Adolf smiled faintly. "Ah, it's you, Kun-Kun. It's been a while. You must have come for a reason."
Lei Saku's cheek twitched. At my age, is that really an appropriate way to address me?
Lei Saku said respectfully, "The Great Emperor sent me to discuss something with you."
"Recently, a genius named Chen Luo appeared out of nowhere. His talent for Space is unmatched, and he also has a time-type crystal."
Lei Saku lowered his voice. "The Great Emperor suspects that Chen Luo's time-type crystal is innate as well."
Adolf, who had been perfectly composed, suddenly stiffened and blurted out, "What? Innate time and space?"
Lei Saku nodded. "Not long after obtaining his Time Crystal, Chen Luo mastered Time Stop. The Great Emperor suspects that he used Time Acceleration to advance to Demigod so quickly."
"Otherwise, how could Chen Luo, a native from some remote backwater, have reached Demigod in such a short time? Even if we trained someone personally, taking them from nothing to Demigod would take a very long time."
"You know how difficult it is for someone with an acquired Time ability to comprehend a time esper ability. Yet Chen Luo mastered Time Stop, and possibly Time Acceleration as well."
The light in Adolf's eyes flickered.
He knew a little more. A spacetime-type ability was hardly so easy to obtain. If someone's first attribute was Time, the odds of their second being Space were far worse than one in several thousand.
Like two magnetic poles, they repelled each other.
Lei Saku continued, "If that were all, we could let it go. But Chen Luo is greedy, cunning, and utterly brazen. He dared to cause havoc in the Imperial Capital, slapped Lei Saiyin in front of a crowd, and uprooted the Enlightenment Tree and took it away."
"What