Oh, right.
Valens suddenly remembered a scene.
Over a year ago, he had been ordered to investigate a suspected Living Saint who had appeared on Baal. There, in that mortal Guard Army regiment, he had sat on one side of a table, with a young man opposite him. The young man wore a grayish-yellow uniform with the regiment's insignia on his chest. He was the newly rising Chief Librarian of a mortal regiment.
The young man had been very young, his face not yet fully mature, but his eyes were bright. Sitting opposite Valens, he had lowered his head to smell his coffee.
That pureblood descendant of an ancient Terran dynasty-a claim that sounded absurd, yet might actually have been true.
What had that young man's name been again?
Right! Lin En!
It had only been a little over a year since they last met.
Who would have thought that young fellow would become the Emperor's emissary?
The three Lord Inquisitors sitting opposite him watched him and knew he had remembered too. "Yes, it is Lord Lin En of the Baal Guard, the one you went to investigate back then."
It seemed Valens had a very good impression of Lin En.
That surely meant there had been no conflict between them.
Sending Valens on this mission had indeed been the best decision.
The Lord Inquisitor in the middle pushed the report across to Valens.
Valens lowered his head and glanced at it.
Lin En, the Emperor's emissary. Bolomite. The Purple Carapace Chapter...
Although he had already heard the news, seeing it again brought a fresh shock. Documents on paper always carried more impact than a spoken account.
The Lord Inquisitor laid out the mission, choosing his words as he spoke. "You represent the Inquisition."
The voice of the Lord Inquisitor