If Cheng Shi had never presided over the Truth Limit experiment, he would never have recognized that this thing looked exactly like the star at the very center of Truth Limit. But in its current state, it looked more like a frozen star.
Fine frost covered the star from end to end, as if the celestial body had entered an ice age.
"!!??"
Why would a refugee be hiding something like this?
Cheng Shi was stunned. He did not rush to take it. Instead, he cautiously backed away and frantically scanned his surroundings. Only after confirming that no one was lying in ambush did he use the Finger Bone Brooch on the charred corpse in the distance.
From far away, he asked only one question:
"You're... Volunt?"
Driven by the corpse's ghastly green and deep blue radiance, it opened its mouth and rasped, "Yes."
"...Huh?"
Cheng Shi's pupils contracted sharply.
Although he had guessed it, wasn't this a little too absurd?
What was going on? He had casually killed an NPC he had stopped to ask for directions, only to discover that it was Volunt, the number-one Grand Scholar of the Scholarly Council—and it had even dropped the Truth Ritual?
Then this frozen star had to be the Truth Ritual, right?
Was this right?
What kind of ridiculous protagonist luck was this?
Cheng Shi was dumbfounded, but the next moment, his expression brightened!
After repeatedly confirming that there was nothing unusual nearby, he dashed over, picked up the Truth Ritual in its "cooldown" state, stuffed it into his personal storage, and then blasted Volunt's corpse into ashes with two consecutive bolts of lightning.
Now, no one would be able to tell that a Grand Scholar had ever appeared here.
Cheng Shi beamed with satisfaction. His greatest harvest from the Special