Not only that.
Aside from Ye Zhi's reaction giving Iver a little information, Merlin's reaction contained even more.
Based on what Iver knew of Merlin, he was an apostle who loved joining in the fun and looking for amusement, which was why he liked wandering all over the world.
An apostle could only display Sixth Level strength—the world's upper limit—inside their patron's temple. Most apostles stayed in the Dream Realm and merely responded to rituals. A few apostles were assigned by their patrons to temples to answer believers' prayers. Only a very small number of apostles would leave their temples, and usually only to complete a task.
—Because once an apostle left their temple, they became extremely weak.
First, they could no longer use the Angelic Authority bestowed by their patron, nor the power of a Pillar God. Second, they would fall from a level far above the world's upper limit back to the level they had possessed in the Material Realm—in other words, at most, the peak of the Fifth Level as a Greater Phantom Demon.
Moreover, generally speaking, Pillar Gods would not let their apostles interfere with the Material Realm. Instead, it was the apostles of the Angels who liked causing trouble—Vivian, for example.
Although apostles could teleport between different temples of their patrons, they could not use this ability once they left a temple. Merlin himself, however, possessed teleportation skills, so he was not bound by this rule. Nor was he the sort of apostle whose own strength was weak and who had merely been noticed and promoted.
As one of the few apostles bold enough to wander around, Merlin had the strength to back himself up.
Some apostles did not possess much combat power of their own. After all, most apostles were not Dream Realm creatures,