After the elevator doors closed, a spectral bird appeared to descend from the sky in the silent underground library, as elusive as a dream.
Raven, perched on a random record within the matrix, gazed down seriously at Luo Su. "I advised him to accept your invitation, not so you could intimidate my Contractor."
After a prolonged silence, Luo Su finally exhaled and shrugged helplessly. "I didn't mean to scare him... In fact, he scared me." He paused, then looked up and asked, "Did he really pass the highest standard of the All Spectrum Heaven Sphere selection?"
"Even higher than the highest standard," Raven said. "Out of 60,000 tests, he passed 57,000. The 3,000 failures weren't because he failed, but because he was unwilling to sacrifice anyone but himself—Luo Su, you should understand what such results truly represent."
"Unprecedented, right?" Luo Su sighed. "So, you'll have to forgive my aging heart; not everyone can be like you."
