Daenerys did not have the bad habit of keeping people in suspense and directly answered Fireball Li's question.
"Although a 'blank divine authority' allows its holder to accumulate divinity as one favored by the gods, the authority's keywords still need to be filled in by the holder themselves."
"Matilda's authority keywords were completed with Black Whale's help."
"Oh, what were they?" Fireball Li's curiosity was piqued, and he instinctively pressed for an answer.
"Justice," Daenerys said.
"That was Black Whale's final gift to Matilda, and also the final barrier he set up to preserve the Neptune Domain."
"Justice..." Fireball Li rolled the word over in his mind, recalling the scene he had seen in the memory crystal.
The scene where Octopus Lady, in her capacity as planetary governor of Haizhuobolia, sentenced Black Whale to death.
At the time, he had wondered why the plot had taken such a sharp turn. One second they were all lovey-dovey, and the next she was trying to kill him outright.
Apparently, he really had skipped quite a few crucial parts of the story.
Yet in Octopus Lady's accusations back then, she had said that Black Whale had colluded with Azure Wave and conspired with monsters, severely harming Haizhuobolia's interests.
No matter how he looked at it, Black Whale had seemed guilty beyond redemption—a villain who could not be forgiven.
But from Daenerys's account, he instead seemed like a hero steeped in tragedy?
He had helped complete the keywords of the divine authority.
And he had also set up the final barrier protecting the Neptune Domain's continued existence.
If this Black Whale fellow had been so outstanding, then why had Octopus Lady wanted him dead?
It couldn't have been because their marriage was unhappy, could it?
From the parts he had seen in the memory