For some reason, the guardian had appeared. That armored figure wearing black metallic plate armor and wielding a black spear had come to the scene of the fight.
She was still hidden, but the guardian looked right at her and said, "You will wait here for a while."
"You have seen too much. I need to determine if what you saw was too important to keep you around."
The guardian's voice was calm and indifferent, as if they were not talking about deciding whether she would continue to live or not. After speaking, they turned to stare at the black sphere.
Their voice and the words they said chilled her to her non-existent bones. Worse, they let Tepid Scholar go. Apparently, because he was blind like most Dao Lords, he couldn't have sensed much and was free to go.
When she saw Tepid Scholar run away as he had just been pardoned, she thought inwardly with a heavy heart, 'I am screwed this time around, aren't I?'
