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"JUST WHAT WAS THAT?!"
Lothar, of course, was as surprised as the cohort.
"HOW IS A LUCK ELEMENT WIELDING WATER?!"
And he wasn't the only one.
"He has to be using a Divine Relic, right?"
"No way he can afford something that strong!"
"House Kharon abandoned him, remember?!"
The crowd was the same.
"Actually... I think he—"
"Either way, there's no way it's a Relic!"
"The boy must've found some insane Rune."
Worse than them was Xenos's family.
More than doubting how he did it, they couldn't believe that he did it in the first place.
Their thoughts leaned more toward the projection being fabricated than him actually doing such things; yes, their disbelief was that bad.
And Veynar's, unsurprisingly, was the worst.
He knew more than most about a Runebearer's Root Rune.
It couldn't be stated enough that once a mortal bore one, they'd be stuck with its Element for the rest of their lives, and there was no way they could ever change that.
