"Sister, I told you, this child of yours is unfit for anything important. The Divine Truth class 'Black River Guardian' will only slow our progress in his hands. Let me kill him?" The woman in sheer black gauze held a white stone between her slender fingers and gently placed it atop a black stone on the board as she spoke softly.
Seated opposite the woman in sheer black gauze was a coldly beautiful woman equipped with "Star Maiden's Hair (replica)." A nine-petaled lotus adorned her brow, starlight shone in her eyes, and her ten-thousand-meter hair of light fluttered in the wind. Viewed from afar, she possessed an indescribable air of sanctity and splendor. If Zhou Heng had been here, he would probably have instinctively called out "Karenna." Unfortunately, this woman was not Karenna. She merely looked exactly like her...
"He is my child, after all. Although he is prone to impulsiveness, ultimately, he only did something any child might do: keep things from his parents... Strip away his class. I will handle the rest myself..." The woman who looked exactly like Karenna placed a black stone, her gentle voice carrying an indescribable compassion and nobility. The instant her black stone landed, it overlapped another white stone just as strangely as the white stone in the black-gauze woman's hand had.
The woman in sheer black gauze chuckled, rose, and gathered her skirts in a bow before turning and vanishing from this space. "Kanda Iliya" had failed the final test. How could they-both those beings and those people-not have known about the many events in the Second Chapter? It had merely been a contest between them. Unfortunately, "Kanda Iliya" had chosen not to report it, missing his last chance at survival. Thus, only one path remained for "Kanda Iliya": death.
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