"Oh?" The emperor gave Nie Yun an appreciative look, his smile unchanged.
"If I'm not Goth Nineteen, who do you think I am?"
"Who spared no effort to prevent technological secrets from leaking? Who established this secret research institute? And who laid down special selection rules like the War God Code to make it easier to choose the finest bodies...
"Isn't the answer already obvious... Your Majesty Goth XVI!"
Everyone was stunned!
In fact, those reasons were not the most important grounds for Nie Yun's deduction.
What had led him to that conclusion was actually "Gaia's last words."
Through the Dawn Grand Duke, Nie Yun had once seen a recording from a thousand years ago.
Before Gaia died, Gaia had said one thing.
"Goth Sixteen! Round 999. You won this round, but you haven't truly won! An eternal curse... will follow you like your shadow..."
Nie Yun had previously wondered why Gaia had directed that accusation at the retired emperor Goth Sixteen, who had supposedly already kicked the bucket, when Goth Seventeen was clearly the one who had launched the war against the Machine Race.
Moreover, for a special life-form that was virtually immortal, using the word "eternal" to describe a Wulfian whose lifespan was only a few hundred years had always seemed somewhat incongruous.
But if Goth Sixteen and Goth Seventeen were the same person all along, and he had achieved a form of immortality through the unconventional method of "body possession," then everything made perfect sense!
Goth Sixteen was undoubtedly a ruthless man.
Ruthless toward himself, and even more ruthless toward his descendants!
"Oh? It seems you know more about me than I imagined." The emperor looked at Nie Yun in surprise.
His words were undoubtedly an indirect admission that Nie Yun's guess was correct.
"This..." Shock filled