Galaeron was unmoved by Raffyr's surprise, but this wasn't because he had known for a very long ti, it was instead because he had learned of the oddity himself via Leonel not too long ago.
The forr Secretary Marquisette Maia, now turned Imperial Minister, was a very odd story not because it was overly complex, but because of how covert and secretive it had been. If not for a small mistake Maia had made almost three decades ago now, this matter may very well have been entirely devastating.
The first ti Leonel t Maia she actually had an entirely different look and he almost lost his life at the hands of her sches. Back then, she had been a captain of the Slayer Legion and his interactions with her could only be said to have been far from pleasant.
The two won, or rather two identities, couldn't have been further from one another. One was a leader of the rebels, and the other was a high official for the Empire, one was obese and quite ugly, while the other was a voluptuous, mature beauty who turned heads just by walking down the street.
The two didn't seem to have any connection with one another and their stories only seed to diverge more and more as the years went on.
The captain of the Slayer Legion identity-Captain Sela-slowly worked her way up the ranks, becoming a prominent figure in the Slayer Legion, a fact that likely resulted in the many traitors that had appeared today.
On the other side, the Secretary Marquisette identity had worked her way into the Royal Blue Fort, becoming the new first wife of Governor Duke Leum and birthing his child.
The last ti Leonel had even thought of this woman, it was for the sake of laughing at the plight of Miles Leum. Back then, it was Miles and Sion who had acted together to launch bombs after Leonel in his attempt to escape from the Fort. That had led to Aina being severely injured and the pair of lovebirds being separated for a ti.
Due to that event, Miles had been scapegoated by his father who had been in the capital at the ti and the child Governor Duke Leum sired with Maia beca the new Heir to the Governor Duke family.
This felt like a satisfying conclusion to the story, and it would have been as such had Maia not had a second identity. But between then and now, she had climbed from Secretary Marquisette, to wife of Governor Duke, to Imperial Minister...
What was especially odd about this was that Imperial Minister was a higher status than Secretary Marquisette, but this wasn't necessarily the case for the title of Governor Duke.
However, rather than using her child to leverage a Governor Duke position, Maia had chosen to co to the heart of the capital instead, sinking her claws into the heart of both the Slayer Legion and the Capital.
This woman was very clearly smart, conniving, and exceptionally patient, having laid down her plans for decades. So what had exposed her in the end?
It was sothing quite simple, actually...
Her choice in perfu.
Back then, Leonel had felt that Captain Sela's fragrance was familiar, but his mory had been far weaker during that ti. It was only after he joined Valiant Heart Mountain and replaced his Soul Force with Dream Force did his mory beco sharp to the point of even rembering his ti spent as a baby in his mother's arms.
After that, all of Leonel's mories were retroactively etched into his mind like stone, quite nearly infallible.
Of course, back then, he still hadn't made the connection imdiately. While rembering his mother was important to him, knowing the fragrance of a random woman was aningless to him.
However, while Leonel was preparing for this war, he would obviously pool together all of the knowledge he had. In addition, as a Prince of the Empire, he had access to all of the information he could ever want to know about the various nobles and the Slayer Legion, on top of whatever the Etching tal Organization could gather up.
The final nail in the coffin was Maia's Ability Index.
It was labeled quite simply, allowing her to maintain her youth. When Leonel first t her, she was a woman well into her twilight years, and yet she looked like a 20 year old bombshell just entering her pri.
This seed to check out, but then Leonel's Dreamscape sparked.
What other abilities could allow a person to appear much younger than they were?
When one frad it that way, the answer almost seed far too obvious. Obviously, if a person could shapeshift, wouldn't making a change as simple as age be as easy as breathing? In addition, choosing to outwardly display your Ability Index in that way would make people think you were far more limited than you truly were.
It was almost too easy for Maia to get away with this. Back when the tamorphosis first descended, Earth's ability to detect Ability Indexes was incredibly crude, it could only classify Leonel's Ability Index as an S-grade sensory type ability. As for Aina, it classified hers as an S-grade healing type ability. Of course it would be too vague to expose Maia.
On top of that, if exposing an enemy's Ability Index was so easy, then so many in the Dinsional Verse wouldn't hold their Ability Index out as a trump card. The details of one's Ability Index was almost always a secret one would hold close to their chests.
Maia would have never thought that her years of diligent planning would be exposed by sothing so simple. Even now, after Galaeron had spoken, she had no idea what had exposed her.
Even so, there was nothing she could do but step out slowly. Since it had co to this point, there was no ti for more preparation, there was only the final step remaining.
Maia stepped down from the sky expressionlessly, descending as though a deity. To her back, two very young n followed. While many on the battlefield only looked like they were in the 20s but were really much older, both of these young n truly were that young.
With a slight flicker of light, all three changed... And all three beca mbers of the Cloud Race.
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