"Wearing your emotions right on your face... That really isn't like you, William.
And this is still the main city of you humans. There should be plenty of strong people inside, right? Since you managed to get out, you shouldn't have anything to worry about anymore, should you?"
"If it were really that simple, I wouldn't have Gazed at the Moon... Lorien, are you just a projection?"
"That's right. My main body is drifting across the ocean more than a thousand kilometers from here, following the 'path' the Duke pointed out to me.
Although I really wanted to come over personally and see what trouble you had run into, it's extremely difficult to get away under the ocean's gaze."
Lorien's body seemed to be sitting beside the tree, but in reality, it was merely a human-shaped projection formed from moonlight.
Although it looked lifelike, Yi Chen could tell at a glance that it was fake. He could also sense that most of Lorien's thoughts were not focused here.
"Mm~ William, did you break through? The scent of your brain is completely different from before... Come over and stand in the moonlight so I can take a look."
As Yi Chen approached the tree beside the road where Lorien was located, he stepped into the spotlight-like moonlight.
For a moment, Lorien, who should have been nothing more than a projection, actually became corporeal.
His face drew closer.
His crescent-moon left eye and full-moon right eye nearly pressed against the side of Yi Chen's head, seeing through his scalp and skull to directly examine the black Mad Brain inside.
"So beautiful~ What a pity that I can't perform a more detailed Deep Sensation in my current state. From what I can see, William, the structure of your pathogen is truly beautiful—astonishingly so.