In the room behind the girl with twin ponytails, a silver-haired old man sat at a desk. He leaned forward with his hands clasped, brow furrowed, lost in thought.→
His gaze was deep, yet now and then a youthful innocence and clarity flashed in his eyes. Anyone who knew him well might have recognized a faint resemblance to Modi in his features—six or seven parts out of ten!
But Modi Ye Lijin, after Soul Fusion, did not care. He even enjoyed the sensation of years rushing over his body. It grounded him. Feeling his vitality ebb away at every moment assured him that he was still alive.
Just then, the door was shoved open from outside with a bang.
A tall old man in a suit barged in, his face grim. He had hurried over so fast that he was still panting, but he forced out the words: "This is bad! Sebolutes is dead!" He had expected the news to shock Modi Ye Lijin and the girl with twin ponytails on the balcony. All he got was an "Oh."
The old man was Ferdinand, a senior figure at Revolutionary Army headquarters. He had come to Stinnard through secret channels to coordinate the Intelligence Department under Sebolutes with the thirty thousand troops brought in by Void Airship. But before he was ready, the forces at Kolba Lake came under attack. Then word arrived from Marquis Belon: the more than ten thousand Holy Crusaders secretly allied with them had been wiped out.
Bad news came one blow after another, leaving him no time to catch his breath. Then came something even more shocking: Sebolutes, head of the Revolutionary Army Intelligence Department and a member of the Stinnard Lineage from the Rune Federation, was dead!
Others might not have known Sebolutes's true strength,