Chapitre 235: INTERLUDE. Reverse

"I can say the same about you, goddess."

God of Rogues didn't elaborate his statement, leaving his opponent to keep drilling holes in him with her eyes, as if she could learn his thoughts by a simple desire. Ha! If reading thoughts was so easy, they'd live in a very different world now. Detecting them WAS simple—but deciphering the signals in a creature's brain was a task beyond powers anyone but the First God himself. And even that was just God of Rogues' guess.

Finally, a few seconds of heavy silence later, Goddess of Wizards condescended to speak again. Even then, she did so with the same haughty air she had before, with a slight incline of her head, with a subtle curve of her lips.

"How so? I see nothing in common between us. You trade in lies, while I trade in the universal truths that only science can give—and there can be nothing truer than these facts fixed in place by the First himself."