One of them asked quietly, "Hey, Director, did we somehow reveal our strength just now?"
"I don't know..."
At this point, Feng Donghan could not make sense of it either. He shook his head numbly.
"...Didn't the Domain Master say that as long as we didn't attack, even he couldn't tell exactly how strong we were?"
Silence followed those words.
They had all heard what the Domain Master had said, but none knew how to respond. The woman before them was simply too strange.
Everyone's mind raced.
Either the Domain Master had lied to them, or this woman was even stronger than he was.
But why would the Domain Master need to lie to them about something so trivial?
And so an unbelievable thought surfaced in their minds.
Their gazes grew even more horrified as they looked at the woman.
The woman paid no attention to their fear and merely continued, "Sending elite troops straight into a new Safe Zone without even probing its defenses, crushing everything with overwhelming force... That isn't how a powerful invader should act. It looks more like caution born from a painful lesson. Judging by that approach, you must have suffered losses during a domain merge in another [evolutionary sequence domain]."
The woman looked at Feng Donghan. "So Sima Ji of the Seventh Domain held off the invaders from the other domains and survived?"
Her words struck them like a thunderclap inside their heads.
She seemed unaware of what had happened in the [evolutionary origin domain] over the years, as though she were merely a native of the Eighth Domain.
Yet she had correctly described what had happened, and had even spoken Sima Ji's name!
As the Domain Master of the Seventh Domain, Sima Ji had defied his fate. He had repelled the attacking forces