Everything Here Remained as It Was

Fang Ran stood there speechless, watching as he trailed off at the end, slightly embarrassed and swallowing back what he had said at the beginning.

Meng Lang could not bear to keep "listening" and slapped a hand over his face, finally getting some idea of what that scene had looked like.

"Alright, I can probably imagine it now."

"But Captain, were you really okay facing an opponent like that?"

This Nevernight Palace operation in the Arctic had not become known throughout the Night Battle world the way the Covenant's operation at the Night Pearl in the Pacific Ocean had.

As for the details of the Arctic battlefield—especially the fact that the Nevernight Palace Queen had appeared and was ultimately forced back—only the three forces present and a very small number of others knew about it.

So when Gou Yu asked that, Fang Ran's gaze drifted slightly, and he drew out his voice as though it were difficult to say.

"Ah, that... I was fine, I was fine. I was pretty strong back then, so dealing with one or two Zero Knights wasn't much of a problem."

Though that was because he could not reveal the secret of "Infinity."

Besides, even if I told the truth here—"Hey, I completely crushed everyone there except the Nevernight Palace Queen"—Brother Meng and Xiao Huo probably wouldn't believe me.

"Yeah, Xiao Huo. Don't let the way he looks fool you. He did at least get himself a Song of the Wanderers title by riding someone else's coattails."

Having witnessed how utterly useless Fang Ran had been when he first dragged him through a supermarket, Meng Lang felt deeply melancholy over the fact that even "someone like this kid" had A-rank strength.

He felt like he might have spent all these years living worse than a