The House in a Book had never imagined that the being before it, whose true appearance it could not glimpse and whose presence filled it with terror, was the Ke Meng it had once known.
Ke Meng had been a uniquely gifted recruit of the Koi Continent Investigation Bureau. His innate ability gave him a certain chance of producing Special Items each day, and the Investigation Bureau had designated him its most important strategic asset.
"Are you really Ke Meng? You're not a Traveler imitating his voice to trick me, are you?"
The House in a Book was far from powerful now. Whenever it recovered a little strength, the Void Traveler would come to feed on it at regular intervals.
Its spirits were utterly crushed. Faced with a transcendent being like Ke Meng, whose face it could not make out, it instinctively felt awe.
"I am Ke Meng. There's no need to doubt it."
Ke Meng's face shifted, forming a likeness of himself that others could look at.
His divine body could not be viewed directly, so Ke Meng could only use magic power to simulate his face for others to see.
The House in a Book remained skeptical. Although its strength had declined, its discernment remained, and it could tell that Ke Meng had just used some ability to simulate his appearance.
"What are you here for? To see how pathetic I've become, or to take revenge?"
The House in a Book felt deeply humiliated. Big-Faced Cat had once judged it capable of potentially becoming an omniscient, omnipotent god.
Now it finally understood. It had remembered only "omniscient and omnipotent," forgetting that "potentially" was the most important word.
Potentially meant it could fall along the way, just as it meant it could attain godhood after overcoming its trials.
Now