Angel had asked mainly because she feared that the Pale Empress might actually be a descendant of Azik Eggers. That would make their subsequent negotiations, or even a possible battle, rather awkward.
Like a family dispute... she muttered inwardly, looking expectantly at Azik. But the gentleman, whose bronze skin and features marked him as a native of the Southern Continent, calmly shook his head and said:
"I have never met her, nor do I remember any such member of my family."
Before Angel could respond, he added:
"However, while traveling through the Old Baylam Empire in search of my lost memories, I heard that name in a place called Tizamo Town. She was probably born late in the Fifth Epoch, around the time maritime travel resumed between the northern and southern continents and the Balam Empire was defeated by the allied armies of the North Continent. She currently belongs to the Royalist Faction of the Numinous Episcopate, but even if she has Eggers blood, it is rather diluted."
Does that mean I don't have to worry about his feelings if I fight her? But she's still a member of the Eggers Family... Tizamo—isn't that where part of Messenger Miss's body was buried? Angel wondered, then asked:
"This Sia Palenque Eggers calls herself the Pale Empress, but the information I received from the Goddess confirmed that she is only a Sequence 2 Death Consul. Do you think she could have become a Pale Emperor?"
With sufficient preparation, Angel was not worried about fighting an Archangel who merely possessed a Sequence 1 characteristic. She even had considerable confidence in defeating her. And now that Death's authority belonged to the Evernight Goddess, her opponent could not even call upon a god for assistance, making her less formidable than the Abomination Suah.
But if