"Lady Ji Yue, I need an explanation!" Still in that reception room, the man maintained an neither servile nor overbearing tone as he questioned the girl opposite him.
"You said our C Plan could succeed!"
"Hasn't it succeeded?" Ji Yue replied with a sweet laugh. "With human strength, you clothed a great existence in an outer shell, and it lasted for twenty-three seconds. That was a magnificent feat. For humanity, doesn't that count as success?"
"But you said we could delay it for a while!" The man's tone grew sterner, as though he intended to pressure Ji Yue.
"That's right—ten seconds in total. Humanity held back Gheros's invasion for ten seconds, delaying the arrival of the final day by ten seconds. Even with my assistance and Nyogtha's power involved, that still counts as the pinnacle achievement of humanity in this era. You've truly made us see you in a new light!"
"Sure enough, even if your current body is human, even if you've always appeared rather friendly toward humanity, your essence still stands high above us, looking down on humans as gods look down on worms," the man said angrily.
"There is no looking down, sir." Ji Yue did not seem offended in the slightest. She said softly, "I am one, and I am all. Strictly speaking, I am also you. So I do not look down on anything in this world, because it is all myself."
"Everything I said was merely the truth." Ji Yue rose to her feet, still smiling. The surrounding space began to tremble, and the lights overhead flickered.
The entire roof was torn away, and an enormous emerald lizard appeared before them. Of course, the green lizard was merely what humans saw; viewed from a deeper perspective, one would discover the indescribable thing within it.