The dining room fell into dead silence. Sir Eddie was the first to break it.
"Phantoms? There are phantoms in the manor?"
Sir Eddie let out a hollow laugh, as if he had heard something amusing.
"Vice Legion Commander... sir, do you think I would secretly harbor phantoms in my manor?"
"That's right."
Su Xiao dropped the utensils in his hands. Coming to Eden Manor had been a risky move, but there was a big fish here. Su Xiao even suspected that Sin might be hiding here to recover from his wounds.
"Hahahaha, my Joshua family has weathered countless changes alongside the Empire. Vice Legion Commander, do you know how much money my ancestors, my grandfather, and my father have donated to the Empire? It's a figure you can't imagine. There's no way I'd throw the efforts of so many generations of the Joshua family into the gutter. To put it another way, even if I really had a phantom here, you would at least need the councilors' approval before you could search this place."
Sir Eddie slapped his utensils onto the dining table and signaled for the servants to take his children away.
"Is that so? Then let me put it another way. Which floor of the castle is Eclipse on? She's a female phantom who likes to hunt at night, an important member of the Ghost Ring organization, and the proposer of the Eye Chamber Project. Or should I say, do you have an Eye Chamber here?"
Su Xiao still didn't know what the Eye Chamber was for, but he had seen one with his own eyes. Once that thing was successfully set up, it was extremely difficult to destroy. At least, he had no good way to deal with it. Physical destruction was practically impossible. The moment