"Worse?"
"Tell me. Let's see how much worse it could possibly get."
Xu Zhi was intrigued. The situation was already terrible enough—how much worse could it get?
[I examined Ye Yan's corpse. Although the foundation of his Archbishop path had been destroyed by you, I could still detect traces of its lingering aura.]
[I then discovered that the aura of this Pride foundation was much like what we had discussed before—extremely... weak.]
"Was it because it had already been shattered?" Xu Zhi asked curiously.
[That is part of the reason, but more importantly, perhaps it was never strong enough to begin with.]
It had never been strong enough to begin with?
"Why?"
[Because this is incomplete—a false Archbishop foundation forcibly created.]
Xu Zhi:?
"What do you mean? Explain it clearly."
[Just as the fragment you absorbed was a fragment of...]
The Narrator skipped over certain words.
[Ye Yan's Archbishop foundation was likewise created from a fragment of a true Archbishop foundation.]
[Rather than calling him an Archbishop, it would be more accurate to say he was a puppet carrying the aura of a true Archbishop.]
[Because the foundation was incomplete, although he held the rank of Archbishop, he simply could not obtain many abilities.]
[Even when I examined whether that foundation was real, the answer I received was still that it was indeed the path of an Archbishop.]
[Everything about it looked genuine. Only his strength and the weak aura deep within the foundation exposed the fact that he was an imitation.]
"...You can do that?"
[...No, this has never been done before. That is why I think things may have become worse.]
[Because this is a massive anomaly that cannot be ignored.]
[I fear that not only Ye Yan, but the Archbishop foundations encountered by the other Archbishops as