"But how did you know?" Ball Ball tilted her head back and thought for ages, but still couldn't figure it out... even now that Gaia had made her move, she still couldn't make sense of the whole affair. "Surely she wasn't counting on Hill falling for her?"
Xue Yunfeng hesitated, then turned to look at her. "Have you got water in your brain?"
"Insult me all you like, but explain it properly!" Ball Ball, who had already thrown restraint to the wind, had no more inhibitions.
Xue Yunfeng let out a heavy breath... perhaps Susu's arrival had made that silly ball feel she no longer needed to shoulder so much responsibility, and she had reverted to her old habit of not using her brain.
The Demon Cult crowd were great in every other respect. They just loved slacking off too much.
They might fight like savages, but... they were also the first to lie down and play dead.
He shook his head helplessly. "Gaia has already lost much of her initiative.
"She certainly hasn't given up on Lucimar completely, so she must want to kill that newborn from Ismail House.
"But... with her power now limited to level 16... getting past an island full of Grand Sages won't be easy.
"The people of Damboro and Scarlet do scheme against one another, leaving openings she could exploit. But keeping that child safe benefits both sides... heh.
"The more favors Ismail owes, the better. The greater his betrayal of Damboro, the better.
"That child is living proof~"
Xue Yunfeng gave a couple of scornful chuckles. "Throughout history, anyone who plays politics has understood the art of threats and compromise."
Only then did he look up at the sky over Kane Valley and say solemnly, "We began to suspect that Gaia might be