"That Minotaur has quite a bit of talent."
After Kane and Annie left, a voice abruptly sounded beside Dunn's ear, but he was not surprised in the least. In all of Campbell City-indeed, all of Campbell Island-
There was only one person who could appear beside Dunn without a sound: Pearl!
"He really is strong. Even though he was very deferential, he still gave me a sense of mortal danger."
After Kane arrived, Dunn had fully extended his perception. Normally, this was an extremely serious provocation toward another expert of the same tier.
After all, even when a Perception Classholder extended their perception without restraint to probe someone else, a Classholder of the same tier could hardly fail to notice.
This sort of invasion of privacy was generally tantamount to a declaration of war.
Yet Kane had shown no reaction to Dunn's perception, as though he had not noticed what Dunn was doing.
Of course, Kane had noticed what Dunn was doing.
But for Kane, and for the entire Minotaur race, this sort of thing was commonplace.
After all, lesser races had no human rights.
"That Minotaur is indeed stronger than you right now, but that wasn't what I meant."
Pearl lit his pipe and took a deep drag. Dunn was not sure whether he was imagining it, but he heard something hard to describe in Pearl's tone.
"What did you mean, then?"
"He's not far from becoming a Legendary."
"!!!"
Pearl's words made Dunn's eyes widen in disbelief.
"Wait, you can even tell something like that??"
What surprised Dunn was not that Kane was about to advance to Legendary. That surprised him somewhat, of course, but what surprised him most was that Pearl could actually tell.
"With Card Classes, even a Legendary Wizard couldn't tell."
Pearl exhaled a mouthful