When the Wise Sovereign realized he had been careless, he could not help but sigh inwardly. He had spent so many years in the underground waterways without contact with outsiders, without the collision of sparks of thought. His thinking had grown rigid, yet he had not even noticed.
This time was the same. Though his carelessness had chiefly cost him because of the information gap between himself and Angel, his own lack of caution had also been one reason.
Just like Angel, he too had gaps in his information. Yet Angel's performance had been watertight. He had revealed very little information; the Wise Sovereign even felt that perhaps even the information Angel had revealed had been deliberately leaked, whether intentionally or not.
When intelligent people crossed blades, they never begrudged showing their cards. What they competed in was who could deploy their cards best, whose hole cards could be hidden most unexpectedly. Sometimes, showing one's cards was itself a trap.
At present, he and Angel both knew very little about each other, so they could not achieve this kind of open-card maneuvering and assault. But it had to be said that, as a rising junior, Angel's performance had been exceptionally dazzling.
Even the Wise Sovereign could not help secretly praising him.
"The person hidden in the mirror that you wish to ask about can enter my residence, but it does not dare enter my main residence," the Wise Sovereign said. His words were contradictory, leaving the others dizzy with confusion.
But Angel's heart stirred upon hearing them. "Your Excellency means it can enter through the mirror surface, but its true body cannot enter?"
The Wise Sovereign nodded. "That is correct."
The Wise Sovereign was beginning to adapt to Angel's astonishingly quick responses and his logic, which seemed capable of skipping