"The so-called right path is the one you believe in without a doubt."
He leaped down.
Mei watched Lin Cong descend from the high-rise skyline, while Elysia stood atop the building, waved at her, then stepped back and vanished from sight.
She turned her gaze to the helmeted figure before her, clad from head to toe in weapons. His attire was different from usual once again.
Pistols, rifles, daggers, long blades... all kinds of weapons hung from his body, yet he did not look cumbersome. Perhaps it was because merely standing there, Lin gave off the oppressive feeling that every weapon on him could fire at once.
So this was what Lin usually looked like in battle.
Then a fight was unavoidable.
Lin did not attack right away. Instead, he straightened up and said to Mei, "Visitors can gain recognition and gifts from any Flame-Chaser, then accomplish their purpose for coming here and leave. But they cannot obtain anything from me."
"The only reason I appear before visitors is to assess whether they pose a threat to the Imaginary Tree."
In other words, Venerable Lord Kevin outside the Imaginary Tree was the first checkpoint, while Lin filled that role within the Imaginary Tree.
"But you still offered visitors help instead of simply ignoring them after your assessment." Mei did not draw her blade immediately either. She met Lin's gaze evenly. That unchanging helmet seemed to have become his symbol, but Mei knew it was absolutely not Lin's real face. "Lin, I have seen you as a child, and I learned of you after you grew up from Raven. I believe that no matter which version of you it is, you would not become a 'traitor to humanity.'"
"So, can you tell me the answer I need?"
Everything about you,