Secrets of the Past

"Oh? This script is rather clichéd." Richard stood in the air and delivered his assessment in an indifferent tone.

Under the probing of energy waves, every detail of the land within dozens of kilometers lay exposed before his eyes. Suddenly, he casually glanced eastward. Ten kilometers away in the eastern sky, a powerfully built Four-Eyed Person was hiding behind the Curtain, smugly watching Avery and Richard.

A mocking smile appeared on Richard's face.

"You thought hiding behind the deeper layers of the Curtain meant no one could see you?"

The world beyond the Curtain appeared as projections within the interlayers between the Curtains. Likewise, things in the shallower interlayers appeared as projections within deeper interlayers.

Compared to Richard's detection sorcery, the layer occupied by this Four-Eyed Person calling himself Stasin was still far too shallow.

However, Richard did not tell Avery that he had already found Stasin's location. Grigo's appearance had altered Richard's plans to absorb the Control Bureau. Before he found a way to deal with Grigo, someone had to draw the Control Bureau's attention.

Of course, part of him also wanted to hear what tangled grudges and old passions lay between these two.

"Don't listen to that bastard's nonsense. He's already gone mad."

Avery constantly swept his gaze over the surroundings, trying to locate Stasin's true body. But his sight could only reach shallow layers; he was far from able to see the interlayer where Stasin hid.

"Mad? My old friend, however mad I may be, could I possibly be madder than you? Even now, I still don't understand how you could bear to watch the Four-Eyed People march toward extinction!"

Stasin's voice turned furious, like a volcano eruption. Such an enormous emotional shift made Richard feel that Avery's words might not have been mere mockery.

"World fusion