"The team assisting the Black Vatican Priest encountered a heretic ambush during their mission and vanished amidst the chaos before joining the main forces—I deeply regret this..."
Black nearly repeated the frontline report word for word, then shook his head with a wry smile under Yu Chen's calm and clear gaze: "Although I would really like to say it that way, the truth... at least according to my personal, incomplete deductions, is far from that simple."
Yu Chen was unexpectedly struck by a realization: the young man before her, who had always carried a bit of an enigmatic and innocent demeanor, suddenly seemed to transform. His bright black eyes narrowed slightly, and an unconscious yet undeniable aura of authority emanated from him. Strangely, this presence did not clash with his usual composed temperament but rather merged into an inexplicable, unique charisma.
