If all that had merely shocked him, what happened next began to give Sidney a headache.
"You're saying you made this thing?"
Sidney looked at Holly in disbelief.
"Yes."
Holly nodded, and a trace of something unusual actually crossed her normally expressionless face.
Before Sidney sat an ugly Mechanical Monkey.
Holly picked it up, wound the clockwork on its back a few turns, then set it on the table.
The Mechanical Monkey seemed to come alive. Its eyelids lifted, and the gongs it held in both hands slowly clapped together.
Then its movements grew increasingly animated, and it began banging the gongs nonstop.
To a Machine Priest, this was no impressive creation, merely a crude toy.
The Sages in the fleet could casually whip up several of them.
But Holly wasn't a member of the Reforging Flame. She was Sidney's adjutant, and naturally followed the Royal Family's [Justice] Path!
Besides, she and Sidney had grown up together. How could Sidney not know her level of mechanical expertise?
"You betrayed me and went over to Elliot?" Sidney's eyes widened.
A crack appeared in Holly's composed expression, and her face twitched. "Your Highness, stop joking."
It was indeed a joke, because even if Holly really had joined the Reforging Flame, she couldn't follow the [Indomitability] Path.
Once a Path was determined, it could never be changed. After taking the first step, there was no turning back.
Even if she really did enter Elliot's service, she couldn't become a Machine Priest. She would still only be able to use the abilities of the [Justice] Path, and her betrayal would even cause any attempt to use the Formless Art to fail automatically.
"Then are you actually some ancient being who only stayed hidden at my side because you lost your memories, and now you've