Bilt wished he could faint on the spot.
These words, together with that one "Your Grace," were enough to make him lose the courage to run.
Admiral Amyrius actually wasn't doing much better.
Representative of fate itself… among the 22 pathways, abilities related to fate weren't few, but if it's talking about fate itself… Admiral Amyrius seemed to recall something, and instead relaxed his expression, he looked at Alice and tentatively asked:
"In Bayam's ticketing company, the prophecy about the St. Folean, was it left by you?"
"Ah…" Alice suddenly remembered this matter, and with a guilty conscience, restrained her action of peeking at Klein, blinking twice with an innocent appearance.
This was effectively the same as admitting it. Admiral Amyrius appeared to completely relax because of it. He asked in a declarative tone:
"You are a 'Prophet'?"
Alice slightly tilted her head, looked at him thoughtfully, and asked curiously:
"No matter how lousy, a 'Prophet' is still an angel, right? Why do you seem not that afraid anymore?"
Or rather, Alice felt he even slightly belittled "Prophet."
Admiral Amyrius slightly furrowed his brows, as if finally realizing something, or perhaps remembering something, and his tone suddenly became hesitant:
"You… you are a 'Prophet'?"
Alice suddenly recalled the rumor spoken of by the "Hermit" Cattleya. She narrowed her eyes slightly, tilted her head, revealed a smile, but all emotions in her eyes vanished.
She asked in an emotionless voice: "You've seen a 'Prophet' before? What was the 'Prophet' you saw like?"
Admiral Amyrius, as if finally confirmed something, said to her:
"Miss Fate… no, Your Grace.
"I don't know, your coming to visit me, what is it for?"
Alice, with interest, sized up the shift in his attitude before and after, her voice couldn't hide the curiosity as she asked:
"Judging from your appearance, the high sequence of the 'Fate' pathway, isn't doing too well now, huh?
"Feels like even angels can't make you take them seriously, that doesn't sound like…"
Alice's voice suddenly stopped. She remembered the core ability of a "Prophet" — obviously, "prophecy" is more easily believed and realized when the truth is not known.
Obviously, only the dead can keep secrets, but "Prophets" are alive, so… do those "Prophets" know this secret?
Alice's smile gradually disappeared.
Looking at it this way, in the past I really did go easy on the middle and low sequences — at least, middle and low sequences still know what their extraordinary abilities are…
Yes, Alice suspected that in high sequences, for example in the "Prophet" potion, the description of the extraordinary abilities — in a better case had disappeared, in a worse case, Alice suspected it might even be fake.
Or rather, it might be a kind of misdirection… After all, directly deleting the ability description must have issues, better to tell part of the truth, and let people overlook the not-obvious but very core part of the ability…
Obviously, such concealment and misdirection of truth by emphasizing the light and hiding the heavy, Alice was extremely skilled in, after all, the Storm Church's wanted notice for Amon had still not been withdrawn even today.
While Alice was thinking, Admiral Amyrius had not spoken the whole time.
The mid-to-low sequence Beyonders of the "Fate" pathway were actually not rare, even excluding a certain pathway that had already been eaten up like dessert, the mid-to-low sequence Beyonders of the "Fate" pathway were still not few.
Especially the middle sequence Beyonders — this was not because promotion to high sequence was difficult, it's because high-sequence Beyonders lacked useful extraordinary items…
As a pathway lacking direct combat ability, Beyonders of the "Fate" pathway were obviously more suited to serve as support on the high-sequence battlefield.
But, this pathway seemingly had an extremely terrible high-sequence individual who once caused an unknown impact, to the extent that high-sequence extraordinary abilities… can't be said to not exist, can only say the effects are more random.
Instead, as extraordinary items, their effects were better.
And the reason for all of this…
When she returned to her senses, what Alice saw was Admiral Amyrius's serious expression. She blinked and made her expression appear innocent.
Admiral Amyrius suddenly remembered the reason Alice didn't want to talk to him at first, and the sense of discord in his heart grew stronger. He carefully answered:
"The situation of the 'Fate' pathway among high-sequence Beyonders is not considered a secret."
"I think in middle sequence it's also not entirely a secret. I've seen ones who know…" Alice muttered softly.
After tugging her clothes a bit, Alice looked at Bilt, still kneeling on the ground, and couldn't help but remind:
"I just wanted to confirm one thing, and now I've confirmed it, you can go on and handle your own matters.
"Your subordinates are still kneeling… kneeling this long is bad for the knees."
Klein, long used to all this, was now extremely grateful he was still a "Clown."
On Admiral Amyrius's face was undisguised astonishment, and Alice tilted her head, suddenly rolling her eyes and revealing a slightly mischievous smile, saying to Bilt:
"If you kneel too long, even Beyonders will fall from numb legs, you know."
After saying that, her figure disappeared directly from where she stood, not giving anyone a chance to speak.
The atmosphere in the room awkwardly fell silent for a few seconds. Then, Admiral Amyrius obediently began to show concern for Bilt on the ground:
"You made three mistakes in total.
"The positions of ordinary people and Beyonders in this world are different, and as an enforcer of order, I can clearly confirm this point.
"The first mistake directly caused the second mistake. A… a Your Grace tried to visit me, and you hid this matter…"
"I think, this was probably more my fault…" Alice carefully reappeared, quietly raising her hand, "He seemed to think I was threatening him at the time…"
Bilt very much wanted to ask "Weren't you?" Even Admiral Amyrius thought this was somewhat absurd — because she didn't need to do anything, just standing there and stating her thoughts was already the strongest threat.
This was the intangible deterrence brought by strength. Klein, only now belatedly aware, realized that Alice, who cautiously apologized to him, was in other people's eyes a capricious deity.
Looking at Alice's pleading eyes, Klein suddenly had an inexplicable sadness. He gave her a comforting smile, then explained to General Admiral Amyrius:
"She was just worried about me, that's why she followed me over.
"When I went to meet Bilt, she originally didn't plan to show up. She should've just been too surprised that a tramp could play the role of a demigod…"
(End of this chapter)