Zhent politely smiled as he saw Zatanna and Kara off.
Once the two had completely vanished from sight, the smile on Zhent's face instantly disappeared. He stood there gritting his teeth, his temples twitching faintly.
When Zatanna and Kara had said goodbye to Rachel that day, he had heard the two women agree to visit Rachel's new house whenever they had time.
He had originally assumed it was merely polite small talk.
Yet those two women actually came running over every other day.
As a result, whenever Zhent wanted to quietly go do something, he could never get farther than twenty miles from the seaside villa.
Zhent had not spent the past few centuries accomplishing nothing. He had learned a few tricks through Parallax's consciousness.
But the Emperor had been overly confident in his physical strength, and for all those strange techniques he looked down on from the bottom of his heart, he had only learned the basics without mastering any of them.
After hypnotizing Rachel, the only person who might expose his identity through his soul age, Zhent had planned to make a grand showing on Earth. Instead, Zatanna and Kara's visits every few days had driven him to the brink of annoyance.
He could briefly control Rachel through interference from fear energy, but that control had a certain range limit.
Once he exceeded twenty miles, the control would be severed, and Rachel would immediately collapse into sleep.
To avoid Zatanna noticing anything strange, Zhent could only remain constantly on guard against the two women's repeated intrusions.
Fortunately, Rachel herself was a quiet, expressionless girl with little presence. All he had to do was make Rachel sit on the sofa and listen to Zatanna and Kara chatter away, then control her to nod or give a brief response once