"----If this is what you wish, then I will act according to your will, Your Excellency."
After a long silence, Royce slowly spoke.
At this moment, the hostility in his gaze toward John had vanished, replaced entirely by the instinctive reverence mortals felt toward some unknown existence.
His intuition told him that compared to carrying out his family's orders to complete the cultivation of that monster, accepting the conditions John had offered might be more likely to fulfill his wish of redeeming his sister.
"Besides, I don't have a choice right now, do I?"
Looking at John, who had never displayed the slightest murderous intent but somehow gave him the feeling that his head would roll the moment he made a reckless move, Royce—
First took a deep breath, then raised his hand and pointed toward Anna. Without hesitation, he displayed his sincerity to John: "Just as you determined, Anna Splinter—or rather, Juliana Binote herself—is one of the 365 embryo cultivators selected by the Valdren Family, and she reached an agreement with the Splinter Family, which transferred her into the Loran Kingdom to prepare for the subsequent plan."
"Moreover, since I inherited only my mother's Malsen Family bloodline and did not inherit the Valdren Family's talent for the Unspoken Bond Spell—"
"Therefore, unlike my sister, who became a nurturer, responsible for observing the Child of Light Embryo in the dream world and imparting knowledge to it—"
"I could not move freely within the dream world, so the family selected me as a keeper. After the Valdren Family mentally rewrote the Hansen Family eighteen years ago, I became the Hansen Family's bloodline left outside the family, while also taking responsibility for guarding the embryo cultivator within the Hansen Family."
"But after Orco proposed the plan to establish the Special Operations Division,