Jade Soul Master?
After all that planning, we'd finally gotten a potentially crucial piece of information from old man Stos.
But while that was certainly encouraging, wasn't the title a little too strange?
Fu Qian wasn't the only one who thought so. Among the many listeners hoping to catch a juicy secret, more than one was left blinking in surprise.
"It does sound strange, but that's what he calls himself."
Fortunately, Lord Stos was considerate enough to explain without waiting for anyone to ask.
"As for his real name, he said he'd forgotten it long ago. I didn't press him."
For a big shot in the Night Watchers, he was surprisingly easygoing.
To be honest, old man Stos's explanation seemed a little out of character.
"An ordinary person?"
Fu Qian didn't rush to question him. Instead, he tried to use that detail to work out a possibility.
The reasoning was simple. He could say he hadn't been in this world for long, but Aiko and the others were all seasoned supernatural practitioners.
If the supernatural world really had a powerful figure with such an unusual title, they probably wouldn't all have never heard of him.
"He wasn't a supernatural practitioner, but in some ways, he wasn't ordinary either."
The next moment, Stos confirmed Fu Qian's guess, though his expression showed a trace of oddness as he spoke.
Just as I thought. They probably wouldn't be so lenient with a supernatural practitioner, but an ordinary person was another matter. The Night Watchers had always been rather accommodating in that regard.
With his guess confirmed, Fu Qian grew even more curious about what made the man extraordinary.
To earn such high praise from a Second Order, he clearly had to have something special.
"It's nothing particularly secret. We agreed to talk about