Chapter 69: 13.1 Solo Instance?

Story cutscenes were something that I really didn't like paying attention to. While I can appreciate stories when I'm reading, my ridiculous reading speed made playing story-driven games kind of a chore to do. Listening to the dialogue when I could just read it faster than they could speak made me unable to appreciate voice-overs. And what few voice-overs that I would actually listen to, I'd just find myself skipping over so I could read the next batch of subtitles faster.

So in retrospect, it was kind of both a blessing and a curse that the subtitling in this world somehow didn't apply to dialogue; the one thing that actually needed it. Heh, now that was a ridiculous bug.

"So you have come," the Emperor nodded at me, a golden staff in his hand as he stood at his full height. "And you have brought the other [Somatic] with you."