Sure enough, it was time for my favorite part: the mission.
Just what I wanted!
"Oh, what rat?"
Faced with Henry's condition, Fu Qian showed no displeasure.
Given the situation, there was no need to keep provoking the old man.
He'd already taken the provocation to the limit, from his words and actions to the terrifying implication that he was playing with fire by using Yuan Shan's ignorance of his true strength. And yet, the results were still underwhelming.
That vortex was merely a glimpse of the power Henry wielded as a possible oathsworn.
And even that had been distorted.
Henry's self-deprecating claim that he was a defiled one had been quite honest.
From the feeling he'd had when struck by the vortex, this man was definitely a festering sore on the Rainbow of Yao Bian.
All things considered, he couldn't provoke Henry any further. Since that had gotten him nowhere, he might as well take care of something else first—find out how the legendary Midas would become reality, so he could gain full control of the mission and ensure he could choose to complete it whenever he wished.
"His name is Midas, a shameless thief of fortune."
As it turned out, old man Henry hadn't changed his conditions. He soon went over Midas's misdeeds again.
Of course, by using this to test Fu Qian, he showed that despite what he'd said, he still hadn't ruled out the possibility that Fu Qian had been corrupted.
It was only natural.
Imagine a Second Order Transcendent who kept his identity secret and lay low, then happened to cross paths with his precious student. He upheld justice and defended world peace, and one day casually asked whether she knew who the Rainbow of Yao Bian was.
Even if he really were a