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"What did you say?!"
After Kotori had said everything that needed to be said, Kolon, Will, and Ge Bi all cried out at once.
"The Guardian Deity isn't in the royal palace, but in the City of Different Eras, sealing the Beast King?!"
"Father!" Safa could no longer remain seated. He shot to his feet and stared intently at the silent, grim-faced Goda.
"The Guardian Deity really isn't in the royal palace?!"
Goda did not speak and remained silent. Such silence was practically an admission that the news Kotori had brought was true, causing the faces of every Baruba Empire higher-up present to turn pale.
The Baruba Empire's Demigod Rank Guardian Deity was not in the royal palace, while the enemy had a Beast King stationed on their side. Although it was only a False Beast King that had advanced to the pseudo-Demigod Rank through external means, it was still not something a Rank Nine powerhouse could compare to.
It had already been said that power reigned supreme in the Sparlier World. A Rank Seven powerhouse could hold back an army of ten thousand Rank Five powerhouses. By that measure, a pseudo-Demigod Rank powerhouse could erase ten thousand Rank Eight powerhouses with a casual gesture!
Of course, if they were Rank Nine powerhouses, they certainly would not need that many people to hold back one pseudo-Demigod Rank powerhouse. But were Rank Nine powerhouses cabbages?...
Even including Kotori, Kurumi, Tohka, Miku, Origami, and Yoshino, the Baruba Empire only had ten Rank Nine powerhouses, right?...
Of those ten Rank Nine powerhouses, the strongest was only at the intermediate Rank Nine. The rest were basically at the initial Rank Nine. There was simply no