I'm not just human!

Snapped!Snapped!Snapped!

Each of the three phantoms had an identical pocket watch explode on its body.

Suddenly, a clock, twisted like melting wax, appeared around them. The hands of the clock rapidly reversed, and a rapid, intense ticking sound filled the surrounding void.

As the three beams of mercury light were about to approach the three identical figures, they suddenly slowed down, as if they had been trapped in a viscous gel, and time itself seemed to stand still.

Seeing that they had seemingly successfully withstood the destructive attack of the mercury beam, the three identical Pompeian figures all showed joy on their faces.

Their figures began to transform into fallen leaves from the edges, and those leaves flew into the melting clock in the surrounding void.

He was actually trying to escape! In a bizarre way that was hard for ordinary people to understand, he was trying to flee the palace!

Just as Charcus and the blond, bearded old man were about to make a move, Marshal Gaius once again raised his hand to stop them.

The two angelic elders looked at Marshal Gaius with considerable surprise, but all they saw on the patriarch's face was a deep confidence and absolute appreciation for the metallic figure.

The next moment, above the mercury sun, which was a kilometer in diameter and resembled a star, a flash of light appeared, and the demon-like metallic humanoid suddenly appeared!

The three-meter-long saber in his hand had disappeared at some point, but the metal claws on his hands were emitting a chilling light, as bright as cannonballs about to explode!

Swish!

He crossed his arms and swung them at the thousand-meter-diameter mercury sun, his claws disappearing into the mercury sun!

The mercury sun shuddered violently, as if it had suffered a severe blow.

beep--!!!

A column of mercury light, a hundred meters in diameter, burst forth from beneath the mercury sun, like a giant silver python, carrying an unparalleled and fierce momentum, and shot towards the three identical figures that were about to dissipate!

This was an extremely shocking, domineering, and powerful attack that was impossible to resist. The mercury beam was like the radiance descending from the sun, with divine violence surging within it, and its speed was unbelievable!

The members of the Augustus family even had a feeling that the entire palace would be completely destroyed, and that the air and the ground were shaking violently, and the flowers, plants and trees in the garden were withering rapidly.

The three Pompeii figures had no time to react. Their expressions turned to extreme terror in an instant, but their faces were immediately illuminated by the dazzling silver light, and their figures were completely submerged by the hundred-meter-diameter mercury pillar.

Boom-!

The demonic-looking metal humanoid landed right in front of the three figures.

The three figures then coalesced into one, their bodies charred black, like burnt charcoal. Their faces were deeply sunken, leaving only a dark pit, and their bodies and limbs were also sunken in.

This demigod was nothing but an empty shell.

Xiafa crouched down, his gaze sweeping over the empty shell of Pompeii, before reaching out to touch the lower back of the corpse.

It was hard to describe the feeling, but he clearly sensed something in Pompeii's lower back—something that he found extremely repulsive and disgusting.

This was the first time Xia Fa had ever felt this way. Not only did he feel extremely repulsed and disgusted by that thing, but it also gave him the feeling that it was rejecting and disgusting him.

Xia Fa immediately realized that this must be some kind of evil thing.

But it is also highly likely that this is the very thing that Dick Tudor needs!

He found a small bottle on the lower back of Pompeii's body and took it out.

The small bottle was quite exquisite, made of platinum, and had a hook on its body, which was how it was hung on Pompeii's belt.

However, Xia Fa recognized it at a glance—it was actually a black bag!

And that thing that he loathed and rejected so much, and that he also loathed and rejected so much, was right there in this black bag!

Xia Fa's silvery-white metal hand immediately opened a hole and put the black bag away.

Of course, we can't go inside to see what's inside right now; we just need to make sure that the things Dick wanted are still there.

"Pompeii is finally dead, which avenges myself and those refugees by half. Next is..."

In Xia Fa's mind, the image of the extraordinary monarch wearing a mask with fangs and a ghostly face appeared, along with the scene of Him, in a state of madness, slicing a revolver across the sleeve of His suit and pointing it at His own temple.

"Crimson Agent..."

Whoosh!

Whizzing!

The next moment, before Xia Fa could even stand up, three figures suddenly appeared in front of him.

Those were Marshal Gaius, Elder Charcus, and another elder with lion-like hair.

Immediately afterwards, another figure appeared, this time behind Xia Fa.

The figure was shrouded in a black robe. Apart from rising to respectfully see Marshal Gaius off when he was about to leave, he did not utter a single word throughout the entire banquet.

However, He sat to Marshal Gaius's right, clearly the most powerful and highest-ranking figure in the entire Augustan family besides Marshal Gaius.

"No need, he's a member of our family. We're all one family, so there's no need to be wary of him."

Marshal Gaius spoke, looking at the figure in black robes.

The figure in black robes nodded, said nothing more, and then suddenly disappeared.

Marshal Gaius then withdrew his gaze and looked at the ferocious, majestic, and domineering metal humanoid, speaking with a smile:

"Xiafa?"

There were over a hundred people present, all core members of the Augustus family; none of them were fools.

The moment the metal humanoid burst through the broken window and slashed at Beppo Delba, everyone realized who was missing from the banquet hall.

It was precisely because of the absence of Shaphat, who was attending the banquet for the first time and had just been recruited into the family by Axo and Glenn because of his surname Augustus!

No, his name isn't just Xia Fa, it's...

Shaphat de Augustus!

Xia Fa hadn't really intended to hide, and seeing that his identity had been exposed, and that he had achieved his goal of killing Pompeii and obtained the item, he nodded.

wow——

The next moment, a massive amount of mercury vapor erupted, and Xia Fa slowly transformed from the 3.9-meter-tall metal humanoid back to his original height.

The star-blue amber melted and flowed into the openings in his ears, nostrils, eye sockets, wrists, and ankles.

This scene was actually quite bizarre and terrifying, making the young people not far away tremble.

But then, when Xia Fa's figure was revealed, the entire banquet hall was immediately in an uproar!

"It really is Xia Fa!"

"My God! It's him! The one who signed the Silver Throne at the Mist God Hunting Grounds is actually him!"

"Judging from this, he's not an insect-level being at all! He's clearly a whale-level being!"

"Whale-level? That's too simplistic. This is a whale-level being capable of killing demigods and slaying critically wounded, dying angel-level supernatural beings!"

"I knew it! Xia Fadu is now surnamed Augustus, how could he be simple! He really is our long-lost blood relative from the Augustus family!"

"Keep it a secret! It must be kept a secret! This matter absolutely cannot be leaked, especially not to those guys like Selenes!"

"Haha, definitely. With the patriarch here, the servants' memories will be erased. As for us, of course we can't utter a single word!"

"Glenn, you're amazing! Did you know that Xia Fa was the signatory to the Silver Throne and the future transcendent monarch, which is why you went to such lengths to win him over?"

"And Elder Axo, he has truly rendered a great service to our family this time!"

"Our Augustus family has finally produced a signatory to a supreme-level secret pact! We finally have a future extraordinary monarch! Rejuvenation is in sight! Rejuvenation is indeed in sight!"

All the members of the Augustus family were extremely excited and thrilled; some even had flushed faces.

Especially the blonde, blue-eyed, elegant and noble girls of the Augustus family. Although they say that Shafa is a member of the Augustus family, they all know in their hearts that his bloodline does not belong to the Augustus family, and he has no connection with the Augustus family at all.

After all, Xia Fa had black hair and black eyes. If he had even a trace of the blood of the Augustus family, it would be impossible for him to have no golden hair or blue eyes at all.

However, this was clearly a weakness that would cause him to be intentionally or unintentionally alienated or rejected by his family.

Now, however, it has become an advantage!

This means that Shafa could become the son-in-law of the Augustus family, just like those who were previously recruited into the Augustus family!

The Augustus family has so many outstanding, gentle, elegant, kind, wealthy, and beautiful girls, all waiting for Xia Fa to choose from!

In the garden, Marshal Gaius looked at Shafa with admiration.

This appreciation was so obvious that it even surprised Chalcos and another angelic elder.

“Shafa, I won’t question why you killed Bepongdelba, because we are family. I will support you no matter what you do, as long as you don’t actually commit crimes and harm civilians.”

Marshal Gaius continued, smiling, as he spoke:

"So, I'd like to talk to you privately, is that alright?"

Facing this legendary figure from the Kingdom of Augu, the renowned Marshal Gaius, who had even once been His Majesty Gaius, Shafa naturally wouldn't refuse, and responded with equal politeness:

"Of course, Marshal."

Marshal Gaius nodded, and with a wave of his hand, his scarlet cloak billowed behind him without any wind.

Suddenly, the surrounding scenery blurred, and before Xia Fa could react, he found himself in an elegant study.

Marshal Gaius was sitting behind his mahogany desk in his study. Even in his study, his chair was made of gold and bore the family crest of a roaring lion.

"sit down."

Marshal Gaius gestured for Shafa to sit down.

Xia Fa didn't stand on ceremony; he pulled out a chair next to the desk and sat down immediately.

As soon as he sat down, he spoke first:

"Marshal, do you remember the incident a while ago when the Snow Demon went out of control twice?"

He paused slightly, then added:

"Also, have you noticed that the number of refugees going missing in the Kingdom of Augu was somewhat unusual for a period of time?"

Marshal Gaius was clearly an extremely intelligent man; with just a flash of light in his eyes, he seemed to have already understood something:

"You mean... all of this is related to Beppendelba?"

Xia Fa nodded, his tone becoming even more serious:

"Yes, and his name isn't Beppodelba at all, it's... Pompeii, Pompeii Bald!"

Marshal Gaius narrowed his eyes slightly:

“Pompe Bald? Wasn’t that a local minor nobleman from the Kingdom of Augu who died over a hundred years ago?”