As an Extraordinary Species that had risen to prominence in recent years, Mora had been assigned the position of "Diamond 2" the moment she entered the "Extraordinary Card Deck." By the unspoken tradition of the Inner World, that meant:
Everyone, watch out. This lady is a super-sized nuisance who kills without blinking and can twist any argument three ways from Sunday!
Just look at the whole string of "Diamonds" above her—they were all that kind of freak... And even if they were not, they were still monstrous Aberrant Species like Poseidon and the Gray Traveler.
In any case, keeping your distance from them, whether something was happening or not, was the right call.
Since when had it become Mora's turn to mediate, urging people to "take a step back and the sea is wide, the sky is vast"?
Long Qi almost thought he had misunderstood.
But then Mora practically laid it all out: "Junior Brother, in your current state, calling it Godlike Enlightenment would not be an exaggeration. Then you should know—I didn't come here with any ill intentions, did I? Some matters are better communicated in advance. Once there is communication, there is room to maneuver."
"Communication? Aren't we communicating right now?"
"You're rambling on and on, practically trying to circle around a hundred bends..."
"Weren't you testing the waters step by step too, Senior Sister?"
"Huh?"
"If—just if—I hadn't taken this route, or if I had taken it but hadn't exposed Mao Yan's hiding place beneath the tunnel ruins, how would you have used him to 'provoke' me and warn me?"
As Ronan spoke, he drew cards one by one from the deck beside him, matching each of the Extraordinary Species Mora had indicated.
Without giving Mora a chance to argue, he continued, "Because there was no if,