That ability was probably the third ability granted by the 'Black Goat Crest' described in Appraisal Perspective: 'Proliferation Diffusion.')
He spoke with the iceberg-like girl beside him through the Dawn System:
"But Void Light Fararella acts so arrogantly.
They are bold enough, but aren't they afraid of drawing the Night Watch's judgment and being struck from Lorenz Riel's records?"
Yet Jiang Menghan gave a different