Bai Yi’s identity—Gallorans’s identity—was settled just like that.
To all the Saint Clan members, this counted as neither a major nor minor matter.
If this had been in the past, the appearance of a royal-blood would undoubtedly have been vitally important to the Saint Clan.
Salileno were powerful from birth. They were the leaders of the Saint Clan and also the sharpest blades in the clan. One more royal-blood meant the Saint Clan would become even stronger.
But after Mansendis ascended the throne, this situation underwent a substantial change.
Mansendis had intentionally reduced the importance of royal-blood within the Saint Clan. After he came to power, he carried out a series of reforms and changes, with the greatest changes made to the army and the warships.
And the results were very obvious.
So obvious that even the addition of one more Salileno would not affect the Saint Clan’s overall combat strength.
Therefore, to most Saint Clan members, Bai Yi’s appearance only meant that they had gained another noble royal-blood little highness.
The greatest meaning was probably that the already thin-blooded Salileno... All right, even with one more royal-blood, they were still very thin-blooded.
After all, counting them all up, the entire Saint Clan only had three royal-bloods.
But when this news reached Fenrir’s ears, he could not help falling into a daze.
This feeling was like...
Originally, they had all been prisoners in the same prison, all very pitiful, all living bitter lives every day.
Then suddenly, one day, a fellow inmate transformed and became a prince lost outside by some race. And this race was not some random little race, but the infamous Saint Clan of the interstellar world...
For a moment, Fenrir’s feelings became rather complicated.
He thought of himself. The hazy fragments in his memory still could not be recalled.
Did he have family too? Could he, like Bai Yi, also find his own family?
Fenrir thought this, but he knew the possibility was truly too low.
Countless genetic modifications had long since changed him beyond recognition. Now, he was only a monster.
Besides...
Fenrir lowered his eyes.
He knew very well that not everyone could be as lucky as Bai Yi, able to find his family, while his family also seemed not to despise him for being a monster.
Fenrir admitted that he was a little jealous.
Jealous of Bai Yi’s good luck.
“Awo?”
Perhaps because Fenrir had kept his head lowered and had not been watching the road, he walked forward gloomily and directly bumped into a fluffy creature.
Fenrir lifted his head and discovered that it was a white wolf.
It seemed to have just finished bathing. The fur all over its body was incomparably clean and fluffy, and a thin long chain hung around its chest. At the end of the chain hung a glittering gemstone pendant.
Given that the white wolf was not small, the gemstone used as a pendant was also very large.
With just one glance, Fenrir felt as though his eyes were about to be blinded.
And in even sharper contrast, this white wolf was clearly being carefully cared for at a glance. Fenrir looked down at himself again. His clothes were still the same set from before. After a whole night of sitting dryly, they were wrinkled and looked a little dusty.
Previously, Fenrir had not thought there was anything wrong with that.
But now, standing beside this white wolf, the contrast became especially obvious.
Perhaps because Fenrir carried giant wolf genes in his body, the white wolf also treated him as one of its own kind.
Now, looking at this somewhat strange fellow wolf in front of it, the white wolf’s eyes openly revealed astonishment.
Fenrir had no doubt that if this white wolf could speak, then the first thing it would say after seeing him would probably be, “Brother, what happened to you? How did you end up like this out here?”
“.........”
For the first time, Fenrir felt that he was not as good as a wolf.
So when Mond came over to look for the white wolf, the old chief affairs officer saw Fenrir looking at him expectantly. For some reason, the other man’s appearance gave him the illusion of the white wolf when it stood before the cub.
“Um... does your little highness still need a pet?” Fenrir asked bashfully.
Since they were both wolves, Fenrir naturally also wanted to live a life where food and housing were included and he could wear such a huge gemstone pendant... cough, cough...
Awu still did not know that someone had actually set their sights on its position.
The moment it saw Wen Yuzhi, it immediately pressed close to him affectionately.
Wen Yuzhi had not seen Awu for several days either. Now, as he stroked the white wolf’s head, he introduced it to Bai Yi.
“This is Awu.”
“Awu, this is Bai Yi. From now on, he’s part of our family too.”
Family.
Bai Yi, who was walking behind them, had a slight movement in his eyes. He silently repeated those two words in his heart.
He liked this name.
Bai Yi thought.
He and the young man were family.
.
The white wolf was also staring curiously at Bai Yi.
Unsurprisingly, this was another—
Then it looked at its own little master.
A little lamb inside a monster’s den.
Of course, it also knew clearly that this young man was not some weak and harmless little lamb.
The power of that arrow was still being widely circulated across StarNet even now. Beneath it, apart from a heap of face fans screaming, there were also many professionals analyzing it.
And after analyzing it from every angle, they all concluded that the young man possessed extremely powerful mental energy, and his control over that mental energy was highly skilled, allowing him to instantly condense that arrow in such a short amount of time.
[He must have undergone a lot of harsh private training. The timing of that arrow was perfect!]
[Look at this arrow. The body is extremely solid, without any sign of dispersing. That means his control over mental energy is very precise!]
[It seems this Saint Clan little highness is quite skilled with cold weapons...]
These experts analyzed at length, and the final result they reached was that this Saint Clan little highness was very strong, very impressive, and that his true strength was unfathomable.
It was clear that no matter how deceptive his appearance was, a Saint Clan Salileno was still a Salileno.
As for why Wen Yuzhi had pretended to be a powerless young master from a wealthy family earlier...
This had to be a Saint Clan conspiracy!
The experts declared with absolute certainty.
These Saint Clan members were definitely trying to use this method to lower everyone’s guard, thinking that deliberately having their little highness act weak would fool them. In reality, they were pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger, trying to lure others into taking the bait like the Fire Lizard race.
The face fans below, who had only come to admire his looks: [........]
They spoke up weakly: [But... I think the cub is simply quite young. The Saint Clan members around him also care for him a lot, but that kind of care feels like parents caring for their own child. It doesn’t seem like what you’re analyzing...]
But the moment this kind of comment appeared, it was instantly attacked by those who firmly believed the Saint Clan were evil villains.
[What kind of dream talk are you spouting? How could those cold-blooded monsters of the Saint Clan have any feelings? Parents caring for a child... stop fantasizing. Those monsters don’t have such emotions.]
[Exactly. In the entire interstellar world, I could understand if you said other races had this kind of protective affection, but the Saint Clan... don’t joke around. Who doesn’t know how brutal the Saint Clan is?]
[In case you’ve been fooled, I found old videos about the Saint Clan for you. Open your eyes and look. The bloody, cruel beings in these videos are the real Saint Clan!]
[Do you even know why the Saint Clan are called monsters and butchers? And the Salileno are an even crazier group with unstable mental energy. They only know how to slaughter each other. The current sovereign of the Saint Clan is an outright tyrant too. He killed all his blood relatives to take the throne.]
The face fans had only wanted to quietly admire their cub’s face, but they had not expected this group of people to suddenly jump out and attack them.
These face fans were instantly enraged and began fighting back.
[You keep saying the Saint Clan are cold-blooded and brutal all day long. Someone who didn’t know better would think the Saint Clan committed some enormous evil. I checked your profile and saw you’re from the Padal race. No wonder you hate the Saint Clan so much. Turns out you’re just a defeated loser under their hands...]
[Whether the Saint Clan are brutal or not, we don’t know. But I remember the Padal race bullied quite a few smaller races around them, didn’t they? An entire race of bandits isn’t something ordinary people can pull off.]
[Thanks, but we have eyes of our own. We can tell whether something is real or acted. The cub’s personality is obviously very good. If not for him leading the Saint Clan to stand forward, even more people would have died later.]
[I don’t think the relationships between these Saint Clan members are as cold as you people claim. The bodyguards the cub brought all protect him a lot. You say the Saint Clan sovereign is a tyrant, but at the end, the cub still ran over and called him Dad.]
These face fans were usually relatively laid-back, but once they started arguing, their combat power was not weak at all.
Seeing that the situation was turning bad, the people opposing the Saint Clan simply threw down harsh words.
[Anyway, I insist that the Saint Clan are a bunch of emotionless monsters! If you don’t believe me, just wait and see!]
[I don’t believe the Saint Clan have any protective affection either. If they do, I’ll livestream myself apologizing while slapping my own face in the most crowded place I can find!]
[+1, don’t believe it. If I’m wrong, I’ll livestream myself calling this Saint Clan little highness my dad!]
Although these people kept shouting that they would livestream themselves doing this and that, in their hearts, they did not believe they would be slapped in the face at all.
The Saint Clan having a warm side?
How could that be possible?
And the argument between the two sides caused a huge uproar on StarNet.
Raymond An also noticed the public opinion online. This time, when he came to visit the Saint Clan, he also carried some curiosity in his heart.
So when Raymond An followed Alvin into the reception hall on the first floor, he saw Mansendis sitting on the sofa, while the young man he had seen in the livestream earlier was pressed closely beside his father’s leg.
The other party lay on the blanket and tossed out a gemstone ball. A large white wolf cheerfully rushed out and caught the gemstone ball.
It brought the ball back, wagged its tail, and seemed to want its little master to throw it again.
And the experimental subject suspected of being royal-blood was also sitting on the blanket beside the young man. He seemed to be staring blankly into space, but in reality, all his attention was on the young man beside him.
Relying on sheer thick skin, Fenrir had also occupied a spot nearby. Only, his gaze kept fixed on the young man and the white wolf playing together, his eyes somewhat thoughtful.
When Raymond An arrived, those one, two, three, four, five gazes all turned toward him.
And looking around, everyone present seemed to have silver hair.
Three silver-haired, golden-eyed Salilenos, plus a white wolf without a single stray hair on its body. Even Fenrir’s half-gray, half-white hair could barely count.
For a moment, Raymond An felt that standing here made him seem somewhat out of place.
Bai Yi, in particular, frowned. Without the cloak concealing him, those golden vertical pupils looked coldly at Raymond An.
As if he were displeased that Raymond An had interrupted the cub’s play.
Raymond An: “.......”
What could he do?
He could only maintain a smile.
“Dad.”
Wen Yuzhi had never seen Raymond An before. Suddenly seeing Alvin bring over an unfamiliar face, he subconsciously looked in Mansendis’s direction.
The silver-haired sovereign reached out, picked up the cub sitting on the blanket, and placed him beside himself.
Only then did he have the leisure to look at Raymond An.
“What is it?”
Raymond An hurriedly bowed and stated the purpose of his visit.
“The Alliance will hold the conference in two days at the originally scheduled location, the exhibition center. On behalf of the Alliance, I sincerely invite the Saint Clan to attend the meeting that day.”
Hearing that the conference would still be held as usual, Wen Yuzhi’s eyes widened.
Raymond An had also made up his mind.
This incident had caused such a huge disturbance. StarNet was full of criticism toward the Alliance.
If they did nothing, then the reputation the Alliance had maintained all this time would be completely ruined.
And the Alliance’s way of resolving this matter was also simple and crude: use an even bigger matter to suppress the current public opinion.
Therefore, not only would they continue holding the conference, they would hold it at the original location.
The area near Central Square had already begun reconstruction.
In the interstellar era, relying on the efficiency of intelligent robots, even though the square had been destroyed beyond recognition by Wen Yuzhi and the others, it had only taken one day for the square and nearby streets to be repaired.
The general appearance was almost the same as before. However, the music fountain originally located at the center of the square had been changed into a memorial monument, with the names of all the victims engraved on it.
This monument was also intended to commemorate the disaster.
It was hard to say that the Alliance’s desire to continue holding the conference at the original location did not include the intention to use this monument to salvage their reputation.
However, although the conference would still be held as usual, the content needed to change.
“We hope the Saint Clan can attend the conference and discuss this incident together,” Raymond An said.
That was right. The Alliance no longer intended to rely on silence and playing dead to muddle through as before. They would publicly apologize at the conference and announce their investigation into this incident.
And naturally, they had to invite the Saint Clan, who had taken an enormous amount of the spotlight this time, to participate. Even Wen Yuzhi received an invitation.
“Dad, are we going?”
Looking at the date written on it, Wen Yuzhi asked this aloud, but his gaze kept drifting toward Mansendis from time to time, as if saying—let’s go, let’s go.
On one hand, Wen Yuzhi was naturally curious about what a conference attended by so many countries and races would be like. On the other hand...
Returning to Emperor’s Heart meant his “vacation” would end. He would once again begin his daily life of running between the study and the supervision office, with Mond and the others’ private lessons mixed in between.
Like all students on vacation, Wen Yuzhi hoped this relaxed and happy time could last a little longer.
There was no need to guess the cub’s thoughts. They could be seen directly. That anticipation was written all over his face.
Even if Mansendis wanted to pretend he did not see it, he could not.
“You want to go play?” the silver-haired sovereign said lightly.
Wen Yuzhi hurriedly nodded. After nodding, he realized this seemed too obvious, so the young man changed his wording.
“I want to go broaden my horizons.”
As he spoke, Wen Yuzhi even pulled Bai Yi into it.
“Bai Yi hasn’t seen that kind of scene either. I want to take him to have a look.”
Bai Yi did not understand why, but that did not stop him from following the young man’s meaning and saying, “Go have a look.”
When Raymond An had come to visit the Saint Clan, he had actually also been thinking of meeting Bai Yi and Fenrir, the two experimental subjects who had once belonged to the research institute.
If the Saint Clan had not taken them away, then according to the Alliance’s methods, Bai Yi and Fenrir would have been controlled by the Alliance Army on the spot.
Regarding many questions about the research institute, the Alliance side still wanted to interrogate these two experimental subjects.
However, the Saint Clan’s intervention made this matter extremely troublesome.
Especially after seeing Bai Yi sitting beside Wen Yuzhi, and Alvin addressing him as Prince Gallorans, Raymond An could only temporarily abandon the plan he had thought of before coming.
Because of this, Wen Yuzhi did not know Raymond An had also intended to take Bai Yi and Fenrir away. Otherwise, he absolutely would have thrown the invitation back at him and asked Mond to see the guest out.
When facing existences that would offend his family, even the cub, who usually had a very good temper, would become angry.
But in the end, Raymond An was still wary of the Saint Clan and did not dare do such a thing. So Wen Yuzhi happily began preparing to attend the conference two days later.
In truth, there was nothing he personally needed to prepare.
After the Saint Clan confirmed they would attend, Mond had already arranged everything. The formal attire and accessories had all been prepared.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye.
Soon, the day of the conference arrived.
After Wen Yuzhi changed his clothes and went downstairs, Mansendis was already standing there with a group of Saint Clan members, waiting for him.
“Dad, I’m late.”
Wen Yuzhi immediately ran forward.
Mansendis helped him straighten the crown on his head. When his hand lowered, the silver-haired sovereign naturally took his child’s hand.
The father and son walked at the very front of the group. Bai Yi fell slightly behind them, but he also followed closely behind Wen Yuzhi.
Mansendis turned his head and glanced at the group behind him. All the Saint Clan members stood tall and straight, fully dressed and ready.
“Depart.”
At the silver-haired sovereign’s order, the Saint Clan members boarded the warship one after another.
There was still some distance from here to the square. The Alliance had sent hovercars to receive them, but the Saint Clan chose to take a warship instead.
Although the warship the Saint Clan was taking now was not Thanatos, the largest destruction-class warship in the entire interstellar world.
However, when all the other races obediently took hovercars, the Saint Clan directly arriving by warship, descending through the air, clearly had no intention of leaving the Alliance any face at all.
It also displayed the Saint Clan’s rumored arrogant and forceful attitude to the fullest.
When the anti-Saint Clan haters on StarNet saw this scene, they acted as if they had seized evidence against the Saint Clan, and their arrogance surged again.
But the face fans who had been furiously arguing with them before were too lazy to bother with these jumping haters now.
What they were thinking about now was that the Saint Clan had actually attended this conference.
Then what about the cub?
As the Saint Clan’s little highness, would the cub also appear at the conference?
After all, this conference would be livestreamed in full.
In other words, they could see the cub again.
