What exactly were Immortals?
Many people knew of the Nevernight Palace Queen, knew of the Covenant's Alliance Master,
But across the entire Night Battle world, nearly ninety percent of participants knew nothing of Immortals. And among the remaining ten percent who did,
Nearly ninety percent regarded them merely as an exaggerated, illusory legend.
Strength, rank, seniority, fate—limited by such conditions, only the rarest among the rare could learn information regarding "Immortals."
The founder of Midnight,
The one who commanded all Night Watchers,
Whose number of A-rank Upper Tiers nearly matched the total of the outside world,
Who could create an all-encompassing independent space like Midnight,
Who had already existed during the ignorant, chaotic era of the Night Battle world, long before the Covenant and Nevernight Palace,
No one knew where he had come from.
Even among the very few who knew of him, perhaps hardly any had been fortunate enough to meet the Immortal himself. Yet at this moment, he stood right before Fang Ran.
Fang Ran no longer knew how to describe the feeling of "facing a legend" that filled him at that moment.
At the top floor of the Sky Palace above the Mediterranean Sea, Van Helsing had already been the most unreachable person he had ever met.
Justice, conviction, selflessness. Every positive impression woven into a woman's magnificent presence—wisdom, breadth of mind, vision, and every other kind of greatness—could only be described as light.
It had made Fang Ran feel that she was the pinnacle a "human" could reach, that no one could surpass that Queen.
He still felt that way now. Because unlike Van Helsing, the Immortal possessed none of those radiant qualities. The figure before him at that moment
Had only an utter transcendence, an absolute transcendence.
Was this Immortal truly "human"?
The shock to