Chapter 1053
The room containing the Triumvirates had them sitting at one end of a round table, laden with food. Velvet noticed Chidi sniffing, though with his energy senses that shouldn’t have been necessary to determine what food was available. For the most part, energy senses were more complete than vision.
“Please sit,” said one of the two women. “I am Triumvirate Nasimiyu, and these are Gosia and Ardashir.”
“If any of you have particular requests,” said Ardashir, the only man of the three and clearly much older, “We can certainly provide additional dishes to your taste.”
Velvet sat opposite of the trio, given her position as leader of the excursion. She looked at the various options available on the numerous serving trays, some of which were suspiciously familiar. “I doubt that will be necessary. Did you use your techniques to predict what we might like to eat?”
Durff began scooping mixed meat and veggies onto his own place. He seemed like the sort who might demand meat alone, but he had already been conscious of the balance of nutrients his body needed even before he undertook advanced body tempering. Some cultivators just used their energy to replace deficiencies, and as long as they didn’t care about the minor differences in bodily functionality, it really didn’t matter.
The second woman, Gosia, smiled at Velvet’s question. “Normally I would say something like perhaps. But I doubt you are not a fan of such mysteriousness. Any techniques we used were far more mundane.”
“So you’ve been spying on us.”
Nasimiyu shrugged. “No more than you’ve been spying on the Chaotic Conglomeration, I think. But I must say, it is quite unnecessary to try to predict such things with the use of complicated techniques. And perhaps quite unreliable, even as it pertains to the affairs of the strongest cultivators.”
Velvet was not overly subtle about how she inspected the food she served herself for poison. It would be rather strange for these individuals to attempt to assassinate them, but she didn’t want to get sloppy.