The favor she owed Russell weighed on her heart like a heavy stone, and now, she seemed to have found a perfect chance to repay it.
Yet when she tore through space and rushed after them, she discovered that the arrivals were not the Great Lord of Annihilation, a ravenous beast horde, or some other even more terrifying presence she had expected.
What she saw was an exquisitely crafted puppet girl, like a porcelain doll.
Beside her stood a Jiangnan woman in elegant, understated clothes. The oil-paper umbrella in her hand swayed gently, as though telling of Jiangnan's tenderness and poetry.
Herta and Ruan Mei.
The Wisdom Emissaries who had agreed to hunt the wolf with Russell.
Or rather, the programmers Russell had dumped at Pier Point.
The sight of those two appearing before her left Acheron stunned.
She remembered Russell saying that his abilities could influence space-time to a certain extent.
That meant he could have completely bypassed Herta and Ruan Mei, even spent a long time fooling around in plenty of other places.
So why had Herta and Ruan Mei come looking for him now?
Her heart immediately skipped a beat.
Russell was a beast half dragon, half wolf.
Forced by the divine power of the God of Harmony to split into dragon and wolf, he had entered the two factions of Hunt and Preservation, Abundance and Destruction.
In other words, the Great Lord of the Buli people who had whipped Herta across countless star systems, smacked her ass, and left a shoeprint on her face was Russell.
"I'm going to tear that damned wolf to pieces!!"
Remembering Herta's venomous oath made Acheron's scalp go numb.
It would have been fine if this had stayed hidden, but if it came out, wouldn't Herta go straight to war with