Medivh's sigh startled Audrey awake.
She turned her head and saw Medivh reading with her back as his desk, looking at her with a reproachful gaze.
Medivh smiled and clapped his hands, turning Audrey's reproachful gaze into one of tender affection.
With no wars to fight, Medivh strengthened the Bone Spirit Substitutes on the production line to Mid-Grade Yellow Bone, then continued his solitary cultivation.
"Medivh, how long have we known each other?"
One day, after finishing his meditation and cultivation with a Sublimation Potion, Medivh passed a maid's room and saw a visitor inside.
At the visitor's greeting, Medivh noticed Freya in the room. It belonged to Mingyue, the Spirit Cat maid.
Mingyue was the little cat girl who had introduced Freya to skewers during her tour to learn about the people's lives, then cried from the spicy fried chicken and still wanted more.
After coming of age, Mingyue became a Spirit Cat Warlock. Through an introduction from Suixin, the leader of the Spirit Cat Warlocks, she fulfilled her dream of becoming a High Tower Maid and serving Medivh.
Mingyue the Spirit Cat Warlock and Freya were good friends.
She often invited Freya over and showed off her cooking skills.
"Almost twenty-five years."
Medivh took the milk tea Mingyue offered and recalled when the Church of Light had arrived before answering.
He looked a little puzzled, unsure why Freya had suddenly asked.
"Right. Twenty-five years, just like that."
"Medivh, in all these years, have there been times when you didn't see me as a Light Priest?"
Freya murmured, then suddenly changed the subject and asked a somewhat intimate question.
In all those twenty-five years, had Medivh always treated her as a Watcher for the Church of Light, or had he ever thought of her as a friend?
"Huh?"
Medivh