"Has he flown into a rage out of humiliation?"
Winnie glanced at the old man in midair, then continued, "I'd been wondering why the power within you had changed so quickly. Before, it was only a rough guess, but I never expected it to be confirmed at a time like this..."
"What a terrifying coincidence!"
"That's how the world works. Tiny probabilities are invisibly magnified countless times. If it weren't like this, wouldn't life be far less interesting?"
Shen Yi said calmly.
"So you already knew that the old man's power came from Lilith?" Winnie was slightly surprised, though that feeling lasted only an instant. Her expression darkened as she looked at Shen Yi strangely. "You two can be considered of the same origin. Couldn't he sense it?"
Winnie was utterly speechless.
No wonder Shen Yi had not seemed particularly affected from beginning to end. So he had already noticed it while fighting that man. But why? They were both remnants left behind by Lilith. Logically, there should not have been such a vast disparity between the powers of their Authorities. How could that man not even manage to put pressure on Shen Yi?
"Are you wondering why, despite both being the power of Authority, he is so much weaker than me?"
Shen Yi glanced at Winnie and said mildly, "Because he isn't qualified. Whether it is the power he accumulated beforehand or his own existence, that Authority cannot fully manifest through him. Right now, I can sense at most less than fifty percent of the Authority's power from him."
"And besides..." Shen Yi paused, a faint smile curling at the corner of his mouth.
"And besides what?"
"Say it already."
Winnie was deeply annoyed, yet there was nothing she could do about Shen Yi.
"He has less than ten