Yexiya the Impostor

In the audience, in the VIP seats, Su Ming and Zijin sat side by side.

After several days, the scholar finally agreed to come out of her cabin for a walk and watch the exciting competition. A rare, faint smile appeared on her lips.

"Your football game on Earth," she said, turning her head to Su Ming, "Is really interesting!"

"Uh, it's alright." Su Ming looked at the chaotic scene on the field and really didn't know how to respond to the question.

"Your hometown has such advanced technology and industry," Zijin continued curiously, "Your football must also be top-notch, the best in the world, right?"

"..." Su Ming was speechless for a moment, and didn't know how to answer the question.

He glanced to the side and saw members of the logistics team pushing out a cart full of drinks and snacks. Feeling like he'd been granted a pardon, he stood up and said, "Would you like something to drink? I'll get it."

After a moment's thought, Zijin asked, "Fruit wine, would that be alright?"

"No problem!" Su Ming readily agreed, granting him special permission.

He quickly retrieved two glasses of fruit wine, which exuded a sweet, fruity aroma, from the cart, handed one to Zijin, and then the two gently clinked glasses.

"Cheers!" Su Ming smiled. "Wishing us all the best for the future!"

"Mmm!" Zijin responded, picked up the fruit wine, took a small sip, and then drank a large mouthful.

Her mother, Atiya, has passed away. She will remember her with gratitude, then gather her strength and move on with her life.

However, she secretly glanced at Su Ming beside her and silently prayed in her heart: Please don't let me lose any more important people!

****

Bubing City, the Silent Dawn Cathedral, the basement.

The room was extremely spacious, with numerous heavy cabinets filled with a large number of documents and files, but the writing on them was distorted and strange, and did not belong to any known language system in this world.

Dozens of carefully selected members of the Star Sand, all with profound expertise in the field of paleography, sat around a long table, painstakingly analyzing, comparing, and deciphering the texts by the light of arcane glow lamps.

These were the original documents that Su Ming had seized from the Plundering Clock on Snail Island. After scanning them, he handed them over to Katharine, who then organized a team to study them.

Katharine routinely entered the room, filled with the smell of paper and ink, for her daily inspection.

"Greetings, Lady Katharine!" Upon seeing this, everyone put down their quills or magnifying glasses and respectfully greeted her.

Many Star Sand members are not skilled in combat. Those with the corresponding talent are a relatively small group, and most of them are ordinary people who lack the resources and means to change their fate. They can only devote more energy to learning various knowledge and skills.

These document analysis tasks, which require patience and extensive knowledge, are a perfect fit for them.

At that moment, a scholar with a furrowed brow saw Katharine, immediately picked up the perplexing paper in his hand, and strode over.

"My lord, after careful handwriting comparison and file analysis, I strongly suspect that there is something wrong with the identity of the Saint Rank Demon Swordsman Yexiya."

Based on previously deciphered information, the Plundering Clock refers to the organization's top combatants as "Clock Hand." Ice Beauty Yexiya's clock number is three, making her one of the organization's top-ranking powerhouses.

Although the total number of Clock Hand is certainly not large, if the number of its top experts can reach the point where the clock face is covered, then this is an extremely powerful organization.

Fortunately, based on Su Ming and the others' descriptions of their battle with Yeshia, although Yexiya was Saint Rank, he was definitely among the weakest in the Saint Rank tier. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that after Time Sequence Four, all those being fought should be below the Saint Rank.

So, including Abigai who was killed by Su Ming and the others, there is only one Saint Rank expert left in the Plundering Clock!

However, Katharine would never easily reveal this true information to the major organizations. Now she only hoped that the Plundering Clock could hold out for a while longer, properly withstand and absorb the overwhelming wrath of the Temple of Light, and buy more time for Star Sand.

"Go on, in more detail." Katharine had a little free time today, so she sat down in a chair and gestured for him to give a detailed report.

"There is evidence that Ice Beauty Yexiya is an imposter, a substitute!" He produced an order document bearing Yexiya's signature. "Please look at this. The signature of Yexiya in this 'Plundering Clock' document is completely different from the handwriting sample of the real Yexiya from five years ago, which our intelligence personnel found. Whether it's the strength of the strokes, the writing habits, or the structure of the characters, they are all distinctly different."

Katharine's eyes sharpened, and she immediately took the papers to carefully compare them.

Yexiya was originally just an unknown Magister among the orcs, but for some reason, a little over a year ago she suddenly transformed into Saint Rank powerhouse.

At the time, everyone thought she was biding her time, accumulating strength for a later breakthrough. But now it seems that the Saint Rank "Yexiya" was actually an imposter!

Out of habit of gathering information on powerful individuals, the intelligence agents went to great lengths to find some of Yexiya's early manuscripts. Katharine discovered that the differences between the two were extremely obvious, confirming that they were definitely not from the same person!

"That's really interesting!" Katharine murmured.

Where did this disguised Yexiya come from? The matter suddenly became shrouded in mystery and full of doubts.

In a world where individual strength is paramount, no Saint Rank can appear out of thin air without any growth trajectory or record!

It's a pity that Su Ming and his team disposed of her body; otherwise, they could have found more clues through tracing magic or autopsy.

After a moment of contemplation, Katharine quickly wrote a correspondence and sent the information to Su Ming.

****

On the Pansy.

In the end, after a fierce battle, the second cadet team unfortunately lost the game, and the POW camp football team won the championship!

Zijin was in a much better mood and readily agreed to the competition organizers' request. She personally went up to the podium and presented the championship trophy to the POW camp captain.

With that, all the events came to a celebratory close.

In the evening, a lively cultural performance was held on the brightly lit deck.

Because of Newman's absence, and especially due to Su Ming's strict order, "Human Bone Machine" was forced to cancel their signature heavy metal music performance, which greatly disappointed many members of the Final Bone Mad Machines".

But Su Ming ignored their repeated petitions—no joke, the Pansy was carrying a whole ship full of dragons, and if those violent drumbeats and sound waves got them going, the ship wouldn't be able to handle the chaos!