บท 1240: Malservus!

Hearing Ace's straightforward words without any of his usual fake fawning, the woman laughed, "Fufufufu… how bold of you!"

Ace's nerves instantly tensed as he thought she was angry and might try to do something, but he didn't sense anything amiss from the Soul Resurrection Bead or from the woman's voice.

Furthermore, since the system had told him that the Soul Resurrection Bead was now his bounded treasure, it couldn't harm him despite his lack of control over it.

Although he didn't know what kind of treasure the Soul Resurrection Bead was, and the system could still not completely analyze it, especially now that this woman was residing in it, he was sure that this was some extremely high-level treasure that was even useful to an ancient monster like this woman. 

"But you know what?" The woman said with a hint of teasing, "I liked it! After all, only this kind of attitude befits Heaven's Stealer and my Steward!"