章 1014: The Next Day(2)

After hearing the conversation between his sovereigns on the day before, he had also found out that she had been in a slightly trance-like stare, and that had led to her not speaking much at all, even though Percy had been continuously chattering as he was wont to speak a lot when he was nervous.

Sighing, he decided that he would definitely have to make it up to them, but first, he had a few things to take care of.

"System, was the Basilisk right? Will it be very tiring for me to continue to maintain the Artefact to block us from that eye in the sky?"

He asked this while looking at that creature, or whatever it was, which was visible only to him at the moment, and when he got the answer, it made him grimace and curse the Church.