Faced with Shen Fei and Candace's joint interrogation, the Akademiya scholars were so frightened that they spilled everything they knew. Unfortunately, she did not know much—she was merely a scholar following orders. Of course, Shen Fei did not care about their current fear. They were not remorseful; they had simply been caught and feared death. After all, their treatment of the village guardians had been atrocious. Quite a few guardians had even died because the scholars forcibly extracted the knowledge from their memories and turned it into canned knowledge.
"Spare us! We really don't know anything."
"Spare you? How ridiculous. It didn't seem like you spared those village guardians before. You aren't remorseful now—you just know you're going to die."
Although Shen Fei had already sentenced these captured Akademiya scholars to death, now was not the time to kill them. After the interrogation, he locked them up again despite their many injuries, intending to wait until Nahida returned to the Akademiya before putting them on trial. It would be a good chance for Nahida to establish her authority.
"You aren't ordinary people, are you?" After the Akademiya scholars and mercenary guards had been locked up again, Candace looked at Shen Fei and the others with a grave expression.
"Allow me to formally introduce her. This is Sumeru's God of Grass, Nahida." Shen Fei immediately revealed Nahida's identity. This was the advantage of knowing what lay ahead. He knew Candace could be trusted, so there was no problem exposing Nahida's identity to her.
"Lord God of Grass, although I would like to believe you, everyone knows that the God of Grass has always remained within the Akademiya." Candace stared at Nahida for quite some time before she finally spoke.
"The situation is rather complicated. Let me start from the beginning." Shen