Seeing the question in the mirror and feeling her friend's gaze at the same time, Fors's face instantly flushed crimson. Her whole body froze, as if she were a stone statue.
Fors only hoped that this was all a dream and that she could wake up quickly.
If it wasn't a dream, then let the world be destroyed! After mumbling like an ostrich for a while, Fors ultimately had to face reality.
She recalled Xio's earlier description of this Secret Art and steeled herself.
"I choose to accept the punishment."
At that moment, she deeply realized that she had vastly underestimated the threat of the "embarrassing questions" Xio had mentioned!
But just then, Fors saw the boundless Gray Fog and saw Mr. World assume a praying posture.
Immediately afterward, words entered her ears.
He wanted me to ask the Abraham Family whether they had the formula for the starting Sequence potion of the Savant Pathway? He could trade any two formulas among Spectator, Bard, Hunter, Lawyer, Assassin, Apothecary, and Sleepless for it.
Two for one? Was Mr. World in urgent need of it?
While Fors was distracted, the lightning that had been gathering in the mirror vanished soundlessly before it could appear, as though it had never existed.
Only an illusory ray of light brushed past Fors's hair.
On the mirror's surface, the dark red words were suddenly dyed silver-white and rapidly changed into new content, as if it were in a hurry:
"Today's Q&A ends here. Goodbye!"
Before Fors and Xio could react, the rippling light within the mirror instantly calmed. The room's gloom and darkness shattered, swallowed by the candlelight.
"What about the punishment?" Fors waited several seconds, blinked, and looked at the observing Xio.
Xio pointed at the top of her head.
"A ray of light brushed