"Sabo"
Watching the Blood-colored Giant take heavy steps through the sky toward them, Verafa could not help asking,
Though he had changed beyond recognition, that familiar feeling told her it was Sabo.
"Is that you, Sabo?"
Verafa asked again.
Her voice carried hope and unease, making Grandpa Lu behind her feel a pang of sorrow.
Sabo stopped in midair and faced Verafa from a distance. A pair of blood-colored pupils had replaced the Titan's Golden Eyes, and the icy look he had once directed at Verafa now held a trace of gentleness.
"This guy is conscious?"
Headmaster and Xi Ye could not help asking.
"He always has been." Lanaia replied coldly from the side. "Back in the Blood Demon Domain, he had actually retained his consciousness all along. If he had merely been a controlled puppet, we would have killed him long ago!"
At that, Headmaster immediately understood as well.
Perhaps they had been wrong from the beginning.
Indeed, Vayne and Lanaia were both top-tier agility experts. One was an assassin and the other a ranger, and together they were absolutely top-notch at seizing opportunities. Against the two of them, if Sabo had been completely controlled from the start and lacked any autonomy, he could never have withstood their combined assault, even in the Blood Demon Domain.
When Lanaia had described the battle earlier, she had also mentioned that Sabo possessed extremely seasoned combat experience and had left them not a single opening.
But such seasoned experience could not possibly be brought out under complete control.
In other words, although Shadow Demon Nefar had forcibly brought Sabo over to the alien demon camp at first, Sabo had willingly served them afterward—or at least, he had not resisted.
"Something doesn't seem right."
Headmaster frowned.
He had also been involved in designing