Nomephins continued recounting the examiner's intelligence.
This examiner had never revealed its name to outsiders, only calling itself the "Decayer."
Book Fairy saying she "knew" it was not quite accurate. She merely knew of the Decayer unilaterally.
Mainly because the Decayer was very famous among the Heart Chapter trials.
Its passing rate ranked among the very highest of all Heart Chapter examiners.
"According to that person's account, the Decayer does not seem to care what you answer. It does not even really listen to what others have to say. Usually, as long as you take the right stance, it will absentmindedly let you pass in the end."
For that reason, many who came to the Heart Chapter prayed that they would encounter the Decayer.
Generally, if one met it, as long as one was not too foolish, there was a great chance of passing.
That was also why Nomephins had opened by telling Angel, "You're quite lucky."
Angel, however, knew perfectly well that this was not because he was lucky, but because of the Little Demon host's behind-the-scenes manipulation...
"The Decayer had actually been active in the Abyss long ago..."
Even when Book Fairy was born, the Decayer had already appeared in the Abyss for a long time and had always been stationed in Cruel Scholar's Believers' Academy City.
Because it had lived for so long and spent years around the Academy City's students, anyone who paid attention could piece together its identity and origins from fragments of everyday conversation.
It came from an intelligent civilization.
But what exactly that civilization was, and where it had been located, remained unknown.
The only thing known was that when the Decayer came to the Abyss, that civilization had still been at the height of its prosperity, flourishing with vigorous growth.
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