"Y-You… you… it… it was… you! The eighth floor… that was you?!"
The expression on Lorne Meck's face was indescribably complex.
It was a mixture of extreme shock, disbelief, and the absurd realization that 'the monster was right here beside me.'
Following Lorne Meck's outburst, a chain reaction of shocked cries erupted across the plaza:
"Li Wen?! That Human from Blue Star?!"
"How is that possible? Isn't his bone age only forty years?!"
"A ninth-grade bloodline… the eighth floor… Am I seeing things?"
"Oh my god! It really is him!"
"The eighth floor at a bone age of forty… This… this completely shatters our understanding of the universe!"
You couldn't blame them for overreacting. The combination of a forty-year bone age and the eighth floor of the Heaven-Reaching Tower was enough to shatter their perception of reality.
A genius of this caliber was a rarity even across the entire Molo Intermediate Empire, the kind that might only appear once in several ages.
