The Bauhinia Sovereign's Earth Divine Clone, seated across from Matthews, also noticed Label, the Vermilion Bird Sovereign's granddaughter. A female Sovereign Emissary stood beside her.
Matthews took a small sip of wine. When a breeze lifted one corner of the curtain screening off their seats, he happened to glimpse an elegant, serene goddess. His heart stirred.
So this is what it feels like to fall for someone!
Matthews immediately rose and headed for the seat where the Bauhinia Sovereign's Earth Divine Clone sat. When he reached the curtain, he asked politely, "Matthews at your service. May I meet you?"
The Bauhinia Sovereign's emissary immediately broke into a cold sweat. She had been terribly careless. That damned Midgod had disturbed the Sovereign.
"Impudent!"
With a furious shout, she unleashed a soul attack, drawing on her Asura-level strength.
The soul attack shot straight into Matthews's soul. He used the electromagnetic ripples produced by his three-element Fusion Profound Mysteries to resist it, but found that they couldn't hold it back.
The attack broke through Matthews's defenses and surged toward the core of his soul sea, protected by the golden lotus. Before it could strike the soul core, the light radiating from the golden lotus annihilated it.
"Oh! A Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact?"
The Bauhinia Sovereign had already sensed that Label belonged to the Vermilion Bird family. Now, seeing Matthews's Soul Defense Sovereign Artifact, she assumed he was also a member of a Sovereign family.
"Enough! He's a member of a Sovereign family."
The Bauhinia Sovereign stopped her emissary's attack, then said to Matthews, "Come in."
From the effect of the soul attack, Matthews knew that the servant who had attacked him was powerful. He had planned to leave, but now the woman inside had invited him in.
After hesitating for a moment, he