Chapter 15: Black Flame

After Su Chen greeted Zhong Zhenjun, he glanced at the Arcanist standing next to him.

The old Arcanist said with a mild smile, “Cavill greets Sir Su.”

His voice was neither sinister nor warm, neither joyful, angry, or sorrowful. Anyone who didn’t know his actual temperament might have thought that he didn’t particularly like Su Chen. Actually, it was hard for anyone to know exactly what he was thinking.

No one ever knew what Cavill was thinking.

Cavill was probably the person with the least reputation out of the five Black Flame heads.

He didn’t have any particularly impressive military accomplishments, and he rarely participated in any missions.

Amongst the entire Black Flame organization, he was known as the Yes-Man ⁠— he always replied with a smile and never really fought with others. He was also known as the Eternal Second. He would never be the leader of the group.

Even so, it was precisely this Eternal Second who had been one of Black Flame’s leaders for the longest.

He had lived for nearly three thousand years and had experienced the passage of countless changes of Black Flame. But no matter how the wind howled and the rain poured down, he remained immovable. The Black Flame considered his position to have been forged by fire.

However,...