That was right. Wei Zhi was clearly Galiusha now. Cheng Shi had played it safe in his experiment, using the power of the Truth Limit to merge her with Wei Zhi and let her take his identity, all to prevent Galiusha from causing trouble.
But that was all he could do. Figuring out how to let a trial NPC borrow a player's identity and climb out of the river of history was beyond his pay grade. The rest was up to fate.
And it seemed fate had arrived.
When Deception pulled Galiusha out alongside the other players, her status as a player was all but confirmed.
Whether the Covenant recognized her didn't matter. As long as Deception had made the move, it would naturally deceive the Covenant into accepting her.
But why had it acknowledged Galiusha? No one knew.
Galiusha had never stood before a god. In fact, few people in the history of the Isle of Hope had ever had an audience with one. So she was on her best behavior, far less brazen than she had been during the trial.
Still, she had plenty of nerve. At least when the gods looked her way, she dared sneak a glance at them. But no matter how she looked, she couldn't sense her Lord of Grace's presence.
Think about it. If her Lord of Grace wasn't among the gods surrounding her, there were only two possibilities: either he wasn't important enough to be at the table, or he'd already been taken out.
Galiusha didn't think her Lord of Grace would die so easily, so the first possibility was more likely.
At that thought, she felt something she rarely experienced: fear.
If Folly wasn't worthy of standing alongside the gods, then what meaning did her actions have?
Hadn't they all been