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Shang had seen the person before the person had seen him.

They weren't traveling at their full speed, and maybe, Shang could escape before they saw him.

However, Shang just smirked and chuckled a bit.

'How interesting,' he thought. 'It seems like Gregorio hasn't been the most careful.'

A moment later, the person found Shang, and they just watched with shock.

This confirmed that they hadn't known that Shang was still alive but that they had only had a hunch.

Shang could feel the person looking at him, and the person could also feel Shang looking at them.

A moment later, a portal opened just 100,000 kilometers behind Shang. It wasn't close enough to count as melee range for Shang, but easily close enough for a Peak Mage King to fight him.

A moment later, an older man with an immaculately groomed suit walked out. The Custodian, Wester.

Wester looked at Shang with narrowed eyes while Shang just looked at the silver wall.

Shang hadn't hidden his new limbs, and Wester could see them in all their glory.

Shang chuckled a bit and turned to look at Wester with his black-and-white eyes. "Wester, what a pleasure to see you," he said with a smirk.

Wester's emotions were going crazy.

When Wester had talked to Gregorio, he had already noticed that Gregorio was acting strangely.

Gregorio had often talked about Shang when talking to Wester, but as soon as the Grand Tournament had passed, Gregorio had completely stopped talking about him.

It was almost like Shang had stopped existing in Gregorio's mind.

However, based on how Gregorio had acted when Shang had wanted to talk to him, Wester knew that Gregorio wouldn't just dump Shang like a piece of trash after he became useless.

At the very least, he would have lamented Shang's demise many times.

And yet, Gregorio had never talked about Shang again.

Wester had guessed that Shang might still be alive.

a bad thing. After all,

Gregorio

the second-in-command of the Lightning Manor, and he had been the

single time. In fact, he hadn't even shown the slightest

had always kept

had expected that Gregorio would

And yet, he didn't.

and made

fact, he had always been quite open,

kind of secret could be so important and destructive that Gregorio didn't even dare to

the first suspicions arose, Wester found

and more troublesome, Gregorio had stopped asking about the Child of

past, literally every single conversation between them had started with Gregorio asking about the Child of

And then?

Nothing.

was like Gregorio no longer cared. Then came that sudden breakthrough that allowed Gregorio to stop Ancestral Abominations

such a monumental and

seemed to be researching Abominations

a suspicion

Calamity, and Gregorio knew about

a long time for Wester to accept this possibility. After all, Gregorio had always been against the Abominations, and it had even been

that could suddenly

of these things had still only been guesses

then, Wester felt the Mana of the world move towards the

movement had

It had felt unimportant.

something inside Wester told him

But he hesitated.

to that location, the

Then what?

Gregorio would be the greatest traitor of Aterium in

more than

had served the Lightning

was old, and he would soon

he could just look

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