Chapter 1217: Extinct
"You..."
Ansla’s heart was beating out of her chest at this point, rippling waves flooding over her delicate skin and flushing it red. She could tell what Sylas was talking about immediately, and the moment Sylas saw her reaction, he knew that his guesses had been correct.
It was just as he expected. The pillar of light that came with Megean’s descent was a sign. But it was a sign that only the highest of Noble Demons would know of.
Clearly, by the reactions of the pig Demons to the pillar of light, they didn’t know the significance of it. As far as Sylas could tell, they knew nothing at all.
So, there were only two possibilities at that point. Either he had been going off on an incorrect tangent all along and there was nothing at all for him to gain here in relation to Megean. Or... the Demon World was no different from any other world in that the upper echelon hid things from the "little people."
The question was whether Ansla was high enough that she would be considered among this upper echelon. Or, at the very least, that her Barbed Chain Gang would be.
Given the way she reacted to Sylas’ appearance, she was borderline. She was confident enough not to bow and scrape at his every word, but she was also able to maintain an air of superiority and chippiness that came from someone who could get away with being a bit passive-aggressive to those of higher standing than herself without suffering for it.
Of course, this was almost certainly because of her beauty. Men tended to let beautiful women get away with a lot so long as she didn’t cross their bottom lines.
But beauty was also a double-edged sword. If you were too beautiful and didn’t have the power to back it, then you would just be pillaged like any other treasure. Ansla certainly didn’t look like someone who had been pillaged. At the very least, her confidence was too high to be such a woman.