Liliya slowly opened her eyes and saw Guding smiling at her, "I knew you would be fine."
Then she noticed the old man next to Guding, "Is he... our new member?"
Guding always liked recruiting strange people into the group. Even if he had recruited this old man, Liliya wouldn't have found it odd, so she promptly asked this question upon seeing him.
"My name is Caesar," Caesar said with a faint smile. Liliya was the spitting image of Di Ni from back in the day.
"You are... Grandpa?!" Though Liliya had never met Caesar, she had often heard her mother mention this name, as he was her father and a powerful demigod.
"Di Ni told me about you. We've always been in touch, but we've never met. Less than a year into her marriage, she sent me a message saying she had a daughter. She even sent me your picture..." As Caesar spoke, he projected a photo of a tiny infant swaddled in a blanket. The baby's skin was rosy, looking adorable.
