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"Cough, cough!"

The Empress coughed a few times, spitting out a lump of black substance and placing it aside; the plate next to her already held many such black, hard lumps.

If Katie and Klein were here, they would surely recognize that these hard lumps beside the Empress were exactly the same as the ones Katie spat out after neutralizing energy with the power of Chaos.

Katie only spat out one hard lump, but the Empress spat out enough neutralized material to fill a large pool.

No one knows what the Empress's current situation truly is.

She looked towards the center of the palace; today, the usually deserted imperial palace had a guest: Klein's master, Gahhar.

"You look terrible, Qian Jue."

Gahhar picked up the wine glass in front of him and drained it in one gulp.

His words sounded somewhat like a probe, but the Empress didn't seem to care much.

"Terrible? How terrible?"

Gahhar ate some of the food from the imperial palace; in fact, this food was prepared by the maids for the Empress, but now Gahhar was enjoying it all.

Gahhar wiped his mouth and stood up. The petite Empress looked like a fragile doll in front of him.

But if one were truly standing in front of the two of them, they would realize that the Empress's aura steadily suppressed Gahhar's.

Gahhar was like a terrifying ferocious tiger, while the calm Empress was simply a slumbering dragon.

"Heh heh, you are still so powerful. It seems that all my years of cultivation haven't narrowed the distance between us at all.

But even if you are stronger than me, I still feel that you are now in a precarious state, as if you could collapse at any moment."

Gahhar's tone was quite provocative, placing himself in the position of a challenger, while the Empress was the one being challenged.

"Your senses are quite accurate; my physical condition is indeed quite terrible, but beating you to a pulp shouldn't be too difficult!"

"Very good, I'm relieved to hear you say that. At least you still have the strength to fight. If you were to fall, this world would become very boring, and I would have no goal left."

However, the architecture here seemed to have the same self-repairing effect as the Jay Society; the palace, which had been almost completely destroyed just now, had already been restored by nearly half, at least without the precarious feeling it had just had.

"Still the same feeling!"

Gahhar grinned, his injuries somewhat terrifying, his chest and arms scorched black by the Empress's flames.

Such injuries looked like they would soon lead to death.

However, Gahhar didn't care at all, because the Empress had slowly walked over and placed her palm on Gahhar's forehead.

"You've improved greatly, Gahhar."

"Improved greatly? If I've improved greatly, why am I beaten up like this? Are you deliberately belittling me to elevate yourself?"

"If you can't speak human language, then don't speak."

A stream of energy slowly flowed from the Empress's palm into Gahhar's body. Although it was still the aura of flames, this flame was full of the power of life.

Gahhar's body was rapidly repairing, and before long, it had returned from a near-death state to a perfect, undamaged condition.

The Empress stared at Gahhar for a while, seeming quite satisfied with Gahhar's current state.

"Gahhar, you don't need to belittle yourself. You have indeed improved greatly. Your current strength should be about the same as that woman."

Gahhar's eyes flickered. He naturally knew who the woman the Empress was talking about was: the White King - Lora.

Lora was a King-level belonging to the neutral camp, ranked above him. The young Gahhar had fought Lora once and was considered to have been thoroughly beaten, but not killed.

The Empress saved him, and the difference in combat power between Lora and him was not as great as between him and the Empress. Gahhar knew very well that as long as he continued to cultivate, he would have a chance to catch up with Lora.

"Has that woman also joined Grandok?"

The Empress was comparing him to Lora at this time for only one reason: the White King had already joined Grandok and had now become an enemy of Tyrr Lair.

"I wouldn't say joined. She was originally a Grandokian, but she used to pretend a lot and didn't have the confidence to deal with me, so she maintained neutrality on the surface."

"Then you mean that the current Grandok has the confidence to deal with you? Who are they? So arrogant?"

"The Black King - Sauron, the White King - Lora, the Shadow King - Saffirond, the Gray King - Furen, the Orange King - Muradin, the Green King - Ysera."

As Gahhar listened, he couldn't help but interrupt. Did this mean that all the King-levels except the Blue King Edward and him had stood on the opposite side of the Empress?

Moreover, Edward was in an antagonistic state with the Empress. It would be good enough if he didn't betray the current Tyrr Lair, let alone help.

"Um, is the situation really that bad? The Black King Sauron? He's been missing for almost 100 years. Why would such an old antique run out at this time?

Also, why are they all targeting you? What's the real reason?"

The Empress looked at Gahhar and blinked playfully, seemingly not caring at all that all the King-levels were targeting her.

"I can't tell you yet, Gahhar. If I tell you, maybe you will betray me too."

"What? How could I possibly betray you?"

"Maybe."

The Empress's words made Gahhar silent for a while. He didn't know what he should promise the Empress. After thinking about it, he gave up continuing to question the Empress and instead asked about the White King.

"You said that I'm about the same as that Lora, which means there's still a bit of a gap, right? If I were to encounter her now, what are my chances of winning?"

Gahhar's words showed his determination to stand on the Empress's side.

The Empress said that his strength was about the same as the White King Lora's, which meant she was asking if he would help deal with the White King.

Although Gahhar's personality wasn't particularly outstanding or noble, he had never been ambiguous about certain things, and that was that he was a Tyrr Lairian, and that had never changed.