Gawain's sudden change made Amber quite nervous. As the atmosphere shifted, she instinctively lowered her voice as well. "You know? Then what did Night Lady's warning mean?"
"Our plan to fight the Magic Tide." Gawain raised his eyes and looked into Amber's. "Do you remember what the most crucial part of all our plans to fight the Magic Tide is?"
"The most crucial part?" Amber froze for a moment, but quickly reacted. Though she was not part of the technical core, she at least understood the general concept. "It should be that Mind Unity Field... I remember it was based on the 'inverse phase' state of the Anti-Divinity Barrier, extracting the chaotic thought tides from the Neural Network and then doing this and that... Anyway, in the end it can block the Magic Tide..."
"That's right. The Mind Unity Field, a defensive barrier created by manipulating the Non-directional Thought Tide within the Neural Network." Gawain nodded slowly, his expression frighteningly grim. "Night Lady's warning was about exactly that!"
Amber was stunned. For a while, she seemed unable to sort out the logic behind it. Several seconds passed before her mind appeared to start working again. "You mean the process of turning the 'Non-directional Thought Tide' in the Neural Network into the Mind Unity Field? The 'large-scale manipulation of thought tides' mentioned in Night Lady's warning refers to this? Wait, that can't be right... Non-directional Thought Tide isn't the same thing as the 'thought tides' directed toward the gods, and we've been using the Anti-Divinity Barrier for so long without any problems!"
"That's right. The Anti-Divinity Barrier is safe, and manipulating Non-directional Thought Tide is safe as well. Doing only that will not affect the gods' 'operation.'" Gawain watched Amber, his voice low. "But the problem lies in another step... Using