My wife, who's in a vegetative state, please stop eavesdropping on my thoughts.

Vera blinked incredulously, a sense of unease creeping over her.

She tugged at Nyon's sleeve, and said in a slightly annoyed voice, "Brother, I'm only here to attend the banquet as you asked, don't give me this kind of treatment!"

Nyon frowned and advised, "Stop fooling around, be quiet."

"You're not getting any younger; you've reached the age where you should be thinking about marriage..."

"What are you saying, brother?"

"Alright, alright, I'm talking to someone right now, you go play somewhere else."

Vera snorted and turned her head away in annoyance.

Discussing marriage?

How can that be?

She's a married woman, you know.

But as Nyon's smile grew wider, the nobleman had clearly offered very generous terms.

Seeing this... as if afraid of being outmaneuvered by that nobleman, several other nobles who also had their eyes on Vera couldn't hold back and stepped forward to exchange ideas.

Vera could no longer sit still.

She jumped up from her chair and hurriedly tried to stop her:

"Wait, wait, no need to choose anymore!"

"I...I already have a husband!!"

Upon hearing this, Nyon's expression immediately changed.

"Vera? What are you doing?"

He turned his head, his face filled with shock and anger, and said, "Say such nonsense in a public place, do you still want your reputation?"

Vera pouted slightly, looking a little aggrieved: "Big brother, I wasn't being silly."

"I have already made a lifelong promise with the person I love, and there is absolutely no way I could ever be involved in any cuckoldry fantasies again."

"So, brother, you should stop worrying about my marriage."

Nyon simply didn't believe it.

In his view, this was nothing more than Vera's daily hysterical episodes, in which she would become completely oblivious to her own family.

It's one thing for them to talk nonsense behind closed doors at home on ordinary days.

He never expected that this girl would dare to go crazy in front of so many people!

How can someone without an engagement call someone "husband"? What about the Hayes family's reputation?!

"I'm telling the truth!"

"Alright, that's enough—"

Vera got a little impatient when she saw that her older brother wouldn't believe her no matter what she did, and blurted out in a panic, "I do have a husband, and my husband is the Moon Thunder Emperor!"

boom--

In an instant.

The entire room fell silent.

At that moment, the once noisy banquet hall fell into dead silence.

Everyone present turned their gaze toward the table where Vera was sitting.

In the stillness of the night, after a few seconds of silence, even the nobles beside Nyon showed expressions of horror.

Even Nyon was nearly driven mad with fear. He reached out to Vera with trepidation, his voice low and almost pleading:

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

"You think you can just fantasize about being a Tier 5 Transcendent?!"

"It's one thing for you to talk nonsense at home, but how can you dare to fantasize like this in public? Are you crazy? What if your fabricated stories anger the other party? Do you want our Hayes family to disappear?"

Vera slammed her hand on the table impatiently: "Hey, big brother, I'm not crazy."

"This isn't just my fantasy—"

"My husband really is the Moon God of Thunder! We usually communicate remotely using forbidden love letters!"

"If he knew I was talking about marriage, that's when he would punish the Hayes family..."

Vera crossed her arms over her chest, looking genuinely emotional and self-assured.

However, these almost insane and delusional remarks caused the expressions of some people present to become subtle.

Especially...

Snow Knight, Aunt Neferpier, and the Ninth Star Clock.

They had previously used internal channels to observe the replays of the extravagant sorcerer's videos.

And Vera, this woman...

Naturally, this was also something they had already been paying attention to.

That's right, she's the pink-haired girl wearing a mask at the birth of Diana, and she's the one who uttered the words "shimmering" and "dreamlike".

It could even be said that Vera herself was the first to reveal the existence of Diana.

After realizing this...

At the ninth moment, his slightly languid expression instantly turned serious.

He stared intently in Vera's direction, and before he knew it, a few beads of sweat had formed on his forehead from nervousness.

Could it be that...

Is this girl the lover of the Moon Goddess?

Having been in Moonlit City for almost half a month, I've finally come across a clue about the Moonlit Thunder Emperor.

Meanwhile, the Snow Knight tightened his grip on the wine glass with his right hand, as countless complex thoughts flashed through his mind.

But a few seconds later, a burst of laughter erupted in the room, especially among the small group of noble ladies, almost all of them were laughing so hard they couldn't catch their breath.

"Hahaha, this woman claims to be the wife of the Moon Thunder Emperor!"

"Even if she's very pretty, you can't make jokes like that, can you?"

"I had heard that the Hayes family's young lady had hysteria. I didn't expect that although she was quite cute, her nature was hard to change."

"To fall ill in public like that, aren't you afraid of retaliation from a Level 5 attacker?"

The vast majority of the nobles present had a relaxed attitude, like watching a show or gossiping.

After all, in their eyes, this was nothing more than a noble lady having a fit of madness, something to talk about after dinner.

Of course, some people laughed, while others were terrified.

Quite a few nobles who were just discussing marriage with Nyon wisely stepped aside.

Assuming she's lying, no one wants to marry a woman with hysteria.

Assuming what she said is true...

Anyone who dares to associate with her is truly insane.

Meanwhile, the young nobleman from the Richter family also looked at Vera with a gloomy expression, seemingly feeling that his initiative to bring up the marriage earlier had lowered his status.

In an instant, the atmosphere in the entire banquet hall was completely changed because of Vera's words.

Weiss's eye twitched slightly a few times.

In the end, no thoughts were expressed.

Barely managing to hold it in.

......

Just as the Starry Night Merchant Guild banquet was underway in Moonlit City.

A colossal chasm, ten thousand meters below...

Within the colossal building, which burned with eerie purple flames and stretched for hundreds of miles, it was suspended in mid-air.

The purple light transformed the entire mountain range into a dark, quiet, and eerie place.

Not even a ray of sunlight can get in here.

Inside this magnificent palace, eight figures sat around a giant round table; each of them exuded a terrifying, extraordinary aura, making even the surrounding air seem slightly thicker.

And within this...

There were eight figures, all wearing black and purple trench coats with different luxurious patterns.

The most bizarre of them all was a pair of conjoined twins, a man and a woman, their sides tightly intertwined, huddled together in a cramped sitting position on their seats.

Looking around at everyone present, the woman in the conjoined twins said impatiently, "It's such a crucial meeting, yet three people are absent. These guys are getting more and more unruly."

The conjoined men chuckled softly, "Forget it, it's already quite an achievement to be able to gather eight people."

"If it weren't for this once-in-a-century occurrence of a fifth-tier being emerging, we probably wouldn't even be able to gather all eight of us."

"It's all because of those annoying night patrols who keep bothering us, causing our headquarters to move around and we're constantly on the move."

"Actually, we just happened to be nearby, so we came to take a look."

The others remained silent.

Only the conjoined twins kept talking to themselves.

As they were talking, the conjoined women suddenly became agitated, screaming and slamming their fists on the table: "In the end, there's no way there could be such a thing as a Tier 5 Flash in the world! Once we've confirmed that Paradise is nearby, we might as well just wipe out all the towns in the Dark Realm in one go!"

The baby boy replied sarcastically, "Kid, you're awesome."

"Then why don't you go now? By yourself?"

"Then why don't you dismember yourself?"

"Why don't you just cut yourself off?"

"You cut it, I'm not cutting it."

"Okay, I'll do it, but be careful to shift it a little too far into your cerebellum during the splitting surgery."

"..."

"That's enough—"

"To shut up"

A voice stopped the siblings' argument.

All eyes in the room turned to the figure in the main seat.

Half of the man's body was bathed in a void of blackness, with eerie purple light and ghostly flames spreading in all directions. It was not hard to see that... all the strange phenomena of this eerie palace were created by him alone.

His figure was hazy and indistinct, like a dream.

After being sternly reprimanded, the conjoined twins immediately became much more obedient. The girl pouted aggrievedly, while the boy pretended to be serious and pondered, "Speaking of which... it's surprising that they would summon us, the eleventh of the zodiac, to gather at this time."

Could it be...?

"Is that so-called Moon Thunder Emperor really the culprit who took away Paradise back then?"

Faced with this question, the figure surrounded by purple light remained silent for a moment.

"Yes."

His voice was neither hurried nor slow.

The information he revealed shocked everyone present.

“Recently, we have received reports from members of the Divine Court near the Black Realm.”

"Through the certification of the 'Bloody Guidance,' it has been officially confirmed that our Divine Court's forbidden object, Paradise, is indeed hidden within the City of Bright Moon."

Upon hearing this, even the others who had remained silent began to breathe erratically.

It's important to understand that while the Blood Guide can find all things that are bound by hatred, the Paradise's activities have actually always been blocked by higher-numbered forbidden objects.

Does this mean it's finally confirmed?