Chapter 236: B3: C26: Comparison 2
Zarian invited Bianca over with a simple swivel of his hips, a graceful flutter of his cloak, and a flick of his lion’s tail. Then the statuesque, amber-haired, amber-eyed woman appeared through a darkened wrinkle in the air.
With a flashy smile, she wiped away the non-rankers’ fears and had them eating out of the palm of her hands.
“With whatever reward she got from putting the ban-hammer on my little sister, she’s going to be an insufferable Master Ranker,” Zarian said.
“Any more insufferable than you?” Hannah quipped.
Zarian had to think about that. Para chuckled as she took over, splitting and shapeshifting into giant, leathery serpents with eyeless heads. A dozen of them slithered in all directions from Zarian’s back.
The non-rankers became afraid again. Who could blame them? Para’s giant serpentine bodies could swallow up half a dozen men in one bite.
She’d gotten better at that lately, becoming big and imposing. But she spoke gently enough to the non-rankers to instill that she had some sense of humanity, even if that was a hard pill to swallow.
Thankfully, Bianca helped soothe tensions and fears while Para interviewed non-rankers for their profile information. The parasite wiped the memories of everyone who overheard anything private before paying glittery gold coins and a few valuable trinkets to the ‘volunteers.’
As Para collected a consensus, Hannah studied the way Para used aura.