After his defeat against Typhon, Emery did not immediately leave the Virtual Palace. Instead, he decided to take some time to examine the Cosmic Bridge challenger rankings.
Standing within the quiet interface hall, he opened the record for Stage 7 challengers, allowing the long list of names to scroll before his eyes.
There were a little over one thousand individuals had reached that stage, each one representing a formidable grand magus within the Magus Alliance. Many of them used aliases instead of their real names, which made it difficult to identify exactly who stood behind each title.
While Emery studied the ranking board, Typhon leaned closer and peeked at the interface with casual curiosity.
Suddenly the hybrid pointed toward one of the names.
"Oh… that's me."
His tone carried a faint hint of embarrassment.
Emery followed the direction of his finger and saw the alias written on the board.
Little Cloud.
