Actually...
It was not only the audience in the Eden guild hall who were following Ling Zhan's every move.
In the office at the very top of this enormous clock tower, several figures sat with their fingers interlaced, watching the footage projected by several AI aerial projectors with astonishment on their faces.
If the front-desk manager had been here,
she surely would have recognized that these people watching the livestream coverage were Eden's senior leaders.
These high-ranking officials came in all shapes and sizes.
One had a body as towering as a mountain; at a glance, he could be identified as a giant.
Another was short but thickly muscled, wearing a felt hat—clearly a dwarf.
The bespectacled woman seated at the head of the round table had exquisite features and a mature, seductive air.
Her long, slender legs were wrapped in black stockings, lending her an even more bewitching presence.
She wore an enormous witch's hat, yet beneath it, her lovely, watery eyes were ringed with dark circles. She looked somewhat haggard, clearly from a lack of rest.
At this moment,
she looked at her subordinates with extreme displeasure and said resentfully,
"Are all of you out of your minds?"
"I spent half a month researching the Runic Secret Curse without sleep or rest. I finally cracked its secrets, and just as I was about to lie down and rest, you dragged me here..."
"Just to watch a low-level Secret Realm raid livestream!?"
As soon as the woman voiced her complaint,
the senior officials exchanged glances and all gave wry smiles.
In the entire guild, only this old woman...
Oh, no, only this witch dared to speak to them like that.
Of the people present,
the giant senior official was named Kroll, an S-rank instructor of Eden.
The middle-aged dwarf