In the darkness, the candlelight burned steadily.
"What, you seem to look down on the Era of World Guardians?"
Bai Zhi raised an eyebrow as he looked at the Knight before him.
"But honestly, I personally thought the Era of World Guardians was actually pretty good."
Although he did not know much about the era in which the World Guardians had lived, based on his interactions with them, whether it was Xiao Xiao Bai, Yu Xing, Mr. X, or the World Guardian who had given everything to create the prototype of professions, none of them were as bad as the other party made them out to be.
"The world is neither black nor white, but an exquisite shade of gray. Yet during the Era of World Guardians, everything was white. It was nothing more than a false ideal era built upon false peace."
The Knight spoke coldly.
"Besides, considering the specific circumstances of this era, don't you think those World Guardians were rather like fish and shrimp raised in a fish pond?"
"What do you mean?"
Bai Zhi frowned slightly.
"Exactly what I said."
There was no emotion in the Knight's voice.
"Even in the lightless, despairing Dark Era I lived through, there were not so many Evil Gods. But in your era, Evil Gods do not seem to be particularly rare, do they?"
"So?"
Thinking back over all the Evil Gods he had encountered or learned of thus far, Bai Zhi's frown deepened.
[Lord of Flesh and Blood], [Doll Princess], [Orchardist], [Eden]... and Xiao Xiao Bai, trapped inside a dining hall, along with the multiple Evil Gods who had emerged from that same dining hall...
It seemed that, faintly and indirectly, the Knight before him had revealed an even greater secret.
"What? Was I not clear enough?"
The Knight