The figure’s appearance was too sudden. Everyone did not anticipate it, so they could not react to it at once. Alex even bore the brunt. Even more bizarre was that the figure just passed through Alex’s body after coming out of the wall.
He was not mistaken about it. This was not a real person but a phantom.
The next second, a hollow, ethereal voice rang in the crowd. “Who let you into my house to disrupt my peace?”
It was an old man’s voice.
As Alex was facing the back of the old man’s phantom, he could not see his front clearly and was only surprised. Then, however, a bolt out of the blue seemed to have struck the governor of Raze City standing opposite the phantom after clearly looking at the phantom’s facial appearance. Soon, he could not help but fall to his knees.
Thud!
The kneeling sound was earsplitting.
Then, he prostrated himself. “Quinn… Senior Quinn, we didn’t know this is your residence. Please… Please forgive us. W-we will leave right now. We’ll leave immediately.”
Alex did not know Zephyr East.
Naturally, Alex did not feel much about him kneeling before a phantom all of a sudden. But soon, he saw the grand elder of Yorkshire Palace, Melanie Zelda, fall to her knees respectfully as well. “Senior Quinn, Melanie Zelda, the grand elder of Yorkshire Palace, pays respect to Senior.”
‘Uhm…’
If it was said that Zephyr was just a puppet that the Sun Shrine had introduced, then Melanie’s kneeling meant something else. It indicated that the phantom of the old man before their eyes represented a supremely powerful identity.
However, the others did not know the old man except Zephyr and Melanie.
“This… Who is this guy?”
Winona was reluctant. “Which Senior Quinn is he? I don’t even know him. Besides, this isn’t a person. It’s just a phantom. Third Great-aunt, you’re the grand elder of Yorkshire Palace anyway. Is he worthy of you to kneel before him?”
Upon hearing it, Melanie paled and immediately scolded, “Shut up!”
Meanwhile, the old man’s phantom said slowly, “Time is infinite, and life is limited. Indeed, an old man like me should have died long ago.”
However, he changed the topic suddenly. “But, not just anyone could barge into my residence even if I’m a dying man.”
The old man’s phantom suddenly stretched his hand and grabbed Winona’s neck.
It was just a phantom!
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