Though their facial features were exactly the same, their expressions and tones of voice made it easy to tell they were two different people.
The giant in front might not have had much of a mind to speak of, but even as he roared and smashed people with a stone tablet, he still radiated an overwhelming kingly presence.
This newly appeared Gentleman on the Beam was the complete opposite. His eyes, as he looked over, were astonishingly lively, yet even with his entire face dangling there like a chandelier, he still gave off the sleazy air of someone spying from the shadows.
In fact, that was exactly what he had been doing earlier.
It was obvious that ever since the two of them had entered, he had been hiding in the shadows beneath the hall's dome, eavesdropping on their academic secrets.
And if calling him sleazy seemed overly subjective and unfair, there was another, more obvious reason to support the description: there was a reason he could play the part of a gentleman on the beam.
Unlike the Giant King's muscular limbs, this one might have had all four limbs, but they were genuinely thin as sticks.
His torso was built in the same style. At a glance, he looked like a spider hanging from the ceiling.
Of course, however unpleasant he was to look at, that one sentence had still contained a great deal of information, and couldn't be ignored.
"To be looking for the sea too"—for him to say that, a few things had to be true:
First, he knew about the sea. Second, he wanted to find it as well. And finally, having discovered two kindred spirits, he was quite interested in them and intended to cooperate—though that didn't mean he would keep sharing information selflessly.
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