And when these two individuals knelt before Lu Yuanming and Tang Zhe'an, one of the intelligent creatures nearby approached, bowing deeply and dropping to its knees. It crawled several meters forward to the two men before holding up an old, metallic weapon above its head, offering it to Lu Yuanming and Tang Zhe'an.
This act only added to their bewilderment as they could not comprehend what these beings intended to do.
From the looks of it, this group seemed to treat them as members of a noble class. Perhaps, as Tang Zhe'an had theorized, this world had its own "High Rank" beings with an appearance similar to theirs, akin to a caste of a racial hierarchy established by conquerors to rule over the subjugated races. As a result, the higher caste were typically fair-skinned whereas the lower caste had dark brown skin – a distinction that originally stemmed from different racial backgrounds.
