Riya nodded.

She has the information about Pena's strength in her mind from Mr. Jones.

While it might not be the complete information because Pena would have his own reservation and if one was not pressed to the end, they wold not use their hole cards, but it was good enough.

At least, Riya felt that it's good.

"And the other one…" Riya looked at the side where Nalan had come out and keenly sensed that there was something wrong.

Because the mana that Nalan exuded seemed to carry a trace of despair and strong intent of destruction.

…

Nalan had never thought too much about his life.

Born in the branch family of a big family, he knew very well that those who were talented and strong would have to serve the main family while those who were not talented would be able to live an ordinary life.

It just depended on what they wanted.

If they wished to live a life of luxury….

This was basically impossible.

No matter what they thought or how much they worked, they would never have the chance to truly become the most powerful ones.

Those who dared to resist would be destroyed by the main family.

In the world where money could control almost everything, Nalan had already seen his peers being bullied and even seeing his parents had to bow down to the main family in everything.

But for him, this is the norm.

He just had to listen and be obedient if he wanted to live a good life.

Perhaps ordinary people would scold him and said that he was wasting his life and that he should have chosen a completely different path for himself.

But Nalan never thought that it was bad.

This is his life from the beginning until the end and there was never thoughts to resist or anything like that.

He just have to follow through this path from the beginning until the end.

That's enough.

Nalan didn't want to have too much thoughts in his mind because complicated matters tire him out and it was really annoying.

What value does an ordinary person like him could possibly have?

Nothing.

When he suddenly 'died' and entered Afirer Kingdom, Nalan was thoroughly confused. He didn't know what to do in the beginning, but since his identity was still the same branch family member, Nalan just thought that he had to be obedient and follow through what they ordered him to do.

The branch family members' fate might look bad, but Nalan knew very well that their fate was closely related to the main family members.

If the main family members thrive, then they would also live a good life.

But if the main family members were in trouble, then they would also be in trouble and had to figure out a way of survival.

Nalan has long been educated to be obedient and just follow through what other people in the family told him to do.

If he didn't, he would be punished.

It has always been the same and Nalan's life on Afirer Kingdom was also the same, similar to this.

He never thought that there was anything wrong with it.

But when Nalan found out that his talent to become magic warrior was strong, he realized that the eyes of the people around him started to change.

They wanted to use him to get ahead.

The main family has a lot of children with each and every single one of them having their own advantage and disadvantage.

Nalan always thought that he's just an ordinary person.

Someone who couldn't be more ordinary than other people and even in his previous life, he taught himself to be low key. Because only in this way would it be possible for him to live in peace.

Rather than going ahead and fight with the others for the sake of more resources, isn't it better to be mediocre and remained unnoticed for a long period of time?

So he tried to be mediocre.

And the previous Nalan in this world was also extremely mediocre and seemed to be unnoticed in the crowd.

But who could expect that his own talent would be so good that he directly attract the attention of many people? 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Nalan was at loss.

He didn't want to get involved, but several people from the main family came to find him and solicit him.

In their words: if he were to follow them, he would have a lot of money, glory, and so on.

It was sickening.

Nalan really didn't want to meddle with the main family's matter and hoped to stay as far away as possible. Rather than messing around like this, isn't it better to focus on his own practice?

Besides, Nalan actually came from another world and his sense of belonging to this family was not that strong.

He didn't really want to stay in this world forever.

If that was possible.

As far as Nalan could see so far, he didn't seem to be able to sense any method that could allow them to go back to the Green Planet.

Well.

Nalan couldn't say how much he missed his own family either.

After all, everyday was dull and boring without anything interesting and nothing more than daily activities.

That was what Nalan thought.

At least, until he met with Navi.

Even though the two of them rarely met when they were on the Green Planet due to the difference in their status, they somehow managed to recognize each other.

Nalan thought that Navi was such a chatterbox and a bit annoying.

But she's also someone from the Green Planet.

And the teaching from his family was to let him protect the people from the main family. Even if they were now in different world, Nalan had no intention of breaking this teaching that had been passed down for so many years.

So he chose to follow Navi.

And Navi also treated Nalan very well and allowed him to pick his own path and practice.