Li was taken aback when he heard Zeref say that. Going by what Zeref had said, his son truly was a genius—a genius among geniuses...
But how could such a genius possibly exist in this world?
That left only one possibility: someone had implanted this Holy Mark into Bradman's memories. That was already beyond Li's capabilities. Even if his raw strength were sufficient, he did not possess that kind of technique.
Seeing that Li had nothing to say, Zeref sighed and slowly lifted Bradman up. With a casual wave, a massive black hole opened in the air. Without the slightest pity, Zeref threw Bradman into it before saying to Li, "You can think about Mavis's body."
Then Zeref vanished directly into that black opening.
Li merely sneered. If it were really that easy, why didn't Zeref do it himself?
Li let out a faint sigh and walked into the inn...
The next day, Li was awakened by Invel. Most of the people in the inn were still sprawled on the floor, with only a few A-rank mercenaries awake. According to Invel, no one knew why everyone had suddenly fallen asleep the previous night, as though some kind of magic had been cast on them.
Li sneered inwardly. As if any of these people could resist the sleep magic I cast!
After most people had woken up, White Turtledove and Uther immediately organized everyone to check whether anything was missing. In truth, the expressions of these two old hands were rather unpleasant.
The previous night, Li had cast both sleep magic and memory-alteration magic on everyone. Normally, those two spells should not have worked on A-rank mercenaries.
But Li was far stronger than them. Almost instantly, every one of them had fallen victim to the spells.
Only then had Li gone