Just then...
The City Lord's voice came through.
"Yang Yong, don't be nervous."
Her voice remained cool and calm, as though she were discussing something trivial:
"The Mechanical City is checking whether curses have been planted in them."
"Checking whether they..."
"Are still loyal to the human race."
Yang Yong froze.
The flames flickered a few times over his fists but did not go out.
After a moment's thought, he raised a question:
"You mean the Second Elder... and those other elders are all like He Jie?"
"They've already joined the Eerie's side?"
"Yes."
The City Lord's pleasant voice came through as she softly explained to Yang Yong:
"The Mechanical City was originally the wreckage of a weapon left behind by a powerful being."
"It holds a profound affinity for this world."
"It will never allow Eerie forces to lay their hands on this world."
Yang Yong immediately caught the key point.
Staring at the City Lord's profile on the Light Screen, he asked the most crucial question:
"You seem..."
"Not to be human either, are you?"
Every muscle in Yang Yong's body tensed as he asked this.
He was gambling.
Gambling that this City Lord would answer.
And gambling...
That he would not become the next cloud of blood mist.
Yang Yong had expected the City Lord of the Mechanical City to avoid the subject.
To his surprise...
She answered him directly.
Her voice was so calm that she seemed to be telling someone else's story.
"That's right. I'm not."
"I was originally a member of a Starry Sky Race, murdered by my older sister."
"My name is Sevian. I am a princess of our race."
"She, my older sister, feared that my father, the emperor, would find out after she murdered me, so she used a secret