After the meeting came the celebration ceremony Ye Chao had specially prepared for the various races. With media outlets from all sides deliberately broadcasting it, the event began with a grand military parade, followed by distinctive performances from each civilization—the Three-Eyed Protoss exchanging divine light beams, the Galactic Republic staging robot warfare, the True Immortal Clan dueling with spells.
What everyone sought was spectacle. With the power of heaven and earth being used for performances, the results were naturally imaginable...
Yet Robert, originally the lowest-ranking person among them, sat in the very center of the audience. Ye Luo disliked attending such purely ceremonial events and had not come. As his father-in-law, Robert naturally became the most important figure present. Even the Copenhagen Speaker, who had once dismissed him with contempt, now had no choice but to lower his head and fawn over him. Even if he did not wish to flatter Robert, he still had to force a stiff smile and keep him company.
When had Robert ever received such treatment? Although the emperor of the Keren Kingdom had shown him considerable courtesy because of Ye Luo, Robert had never left his planet and found it difficult to fully grasp the Zerg's current power. Here, figures who could overturn the entire Keren Kingdom with a single cough behaved like clowns, currying favor with him and Constantine. Robert felt as though he had fallen into a dream.
What he felt most was not the honor and vanity of his rapidly elevated status, but shock and admiration. Naturally, all of it was directed at Ye Luo.
He and Ye Luo had both come from the Keren Kingdom. Back then, he had even laid an ambush that had nearly killed Ye Luo. No one had known Ye Luo earlier than he had—known that