I Can See Health Bars in Real Life-Chapter 495 - 9: The Truth and Negotiating Terms
"Oh my, is this what’s happening? It’s Solomon’s body... Even I am shocked."
Merlin chuckled lightly, breaking the deathly silence.
As he spoke, he raised his fist and tapped his forehead, acting as if he had suddenly realized something, yet he clearly lacked a sense of tension and responsibility, which made people irritated. In times of crisis, those who remained carefree truly drew hatred.
"Stop pretending, Flower Magician. I don’t believe you didn’t notice anything, with your status as a Crowned Mage, possessing the highest Thousand-Mile Eye..."
Gu Mo leisurely filled his teacup with tea and refilled Hiri’s cup, speaking in a slightly indifferent tone: "Among countless myths and legends, you stand at the pinnacle among mages, no one understands each other better than you do, right?"
Mages who are crowned or possess the potential to be crowned are born in different eras and active in different historical stages, but those who hold the highest Thousand-Mile Eye naturally know of each other’s existence.
Though it’s never spoken of, secretly checking each other’s online status is certainly happening.
Perhaps only Solomon wouldn’t do such a thing—
It’s not because he’s the true crowned one while others are just backups, but because the real Solomon had no self. Born as a perfect king, Solomon never experienced "human" life, ending his reign like a machine.
No period of being human, no human sensibility, not even for a second did he possess his own will.
People desired for him to fulfill his duties as king, and that’s exactly what he did, always responding to the people’s demands, yet without his own will, so the true Solomon wouldn’t do anything unnecessary or trivial under his own volition.
"No, after all, the doctor already said it, my Thousand-Mile Eye is the worst. In modern terms, it’s only at the level of freely surfing the entire internet’s content..." Merlin showed an expression as if a sore point was hit. "Though each has the highest Thousand-Mile Eye, differences exist in their accuracy and range. I’m the most useless one."
Despite all having EX-level Thousand-Mile Eyes, Solomon’s could see through past and future events, Gilgamesh’s could see through the future.
Merlin’s Thousand-Mile Eye, however, was for browsing everything in the present, relatively making it indeed less impressive.
"Moreover, like you, I don’t know who you are, nor did Uruk’s king recognize you. We really don’t know much about each other..." Merlin nodded vigorously as if reinforcing his point while speaking.
He seriously observed the youth’s expression in front, seemingly trying to confirm something.
Gu Mo’s response was casual, unconcerned about the Flower Magician’s probing: "That’s truly unfortunate. It’s probably because I simply lack the talent for Thousand-Mile Eye. Besides, I’m just a nobody, so it’s normal for you not to remember me, and there’s no need to know who I am..."
At this moment, he naturally wouldn’t pretend to have the highest Thousand-Mile Eye. In other worlds, he could bluff around anyway, since any statement is his to make if he’s confident enough. However, in front of the real deal in this world, an impostor like himself would be too easily exposed, so directly clarifying was better.
"No Thousand-Mile Eye, huh? Then it must be divination or the like, but that’s quite remarkable too..."
The Flower Magician nodded thoughtfully. This was expected, perhaps explaining why this could be, the one before him lacks Thousand-Mile Eye and thus never crossed paths with sights like theirs. Furthermore, judging by the appearance, he clearly wasn’t a pure Servant either.
—The body isn’t simply made of magic power...
—Rather, it has an actual physical form, possessed by a Heroic Spirit to gain power, a form known as pseudo-servant...
Just like the Ishtar Goddess, inhabiting a human vessel with a matching wavelength, this situation typically applies to Heroic Spirits that can’t become Servants due to various reasons, such as Divine Spirits who are higher-dimensional beings. Normal summoning struggles to create Spirit Bases accommodating them.
In such cases, using a human body as a vessel to summon into the present, as a pseudo-servant, becomes another option for tough Heroic Spirit summoning.
However, if a normal summoning suffices, then abnormal methods aren’t necessary.
As Merlin pondered, he seriously examined the mysterious sage before him, feeling most of his doubts were answered.
No Thousand-Mile Eye and possibly not even a Heroic Spirit, just like Lady Goddess, perhaps the true self or prototype of the mysterious sage is projected through special means to this singularity, temporarily existing as a pseudo-servant. Under normal circumstances, they definitely don’t belong among Heroic Spirits. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶
Since not mixing in this circle, naturally beforehand they wouldn’t know or recognize...
Though still seemingly mysterious, it could be explained.
