NABC Chapter 715: The Grandmaster’s Anomalies
Chapter 715: The Grandmaster’s Anomalies
“The Authority of Fate, huh...”Lin Yu recalled the process of the Thousand-Eyed Thousand-Silk Demon Lord awakening, realizing that the bastard had woken up the very instant he spied on it. He let out a sigh.
“It really is unreasonable.”
He said, then turned to look at Shen Bingmiao: “But... senior, you must have been setting things up for a long time for my encounter with this thing, right?”
After all, Zhu Qiansi carried a piece of the Fate Fragment, which was something he and Shen Bingmiao absolutely had to collect.
Moreover... Lin Yu had an even more decisive piece of evidence.
“If I remember correctly, senior, you should be on pretty good terms with the ‘Grandmaster,’ right?”
“The thing that demon fears most in its heart... is the ‘Grandmaster.’ I don’t believe there wasn’t some arrangement of yours behind this.”
As Lin Yu spoke, Shen Bingmiao let out a low laugh.
“Haha, my dear ‘Ace’... you caught me, as expected.”
“It’s true. A year ago, I found that the seal on this Chosen One of Fate happened to be loosening, so I told A-Mo and asked her to handle it.”
“Because I knew very well that sooner or later, you’d have to deal with this thing, so letting A-Mo go... would definitely also weaken her strength.”
“Although I’m sure you’d have no problem taking her down, ‘Ace,’ she was still a Chosen One after all... even if her master is dead, she’s accumulated power for a thousand years. If she were at her peak, she’d definitely be no small trouble for you.”
“And that A-Mo happens to be the perfect counter for that Chosen One of Fate... In short, A-Mo probably killed off her most useful and powerful puppets, and forced that Chosen One of Fate to use up almost ninety percent of her resurrection methods.”
As Shen Bingmiao spoke, Lin Yu fell silent.
“Just how terrifying is this ‘Grandmaster’ exactly?”
Hearing Lin Yu’s words, Shen Bingmiao explained: “Among the players on the Top 100 List, the bottom fifty are one tier, ranks thirty to fifty are another tier... and when you reach the top fifteen, they’re all monsters among monsters—you’ve seen one of the strongest in Sleepless City, haven’t you?”
“You mean the Family Head of Sleepless Sky, Sleepless Sky Yonglian?”
Lin Yu asked back.
“Yes. The top fifteen players are basically at that level. They can go toe-to-toe with the Chosen Ones of various gods, and some of them are even Chosen Ones themselves—but they still aren’t the highest tier... the top three players are people from a whole other world.”
Shen Bingmiao sighed with emotion: “The ‘Grandmaster,’ the ‘Diviner,’ and the ‘General’... these three have already touched the domain of gods.”
“A year ago, the Grandmaster was nowhere near as strong as she is now, but if she wanted to back then, she could have taken that Chosen One of Fate—that homeless dog who lost its master—apart like a bread crab and eaten it.”
“So, do you understand how impressive it is that you managed to escape from the ‘Diviner’?”
Lin Yu slowly nodded.
“I see... So did you ask the ‘Grandmaster’ to go easy?”
“While I really didn’t want to see the ‘Grandmaster’ kill the Chosen One of Fate outright, that A-Mo isn’t exactly someone who blindly follows my orders,” Shen Bingmiao remarked through the phone. “She held back... entirely based on her own judgment—though I suppose that judgment was within my expectations.”
“As a high-ranking member of ‘Order,’ she actually showed mercy to a demon that had killed millions of people?”
Lin Yu said in surprise.
He had thought that the ‘Grandmaster,’ Gu Mo, was the type who represented absolute justice.
“A-Mo really does recognize ‘Order,’ and she is an upright, kind person, but she has her quirks too,” Shen Bingmiao said casually. “Anyway, now that you’re part of ‘Order’ and you’ll definitely be dealing with A-Mo a lot, it won’t hurt to tell you this.”
“Among the current highest decision-making levels of Order, I have the best relationship with the ‘Grandmaster,’ so I know her best. Compared to the whole of ‘Order,’ her value system is actually a pretty simple type... Even though the Chosen One of Fate killed millions of people in Willow Town, and if she saw it breaking the seal to do evil, she would stop it, she wouldn’t directly kill the Chosen One of Fate.”
“In Gu Mo’s own words... if she saw a tiger eating a person in the mountains, she would beat the tiger to death; but if she saw a tiger eating a wild boar, she would drive the tiger away and save the boar, but she wouldn’t kill the tiger to eliminate the future threat.”
“After all, this is how the food chain works... If a tiger wants to survive, it has to eat other animals. So between the tiger and the wild boar, one has to die from birth. Who lives and who dies—she doesn’t think she has the right to interfere or judge whether that kind of behavior is just.”
As Lin Yu listened to Shen Bingmiao’s description, he keenly caught an “anomaly.”
That was the strangest thing about the entire ‘Grandmaster.’
“Wait a minute... so you’re saying that in the ‘Grandmaster’s’ eyes, the other ‘native humans’ of the Ten Realms don’t enjoy human rights in her book, right?”
Shen Bingmiao burst into laughter: “As expected of my ‘Ace,’ you’ve hit the nail right on the head—yes, that’s exactly it.”
“In a sense, A-Mo isn’t someone who treats everyone equally... In her eyes, the people of our world are humans, and the people of other worlds are also humans, but their priority is much lower than the people of our world.”
“As far as she’s concerned, the conditions in each of the Ten Realms are different, and it’s not appropriate to forcefully interpret internal conflicts in other worlds using our standards—just as it would be unreasonable to ask lions and tigers to eat vegetables.”
“Although she would still help if she actually saw someone being harmed, she only truly takes things seriously and goes all out when the safety of our world and society is threatened.”
“This is actually a relatively rare type within the ‘Order’ organization—but fortunately, she doesn’t participate in ‘Order’s’ major decision-making, and she doesn’t intend to promote her own ideas either.”
Lin Yu slowly nodded: “I see...”
So, the experts who managed to make a name for themselves in the Death Game all had their own “abnormalities.”
The ‘Grandmaster,’ standing at one of the very pinnacles among all players, was naturally no exception.
“You’ve answered my doubts about her. So... next, I need to ask about your other ‘friend,’ senior.”
Hearing Lin Yu’s tone, Shen Bingmiao spoke up: “Ah, I think I can guess who you’re going to ask about... Can I not answer?”
“Of course not,” Lin Yu refused Shen Bingmiao outright. “Anyway... what exactly is your relationship with that Crow?”
“Why did you hide, in the last account, that It also participated in you and your sister taking down the God of Fate?”