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"You are questioning how someone like Scarlette Overland," Taros said calmly, "an SSS-Rank Adventurer and regarded as the strongest among her generation, can wield two Divine Elemental Affinities as one?"
He shook his head slowly, a faint trace of amusement crossing his expression, though curiosity lingered beneath it—curiosity tinged with something unsettled.
"That is also my question, Your Holiness. She wields Lumiere and Ember—the Divine Elemental Affinities of Greater God Nexus and Greater God Ignivar. The First and the Third authorities of the Ninefold Aetherium. Even Saints chosen by the Divine Nine struggle to synchronize with a single authority. Yet she wields both as though nothing binds her."
The young master listened in silence. Taros's voice carried neither accusation nor suspicion, yet the weight of his words made the air feel heavier.
