"So this was what it felt like to peek into secrets?"
Xu Zhi was slightly dazed. Even though that heart-stopping sensation had already faded, the lingering fear remained.
[Yes. So you must learn to watch your words when it comes to topics that might touch upon secrets.]
"Fine." The girl sighed, finally understanding why the Narrator always spoke in riddles.
Xu Zhi sorted through the information she currently knew. The supreme being of the Cup attribute was already reviving. It had made certain arrangements long ago, causing the mist to gather in Cloud City, and that Midnight fissure was very likely one step in those arrangements. It was simply that Xu Zhi had ruined that step.
Moreover, for some reason—perhaps because of its plans, or perhaps because something had happened that made it unable to do so—the Archbishops that had appeared so far were all defective products.
Whether Xu Zhi killed those defective products or seized those counterfeit Paths, she had in fact been sabotaging its plans.
That also meant the grudge between her and it had grown even deeper.
"...Hiss. If it can move freely, I'll definitely be the first person it kills, right?"
[Good that you know. That is why I said things have become even worse.]
[No matter what caused the current Archbishops to all be defective products, it must have been its doing. And the existence of these defective products only proves that it is plotting something enormous.]
[Even for that purpose, there was no need to go this far.]
"What purpose?" Xu Zhi poked her head out curiously.
[Shh.]
"Watch my words, I get it, I get it. Can't you give me a hint?" Xu Zhi refused to give up.
After thinking for a while, the Narrator did give her a hint.
[For living things,