After listening to Melantha's account, Hydra frowned slightly. "Suppress the inner demon? Let me think."
As Hydra pondered, Melantha heard the people around them begin whispering among themselves.
"Could it be that the secondary personality seized the body and put the primary personality to sleep?" someone mused.
"Perhaps that really is the case." The crowd murmured to one another. "We used to think that having dual personalities might be beneficial on the path of wizardry, but we forgot that controlling a secondary personality is no easy task. It can easily end up usurping the primary personality."
"I think it's too early to draw conclusions. No one can be certain of Onassis's current primary-secondary personality situation. For all we know, the one awake now is the primary personality, while the secondary one is asleep."
"Whether Onassis's current personality is primary or secondary, since a ritual is to be conducted shortly, the rational personality must come out—not this crazed one."
Melantha was completely bewildered. Primary and secondary personalities? Did they mean Onassis had dual personalities? But hadn't he called it an inner demon? Could that inner demon be referring to a secondary personality?
Melantha thought it over herself. If it was dual personalities, it did seem to explain things. But why was everyone in the Evaluation Room so certain that it was dual personalities?
Melantha had wanted to ask, but at that moment, Hydra emerged from his thoughts. The phantom of a giant serpent faintly appeared behind him—the symbol of the Tree-Perched Serpent school he believed in.
From the manifestation of that giant serpent phantom, it was clear that Hydra's so-called pondering had actually involved some form of divination.
Melantha looked at Hydra expectantly, hoping he could provide a solution.
Hydra pondered for a moment. "The Tree-Perched Serpent did not give me