Lady Greenfen's slender, fair fingers tapped heavily against the tabletop, and her expression turned incomparably grave.
She knew Alda had deliberately shouted out those terms for her to hear. And it was not only her who had heard them—her personal maids, guards, and others nearby had heard them too. Given Lady Greenfen's understanding of them, Alda's roaring words had surely already reached many ears.
Slowly rising to her feet, Lady Greenfen entered the dressing room beside her bedroom. Before a huge full-length mirror made from natural crystal, she removed the thin, soft gown that clung to her as lightly as a second skin.
Ripples spread across the mirror's surface, and pale golden divine light shone through it, filling the entire dressing room like waves of water.
Lin Qi's body suddenly trembled. His spiritual perception covered all of Number Thirty-Eight Silver Oak Street; not the slightest fluctuation of energy within the estate could escape his powerful senses. Lin Qi's spiritual power was enough to contend with a demigod. Although Lady Greenfen had set up numerous magic arrays inside and outside the estate to conceal auras, they were utterly useless beneath the sweep of Lin Qi's spiritual perception.
"Bilibili!" Lin Qi lightly pointed in the direction from which that unpleasant divine aura was coming.
A fluctuation of divine power—the distinctive divine power fluctuation of the Church. For the moment, it was impossible to tell which god this power belonged to, but the pale golden radiance reflected in Lin Qi's spiritual mirror had already revealed its origin.
Behind Lady Greenfen stood a major figure of the Church! Lin Qi smiled coldly. This Lady Greenfen truly was interesting. Her seven marriages had brought her immense wealth and great renown within the aristocratic circles of the Western Continent. Her reputation had even made her a