Ethan looked at both of them calmly while remaining seated in silence for several moments. His expression carried neither pride nor arrogance, yet the atmosphere around him still felt strangely heavy. After everything that had happened, neither Null nor the Village Chief could treat him like an ordinary existence anymore.
The pressure he radiated was no longer merely strength.
It was mystery.
It was inevitability.
Ethan finally spoke in a calm voice.
"I told you before how to break through the chains binding Elysium, didn't I?"
Null immediately nodded. His eyes contained obvious frustration that had accumulated over countless years.
"You said we would need to cultivate Law Strands. But no matter what methods we tried, we could not form even a single strand."
The Village Chief sighed deeply afterward. His aged face looked unusually solemn.
