"Holy Maiden..." another voice pondered for a moment, "The Holy Maiden usually doesn't show up."
"When the Holy Maiden departed from Mars, the Godspeed Court was still in the acceleration phase. The likelihood of the Godspeed King appearing to intercept is not small," the "Sword Envoy" explained. "Besides the Holy Maiden, who else could retreat from the Godspeed King unharmed?"
—Retreat from the Godspeed King unharmed?
The Black Hand Master was so frightened that the neural signals in his brain became scrambled.
It was fortunate that most of his prosthetic body was in shutdown mode, so he couldn't cry out loud or tremble.
He was like a dead thing buried in the ground.
So, no one noticed him.
But the Black Hand Master's mind was racing.
Although he had never met the Godspeed King, the Black Hand Master had seen the Protector and Jianghu members from the First Heavenly Layer strike fiercely when he was involved in the Space Elevator dispute in Africa.
