Blake sank into a long silence after listening to Christina talking to herself. After a brief pause, he asked tentatively, "So Watson is a platinum-tier elite?"
"That's right." Christina laughed self-deprecatingly. "What surprises me the most is not his strength, but the fact that he survived my strike without a single scratch. Yet, he purposely stated that I was showing him mercy as if he wanted me to help him conceal his real strength! He even wanted to assert that he was at the silver tier. It's hard to imagine that someone would be so low-key after mastering powerful strength. Perhaps that is the difference between a true expert and me."
A true master would always have the heart of an apprentice.
