Xu Zhi returned to the house Cloud City had left for her in the city center. She first checked that Yu Shenwei was acting normally, then returned to her room, took out the Game Console, and asked:
"Why do I feel like these Archbishops weren't as powerful as you said?"
[Something is wrong. These Archbishops really are far too weak.]
[Don't take Ye Yan's corpse out of the inventory. I'll need to inspect it later.]
"Was it because they were forcefully rushed into growth?"
[No.]
[.]
Narrator fell silent for a long time.
[The rules do not allow me to say too much.]
[But even if they were forcefully rushed into growth, an Archbishop is still an Archbishop. They should not be this frail.]
[Where did things go wrong?]
[After you capture Lust, do not kill him directly either.]
Something was indeed wrong. Based on Narrator's earlier descriptions, Archbishops were supposed to be formidable. Ye Yan and the others had been impressive enough, but they had not given Xu Zhi an overwhelming sense of pressure.
There had been moments when they made her feel troubled and hard to handle, but overall, they had not been nearly as strong as Narrator had made them sound.
".There sure are a lot of things the rules won't let you say."
"So the rules made these so-called Archbishops weaker?"
[No. The rules will not interfere with such matters. An anomaly has appeared.]
"What anomaly?"
[Everything that differs from common sense, I call an anomaly.]
[Ever since supernatural abilities awakened once more, many things have happened that I find very strange.]
[First of all, it was wrong from the very beginning for the mist to gather in Cloud City.]
[The Midnight rift should not have appeared in the city center either.]
[Secondly, the fact that