LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 440 439: Don't Lie
440 439: Don't Lie
After listening to Pamela's explanation, Corey finally understood why it was extremely important for one to register themselves in a city.
Not only did it help the leaders of a city know who could be a potential threat to the safety of the city, but it also helped them to gain a sort of control over the uncontrollable element called Outsiders.
To Outsiders like him, if he wanted, he could choose to commit mass slaughter since according to The Clown, they would not truly die and they were also not of this world so they had no attachments to this world.
Finding an ancient stone was not easy at all. Take, for example, Corey had killed a herd of Capra Feroxes but not a single one of them dropped an ancient stone.
He had to kill a Temple Guardian and a being that was stronger than an average tier 6 to get an ancient stone.
If one had to face deadly monsters like the Temple Guardian or the Capra King, then Corey was sure that very few would have an ancient stone.
This meant that to avoid being teleported to a random place, one would have to be connected to a city or a settlement to obtain at least a temporary ancient seal.
'As for the permanent ancient seal, I don't know why, but I'm not fully comfortable with it. At least I have an ancient stone so I don't need to be worried.'
Corey thought, and then he recalled the peculiar situation of Gravenstone City.
'Dead people can come back to life as zombies… No wonder the fog outside the city felt familiar but also unfamiliar at the same time. The fog's aura is similar to the aura of Triple X… The aura of death.'
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"Thank you for helping us. It's much better for us if we don't have to take lengthy tests."
Pamela smiled faintly, and then she gestured with her right hand, "Don't worry about it. I already said I'd like to be acquainted with somebody as talented as you."
Corey's eyes flickered slightly, and then a faint smile appeared on his lips.
"Likewise."
Pamela nodded with the same smile, and then she turned towards the woman who sat behind a desk.
Knowing what she had to do the woman did not wait for Pamela to speak, and she directed her attention towards Corey and Selene.
A slightly dazed expression could be seen on the woman's face as she stared at Corey's handsome face. With a slightly vacant expression, she spoke:
"I'll need your full names, tier, battle prowess, elemental affinity or affinities, and the type of Genesis Armament you both have… Oh, Genesis Armament is the growth weapon you lucky Outsiders were given when you appeared in our world."
When he heard the woman asking about their Genesis Armament, he wondered if she was also going to ask for the grade of their Genesis Armament, but she didn't.
Numerous hypotheses appeared in Corey's mind, and after thinking about them thoroughly, he came to a conclusion.
'They probably didn't ask about the grade because from my tier, and how long we Outsiders have spent in the shattered dimension, I should not have encountered any powerful monster that would either upgrade my Genesis Armament to a high grade or give my Genesis Armament powerful abilities.'
'I'm a tier 2, and to them, even if I'm talented just like Pamela said, then at most, I'd have killed a weak tier 4 by sheer luck. This is the norm.'
'Nobody would have ever expected me to kill a Temple Guardian, and surely, absolutely no one would have expected me to kill a being like the Capra King.'
'My Genesis Armament is as powerful as an Indigo-grade weapon, and its destructive power is not small. If I'm right, my Genesis Armament alone is enough of a threat to Gravenstone City… It might also incite the greed of various people.'
'She also called us Lucky Outsiders. Maybe Genesis Armaments are not so common among the inhabitants of this world. I guess I'll have to be careful in revealing my Genesis Armament until I know more.'
Corey was about to give his reply, but then a familiar voice resounded softly directly inside his mind.
'Don't lie. Say the truth but not the whole truth. Don't look at me.'
Corey barely restrained himself from looking at Pamela, and in that fraction of a second, his stars of consciousness brought up many hypotheses as to why Pamela would tell him to say the truth.
He was certain that she already knew he was much stronger than an average tier 2, however, he was not certain how much she knew.
'She should have known that most people who like us who can fight way above our tier would choose not to expose our actual battle prowess.'
'She knew that I'd most likely lie about my battle prowess, but for her to tell me not to lie, then that means they have a way of knowing if I'm lying or not.'
Corey glanced at the woman, and then he glanced at the two male guards and the female cleaner who were in the building.
'Could it be one of their abilities? Or is it an object?'
Barely a second passed after Pamela spoke directly into his mind, and he decided to push the fact that Pamela could speak directly to his mind even with all his defenses to the back of his mind.
'Could it be an ability of her class, Rune Sage?... She's a true monster.'
Corey could not restrain his smile, and to everybody in the building, it was like he was giving the woman a smile that almost made her blush.
"Name is Corey Zane, tier 2, Genesis Armament is an axe, battle prowess is a low-level tier 4. As for my elemental affinity, I'm not sure."
Corey answered everything truthfully except his battle prowess.
He told them his battle prowess was a low-level tier 4, and in a way, he was lying and not lying at the same time.
He deliberately used the term 'low level' since technically, if he fought a low-level tier 4 being, and the stats of the being were in the Violet Star realm like Pamela, then it'll be extremely difficult.
To Corey, what was more important in a fight were the stats and skills of an opponent, not his level.
After Corey finished speaking, the woman took a subtle glance to the side for a fraction of a second before looking back at the paper that was in front of her.
She grabbed the quill that was beside the paper, and Corey noticed that there was no ink bottle. However, he also noticed something else.
'The female cleaner huh?'
The woman writing down his information had taken a glance in the direction of the female cleaner. Although his Eyes of Omniscience were not active so he didn't have a bird's eye view of everything around him, he knew the exact positions of the two male guards and the female cleaner.
'If they have an object that can tell if one is lying or if they have abilities that can tell if one is lying, then I should also assume that such a thing would not only be available in the city hall of various cities.'
'I'll have to be careful with my words in the future.'
Corey thought as the woman took his information and then Selene's information. After doing all of these, they all left the city hall.