Chapter 3085: Her issue number
Hearing the words "door guard."
The Shadow Cat's face immediately fell.
"Security consultant! I'm a security consultant! Not a door guard!"
It angrily corrected the witch's wording, the tip of its tail swaying irritably behind it. After a brief pause, it added, "As for why... while I was checking the entrance today, I saw your Great Sprite leading a delegation from some remote star region inside. So I paid them a little extra attention. Then I caught a strong scent on them—well, the scent of Reincarnators..."
"The scent of Reincarnators?"
"It's that inhuman quality produced after cognition and existence have been repeatedly reconstructed... They're neither puppets nor wizards. They look like living people, yet also like the dead. Others might not recognize it, but I'm far too familiar with it. Although they differ in certain dimensions... they gave off a bloody smell entirely unlike that of Dark Wizards, yet deeper and purer than blood itself... And there was the excessively dense accumulation of time lingering around them. Magic of that sort isn't something Registered Wizards from remote regions can casually come into contact with, let alone a group of ordinary folk. Do you know what I thought of when I saw them? A group of veterans taking newcomers into a Mission World to carry out a mission!"
Tilting its head, the Shadow Cat looked through the towering floor-to-ceiling glass wall at the endless field of "light spheres" below, slightly emphasizing its next words. "And there was that sense of alienation from an unknown world..."
"Wizards from a remote star region with no experiences, visiting Puji Island for the first time, would naturally feel alienated, wouldn't they?" The witch tried to find another explanation.
The Shadow Cat shook its head. "I can tell restraint from alienation.