"If that were all there was to it, I wouldn't necessarily have to install the Portal inside the cave..."
Before Yu Lin Bloodhawk could finish, Old Charlatan cut in. "You mean that fellow watching us in secret!"
"You knew too?" Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked in surprise, then felt rather foolish. Who was Old Charlatan? He was the most authoritative chief mage in the Hinterlands. Wouldn't it be absurd if even he couldn't detect magical fluctuations?
Sure enough, when Yu Lin Bloodhawk looked over, Old Charlatan was staring at him as though he were an idiot.
"Heh! Heh!" Yu Lin Bloodhawk rubbed his nose. "Of course you'd know without me telling you!"
Old Charlatan rolled his eyes, as if to say the brat had at least a little sense.
"Then you must know who he is, right?" Yu Lin Bloodhawk asked with a shameless, ingratiating smile.
"No!" Old Charlatan was utterly unmoved by Yu Lin Bloodhawk's insincere smile. His answer was as blunt and decisive as ever.
"It was such a little thing. You're still holding a grudge?" Yu Lin Bloodhawk was certain Old Charlatan was still angry. "How about... you give me another scolding to get it out of your system?"
Old Charlatan rolled his eyes at Yu Lin Bloodhawk. "What grudge? I don't know, and that's that!"
"No way!" Yu Lin Bloodhawk said skeptically. "There are things even you don't know?"
"I'm not a god. What's so strange about me not knowing something?" Old Charlatan's reasoning was perfectly sound.
Faced with Old Charlatan's compelling, unassailable reasoning, Yu Lin Bloodhawk actually found himself speechless!
"But that's a minor matter. If you don't want him to see it, that's simple enough. It isn't difficult at all," Old Charlatan suddenly added casually.
"He won't see it even if we build it outside?"